NSFW – New Massive Attack vid
By MarkZ | February 27, 2010
Massive Attack (feat. Hope Sandoval) “Paradise Circus”. The video is directed by Toby Dye and features Georgina Spelvin discussing her part in the notorious “Devil in Miss Jones”. Her remembrances and insights are intercut with scenes from the original film and the soundtrack is the MA song. The overall effect is fascinating, alternately haunting and disturbing, and never less than thought provoking. NSFW. Sandoval plays the role of Massive-Attack-languorous-female-singer. Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn and Sinead O’Connor have previously filled this spot in the MA soundscape.
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Internet Killer is Still Alive – Won’t you please help?
By Mark Zip | February 22, 2010
A while back there was a leak of an EU memo referring to a particular chapter of the proposed ACTA treaty. Now the actual chapter in question has leaked. The reliable Michael Geist has a reasoned analysis:
Michael Geist – ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks: Renegotiates WIPO, Sets 3 Strikes as Model.
Yes, his analysis is more reasoned than my headline.
It still appears that this treaty seeks re-shape American law and also the laws of all other signatory nations. Noticeable NON-signatories include Russia and China, where a huge percentage of the world’s piracy happens.
If you are a US citizen, please have a look at the EFF Alert for ACTA and see if you can help.
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This is what extreme record digging looks like…
By Mark Zip | February 11, 2010
From WFMU DJ Frank O’s recent trip to Ghana
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What if you like a tune but it might be bad for the world (#389 in a series)
By MarkZ | February 10, 2010
Uffie feat. Mr Oizo – MCs Can Kiss
Annie Mac played it the other day and the context made it sound good enough to listen to again. On my fifth listen I am still conflicted. Her attitude is great, but the beat isn’t. Her lyrics are stupid/fun but the flow ain’t fine. The hook is sharp but …. Oh I give up. Perhaps this is the natural end product of the “poptimist” critical approach.
BTW: Starkey did a remix – and for once it is not too good.
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6 – VARIOUS ARTISTS – Where the Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 10 (5)
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OR @ eMusic7 – ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavilion 9 (5)
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Buy New or Used through amazon9 – VARIOUS ARTISTS – Fire In My Bones: Raw + Rare + Other-Worldly African-American Gospel [1944-2007] 8(4)
You can see all the 09 Poops at a http://pooplist.net/category/pooplists/pooplist-09/ or in the navigation to the right ->
Good bathroom reading everyone.
Mark R.
Grand NincomPOOP
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Peter Aaron – Saugerties, NY
Richard Allen – Sayville, NY
Ken Beck – Cranford, NJ
Kent Benziger – Newburgh, NY
Tim Broun – Woodstock, NY
Paul Cangelosi – Kingston, NY
Duncan Clark – Milton, NY
Damian Cleary – New Paltz, NY
Scott Dell’amore – Rhinebeck, NY
Eric Fine – New York, NY
Jim Finnegan – New Hamburg, NY
Emilio Gironda, Jr.- New Paltz, NY
John Greak – New Paltz, NY
Michael Hodgkiss (Johnny Jah)-Amity, NY
Jamie Hosley – Clifton Park,NY
Mike Jurkovic – Wallkill, NY
Patrick Kennedy – Brooklyn, NY
John Lefsky – New Paltz, NY
Oliver Lodge – Saugerties, NY
Tony Lopez – Kerhonkson, NY
Will Manley – Kingston, NY
Jim Meyers – Kingston, NY
Mike Miller – Cuba, NY
Matt Nerney – Kingston, NY
Irv Rosen – Philadelphia, PA
Mark Rosen – New Paltz, NY
Raissa St. Pierre – Germantown, NY
Jeff Schwartz – Green Brook, NJ
Andrew Stewart – Rhinebeck, NY
John Stewart – Bloomington, NY
Bill Still – Kingston, NY
Tom Whalen – New Paltz, NY
Dan Wilmer – Brooklyn, NY
Mark Zip – Woodstock, NY
For Jack
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People who died… NYT disses Lux Interior
By MarkZ | January 31, 2010
NYT has a good musical video necrology of 2009:
But Lux Interior is missing. Wonder if the Grammys one will include him. Wonder how the Grammys one will match up with this one. I suspect that there will substantially more MJ in the Grammy one, what with his kids showing up and all. You’ll have to tell me, as I almost certainly won’t be watching.
Thanks to Lazygal for the spot.
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Classic Album Covers – British Design on stamps
By Mark Zip | January 26, 2010
Now that the stamps are officially released, here’s a good page showing all ten of the stamps. Also includes details of the custom franking you can get.
Classic Album Covers – British Design on stamps 7 January 2010- from Norvic Philatelics
Amazingly, I have a quarrel with only one of the choices. can you guess which one? Which ones would you argue with?
