Truman Capote elegantly described the brutal murder of a family in the midwest through his famous book In Cold Blood. The book birthed a genre: the "nonfiction novel" by means of poetic license: making a very
cold, dark story something captivating enough to win the affinity of the
public, and that's exactly what Bennett Miller does with his movie Capote.
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Intone, the current umbrella record label Richard H. Kirk (of Cabaret Voltaire) releases music under, has announced fortcoming releases for 2006 including Chapter Two - Live in the Earth by Sandoz in Dub, URP 4 (Unreleased Projects 2003-2005), and an as yet untitled EP for the label Dust Science.
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Consider yourself fortunate. Since you're reading these words you
have access to a computer, the Internet, and an endless repository of
film, music, art, and culture. It wasn't always this easy.
In the 1930s, Henri Langlois founded the Cinémathèque Française, both
an archive and a theater, holding on to every film he could get his
hands on under the
notion that all film had some value to society.
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Boston residents can tune into Brainwashed peeps Jon Whitney and Nick
Feeley every Monday morning now from 7-10 [EDT] (Jon) and 10-12 (Nick)
on 90.3 FM. Remote residents can tune in online to WZBC by clicking here
(it should open in your iTunes or WinAmp). It's commercial free
and it's live! Request lines are now open! (Remember to add 5
hours if you're in the UK and subtract 3 hours if you're in California!)
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We all know by now how the major labels fuck all their artists over and fuck
all their customers over but now they're trying to fuck over their
promotional outlets!
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Richard Zvonar, the composer and innovator of electronic music, died this August 3, 2005. Richard worked with me on Wild Women with Steakknives, Eyes Without Blood, Tragouthia apo to to Aima Exoun Fonos, and Panoptikon, which we were planning on
redoing this year.
redoing this year.
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Nekesa Mumbi Moody has just published an article on how "Best Of" albums are not so great these days.
But have they -ever- been? She identifies who's doing it all wrong but
bands and labels are often confronted with the task of "how to do it
right." Here's a helpful guideline to anybody faced with making a
compilation.
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This past week, Sony BMG agreed to pay $10 million in fines over their
illegal Payola practice. Payola is as old as the recording
industry itself and is basically another way big business labels fuck
everything up for the rest of us.
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This is the second album in a series of three in which McKenziecollaborates with Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós. The double CD comes inthe same style of package as the other Hafler Trio voice series, eachrelease consists of music made entirely from the voice of oneindividual (Blixa Bargeld and David Tibet being the othercollaborations).
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CD reissue of Diana Rogerson's second record comes close to being accurately restored.
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In the early 1980s, Diana Rogerson was peddling S&M gear at a shopin Kensington, creating her own films and performing in the performanceart duo Fistfuck (sometimes referred to as the "female Whitehouse")along with Jill Westwood. The short films were described as extremeversions of their live performances with urination and humiliation ascontrolled by Jill and Diana.
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Once again I'm impressed with the packaging of this reissue. Having thecover and inside photos restored on nice paper in a booklet is farbetter than the flimsy Beastingscard and anything done in a chintzy digipack. While this is the secondChrystal Belle Scrodd record (originally released in 1986), it featuresmusic which pre-dates The Inevitable.
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