Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Ballad of the Green Berets, from Songs of Our Fighting Men “The Green Berets” by Sergeant Barry Sadler U.S. Army Special Forces (RCA Victor 1966). Good Morning Vietnam, recorded in Vietnam by Claude Johner (Folkways Records FD 5445 1972). Last Poets; What Will You Do? from Oh, My People (CELL 6108). Conrad Atkinson; The Louis XIV Deterrent, [...]
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"The keyboard players in my band were spacier than Sun Ra, more abstract than John Coltrane and brought more sheer, squalid anarchy to the stage than GG Allin and the Sex Pistols combined. When they weren’t playing music they were either feeding, fighting, or shitting on the floor – and they managed to do a lot of that onstage, too. But they didn’t just act like barnyard animals, they were barnyard...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
PHILADELPHIA, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Philadelphia Music Project (PMP), a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, and the Presser Foundation award a total of $93,420 to four Philadelphia music organizations in support of an eclectic range of recording projects. These awards represent the first round of adjudicated grants made from the Premiere Recording Grant Program,...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a show that ranged from the music of Duke Ellington to that of Sun Ra, Opie performed on his woodwinds, but also on a hand-held synthesizer and a toy that he spun over his head to create sounds from the air.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Some newcomers made a splash, so did the weather at 3-day festival Here's something you don't experience too often at a big outdoor music festival: silence.
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
OK, so everyone's going to the movies today, right? While you're still at work and looking forward to it, here's some stuff to keep you occupied and get you in the mood for The Dark Knight. Review of The Dark...
Waxidermy (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Picked this up for a couple of quid. Was kinda hoping it would be like some type of mind-blowing Afro Sun Ra-esque outing but sadly it isn't as cool as my mind would have me believe. Two side long LP tracks make up the album so just an excerpt to listen to. Released in 1972. [...]
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Photo Via New York Times Zimbabwe native and ex-Stylus scribe Andrew Iliff knows more about African music than Vampire Weekend. He also rocks better sunglasses. The house lights finally dimmed, the final stragglers in their places, a single spot lit up over the stage at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, illumining [...]
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Last week's recommendations for songs about prisons revealed a worrying lack of women. Let's hope more female artists will appear as this week's theme is colours
The Weight (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Why haven't I heard of these guys before? Why hasn't this band appeared at any festivals that I've read about? Someone is dropping the ball by not getting the word out ... so I'm just going to have to do it myself. They're called Breakestra and they're a ten-piece funk "orchestra" from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1996. If you're a fan of Houseman-era Galactic, The Meters, Maceo Parker,
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Searching for an old musical reference here, it occurred to me that I had never posted on Thelonious Monk. What the hell have I been doing? I am not Nat Hentoff and won’t pretend to be. I can’t take apart charts or knowledgeably discuss the session musicians of this or that recording. There are two approaches to [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
in post Son Of Sunday Mix Tape from Communications Major, English Minor .
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Feel good. It's okay to feel good in these days of war, floods, pestilence, and (insert the current price of) gasoline. Certainly the tradition of jazz, especially New Orleans jazz, tells us to celebrate the moment, even if that moment is minutes after you've buried a love one. For that you must have a brass band and the troop known as the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is certainly a worthy one...
Surf Nation (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
What's the best music to play on the way to the beach? Myself, I'm keen on some Sun Ra (That explains everything. Ed.) or Jackie Mittoo, while Harry has taken to demanding that The Clash blast out of the car...
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Sun Ra is just a part of the puzzle. Bizarre / amusing line: …Another likely influence on Sun Ra - and a considerable influence on many hip-hop stars of the late ’80s and early ’90s - was the Nation of Islam, whose pamphleteers the jazzman associated with in ’50s Chicago. Sun Ra never claimed [...]
