The other day, we linked the picture of a poster showing tens of turntables (http://alturl.com/wft56) and it appears, thanx Laurence, that it's a picture taken from Grand Royal, a short-lived (6 issues) but very cool magazine done by The Beastie Boys between 1993 and 1997.
Ok, we had months of aaaaah and ooooh with crowdfunding and many people were/are excited about this new way of "maybe" being able to raise funds for recording and releasing an album. But what if, what if it wasn't all that great ?
Back in the Middle Ages, women were portrayed as curvy and confortable and one only has to look at Rubens' paintings to have a pretty good idea of the average (bourgeois) woman back then. But the combined arrival of graphic advertising and consumerism has allowed the birth of the myth of a seemingly perfectly formed and dreamed body linked with irrepressible coolness. And we all know that most people aren't shaped like Kate Beckinsale and if they are, it never last long. It's the dictatorship of illusion: eternal youth mixed with incredibly fit and thin bodies.
Gwilym Gold, an english songwriter, is about to release "Tender Metal", an album that's never quite finished, thanx to the technology he developped with the producer Lexxx and clever people from the Goldsmiths University in London.
Are we so biased and buried under the massive bulk of informations available on the net that we're doomed to short-circuit it to its most common denominator, I name the lolcat ?
Fortunately, not everyone has lost it and LapTop Rocker Jason Forrest and wizz-kid Greg Sadetsky had a brilliant idea they quickly launched back in january 2011: Network Awesome was born.
Nick Cave is a very busy man....Since doing the Birthday party back in the days when piracy meant you liked Adam And The Ants, he has made The Bad Seeds an essential pivotal rock of indie music, had a worldwide hit with Kylie Minogue in real Serge Gainsbourg style, wrote a couple of books, made some cool movie soundtracks with fellow Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis, he's also now pondering whether or not he'll become a scriptwriter outside of his third collaboration with Jonah Hillcoat, movie director...
It's no secret Dave Gahan has been playing live a few days ago in Los Angeles with Soulsavers (very short video: http://youtu.be/DlboBmp-KRw). He also appears on their album.
What's more intruiging is the interview he gave to Clashmusic about Depeche Mode being inbetween record companies, or maybe even between record companies and...no record companies ? This rumour has been running for quite a few years tho (read Side Line link below).
Very funny and interesting article about Isao Tomita and his Moog III C (C stands for cabinet)... In a way, Walter Carlos and Tomita are a bit like The Stones and The Beatles: Walter would be more adventurous and raw while Tomita would be more family friendly and safe. He actually says it himself " I believed that, even if you're using a machine like Moog, the music has to be something the whole family can enjoy.".
Synesthesia is not a disease, nor is it extremely rare, it's a condition in which the stimulation of one sensory pathway (sound, smell, vision,...) leads to automatic and involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (a sound will trigger a color, a letter will always appear in a certain color, sometimes numbers will be seen at different distances, etc..). So, yes, it's funky, women are more subject to it, it runs in families, and no you can't turn it off. If I tell you Nikola Tesla was a synesthete, that immediatelt makes it uber cool, no ? ;).
