Tag: Culture jamming
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Bottom line not people at the bottom
Reflecting on the distasteful news that Nike is again cashing in on Pride month with their #BeTrue campaign, after their lack of any action over Sochi and the LGBTQ abuses in Russia. It’s one thing to flog rainbow gear made in coutnries where the locals aren’t free to express their seuxality and gender to people…
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RC 270: Pop Is Dead #5 – Moneygoround
Fifth instalment of the Pop Is Dead series, all about the dirty, dirty cash in the music industry, with occasional interruptions from Steve Albini and The Story of Pop. The finale will be next week. Get the money, Mr. Potato, Get the money, Pay the Eskimo… (163Mb, 2:02) Doxa Sinistra – Call Now! The Kinks…
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A Little Dog Named Snuggles: remix Negativland
Remix/cutup types will love this – in honour of the death* of Shaggy, aka Casey Kasem, Negativland have posted the parts to download and remix at your pleasure for their infamous and litigious ‘The Letter U and the Numeral 2’ from 1991. This saw them lock horns with U2 and their record company who got…
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Banksy on Advertising
Although I think there is some irony here with Banksy’s now superstar status and the fact some could compare having his street art pop up is also like someone throwing a brick to your head (and I won’t even go into the copyright controversy from the Bristol Museum exhibition) I think the message is a…
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RC 205: Royal Dreading
A Post-Coachella show and what could be more English to come back to, a cauldron of self-hatred doffing our (dutch) caps at our overlords than a Royale Wedding with Cheese? So inevitably as everyone is totally sick of it after the event (and during and before…) so this show has a theme of royal dreading…
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Evolution Control Committee – All Rights Reserved
The CD for this finally arrived a week or two ago and all the 200th episode rush (it’s mentioned in the show, though) I forgot to blog about this – yes Evolution Control Committee aka Trademark G is back with a new album, All Rights Reserved, and like Plagiarhythm Nation before it, it’s a good…