Explone

http://blog.kexp.org/2016/08/26/song-of-the-day-explone-born-at-the-wrong-time/

Explone – Born at the Wrong Time (MP3)

Seattle rock group Explone has been making airy pop with a classic rock undertow with great success since 2005. The four-piece flaunts a guitar driven sound that lead man Patrick Porter explores with his lofty voice and uplifting hooks. It’s certainly music that brings an element of euphoria to its listeners, so it’s no surprise that Porter described their newest album as a “quest for joy.” However, it is surprising that Porter credits the inspiration for the album to a suicide fence on the Aurora Bridge – a not exactly joy inducing object. But while the music of Explone has always been about making joy tangible through music, it has been equally committed to drawing it from a place of melancholy. The sentiment certainly explains why and how Porter found joy in the dark connotations of the bridge, seeing beauty in the possibility that the fence could prevent a suicide and lead to someone possibly living a longer, happier life. The inspiration of the fence, and the theme of generating joy through its absence that it led to, is displayed seamlessly throughout the album as Porter has crafted ten songs full of melancholy laced lyrics that swell and rise with joyous melodies.

Today’s Song of the Day, album cut “Born at the Wrong Time”, captures the duality of the album excellently, as the song generates pleasant sounds while Porter sings “its never going to get easier for you.” The guitar driven track displays both the punch of punk riffs and the guitar driven melodies of classic rock while Porter’s voice climbs and soars. The song’s classic rock tint certainly displays why the group may have been born in the wrong time, and the lyrics certainly highlight what a tragedy it is, but Exploner surely isn’t offended by listeners finding joy in their melancholy.

- Geran Landen, KEXP

Meatballs - Official Trailer

Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for Bill Murray's first film appearance in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984), both starring Murray. The film also introduced child actor Chris Makepeace in the role of Rudy Gerner. It was followed by several sequels, of which only Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986) had any connection to the original.

• According to the DVD commentary, scenes of the first day of camp were the first day of actual shooting for Bill Murray. He was signed to do the film at the last minute because of his commitment to Saturday Night Live. His outfit, the Hawaiian shirt and red shorts, were the clothes he was wearing when he showed up on set.
• Harold Ramis said that Reitman did not know for certain whether Murray would be in the movie until he showed up for the first day of filming.^[3]

All About Free Music

https://www.mixcloud.com/whitemarketpodcast/session-304-all-about-free-music/

http://www.whitemarketpodcast.co.uk/podcasts/2016/08/04/session-3-04/

White Market Podcast
Session 3.04 – All About Free Music

With great records and amazing throwbacks, this week’s session was all about free music. We visited some of the best (in)active netlabels, played some records that were just sort ot out of the press and heard songs in Swedish, Ukrainian and Spanish. This on top of the usual English-sung tracks, of course. This was also a particularly rich session in terms of music genres, as we covered a hand-full of them: indie, rock, pop, house and even tango.

Youthless – The Beasts [Bad Panda Records] // CC BY-NC-SA
Tobias Borelius – Bokslut [23 Seconds] // CC BY-NC-ND
Strawberry Blonde – Young Days [Bandcamp] // CC BY-NC-ND
The Mythics – Love Me Like You [The Beehive Recording Company] // CC BY-NC-ND
Amanda Palmer – Smile (Pictures or It Didn’t Happen) [Self-published] // CC BY-NC-SA
Neon NiteClub – Fly [Jamendo] // CC BY
Mike B. Fort – The Summer Is Gone [FMA] // CC BY
Sykt Barn – Solemn Vigil [Mars Melons] // CC BY-NC
Crossworlds – Rain [Southern City’s Lab] // CC BY-NC-SA
Rowan Box –  Diverdance [M.I.S.T. Records] // CC BY-NC-SA
Push Against New Fakes – Let Me Drown [Stato Ellectrico] // CC BY-NC-ND
LAKEY INSPIRED – Memories With You [Soundcloud] // CC BY-NC-SA
Ancient Lasers – When Are We [Clinical Archives] // CC BY-NC-ND
Veronica Bozko – Nostalgias [Casa Rara] // CC BY-NC-SA

Amerika

I remember watching the first couple of episodes of this miniseries when it premiered in '87, and then losing interest and tuning out. I remember full well how boring, pedantic and full of itself it was. Anyone involved in this spectacular flop ought to be embarrassed.

Amerika – suggesting a Russified name for the United States – is an American television miniseries that wasbroadcast in 1987 on ABC. The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit. Amerika starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role. Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual takeover, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized American people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the American spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup.

