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Anyone up for creating a Buddha Machine orchestra?
buddha machine - Buy and discuss your FM3 buddha machine here - What is a Buddha Machine?:
The Buddha Machine is a modified version of a device used in Buddhist temples throughout Asia, which feature repeating loops of chanting monks or nuns. This particular incarnation is the brainchild of [...]

The editors at the wonderful series 33 1/3 , who publish fantastic books about significant records, rejected my book proposal for the Butthole Surfers’ Locust Abortion Technician. Oh,well. Since I don’t think I’ll ever write the damn thing (no hard feelings, really, it would be tough to explain on my resume anyway), I thought I’d [...]

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If you haven’t heard, Tom Waits three disk album, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, is probably his best in years. It is so rich and textural that I have little time to do it justice in words. It is a hefty three discs, but all songs are downloadable at emusic.com.
Seeing the above video reminded me [...]

In high school one of my best friends and I had a psychic connection about music. Though we lived in separate states, we always seemed to have parallel trajectories in our musical tastes: from punk to industrial to ambient to jazz to Latin and so on. We agreed pretty much on everything but one point: [...]

Like eating too many gooey doughnuts, one of the downsides of a really awesome record is wearing down its grooves to the point of nausea. Sadly, that was the fate of OK Computer, which remains one of my top ten desert island disks, yet I can’t recapture that magical sense of enamor I had with [...]

A classic from Gil Scott Heron:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc

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Singer-songwriter Sandi Thom does an awesome job of conflating punks and hippies in here new hit, “I wish I were a punk rocker.” The central refrain goes, “I wish I were a punk rocker with flowers in my hair…” She goes on to lament being born too late to experience either movement, and decries the [...]

I’m almost embarrassed to say it because of all the hippie/stoner connotations of it, but Dark Side of the Moon remains one of the most powerful influences on my musical life, and I’m sure I’m not alone. The recent re-revision of space rock with slide guitar is pure Pink Floyd. And when I inadvertently downloaded a Floyd bootleg on Acquisition, to my pleasant surprise the live recording of Dark Side was really damn good, and eerily contemporary. They way David Gilmore strolls along with minimalist chord progressions, with Mason inserting keyboard textures and sound montages, it felt as if it could totally be playing today in a Brooklyn loft at 4:00 AM. When I get around to it (soon, I promise), I’ll be podcasting some contemporary bands that have the Dark Side sensebility: flying through space in your private RV while stoned on peddle steele.

OK all you radioheads, here is the latest dispatch from Thom York: he has a solo album coming out in July, called The Eraser. It sound very electronic. That makes me happy. What follows is the latest cryptic dispatch from the yorkster himself:
this is just a note to say that something has been [...]

From Newsweek:
Musical ire against the White House has been growing since the invasion of Iraq. Eminem blasted Bush on the eve of the last election in the single “Mosh” (”Strap him with an AK-47, let him go fight his own war”); the punk trio Green Day’s 2005 multiplatinum CD “American Idiot” told stories of people [...]

In honor of the new immigrant rights movement, I’m unearthing an interview I did with one of my personal heroes, Manu Chao. Manu is the Joe Strummer of the Latin world in the sense that he is a rocker who uses music as a tool for social change. His debut album, Clandestino, is a classic of heartfelt, multi-culti protest music. You can click to the complete article and interview at the end of this post.

OK gang, True Majority is giving away Neil Young’s antiwar album, Living with War, for free on Friday, April 28. Meanwhile go to the same link to sign a petition. Don’t run over eachother on the way there, please.

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OK, I know, I know. I hate tests. But this one is really fun. Which of the following is a group of:
a) Satanic monsters that play in a rock band
b) A bunch of artists who use a band as an excuse to masturbate human sized dildos on stage so their audience gets covered in colored [...]

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I once told myself that if I ever heard Sonic Youth or Butthole Surfers as Muzak at the supermarket, it would be time to exit this earthly plane. While this isn’t nearly as close, I never in my life thought I’d see a punk tribute band. But here it is: The Sex Pistols Experience.
The promise [...]

Neil on CNN.
Neil Young has a new blog: Living with War.

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Old man, heart of gold, what ever lyric you want to draw from his 40 year career, Neil Young could easily retire and go off and play with his train sets until he dies, but he keeps churning out the controversy, and for that (aside from his music), I love him so.
According to Neil’s trippy [...]