Chuck D & DJ Johnny Juice on the myths used to create hip hop

more about “The Real News Network – Chuck D & Joh…“, posted with vodpod
The REAL News Network in its series of Chuck D interviewing political activist DJs is following up its first part by having Chuck D talking to another forming member of Public Enemy, Johnny Juice, on Hip Hop creating myths – from [...]

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Mélange LaVonne – Domestic Violence

Another LaVaonne track, this time on domestic violence in lesbian relationships. California native Mélange LaVonne, is an outspoken, openly lesbian hip-hop activist and artist.
Presented by POWER UP.

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Gay Bash By Mélange Lavonne

It’s been around for a couple of years and had 114,086 views so far, but it can’t be watched often enough: a song by Mélange Lavonne against gay bashing and Christian hate-filled homophobia. Fictional character Kevin, Mélange’s friend, becomes a victim of a hate crime. Mélange’s confronts those including the “Church” [...]

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Chuck D and Run D.M.C on the state of Hip Hop & America

An important aspect of The Real News Network’s role is to provide a platform for social justice commentators often overlooked by mainstream media. One such voice is rap artist and activist Chuck D, founder of the legendary Public Enemy.
In a series of groundbreaking interviews produced by TRNN, [...]

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Zoe Keating – two performances

Performing “Sun Will Set” at the Camden Opera House in Maine at Pop!Tech 2007.

Performing Tetrishead on August 4th, 2007 at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. video projections by Jeffrey Rusch.

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The sound of talking plants

I’m not sure exactly how it’s done, but this website seems to record something recorded in ‘plant communication’ sessions that is converted into sound. The sound-art installations are created by Philip Blackburn using a Biowave (brainwave EKG set of electrodes), proximity and turn knobs. These send MIDI data to his laptop that where they are [...]

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Microsounds: Curtis Roads composes intelligent music in the worlds of virtual sounds

An interesting 3-part VBS.TV series on Curtis Road titled “MOTHERBOARD – THE GRANULAR SYNTHESIS OF CURTIS ROADS”. Roads explains that with his compositions he’s leaving the limited scope of the 12 notes of the equal tempered scale. He wants to allow sounds to tell a story, a narrative similar to human life where they get [...]

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Avantgarde cellist Zoë Keating plays “Escape Artist”

From the Wired Gadget Lab blog:
Zoë Keating makes entrancing, hauntingly beautiful music using a traditional French cello, a MacBook, and an arsenal of audio-crunching software and scripts.
“My music is the fusion of information architecture and classical music,” Keating says in this Wired.com video. “The way that you problem-solve in the world [...]

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The Best Ways to Discover Music Through Twitter

Wired’s Epicenter has a great post on finding and sharing music through Twitter. I’m slowly discovering Twitter and the more I delve into it the more amazed I am about what it can provide. For example, so far I have been deceived by the service’s growing fame as a text platform, but reading the Epicenter [...]

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Clean up you music tags

Anal about music tags? It’s something I have given up on, even though I have been using Media Monkey for a long time to do my tagging ( in the end I hated the idea of spending hours of precious time manually fixing up music tags). What I didn’t know was that Media Monkey has [...]

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“This land is your land”

I haven’t listened to Bruce Springsteen for years, but I have to say it’s a moving song. I’m not American and certainly no admirer at all of that nation (while acknowledging it does have some great people living there). But apart from the fact that this beautiful Woody Guthrie anthem is [...]

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Kutiman-Thru-you – 01 – Mother of All Funk Chords

This clip has been sitting on my to-post list for quite afew days now, and by now half the planet probably knows it anyway . Nevertheless: an amazing mashup!

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Another way to download music from Last.fm and Aupeo

A while ago I tried Last Sharp, a German downloader for Last.fm music; here’s another option according to gHacks, one which doesn’t require .Net runtimes.
Last.fm Downloader (via Life Rocks) is a free portable software program for Windows. To download your favorite music from Last.fm (and also Aupeo), just enter the Last.fm/Aupeo url and press ‘Start’. [...]

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Music piracy not so bad, Sneaky Sound System say

Asher Moses, The Age

The Sneaky Sound System trio, from left, Daimon Downey, Connie Mitchell, and Angus McDonald.
Photo: Quentin Jones

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The chief songwriter and producer of Australian dance music group Sneaky Sound System says digital music piracy isn’t a major problem for popular artists because the vast majority of earnings come from playing live shows.
Angus McDonald made [...]

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Peter Garrett – the biggest sell-out in Australian politics

Peter Garrett, former environmental campaigner and ex-lead singer of Midnight Oil turned morally failed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, embracer of power and ditcher of passion, traitor to his own course and biggest hypocrite in Australian politics, has made many enemies. It probably doesn’t matter to him given his new friends in [...]

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Israel ready to launch a military offensive against Iran

Global Research, February 14, 2009

In the wake of Gaza, can the world afford to live with a nuclear Israel?
On February 14, Australian news paper “The Age” reported:

A SENIOR Israeli diplomat has warned that Israel is ready to launch a military offensive against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
In an interview with The Age, [...]

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Air France: “No Excuses”

more about “Air France: “No Excuses”“, posted with vodpod

Fortunately the world is not all gloom and doom. After just posting the “Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist” article, it feels rather good to listen to Air France.

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MySpace begins monetising music videos with impressive results – which they might need to

by Jason Kincaid on TechCrunch,  February 6, 2009

In an effort to monetize the growing number of music videos on its site, MySpace has just launched a new pilot advertising initiative that places attractive overlays at the bottom of some clips, allowing users to buy the song they’re listening to or immediately jump to the [...]

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Apple to remove DRM from iTunes tracks and allow 3G downloads

By Aidan Malley

In what could be a significant victory for its online music store, Apple is believed to have landed agreements not only to remove copy protection from the music of all major labels but to also allow direct music downloads to iPhones over cellular networks.
The deal reported by sources speaking to CNET News.com would [...]

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Simpsons, Star Trek & Theremin

This an oldie; I saw it a long time ago but a friend sent it to me again and I have to say, I still like it – not just because of the performative nature but also coz I do like the theremin.

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