New Pixies video, “Silver Snail.”
Worth your time.
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Video: 1967 Velvet Underground Footage Shot By Andy Warhol Surfaces
This film was shot by Andy Warhol in 1967 at the Boston Tea Party, a concert venue in Boston.
It’s quite experimental as a film. The sound quality is mostly terrible. I’ve also included audio of another concert by the VU at the Boston Tea Party with good sound.
But as a document the Warhol footage is fascinating.
Here’s what was posted along with the video on YouTube:
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, sound, color, 33 mins. Dir: Andy Warhol):
This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques. Sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound. It is a significant find indeed for fans of the Velvets, being one of only two known films with synchronous sound of the band performing live, and this the only one in color. It’s fitting that it was shot at the Boston Tea Party, as the Beantown club became one of the band’s favorite, most-played venues, and was where a 16-year-old Jonathan Richman faithfully attended every show and befriended the group. Richman, who would later have his debut recordings produced by John Cale, and later yet record a song about the group, is just possibly seen in the background of this film.
Here’s geat audio of a live show at the same venue but in 1969:
Thanks Doom and Gloom From the Tomb!
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Free App: Brian Eno & Karl Hyde Debut Psychedelic App
If you need a distraction, down load the new app from Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, who have a new album out, Someday World.
If you have a vinyl copy of the album, after you download the app and launch it, you aim the camera lens of your iPhone or iPad at the spinning vinyl and on your screen many modern psychedelic images appear.
If you don’t have the vinyl, doesn’t matter. You can go here and aim your camera at virtual vinyl on your computer screen.
Get into here.
Meanwhile listen to The “Satellites” off Someday World.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Art: Bob Dylan’s ‘Drawn Blank Series’ Exhibited Simultaneously in New York & Perth, Australia — See Gallery of Dylan Art
He may be touring the world.
And recording new albums.
And OKing the release of archived recordings.
But Bob Dylan is also putting his art out into the world in a major way.
This week his “Drawn Blank Series” is not only being exhibited at the Ross Art Group gallery in New York.
At the same paintings based on the original drawings he did some years ago are on exhibit at Weatherby Fine Art in Perth Australia.
And of course last October, Halcyon Gallery in London had Dylan’s “Mood Swings” exhibit, in which iron works by Dylan were exhibited along with paintings and signed limited editions.
Dylan created more than 300 drawings during his 1989-1992 world tour, and later reworked many of them in watercolour and gouache.
Here are some of Dylan’s paintings:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Drawings: Bob Dylan’s ‘Drawn Blank Series’ Art to Be Exhibited in New York — See Three of the Drawings Right Now
Four dozen of Bob Dylan’s “Drawn Blank Series” drawings — created between 1989 and 1992 — will be exhibited for the first time in the U.S. beginning May 8 at the Ross Art Group gallery in New York.
One of the drawings is at the top of this post.
Here are two more:
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R.I.P Dept.: Devo Guitarist Bob Casale Dead At 61
Bob Casale, a founding member of the Akron, Ohio pre-punk band Devo, died suddenly on February 17th of heart failure. He was 61.
Bob Casale helped create the futuristic rock sound that was at its most extreme on Devo’s radical 1978 debut album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
In a statement, Gerald Casale said: “As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning. He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got. He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again. His sudden death from conditions that lead to heart failure came as a total shock to us all.”
Alan Myers, Devo’s drummer during the group’s creative peak, died last year of stomach cancer. He was 58.
Read Rolling Stone‘s obit here.
Devo’s cover of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” appeared on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”:
“Whip It”:
“Come Back Jonee”:, France 1978:
“Gut Feeling” / “Slap Your Mammy,” France, 1978:
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Radiohead Debut New ‘PolyFauna’ Ap — Download it Now!
Today Thom Yorke of Radiohead posted about a new ap, “PolyFauna,” on the Radiohead website Dead Air Space.
We have made an app called PolyFauna.
PolyFauna is an experimental collaboration between us (Radiohead) & Universal Everything, born out of The King of Limbs sessions and using the imagery and the sounds from the song Bloom.
It comes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious.
Your screen is the window into an evolving world.
Move around to look around.
You can follow the red dot.
You can wear headphones.Thom
11 February
Allen Ginsberg Photos of Bob Dylan, Kerouac, Patti Smith & More Donated to University of Toronto
Nearly all of Allen Ginsberg’s photographs have been donated to the University of Toronto by the Larry & Cookie Rossy Family Foundation, according to the Huffington Post.
The nearly 8000 photographs include images of Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, William de Kooning, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, William Burroughs and Iggy Pop.
The Huffington Post reports:
Comprising a nearly complete archive of Ginsberg’s surviving photographs, the collection, spanning the years 1944 to 1997, includes original snapshots and prints of various sizes. The silver gelatin prints are unique in that they are hand-captioned by Ginsberg. All of these images will be available to scholars, and some will be on display.
Although known primarily as a writer, Ginsberg was an avid photographer. The collection includes images of writers Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones), Paul Bowles, Doris Lessing, Josef Skvorecky (who was a professor of English at U of T) and Evgeny Yevtushenko. Other Ginsberg subjects were photographer Robert Frank, psychologist R.D. Laing, author and activist Dr. Benjamin Spock and psychologist, and drug guru, Timothy Leary. Ginsberg’s friend and, fellow writer, Burroughs appears in more than 300 photographs. Another frequent subject is Ginsberg’s lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky.
The Ginsberg prints provide visual insight into New York urban landscape from the 1950s to the 1990s. They also document Ginsberg’s international travels to Canada, France, India, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, the USSR and many other nations.
For the whole story head to the Huffington Post.
You can see many of Allen Ginsberg’s photographs here.
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Video: Pussy Riot on ‘Colbert’, Attack Putin – ‘No PR stunt can fix Russia’s Image’
Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova interviewed by Stephen Colbert last night.
Part One:
Part Two:
Sign off:
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Listen: Mekons Jon Langford Delivers New Solo Track, ‘Mars’
Dig this cool track, “Mars,” from Mekons mainman Jon Langford.
The song will appear on Langford’s solo album, Here Be Monsters, due out April 1, 2014.
And here’s the video version:
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