Described in promotional materials as "the most ambitious American miniseries ever created," Amerika aired for 14½ hours (including commercials) over seven nights (beginning February 15, 1987), and reportedly cost US$40 million to produce. The miniseries was filmed in the Golden Horseshoe and southwestern OntarioCanadian cities of Toronto, London,^[1] and Hamilton,^[2] as well as various locations in the U.S. state ofNebraska – most notably the small town of Tecumseh, which served as "Milford," the fictional setting for most of the series. Donald Wrye was the executive producer, director, and writer of Amerika, while composer Basil Poledouris scored the miniseries, ultimately recording (with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra) eight hours of music – the equivalent of four feature films.

In its summary of the 1986–87 US television season, TV Guide called the miniseries "arguably the most boring miniseries in a decade," adding that "ABC'sAmerika tried to hold America hostage for seven tedious nights (and a stupefyingly dull 14½ hours)."

Comercial racista de Sello Rojo

White Market Podcast: Copy Me, Copy You

https://www.mixcloud.com/whitemarketpodcast/session-303-copy-me-copy-you/

On this week’s show, we had the pleasure to talk to Alex Lungu from Copy-Me. Copy-Me is a platform that tries to debunk myths around copying… So, they talk a lot about issues such as copyright, remixing, creativity and so on. The project started as a webseries and was crowdfunded on Indiegogo. Now, Copy-Me is a hub of knowledge and creative resources related to said topics. Much like White Market Podcast, because copyright is such a complex issue, they often delve into parallel themes, such as piracy and web surveillance.

Following the current transformation of White Market into a syndication platform for community radio stations, the interview is also available for download as a standalone piece (two parts), in both WAV and MP3. You can find extra details about the content on each part and extra credits on https://archive.org/details/WMP_Inter...

Session originally aired on July 28th 2016.

Sound Motives episode 3: Mala (Deep Medi/Brownswood)

https://soundcloud.com/soundmotives/episode-3-mala

Earlier this summer, I had the chance to speak with Mala, a DJ, producer, promotor and record label owner from south London, who over the last decade, has played a central role in the development of the dubstep scene. Both his own productions as Mala, and those as Digital Mystikz alongside Coki, are sited as some of the key releases that defined those early days of the genre, and his record label, Deep Medi, has catalogued releases from many of the scene's innovators over the past 10 years. His now legendary club night, DMZ, alongside FWD, has played a seminal role in incubating the genre from it's early form through to today.

Despite dubstep's ever-morphing progression and partial shift into the mainstream through EDM, Mala has remained true to his own personal vision. He's expanded his horizons, and developed both as an artist and a person through his solo album projects which explore the musical and cultural traditions of other countries, firstly Cuba in 2011, and now Peru, fusing them with his south London sound system-focused productions.

In this episode of Sound Motives, we explore Mala's early influences from jungle to Augustus Pablo, his perspectives on the emergence of dubstep, his relationship with the dance floor and club culture, and how the future looks.

- Sound Motives

Kevin Morby: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

 by BOB BOILEN • The music of Kevin Morby is fairly straightforward and acoustic for the most part, with traditional, folk-based rock at its core. The mystery and intensity lies in the lyrics. His biting song "I Have Been To The Mountain," performed here at the Tiny Desk and on his 2016 album Singing Saw, was inspired by the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of a New York City police officer.

That man lived in this town
Till that pig took him down
And have you heard the sound
Of a man stop breathing, pleading?

In this set, Meg Duffy's guitar provides a strong example of the care and craft that goes into these songs — and there's even more of that on Singing Saw, the album that finally hooked me on Morby's music even after good records he'd made with the bands Woods and The Babies, as well as two other solo albums. If you're a latecomer like me, dig in here. If you're already a convert, you'll likely love the clarity of these songs and their stark arrangements.

Singing Saw is available now:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sin...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Saw-Ke...

Set List:
"Cut Me Down"
"Dorothy"
"I Have Been To The Mountain"

DJ Rupture on The Warm Up

http://momaps1.org/warmup/podcast
https://soundcloud.com/listentothewarmup/episode-4-shyboi

In this episode, Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture) talks with Yulan Grant, a.k.a. SHYBOI, about Jamaican soundclash, the state of club culture in New York, #KUNQ, and her zine BD GRMMR.

About the Podcast

The podcast presents new interviews with musicians from the 2016 line-up. Warm Up curators speak with artists about their process, inspiration, sounds that excite them, and what's to come.

Warm Up

MoMA PS1's acclaimed outdoor series introduces audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, performance, and DJs. The annual series is held in MoMA PS1's courtyard and complemented by the winner of the annual Young Architects Program.