"My name is Brandon Markel, 28, NY."
Mustard Gas Party
Strummerville
"Strummerville is a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians. Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect Joe's unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them."
Strummerville, Wikipedia
Tellus #12 - Dance (1986)
"Curated by Gretchen Langheld and Bruce Tovsky, ŒDance¹ is a gathering of 1) works comissionned by choreographers, 2) instrumental songs based on dance rhythms or even 3) plain, unadulterated dance music. This Tellus issue include the most straightforward music to be found in the entire series."
UbuWeb
Yugen
"Several years ago, I wrote on the potential joys of collecting Charles Olson. Olson loomed as a literal giant over the small press and little magazine scene from 1950 until his death in 1970. As a result, his work appeared in some of the most interesting chapbooks and magazines of the period. His books are beautiful and expansive (I am thinking of the Jargon Press Maximus Poems) as objects above and beyond the epic scope of their contents."
RealityStudio
Phyllis Galembo
"Went to an opening of a photo exposition by my friend Phyllis Galembo last night. I hadn’t seen her new work for a few years, so this was a chance to catch up. Wow. I was knocked out. The show was in a relatively out of the way gallery (Sepia International), that is not on street level, so there won’t be the walk-in traffic of the Chelsea galleries. Worth checking out, as I think it puts a lot of contemporary 'fictional' photo work to shame. Hell, it puts a lot of stuff in other mediums outside photography to shame too."
David Byrne's Journal, Phyllis Galembo, Steven Kasher Gallery
Political Cinema
Wikipedia - "Political Cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partisan way in order to inform or to agitate the spectator. Political cinema exists in different forms such as documentaries, feature films, or even animated and experimental films."
Wikipedia, italica, Celluloid Activism - A short history of political cinema by Julian Upton
The Fleshtones
Wikipedia - "The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976."
Wikipedia, Trouser Press, YouTube - Roman Gods, Hitsburg USA / Love's In The Grave, Jump, Jive & Harmonize, Accelerated Emotion, Right side of a goog thing
Catchin' Up With Priest
""A 'fan' emailed me detailing how I was ruining her son's life because my pieces around town had inspired her son to want to be, wait for it, an artist! I hope they both see this and it furthers his downward spiral into creativity and expressionism."
Wooster Collective
The Searchers
Wikipediaia - "The Searchers are an English rock band who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers. The band's hits included a remake of the Drifters' 1961 hit, 'Sweets for My Sweet'; remakes of Jackie DeShannon's 'Needles and Pins' and 'When You Walk In The Room'; an original song written for them, 'Sugar and Spice'; The Orlons' 'Don't Throw Your Love Away'; and a remake of The Clovers' 'Love Potion No. 9'."
Wikipedia, lsat.fm, YouTube - Needles And Pins, Love Potion No 9, Don't Throw Your Love Away, Sweets For My Sweet
Orchestra Baobab
Wikipedia = "Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, and Pachanga band. Organized in 1970, as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club band, Orchestre Baobab adapted the then current craze for Cuban Music (growing out of the Congolese Soukous style) in West Africa to Wolof Griot culture and the Mandinga musical traditions of the Casamance. One of the dominant African bands of the 1970s, they were overshadowed in the 1980s and broke up, only to reform in 2001 after interest in their recordings grew in Europe."
Wikipedia, lsat.fm, YouTube - Cabral, On Verra Ça, Soundcheck At Momo's, Guitar Solo, Battery Park, NYC, Specialist in All Styles/ El Son te llama, Ndeleng Ndleleng
T-shirt
Wikipedia - "A T-shirt (or T shirt) is a shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless and collarless, with a round neck and short sleeves. However, many people incorrectly use the term T-shirt to describe any short sleeved shirt or blouse; a polo shirt or other collared shirt is not a T-shirt."
Wikipedia
Nixon in China (1987)
Wikipedia - "Nixon in China (1987) is an opera with music by the American composer John Adams and a libretto by Alice Goodman. It is about the visit of United States President Richard M. Nixon to China in 1972, where he met with China's Chairman Mao Zedong and other Chinese officials.'
Wikipedia, Nixon in China, (1987), 'Nixon in China', reviewed by Robert Hugill, YouTube - Nixon in China (Adams/Goodman), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17)
Much On The Cliffs: The Philosophies of John Ashbery
"Winner of multiple awards for literary excellence, writer and educator John Ashbery is a seminal force in modern poetics. In an enlightening installment of Artists On The Cutting Edge, Ashbery reads, and comments on, selected works."
