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Do The Independence
There are over 263 tracks on Do The Independence, a five-disc indie music compilation. The box set comes with a silver disc DVD (which contains 203 songs but no video); four CD-Rs (TDK or Sony discs) of 60 tracks; and printed artwork. All together there are over 175 acts.
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SHOJI HANO
Drums
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The new five-track Drums album is a series of solo drum improvisations which draws from his Shintaido influences. Drum purists will love the crisp recording sound where every hi-hat is captured in pristine tones.
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PETER BROTZMANN and SHOJI HANO
Funny Rat/s 3... Flying Crow
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While Brotzmann is renowned as an energy player, Flying Crow can almost be considered mellow free. There is a roundedness in Brotzmann's sax tone, a certain composure that burns without setting off a fire. Or maybe it's Hano's gentle influence.
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Syd Barrett Tribute Compilation Album
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The wildness, experimental anarchy and sheer noise are all
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Ten years ago, in 1998, Malaysians took to the streets and braved water cannons when they stood up for Anwar Ibrahim and reformasi. With what's happening in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysians might have to take to the streets again in 2008. Click here to read or buy Sabri Zain's first-person account of those early reformasi days in Face Off.
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There's too much Hollywood and too little soul in the Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers and for the horror to work, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera, vampires should be allowed to creep up and play on viewers' terror of the undead.
The Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers might be considered the sequel to I Am Legend - I mean Richard Matherson's short novel, not the terrible Will Smith ego trip directed by Francis Lawrence. In Matheson's vampire classic, everyman Robert Neville finds himself confronting a fully armed and organized vampire civilization - a touch too fascistic, perhaps, with little regard for judicial process or civil rights, but that's the flaw of all new societies (in Lawrence's dumbed-down version the best the digitized vampires can do by way of self-expression is a murderous glare and a guttural burp).
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The initial financial crisis of the past two years has planted seeds for two new crises: rising government debt and inflation. A third crisis will occur when confidence is lost in the US dollar as world reserve currency. And as former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts points out, the real American crisis is the offshoring of US manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs.
Is the financial crisis over? Is the recovery for real and, if not, what are Americans' prospects? The short answer is that the financial crisis is not over, the recovery is not real, and the U.S. faces a far worse crisis than the financial one. Here is the situation as I understand it:
The global crisis is understood as a banking crisis brought on by mindless deregulation of the U.S. financial arena. Investment banks leveraged assets to highly irresponsible levels, issued questionable financial instruments with fraudulent investment grade ratings, and issued the instruments through direct sales to customers rather than through markets.
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In 2009, Neil Young released Fork In The Road, an album which is dedicated to the Lincvolt project that transformed his classic Lincoln Continental into a hot zero emissions vehicle that gets 100mpg. In this paean to the LincVolt project, Karen Barry also asks, if a 1959 vehicle can be green, what is stopping all current vehicles from achieving the same goal?
Crossing The Continent In The Heavy Metal Continental - So I'm writing to you from behind the wheel of a car I've never seen. In person, anyway. "But this car, she's beautiful. And smart. And completely irresistible. I've kind of fallen in love with her. I'm sitting here behind the wheel of Neil Young's LincVolt (in my mind), just drumming my fingers on the steering wheel, and thinking. I'm trying to figure out why she matters so much to me.
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Independence Day
Japanese music fan Shinobu Goto scours the region and comes up with a five-disc indie compilation. And even if you don't understand the language, it's OK as Philip Cheah points out, Shinobu has the gift of the groove.
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The Best Of Live! Music Review: The RIAA - Artist Friend or Artist Foe? (Part 2)
After Live! Music Review closed, editor Bill Glahn wrote a series of articles for Counterpunch called RIAA Watch. Bill notes: "For purposes of relevance, I'll defer to one of those articles for this edition of The Best of Live! Music Review. Many updates follow which should be of interest to any in the p2p community who value fair use and developing artists who value the freedom to establish their audience without industry interference."
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The Best Of Live! Music Review: Drivin' N Cryin'; The RIAA
Drivin' N Cryin's The American Bubble Factory is a thoughtful look at American business and its betrayal of the common worker. And find out what the RIAA is up to. As LMR's editor Bill Glahn says, "That doesn't sound artist friendly to me."
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Seen The Light
When a priest is infected with vampiric blood, the first vow to go out the window is the vow of chastity. Stephen Tan reviews Thirst, where Korean Park Chan-wook stands some vampire movie conventions on their head.
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And They Never Lived Happily Ever After
If cinema is the land of make believe and where things come up smelling like roses, it is homosexuals who seem to be having a hard time there as in real life. And in Scud's quasi-autobiographical Permanent Residence, gays are never gay (in the end...). Stephen Tan reviews.
