By The New York Times
“A strain of hip-hop that started in Chicago was tweaked by bedroom producers in Britain before taking over Brooklyn. Now it’s the soundtrack to a summer of unrest.”
Posted on June 30, 2020
The Myth, Mirth, Malarkey And Magic Of Glastonbury And The Arts
By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
“In a year’s time, after watching Netflix and Amazon Prime and your Insta feed and nothing else I guarantee you’d turn around and think where the fuck did all that go?”
Posted on June 26, 2020
Tunes To Remedy Any Existential Crisis
By E.K.Mam
You can let it roll and/or share it here.
1. “Dixie Chicken” / Little Feat
Posted on June 24, 2020
40 Years Of Laibach | Is This Slovenian Avant-Garde Band The Most Controversial In Rock History?
By Andrew Dawson/The Conversation
In June 1980, Laibach was formed. Soon, they became the musical wing of the Slovenian arts collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), or New Slovenian Art. Comprising visual artists, theatre companies and a unit dedicated to social theory, NSK was concerned with exploring the relationships between art and politics.
Laibach took its name from Austro-Hungarian and then Nazi-occupied Ljubliana, the capital city of Slovenia. They were the first Western band to perform in North Korea and their most recent album is a cover of the Sound of Music, which re-presents that most saccharine of musicals as an exercise in the celebration of Austrian fascism and paedophilia.
Laibach is one of the most controversial, innovative and truly strange bands in rock history.
Posted on June 23, 2020
Constellation Evolution Through Record Album Covers
By The Adler Planetarium
“Pedro, who oversees our rare astronomical artifacts, shows us the evolution of constellations through album artwork from his personal record collection.”
Posted on June 15, 2020
“#ICantBreathe”
By Korporate Bidness w/J. Writes and Gee Gray
Call for my mother
mama couldn’t help me
Hate’s on my neck
and it’s suffocating me
Posted on June 10, 2020
20 Albums That Are Very Important To Me
By Timothy Inklebarger
Most of the albums that I ever pick for these lists were recorded in the late ’80s and early ’90s. No surprise since I was in my formative years at that time.
Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation is and will always be probably almost my favorite album of all time. It’s about as perfect as a record can get. I think the thing I loved about bands like Sonic Youth is it felt like they were ours. They belonged firmly in the Gen X generation and spoke our language. They helped invent the language.
Posted on June 9, 2020