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Underworld Always Loved A Film

We interrupt our regular scheduled programming to share with you this awesome new video from Underworld for the track ‘Always Loved A Film’ from their upcoming Barking release. Barking will arrive in the US on Vinyl and CD on September 14, 2010. Seriously, this is the best video ever.

Blonde Redhead – 4AD Session Taster

While checking in at Wow Cool East in Brooklyn this week I’ve managed to catch a taste of Blonde Redhead’s upcoming 4AD Session. It was recorded and is being mixed by our resident multi-track wrangler Mr. Andrew Gerhan. Andy has done some nice work on upcoming releases from nickname: Rebel and Brown Cuts Neighbors that you will be hearing more about soon. Enjoy the video preview of the session above of the track ‘Here Sometimes‘ (iTunes link).

Blonde Redhead’s new LP Penny Sparkle is out from 4AD in the US September 14, and is available for pre-order on Vinyl and CD.

Keep Looking Up! Star Hustler Signs Off For The Last Time

Jack Horkheimer, beloved late night television astronomy spot host, has died aged 72. As reported in Friday’s Miami Herald he was done in by a long-term respiratory ailment.

From sometime in the very early eighties until the late-early 90s I watched almost no TV. The only shows I would watch were the late-night fare on Sunday evenings while doing homework… typically MTV’s 120-Minutes and Doctor Who reruns on local PBS station WMHT 17 in Schenectady, New York. This later show was followed by Jack’s show, The Star Hustler (later the Star Gazer). His overly enthusiastic delivery and tacky ‘Members Only’ leather jacket coupled with actually interesting info about what the stars, moon, meteorites and other space stuff were up to was a compelling combo, and the perfect close to a night’s viewing before the final station sign off. Best of all was the special effect that closed his show for a time… after walking off into the distance his body exploded into bits of star stuff. Sadly, I could not find a clip of this online. The example above, complete with the close of a BBC Programme and the station sign off, is a good substitute. Good night this one last time Jack.

Visit the Star Gazer homepage.

Denim & Diamonds - Street Medics Unite!

Live! July 24, 2010 at 51 3rd Street. Troy, New York. Many more clips available from Conglomco. We still have a couple copies of the D&D CD from Bloodlink Records available. Go get yours.

Power Animals “Field of Dreams” Prospect Park

Our contribution…

July 24, 2010. Prospect Park. Brooklyn, New York.

JasonMartinWebsite.com

Brown Cuts Neighbors - Sleigh Bells in Schenectady

Posted in 3 parts to the YouTube by a fan, is this holiday classic. A shorter edit of it was created for, and I believe can still be viewed, in the collection of Buffalo, New York’s Squeaky Wheel. This episode is a bit of a slow starter, but, like an old movie, you need to stick with it while the suspense builds up to the big payoff.

Jesse Stiles Drops The Target Museum

Music video for Autoautomatic from “The Target Museum.” Directed/produced/edited by Olivia Robinson & Jesse Stiles. Music by Jesse Stiles, lyrics by Jesse Ball & Jesse Stiles. Filmed in New Delhi, India.

NEW! From Jesse Stiles on Wow Cool’s sister label Specific Recordings is the sizzling, much anticipated release the Target Museum as a limited-edition vinyl Picture Disk. There is also a related videogame by Moleindustria called Inside a Dead Skyscraper.

Jesse Stiles’ long awaited debut is here on approximately 250 slabs of crazy looking vinyl. Many of the songs on this record were written while Jesse worked wearing a hazmat suit inside one of the partially destroyed buildings surrounding the ground zero site. They capture that hallucination of contradictory images and turn them into catchy and unique electronic pop masterpieces. The Target Museum was recorded on a former military base in Wendover, Utah and various parts of India.

The release party was Saturday night at 51 3rd Street in Troy, New York with Jesse, Denim & Diamonds, Stephan Moore of Evidence and Crossbow. Wish I could have attended. The last time I played at 51 3rd, Jesse was booked at the other side of town with both our shows that much the poorer for it. (Thanks for the shout-out on the Evidence LP in the show announcement, Jesse! Do you still have that old rotary metal stool of mine? It was quite musical, I hope it was of use.)