Brief discussions of the project and each of the covers here (www.independent.co.uk)
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The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak
By Mark Zip | January 23, 2010
Wow.
The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak – New York Music – Sound of the City (Village Voice)
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That other list is out
By Mark Zip | January 22, 2010
That other list is out
LPs
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Domino
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Glassnote
3. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone – Anti
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! – DGC/Interscope
5. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca – Domino
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest – Warp
7. The xx – xx – Young Turks
8. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Part II – Ice H2O/EMI
9. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic – Warner
10. Girls – Album True – Panther
Singles
1. Jay-Z (ft. Alicia Keys) – “Empire State of Mind” – Roc Nation
2. Phoenix – “1901″ – Glassnote
3. Animal Collective – “My Girls” – Domino
4. Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks” – Warp
5. Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move” – Domino
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero” – DGC/Interscope
7. Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance” – Streamline/Interscope
8. Girls – “Lust for Life” – True Panther
9. Phoenix – “Lisztomania” – Glassnote
10. Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me” – Big Machine
Chuck Eddy has an interesting piece on the consensus, wondering why the dinosaur critics appear to be more wide-ranging in their listening than the indie-rock crew.
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The A & R Guy
By MarkZ | January 21, 2010
Just is case you were thinking about a career as a DJ or producer….
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Music Lust Albany NY – Sun Jan 24 | NY Record and CD Fairs
By Mark Zip | January 21, 2010
Music Lust Albany NY – Sun Jan 24 | NY Record and CD Fairs.
First show of the year for the Hudson Valley NY
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Music sampler from SubPop
By JamieH | January 20, 2010
Apologies from admin. This posting was lost in the ether for god knows how long. Worth a look!
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SubPop has made a music sampler available for download, the site is worth the visit just to see the tribute to circa-90’s web design, and yes that is the right URL, just don’t let your significant other see that you visited it.
http://www.subpop.com/cybersex
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OK (Go) – I’ll bite.
By Mark Zip | January 20, 2010
via Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go.
A really good primer from one of the OK Go boys on the state of the music industry today. And why EMI / Capitol will not let YouTube enable the embedding code on their videos.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
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Another R.I.P. – Yabby You
By MarkZ | January 15, 2010
Try his dreader than dread Blood and Fire release Jesus Dread (unfortunately, the CD appears to be out of print) Find it at amazon.com (1972-1977)
(much cheaper!)
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The Beatles 3000 – *Very* funny, possibly true?
By MarkZ | January 14, 2010
Thanks to Lazygal
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Lhasa de Sela RIP
By Mark Zip | January 8, 2010
A bit late on this one:
She passed Jan 01 of breast cancer. I have been a fan, on and off, since “La Llorona” was released in ‘97. And the latest CD makes my PoOPlist for 2009. Very sad.
And she was born in Big Indian, NY
Her site: Lhasa de Sela
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Music industry still not dead – Nielsen
By Mark Zip | January 8, 2010
In among the numbers: LP sales up 33%
A Big Music Year for Jackson, Boyle, Swift, Digital Downloads… and Vinyl? | Nielsen Wire
(hat tip: Lazygal, dangerouslyirrelevant, Mashable)
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2 vids on 1 song from Major Lazer – One more disturbing that the last
By MarkZ | January 8, 2010
I had really hoped against hope that this most obvious of all the hits on the Major Lazer record would be selling shedloads by now, but it was not to be. But “Keep It Going Louder” has yielded two very distinctive vids. The first is somewhat normal, the other is … not.
Major Lazer Keep It Goin’ Louder feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze official music video (October 09)
Directed by Eric Wareheim. Oddly captivating, dunno why.
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PoOPster Hubris Warning: The Decade in Music Genre Hype
By Mark Zip | January 4, 2010
Funny and insightful, Christopher R. Weingarten (he of the 1000 twittered album reviews) has “a solemn tribute to the once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won’t be joining us in the ’10s” New York Music – The Decade in Music Genre Hype Serves as a sobering grounding for those of us compiling our PoOP lists this week… right?
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Bono equates file-sharing with child porn. Idiot.
By Mark Zip | January 3, 2010
Quoting:
But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content.
Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Ten for the Next Ten – NYTimes.com
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It worked! – RATMachine beats X Factor winner UK Xmas #1
By Mark Zip | December 21, 2009
Further to my last post, the winners have been declared and “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” is the Christmas refrain on the top of the UK charts. The Grauniad (look it up) has a good round-up of the news and reaction: Rage Against the Machine beats X Factor’s Joe to Christmas No 1 | Music | guardian.co.uk
One item of particular interest is that claim that RATM won on downloads alone. It makes sense, given that the campaign for RATM and against the X factor winner was launched and mostly conducted online. Also, it’s unlikely that the sort of folks who would buy a syrupy pop nugget cover of a Miley Cyrus tune for a Christmas gift would do it in an online format.