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Tentacle Love
The story and action might be comic-book inspired but when it comes to tentacle sex, Yo Kobayashi's La Blue Girl: Revenge Of The Sex Demon King certainly delivers the goods. Stephen Tan reviews.
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James Taylor - Jabberwocky 1970
T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 2 The Curfew At The Crack Of Night
T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 3 Fleetfoot Voodoo Man
Emiliana Torrini - Hamburg 2009
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Cape Cod, MA, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 13
Rolling Stones - Through The Vaults Darkly: No Spare Parts Vol 2
Rolling Stones - Through The Vaults Darkly: The Last Time Vol 3
Rickie Lee Jones - World Cafe Live 2009
Kansas - Providence, RI, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 23
Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Wembley 2009
Robert Wyatt - Rimbaud's A Season In Hell
T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 1 Great Hits From The Box
T Rex - When I Need TV I Got T Rex: Vol 4 Supersonic Years
David Murray & Milford Graves - Guelph Fest, Ontario 2009
Hiromi & Sonicbloom - Paris 2009
Bad Company - Providence, RI, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 22
Jeff Beck w/Jan Hammer Band - Cape Cod, MA, 1976: Dan Lampinski Tape Vol 14
Rosanne Cash - World Cafe Live, 2009
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Taylor Swift - Saturday Night Live S35E05, November 2009
Emiliana Torrini - Hamburg 2009
Top Of The Pops - May and June 1976
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Cat Stevens - BBC In Concert 1971: 2009 Edition
Elvis Costello - Austin City Limits 2009
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The Damned - Stolen X Files #29: Live in London
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Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel - Austin City Limits 2009
Bryan Adams - Rock Im Park, Germany 1999
Duffy/ Sarah McLachlan - Austin City Limits 2008
Later With Jools Holland - Series 35 Show 8: HD source
Okkervil River - Austin City Limits 2009
Bruce Springsteen - A Secret History: BBC 1998
Taylor Swift - Video Clips 2008-2009
M Ward - Austin City Limits 2009
Top Of The Pops - April and May 1976
The Who - Cow Palace 1973
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Neil Young - Attack Of The Bonus Tracks [no label, 3CD] Outtakes, demos, live recordings from 1965 to 1989. Quality varies from good to excellent stereo. Long may you run and Young wasn't joking.
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A Bounty For Blair's Arrest
Writer and Guardian columnist George Monbiot is so incensed by Tony Blair's efforts to wage war on Iraq that he has launched a new fund - www.arrestblair.org – to reward those who attempt to arrest the former British prime minister.
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The Limits Of Multiculturalism
Former Talking Head David Byrne has long championed multiculturalism, in the form of World Music. Taking a look at a New York rabbi who objected to bike lanes in the neighbourhood, Byrne looks at how, in the modern world or cosmopolitan city, different cultures live side by side and asks that basic but still problematic question, why can't we just get along?
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Yemen - The Return Of Old Ghosts
Deja vu... that's what Yemenis old enough to remember will realise. Forty years ago in Yemen, Britain and the United States helped to crush an insurgency and back a despostic regime. Now, the "Free World" is preparing to send arms and "intelligence advisers" to help prop up yet anothercorrupt regime in Yemen. Documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis explains.
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Top Of The Pops 1975/1976 [no label 1DVD]
By late 1974, the mad rush of glorious new talent (or even
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finally run out of steam, and the first Top Of The Pops of the new year
had no intention of making you think otherwise. By Dave Thompson
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Top Of The Pops - September and November 1973 [no label 1DVD]
It’s number one, it’s Top Of The Pops. By 27 September 1973, the venerable institution was approaching both its tenth birthday and it’s 500th showing; indeed, the first show on this disc is the 499th episode and, with the chart dominated by the Simon Park Orchestra’s instrumental rendering of TV’s Van Der Walk theme music, we’re guaranteed as mixed a bag as the show ever served up. By Dave Thompson
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SHERLOCK HOLMES
Dir: Guy Ritchie
In the latest incarnation of the super sleuth, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is a frequent runner, a habitual boxer, an occasional nudist (albeit involuntary), a boor and a slob and an irresistible attractor of inordinately large explosions. If previous Holmes are a reflection of the movie director, what does this Holmes say of his filmmaker? Critic After Dark Noel Vera wonders.
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FANTASTIC MR FOX
Dir: Wes Anderson
A taste for the grotesque, a feeling of the fantastique and with just a tinge of melancholy, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox is an inward beauty that turns less on survival of the fittest and more on action and consequences, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera points out.
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