Also released earlier this year is Watson Songs by The Jesse Stiles 3000

Kyle Loehr Knows Kung Fu

Please go check out my article and series of videos on the Kung Fu Magazine site. I followed around Wushu competitor Kyle Loehr at the 2010 Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championships and WildAid Champion competitions at last month’s Shark City Nationals in San Jose. My photos from the event are online at Wow Cool’s new photo site.

Radio Free Blissville Plays at Anthology Film Archives’ NewFilmmakers Program Tonight, June 30

Radio Free Blissville Plays at Anthology Film Archives’ NewFilmmakers Program. Depicts Life After the Information Apocalypse via Pirate Radio

The 19-minute fiction piece, set in the near future, delves into the use of underground pirate radio in urban areas after the cascading destruction of major satellite networks and the Internet. Andrew Hampsas plays Lenox, who drives through ravaged neighborhoods while broadcasting via pirate radio transmissions. He offers public announcements, dedications, and on-the-spot interviews. Director J.F. Culhane says: “If you look at it, covert and independent radio has been a consistent voice in communities where a way of life has been wrecked via a natural disaster as in Haiti’s earthquake, political oppression as in Zimbabwe, or even cultural censorship as England’s ban of Rock ‘n Roll in the 1960s.”

The film, which is now being developed as a feature, also stars Baqi Abdush-Shaheed, Marina Julia Neary, and Joe Lihach, and features music by A.B. Do Well, Heavycreme Musics, The Center for Audio Visual Research, nickname: Rebel, and Patrick Heilman. Photography by Peter Nappi.

Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street, New York. The screening, which is $6, is June 30, 2010 at 6 pm.

See the online schedule for more details. For more information about Radio Free Blissville, go to http://rfblissville.com

Steven Cerio’s Film Magnificent Pigtail Shadow Reaches Goal

Steven Cerio sends us word that:

The Kickstarter project is fully funded as of today, with about 2 days to go until it officially closes!!! I’ll send more updates and images once the camera and field recorder arrive. In the meantime, continuing to tighten up the script… tentatively scheduled to begin recording the narration in August.

Thanks for the support!!!!

More help would be wonderful. Where else can you executive produce such a great project for only $200? Get on over there and pitch in!

KTMv2 by Scott Smallwood

No clue what is going on here. “The new version of the KTM – solid state, run off 12-v battery” Yeah. OK. Right. Scott is, of course, half of Evidence.

R.I.P. Jimmy Dean

I mourn the loss of any of the pioneers of TV variety very greatly and closely. Jimmy was one of the last of the greats of the golden (OK, black and white) era. Jimmy and Rowlf the dog (Jim Henson on voice and one hand and head and Frank Oz on the other hand) was such a classic double act. Watching these old clips and seeing the humour play out with Jimmy often lose it on screen from the richness of the gags just tears me up now. Like we lost something somewhere. What do I know? I’m a sucker for anything Muppet.

Jimmy Dean totally cranks it up to awesome all on his own in Diamonds are Forever, a film that still reigns as an all time favorite from having seen it way too many times as a kid.

Associated Press Obituary: Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81

Sorry, I never really intended this to become the dead celebrity blog. Sadly there are more on the way soon.

Work of Art Episode 1 on Hulu Now

Watch the whole thing here. Now.

Give ‘em hell, Nao.

Yes… there will be commercials.

Busta-mania continues with FTM: Not A Robot

Here is Nao Bustamante’s one-hit wonder band. “Female 2 Male Adaptor” or “F2M Adaptor” or “FTM Adaptor.” I’m not sure which. I heard they only had one gig. what an awesome song, “Not a Robot” !!! Band members: Nao, Tyler Jacobsen, Jesse Stiles, and Seth Cluett. Mr T. and Fufu make a guest appearance. It’s funny how it already looks vintage with the types of phones they all have. I think it’s from 2001?

“Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” premiers tonight on Bravo TV. Check local listings for show times.

I'll Take you to Hell

The original film of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is arguably one of the few pieces of shock cinema that transcends it’s genre and stands alone as a piece of art. Truly great art. Astounding in its visual scope. The sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, is merely totally fucking awesome. The above montage of yelling Hopper from the film is quite an odd collection. They left out his first great scream from the flick of “Brazos!” (for the longest river in Texas, in case you weren’t sure)

The screenplay to TCM2 was by L.M. Kit Carson, who also created the astounding documentary “American Dreamer” of Dennis Hopper assembling his disastrous opus The Last Movie and adapted Sam Shephard’s words for Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas.

And you will suddenly discover that the song “Me and Bobby McGee”, is, in fact quite awesome. From The Last Movie…

More about The Last Movie.

Out of The Blue And Into The Black

One of the very few films that somewhat understood punk and that awkward time of someone being pretty sure they want to be punk, but not doing so hot at it. That part may be a little to familiar for many. The rest of it, hopefully less so. Genuinely disturbing.

Nice writeup at Blastitude.

Out of the Blue is available on DVD from Anchor Bay.

Dennis Hopper on David Letterman talking Blue Velvet and River's Edge

Sadly this clip does not include the anecdote about the night Natalie Wood took a Champagne bath that Hopper related during the interview.

The time I played slide guitar on a performance of Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams‘ with Brown Cuts Neighbors may be one of the dodgiest bit of playing I’ve ever done live, but it seemed to work. The true surprise for many was when Valentine’s sound guy Tim redeemed himself by grabbing the bass and saving the song.

Remembering Dennis Hopper Part 1

The above is from Hermann Vaske’s excellent The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money. I used to make everyone in my art department and all the sales reps who used our materials watch this movie.

The work and life of Dennis Hopper has meant more to me than I can begin to express. I have every single one of the movies he directed on VHS. I attended all but a couple of the screenings of his films at the massive retrospective the Film Forum in New York ran in the 1980s (including one memorable one where Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth were seated right behind me). I could go on and on. Dennis Hopper was the best living example I can think of why it is of value in life to engage with art. I suppose that’s a statement that needs some explaining. I’ll be thinking about it. I’ll be dragging out many more of the lesser known works involving Dennis Hopper over the next few days.

Obituary from the Los Angeles Times

Dennis Hopper: A Life in Pictures at the Guardian

Why We Do This: The Fall

The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith is a marvelous BBC documentary from a few years back that I was pointed to by Richard Metzger. It is available to see on YouTube in nine parts. The first part is above.

Around when nickname: Rebel started up, me and Mike used to joke that we should follow the Fall on tour and when Mark E. Smith sacked the entire band one night, we would step in and become the Fall and finish the tour. We did not make it to one show. I was mad jealous when Jason Martin played (as part of Bunnybrains) a CMJ showcase a few years back with Guitar Wolf and The Fall. I remember he told me that Mark E. asked him where he could find a good bar in that part of New York. Watching this documentary, some musical moments still give me the chills. Cruisers Creek? So good.

The Fall’s latest LP (the 29th or something) was released Tuesday. It’s Your Future Our Clutter and you can get it as a CD or download.

Mark E. Smith’s story of the Fall is Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

The Fall Online has all the other info you might need

What the Future Sounded Like

I’ve watched this documentary on EMS (Electronic Music Studios) every few months since I first discovered it. MAKE magazine blogged it a few days ago. I recently saw this awesome ad for the EMS VCS3 (below) at the excellent Issues Newsstand in Oakland, CA. Watch all three parts.

Comprised of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who series) and genius engineer David Cockerell, EMS’s studio was one of the most advanced computer-music facilities in the world. EMS’s great legacy is the VCS3, Britain’s first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog. The VCS3 changed the sounds of some of the most popular artists of this period including Brian Eno, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd.

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