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Shock! Rage Against the Machine swearing on BBC Radio 5 live
By Mark Zip | December 17, 2009
The UK Christmas Number One Single tradition has lead to all sorts of silly stuff over the years (Oasis vs. Blur for one), but the last few years have been dominated by awful, treacly pop songs spewing from the “winners” (or “indentured servants”, take your pick) of Simon Cowell’s X-Factor TV show. In the last few weeks a strong campaign has developed to make Rage Against the Machine the number one single this christmas. The campaign is specifically targeted at the Cowell machine, so the choice of RATM is particularly apt. The song the campaign has chosen is “Killing in the Name” , with its multiple repetitions of ”Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”.
Some idiot producer decided that it would be a good idea to devote a section to the campaign on the national breakfast/pop/talk/morning radio show on the BBC Talk/Sports channel Radio 5.
via YouTube - Rage Against the Machine on BBC Radio 5 live – Killing in the Name .
Nice to hear Tom, Zack and the band are just as articulate and fierce as ever… And how did the producers at the beeb possibly believe that the band would NOT swear!!!!!!?????? What is the beeb gonna do, ban RATM from the airwaves?
The bookies have suspended action on the Christmas single line because the Rage track appears to be ahead by more than 10 percent. And, yes, the song was released in 1992.
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Secret negotiations will kill the internet.
By MarkZ | December 14, 2009
Here’s a really informative timeline put together by Micheal Geist about the ACTA Treaty.
This treaty is supposed to deal with anti counterfeiting (starting with things like handbags) but has expanded to include a chapter on the internet. Looks like they are trying to get the hated DMCA rolled out around the world. It also looks like they are trying to insert a “three strikes and you’re out” provision for alleged file sharers. Of course, most file sharers are “caught” by extremely suspect technological means.
And this is all being done in complete secret.
You are not allowed to know what the various provisions are. You are not allowed to have input on what the law will be. This is a classic case of backdoor legislation, just like the DMCA, which was imposed on the US as a part of conforming to the WIPO Treaty. When an interest group cannot get laws passed in their own country, they get it into an international treaty and then turn around and say “Sorry, duly elected representatives of a sovereign nation, it’s a treaty, we have to abide by it…” US companies tried to push ACTA style provisions onto the rest of the world through WIPO a while back but were roundly rejected, so now they want to give it its own infrastructure and enforcement code.
Let’s not forget that this is a copyright treaty. It’s not about life and death stuff like spies and nuclear secrets and terrorism. It’s about copyright. Who (what, when, where, how) gets punished for making a fake Prada hadbag, or a fake Rolex, or filming a movie with a cam in a theatre. It’s about making money off those transgressions. So why are we not allowed to see the proposed provisions of the treaty? Are people’s lives in danger if I know what the new rules will be?
And how will it affect the countries which have not volunteered to be part of it? Will they be told, at some point, “Sorry, you are not living up to “world standards” as regards copyright, so we won’t be helping you out with development aid”. “No anti-retrovirals for you, you are sending too many movies (badly filmed, with awful sound) to be sold on the streets of NYC”.
Short vid of Geist explaining ACTA to date
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MOG – Perfected steaming online music gets close, really close. Must try.
By Mark Zip | December 2, 2009
Just a quick break from the salt mines (making my way through a large collection of CDs, with an interesting jazz collection in the wings) to strongly suggest that you check out the new features of MOG.
MOG has been around for a while in the music blogging/socializing sphere and they have just launched a streaming music service. (US only for the moment, others soon come)
This link is to the overview page and the guided tour. Free trial now going on (it lasts one hour) and after that the pricing is $5.00 a month or 6 months for $25.00 You can stream unlimited songs per month. You can add them to playlists and save them in a number of useful ways. A particularly interesting feature is the “Artist Radio” and the associated “slider”. Start with an artist and load the player, then move the slider from “(artist) only” to “related artists” . The slider moves in increments, adding in more and more related artists as it gets further away from the starting point.
Artist list is good, with all the majors and plenty of indies represented. I tried a small chunk of some things I’ve listened to in the last few days (stuff that was at the top of mind) : Tackhead, Misty In Roots (but only one track from the live record), Venetian Snares, Guy Clark, Pet Shop Boys, Skream, Rusko, Dengue Fever, and found entries for all of them. A few were represented only by a couple of tracks, most were represented by full records. Some odd omissions of course (no Undertones?).
(Tech note: The MOG streaming service is VERY heavily script-oriented. If you are surfing with any heavy security or privacy barriers in place you’ll have trouble. I had to use my most promiscuous settings to make it work smoothly)
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