Month: July 2015
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Rounds – Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Big Love by Rounds One of the highlights of the year so far is seeing Fleetwood Mac in concert at last. Surprisingly my big gig moment of 2015 out of all the gigs I’ve been to is the aforementioned doing a timely long psychedelic jam version of Gold Dust Woman. Sadly Kirk who went with…
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Workin’ In A Cocktail Bar
Sometimes a novelty edit gets stuck in your brain and it won’t let go…such is this clever yet dumb edit/remix of Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me’. (via DJ Lumpy)
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The Day That Hipsters Stole Our Look
https://soundcloud.com/usicalearecords/here-are-the-young-men-uncle-peanut-the-day-the-hipsters-stole-our-look-1 Oh yes I so agree with this song from Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut, I hate getting death glares from 20 year old hipsters who grew their hypergroomed and artisinally oiled beard last year, when I’ve had mine since 1989. And then I get called a hipster because I said I…
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RIP Don Joyce
So soon after the death of Ian Allen, Don Joyce of Negativland died yesterday. He joined Negativland in the early 1980’s and also ran the KPFA ‘Over The Edge’ show for three decades. One of the many shows were the Time Zones project – a fascination of radio, Time Zones and the elusive C.E. Friday…
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A Sacco Offense: Gawking, Trolling and seeing Red(dit)
Great video about shaming and Justine Sacco from Jon Ronson. I was online that night and felt the same as he did, the unease at the online mob, and actually I did post about it, defending her as not being malicious – note I didn’t mention her initially by name. I didn’t need to, every…
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Caitlyn Jenner wins Arthur Ashe Award
Finally got around to watching Caitlyn Jenner and her Arthur Ashe Award speech (not for me the 15 second news churn, I take my time!). It’s amazing stuff. Don’t get the hate from certain people, yes I don’t like her Republican or reality show affiliations either, but it’s interesting how she’s used her platform to…