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“Beuys tried his luck as a pop singer as part of his political commitment. His song ‘Sonne statt Reagan’ attacks Ronald Reagan’s arms policy. The song was issued as a record and Beuys appeared before big audiences with it during
“Rhys Chatham is a guitarist-composer with an impeccable pedigree: He studied with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and hipster minimalist La Monte Young, played in Tony Conrad’s Dream Syndicate (other notable alumnus: John Cale), founded the music program at the
It turns out that not only is Sean Lowry a doctor, but he’s also a former member of herbal-hippy-metal band Def FX. For those who came in late – or perhaps have conveniently forgotten what it was like – the
H I G H R E F L E C T I O N S #2 Seaworthy Kusum Onani 8pm Saturday 30th May Serial Space 33 Wellington St Chippendale Seaworthy is known for his wonderfully fragile guitar, field recordings
Good Song by Blur, a video by David Shrigley, from YouTube. Can’t see the funny sad video? Click here to view
Some of the most extraordinary images committed to vinyl at The World’s Worst Album Covers?.
Excerpt from Pola X, dir. Leos Carax, 1999. Music by Scott Walker. From YouTube.
Christian Marclay, Mini-Doc, from YouTube. If you’re viewing this post via email, click here to watch the video.
. “This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the
From Ian Houston Robert Henke, also known as Monolake, is a musician, but only just. He explores that area of music on the very edge of becoming sound or perhaps he explores that area of noise, just on the edge