This is a great new podcast/vidcast from DJ Controlled Weirdness aka Neil Keating. It covers 80s/90s London with a definite slant towards music and subcultures. The first three episodes feature Ian Blackmass Plastics on the early days of rave, record shops, DJing etc. This was a great listen for me because Ian also grew up …
GRMMSK has worked hard on putting together this great compilation of radical musicians, noisicians etc in aid of Anarchist Black Cross Helsinki. It’s available as a download or two cassettes: https://totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/solidarity-is-our-weapon-against-all-prisons Contributors include comrades like GX Jupitter-Larsen, Dave Phillips, Libbe Matz Gang, Kek-W, Concrete/Field, stapperton, and many more. GRMMSK himself contributes a doom dub track …
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I am very very proud to have a track included on the “We Saw Human Guinea Pigs Explode” compilation which has been released today: WE SAW HUMAN GUINEA PIGS EXPLODE by Various The Cutwail label is a subsidiary of the unpredictable Libertatia Overseas Trading mob. Actually I’m slightly staggered to be in there alongside Ceramic …
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As part of the post-hack clean up, I found a few drafts of things I’ve not been able to finish – here is the first… comment welcome! Some musings on Sigue Sigue Sputnik and their hyper-glamorised capitalism. A wilfully optimistic reading of Mclaren’s “Rock N Roll Swindle” was that punk aimed to make “cash from chaos” as a fall back …
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Jez: Look Mark, I’m a musician, in case you’d forgotten. Yeah? I answer to a higher law. The law of “if it feels good, do it”. Mark: Oh, that’s a great law isn’t it? What’s that, Gaddafi’s law? Jez: It’s the musician’s law. Colonel Gaddafi could not lay down a bass hook, Mark. That should …
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Fanzine of the week #4 Available in print – and online as a free/donation pdf. (and from Amazon) “We demand that the goth scene be more than a black-clad reflection of mainstream society” I’ve written about goth on here before and it’s something that still appeals to me in many ways, although you’re unlikely to catch …
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