YouTube
Tuxedomoon
Wikipedia - "Tuxedomoon is an experimental Post-punk/New Wave group formed in San Francisco, California consisting of core members Blaine L. Reininger, Steven Brown and Peter Principle."
Wikipedia, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube - In A Manner of Speaking..., No Tears (ADULT. Remix), No Tears (A Montage of Accelerated Memory), Desire, Litebulb Overkill / Jinx (Live 1980), Atlantis
Comic Book Cartography
"A curator of lost items. If you are the owner of a copyright that I have violated, I will be happy to remove the relevant content."
Comic Book Cartography
Perfect Sound Forever
The Rolling Stones – “Their Satanic Majesties Request” (1967)
Wikipedia - "Perfect Sound Forever (est. 1995) is one of the longest-running online-only music magazines. Along with Michael Goldberg's Addicted to Noise (est. 1994), it is one of the very first publications to post recurring, feature-length music journalism online."
Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever
White Rabbit Press
"A few months ago marked the 50th anniversary of the end of a storybook run of poetry chapbooks put out by a small press. I haven’t been able to find any special notice of that fact anywhere on the web. So here goes, a bit late but definitely necessary: a celebration of the first ten books of the White Rabbit Press, published between November 1957 and September 1958."
the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica, Granary Books, Mimeo Mimeo
Trouser Press
"Trouser Press, online here since August 2002, began with the contents of all five Trouser Press Record Guides, those highly opinionated review books of alternative rock. Thanks to many fine contributors, the site now includes loads of new and updated entries — more than 3,000 in all."
Trouser Press
Landscape art
The Harvesters, Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Wikipedia - "Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects."
Wikipedia
Fairfield Porter
Morning Landscape
"Fairfield Porter was the most important American realist painter from 1949 until his death in 1975. Not coincidentally, these were the years when Porter lived in Southampton, and in 1979, his estate recognized the bond between the artist and the Museum by donating some 250 works to the Parrish collection."
Parrish Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, watercolor artists, Teleported into Fairfield Porter's Southampton studio at Parrish Hall
Disco
Wikipedia - "Disco is a genre of dance music whose popularity peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco was a reaction by New York City's gays as well as black and Latino heterosexuals against both the domination of rock music and the demonetization of dance music by the counterculture during this period."
Wikipedia, Best Disco Songs of the 1970s & 1980s, The Disco History, YouTube: The Trammps - Disco Inferno, Boogie wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire, The Commodores - Brick House, Chic - Good Times, Sister Sledge - We Are Family, KC & The Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty (Shake, Shake, Shake), I Feel Love - Donna Summer, Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
The Real Paper
Wikipedia - "The Real Paper was a Boston alternative weekly newspaper that ran from August 2, 1972, to June 18, 1981, often devoting space to counterculture issues of the early 1970s. The offices were located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
Wikipedia, Jon Landau – “Growing Young With Rock and Roll” (1974)
Black Mountain poets
Wikipedia - "The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College."
Wikipedia, A Brief Guide to the Black Mountain School, University of Virginia
Hurdy gurdy
Wikipedia - "The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy (also known as a wheel fiddle) is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents (small wedges, usually made of wood) against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic string instruments, it has a soundboard to make the vibration of the strings audible."
Wikipedia, Google, YouTube
Performance art
Chris Burden
Wikipedia - "Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. It is opposed to painting or sculpture, for example, where an object constitutes the work."
Wikipedia, FADO Performance Art Centre, Performance art, Cleveland Performance Art Festival Collection, amazon
The Four Tops
Wikipedia - "The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes. Founded in Detroit, Michigan as The Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles, a cousin of Jackie Wilson and brother of The Falcons' Joe Stubbs), and groupmates Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, Renaldo 'Obie' Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, having gone from 1953 until 1997 without a single change in personnel."
Wikipedia, The Four Tops, last.fm, YouTube - Baby I Need Your Lovin', It's The Same Old Song, Bernadette, And the Lonely, Reach Out(I'll Be There), Reach Out(I'll Be There)-acapella
Meme
Wikipedia - "A meme ... is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. ... Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures. The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena."
Wikipedia
Iannis Xenakis
Wikipedia - "Iannis Xenakis ... (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek, naturalised French, composer, music theorist and architect. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music."
Wikipedia, Iannis Xenakis, Google, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (3a). Iannis Xenakis Interview (1 of 3) , (2 of 3), (3 of 3)
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