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Bikini Kill To Reissue 1991 Cassette ‘Revolution Girl Style Now’

Jul 31, 2015

The original and extremely influential Riot Grrrl leaders Bikini Kill will reissue their original demo tape Revolution Girl Style Now, featuring three unreleased tracks. The original cassette was recorded by Pat Maley and self released by the band in 1991, just before collaborating with high-profile acts such as Nirvana and Joan Jett, and taking a stand by shunning the major labels and the mainstream rock press.

They truly encouraged a female-centric environment at their shows, urging women to come to the front of the stage and handing out lyric sheets to them.

This reissue was mixed by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and mastered by John Golden.

Track Listing:
Candy
Daddy’s L’il Girl
Feels Blind
Suck My Left One
Carnival
This Is Not A Test
Double Dare Ya
Liar
Ocean Song
Just Once
Playground

Dwight Yoakam On Abstaining From Alcohol And Drugs

Jul 31, 2015

I never drank. It never had an allure to me. I’d been raised in a very abstinent environment. The one smart thing I did in my life was I didn’t really succumb to that particular vice. I never really did drugs. Look, I was the guy that gave the debriefing to all my friends a day or so later. They’d say, “So what happened the other night?” “What was that going on, man?”…it was almost like living the Three Dog Night hit “Mama Told Me Not to Come.” 1977 in L.A., California, was absolutely like “Mama Told Me Not to Come.” [Laughs]

Via Aquarium Drunkard

Listen To Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers In German

Jul 31, 2015

In the early ’80s Peter Gabriel wrote to the heads of his various labels around Europe and offered to re-record his vocals in their native tongue. However, only one nation replied: Germany.

The German version of PG 3 (‘Melt’), set to be reissued on vinyl on October 2, along with Peter Gabriel’s first four solo albums. Hence full German versions of his third and fourth solo albums – 1980’s PG 3 (aka ‘Melt’) and 1982’s PG 4 (aka ‘Security’) – were created of Gabriel’s classic Games Without Frontiers, re-recorded as Spiel Ohne Grenzen.

The translated editions are being released on vinyl for the first time alongside solo albums PG1-4, which will be released on limited edition, gatefold vinyl on October 2.

“I wrote to the French, Italian, German and Spanish labels, saying I wanted to experiment creating a version of my album in another language. The only label to show any interest was the German, hence the choice,” Gabriel tells MOJO of his language experiments.

“It also gave me a chance to try new mixing and remixing approaches, with some new overdubs and to take another look at the lyrics through the process of translation with Horst Konigstein, with whom I spent a long time going through layers of meaning in the new language. I also insisted on having the German lyrics independently translated back to English.”

Listen to Spiel Ohne Grenzen below now.

https://youtu.be/HII5VANpiAU

Via MOJO Magazine

Bernard Sumner Says Ian Curtis Was “A Happy-Go-Lucky Bloke”

Jul 31, 2015

Asked to look back on the lyrics of Joy Division’s final album Closer, the New Order frontman and former Joy Division Bernard Sumner concedes the warning signs were there, although impossible to decipher at the time.

“You never knew with Ian whether those lyrics were biographical or whether he was just writing about… a character,” he tells MOJO’s Andrew Male.

“We listened to the vibe more than the actual words, but when we did listen to them we assumed it was some sort of character from the past that he’d met or someone he’d invented. That it wasn’t really about him. But you wouldn’t stop him and go, ‘Ian, are these lyrics about you?’ We just never did it.”

“We should have listened [but] it wouldn’t have changed anything.”

“The other thing you’ve got to remember is, pre the epilepsy and drugs he [Curtis] was just like a cheery, happy-go-lucky bloke, spouting out these heavy words,” says Sumner.

“The lyrics didn’t sound like they were about Ian. After he died, we certainly re-evaluated everything. We should have listened [but] it wouldn’t have changed anything.”

Enjoy Tool’s “Lateralus” even more once you know this fact about the Fibonacci sequence

Jul 31, 2015

Just a few seconds of Tool are enough to know you’re not listening to any rock and roll band. The song “Lateralus,” makes use of the Fibonacci sequence.

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.
The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1)
Similarly, the 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),
And the 5 is (2+3),
and so on!
Example: the next number in the sequence above is 21+34 = 55

Math is fun! Tool are fun! ROCK AND ROLL IS FUN!

https://youtu.be/wS7CZIJVxFY

Must Listen: The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me Stripped To The Bare Essentials

Jul 31, 2015

Sometimes less is more. Less means everything. The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me? is stripped down to the bare essentially, lyrically. Just listen.

AP makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube

Jul 31, 2015

The Associated Press and British Movietone, one of the world’s most comprehensive newsreel archives, are together bringing more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage to YouTube. Showcasing the moments, people and events that shape the world, it will be the largest upload of historical news content on the video-sharing platform to date.

The two channels will act as a view-on-demand visual encyclopedia, offering a unique perspective on the most significant moments of modern history. Available for all to explore, the channels will also be powerful educational tools and a source of inspiration for history enthusiasts and documentary filmmakers.

The YouTube channels will include more than 550,000 video stories dating from 1895 to the present day. For example, viewers can see video from the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Marilyn Monroe captured on film in London in the 1950s and Twiggy modeling the fashions of the 1960s.

“The AP archive footage, combined with the British Movietone collection, creates an incredible visual journey of the people and events that have shaped our history,” said Alwyn Lindsey, AP’s director of international archive. “At AP we are always astonished at the sheer breadth of footage that we have access to, and the upload to YouTube means that, for the first time, the public can enjoy some of the oldest and most remarkable moments in history.”

Stephen Nuttall, the director of YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, comments: “Making this content available on YouTube is a wonderful initiative from AP and British Movietone that will breathe new life into their footage and no doubt delight our global community – from students researching history projects to curious culture-vultures and the billions in between. It’s an historical treasure trove that will give YouTube users around the world a moving window into the past and I can’t wait to explore it.”

Content on the channels will also include surprising videos from different regions across the UK, fashion through the ages, sporting coups, entertainment, extreme weather, technological innovations, the evolution of eating and drinking habits, political milestones and historical moments. They will be continually refreshed with up-to-date contemporary footage.

U2’s Innocence + Experience Concert Special, Documentary Coming to HBO

Jul 31, 2015

HBO is getting a taste of U2’s current Innocence + Experience world tour. The premium cable network has scored a pair of specials from Bono and company, both set to air in November.

The Time Warner-owned cabler, ahead of its time at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, announced that it would debut a behind-the-scenes documentary with unprecedented access to the band on Nov. 7. A week later, on Nov. 14, HBO will air the band’s Paris concert from Bercy Arena on the same day.

The Smiths vs Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This Before

Jul 30, 2015

Two bands that I listed to a lot in the 80s and 90s and…er…2000s….and um….now, are The Smiths and Tears For Fears. Thanks to Brat Productions, I can save time and money listening to both at once in this mashup combining “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” and “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”.

The Smiths vs Tears For Fears – Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This Mashup Before (BRAT Mashup) from Daniel Barassi on Vimeo.

Full details and download link: http://www.bratproductions.com/mixes/mashupsbrat_thesmiths_vs_tff_stopme.html

The Best Blaxploitation Movie Posters

Jul 30, 2015

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film. It emerged in the United States in the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre’s audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term, which is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music and primarily black casts. Variety credited Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft (both released in 1971) with the invention of the blaxploitation.