latestcoolthing:

Original notebook page for Dylan’s The Times They are a Changin’..
Notice how there are hardly any cross-outs.  He was like 22. Happy Birthday Bob. 

From Wikipedia..
Less than a month after Dylan recorded the song, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The next night, Dylan opened a concert with “The Times They Are a-Changin’”; he told biographer Anthony Scaduto: “I thought, ‘Wow, how can I open with that song? I’ll get rocks thrown at me.’ But I had to sing it, my whole concert takes off from there. I know I had no understanding of anything. Something had just gone haywire in the country and they were applauding the song. And I couldn’t understand why they were clapping, or why I wrote the song. I couldn’t understand anything. For me, it was just insane.”^[8] 

Happy Birthday Sun Ra. 

Stick around for the interviews in this clip. He would have been 98 on this Earth. ALL IS WELL ON SATURN.

Brian Eno Lecture about Everything that Matters

Happy birthday Brian Eno.

I’ve always been a huge fan of his approach and creative process as a producer. He is somehow outside of the bullshite industry while creating remarkable artistic influences. Or really innovating and testing our culture.

In this lecture from Moscow, he talks about the differences between classical music’s hierarchical structure versus the collective result of studio music. He correlates music production to be more like painting and that technology frees the modern listener from time and space synthetically. He coins the term “scenius”, to explain the collective mind of an art movement.

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John Peel Record Archive

This is a pretty unique archive. There has to be some unbelievable gems which Peel collected over decades and decades or recorded on his show. They are going to release it slowly. Peel started his DJ career in Pirate Radio on Wonderful Radio London.

Happy 50th Ian MacKaye

Upskirts at Ottto’s Shrunken Head

Come party with us! It’s the East Village dammit! It’s Friday 13th!
Drink some Tiki drinks too.

Otto’s Shrunken Head
538 East 14th Street (between Ave A. and Ave. B)

NEW YORK SHITY 
www.ottosshrunkenhead.com

10pm The Upskirts
11pm Wise Girl (solo/acoustic)
12am Laughing Heart

Sedyane’s Ghosty Ancient Folk Music

A while back I came across this hypnotic musician named Sedyane from up in Northumbrian, UK. He’s a traditional storyteller and “ante-folk” singer. His music and improvisations are like time traveling in this odd way. He plays the ancient Crwth or a Welsh Lyre and many other instruments. I’m very curious who taught him how to play these things.

http://www.glasscapsule.com/2012/03/sedyanes-ghosty-ancient-folk-music/

AMAZING PUNK ROCK FLYER ARCHIVE

These were all made before the internet destroyed the WORLD. It’s amazing how nostalgic I get sometimes. You could do so much with a photocopier and a couple of pens. DIY always works. It has no choice. 

http://www.glasscapsule.com/2012/03/awesome-collection-of-punk-rock-posters/

Track: PUNK IN AFRICA official selection mixed by dj zhao

OFFICIAL PUNK IN AFRICA MIX by DJ Zhao (Ngoma Soundsystem, Berlin)
presented by www.punkinafrica.co.za / ngomasound.wordpress.com

In the era of branded lifestyle packaging, still sometimes something happens which makes us question our ideas of who makes/listens to what, what that means, how this informs the construction of social identity, whose values are projected by which aesthetic, and which “genres” are assigned to what class and ethnic group. I think the release of this film (www.punkinafrica.co.za) may be one of those times, and i hope this mix is one of those things, demonstrating the connectedness between Rock and Roll and its African roots, between power chords and dance beats, between decades past and today, between defiant youth in London and defiant youth in Zimbabwe – and that the same rhythmic blood and spirit of revolt runs in all of our veins.

This mix includes exclusive mashups and re-edits, and goes from Punk to heavily Africanized Rebel Rock to Post-Punk, Dance-Punk, Political Dub, Punk Step, 60s Afro-Garage Techno, Bass Music and beyond, features remixes of Congotronics and a couple of tunes not from the motherland, but surely in keeping with the Afro-Punk spirit.

01 [South Africa] National Wake – Black Punk Rockers
02 [South Africa] National Wake – Mercenaries
03 [South Africa] KOOS – Is Jy N Moegoe
04 [South Africa] National Wake – Dreams In My Head
05 [Zimbabwe] Chikwata 263 – Dudumduri
06 [South Africa] Dread Warriors – Xighangu Xamina
07 [South Africa] National Wake – Tchindi (live]
08 [UK] Andy Moor – From E to F + Pinch – Warlord
09 [South Africa] Kalahari Surfers – Don’t Dance (live) + Bass Boy – Stamp
10 [DR Congo] Docteur Nico & African Fiesta – Save Me
11 [Mozambique] 340ML – Shotgun (Zhao Fix)
12 [Zimbabwe] Evicted – Mapurisa (Remix)
13 [Zimbabwe] Chikwata 263 – In the Jungle
14 [South Africa] National Wake ft. Warrick Sony –Bolina (Kalahari Mix) + Cyrus – Manhatten Blues
15 [UK] Andy Moor – Ella Speed + Unknown
16 [DR Congo] Kasai Allstars – The Incident At Mbuji-Mayi (Bass Clef Remix)
17 [DR Congo] Kasai Allstars – Mukuba Special (Shackleton Remix)
18 [France / UK] DJ Rupture & Andy Moor – Broken Minded
19 [South Africa] Powerage – Waiting For the War
20 [South Africa] Powerage – Freedom + FilthyBeatz – Bounced
21 [Angola] Acromaniacos – unknown
22 [South Africa] KOOS – Ek Is My Dilemma
23 [South Africa] Fuzigish – Burn the Fucking House Down
24 [South Africa] Wild Youth – All Messed Up
25 [South Africa] Wild Youth – Wot About Me
26 [Tanzania] Jagwa Sound System – Watu na Maisha Yao
27 [South Africa] A-Cads – Down The Road
28 [South Africa] The Dynamics – Garlic Baloney

DOWNLOAD LINK HERE: http://www.mediafire.com/?kaalvw1traeqlm6

DJ Zhao:
http://listn.to/djzhao
http://soundcloud.com/djzhao
http://www.mixcloud.com/djzhao/
http://ngomasound.wordpress.com/

Punk In Africa:
http://www.punkinafrica.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/PunkInAfrica

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