TAFBOYS FROM HELL
World Domination Enterprises
Sergey Kamalov
Sonic Youth
The Dot Tones
The Fall
Invisible Hand
Orion Newby with Clam
The Residents
Prentice 10
The Body/Full of Hell
чудестная группа
Guided by Voices
Cogason

 

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TAFBOYS FROM HELL Leppo and the Jooves
‘VoGt PIKA / Gt RAZOR / Ba TAF a.k.a FAT / Dr TSURU’

 

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World Domination Enterprises I Can’t Live Without My Radio
‘World Domination Enterprises was an English post-punk band active in the mid/late 1980s. Fronted by former Here & Now drummer Dobson, the band’s dissonant sound mixed elements of punk, noise, dub, hip hop, and rockabilly. They were best known for their cover version of LL Cool Js “I Can’t Live Without My Radio”, and first single “Asbestos Lead Asbestos”.’ — Wikipedia

 

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Sergey Kamalov You Only Live Once
‘ЭТО НЕ МОЕ ВИДЕО, Я ЕГО ТОЛЬКО ЗАГРУЗИЛ … Good luck Serj K., we hope some band realizes your talent and scoops you up to be their vocalist.’

 

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Sonic Youth My New House
‘Sonic Youth vs. The Fall. In October of 1988 Sonic Youth paid a visit to the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 a week before the release of Daydream Nation. Having recorded with Peel just two years prior, the group used the ’88 session to pay tribute to UK post-punk godheads The Fall.’ — Aquarium Drunkard

 

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The Dot Tones Love Will Tear Us Apart
‘For our final video of 2023, we present a cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” performed by the youngest of the Dot Tones, Wilder (vocals), Jax (bass) and Kingston (drums), with special guest Lulu on keys and vocals.’ — TDT

 

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The Fall Beatle Bones ‘N’ Smokin’ Stones
‘The Fall cover Beefheart for a 1996 John Peel session. Recorded 30th June/First broadcast 18th August.’

 

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Invisible Hand Shocker in Gloomtown
‘Guided By Voices cover by Invisible Hand :: Summer 2011, Charlottesville VA.’ — Rich Tarbell

 

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Orion Newby I Will Follow
‘Orion Newby – I Will Follow by U2, a cover with Clam.’

 

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The Residents Satisfaction
‘If there was one record that told you the 60s were over, then this was it. The Clash may have crowed, “no Rolling Stones in 1977”, but their rhetoric was just gasbag posturing compared to this, a blowtorch evisceration of Jagger and Richard’s song that reduces their original to a piece of marketable rebellion fluff (Wham!’s “Bad Boys” with a better riff). The Residents start from the premise that there are rather more serious things to be unsatisfied about than romance or advertising things like total mental breakdown, a condition they proceed to delineate with unbearably off-key guitars and a vocal that sounds like the most haunted, driven, raging man alive. It’s excruciating, purifying and hilarious, and if inflicted on friends it usually receives two of the highest possible accolades: “Take that fucking thing off”, and “They weren’t being serious, were they?”‘ — The Wire

 

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Prentice 10 For Whom the Bell Tolls
‘The guitar kid is good he knows what he is doing but the bass kid is so lose he dideven know how to play the intro correctly, whatsoever well done keep practicing.’

 

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The Body/Full of Hell Gates of Steel
‘Like Ornette Coleman got the grindcore treatment when your lawn mower won’t start.’ — skylerhawley4116

 

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чудестная группа гитарист
‘На самом деле мотатель головой-это бассист. Просто он решил реально помочь группе’

 

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Guided by Voices Baba O’Reilly
‘Guided by Voices perform a rollicking version of The Who classic “Baba O’ Reilly” to end their show.’

 

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Cogason Cut Your Hair
‘AND THATS A PRETTY NICE HAIRCUT’

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** James Bennett, Hi. My pleasure, thanks. I’m not really precious with books unless they’re super rare or have personal import, say books signed to me by favorite writers, but otherwise, no, and I lend out and lose books all the time, even to trusted people, with minimal regret. I really want to hear/get the Still House Plants album, maybe today. Super intrigued. Ah, Schuyler, so, so great. My favorite individual book by him is ‘The Morning of the Poem’. In fact, I should do a spotlight post on that book, and I will. He’s one of my very, very favorite poets. So, are you now sporting a tactical haircut, I hope, and can you tell if it’ll extend in a shapely manner given time? à demain, me. ** Daniel, Hi, maestro! Nice Zoey Leonard. And Halston’s bookshelf is art too. Sweet. Thank you!!!! ** Misanthrope, Glad you liked those. Me too, well, obviously, or, well, maybe not. There were a few in there for variety’s sake that I’m not wild about. Yes, Zac is a good fella, that Zac. Tell Alex to start talking to his parents about the hotness of French chicks and how he needs to poke one. They’re famously so, even if in reality they’re as all over the place as any country’s female populace. That Bruce guy makes me nauseous even from way afar. ** Nasir, Yep. Yes, me too, re: finishing your piece. Just waiting for my brain to get peaceful again. Shouldn’t take too long. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Very happy you liked it so much. I was kind of pleased with it myself. I obviously agree about the committees. It would be great if festival committees were forced to take a vow of selflessness, but I think they’re more interesting in being able to say ‘we scored the new Almodovar film’, or ‘we discovered the next Almodovar’ and so on. It’s a racket. ‘der Igel’, ha, well, it does make hedgehogs sound kind of serious? Love making the French language give up its obnoxious requirement that everything, even objects, need to be given a male or female gender, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Oh, I’m sure you looked plenty cool whatever shirt you were sporting. ** Dev, Eek, 100 degrees. It even gets that high in Paris maybe two days a year now thanks good old global warming. LA is dry heat thanks to its proximity to the desert. So it generally cools way down at night even in heatwaves. That makes the heat a bit more tolerable but still hateful. Understood about your trajectory with the violin. I played piano as a kid, but not seriously, and I played guitar in my teens. I was in a couple of bands, but then, basically like you, I preferred to concentrate on other things. I have liked classical music, mostly 20th century stuff: post-Stravinsky and the more experimental things like Stockhausen and so on. I did and still do love Mahler. I have a soft spot for the melancholy sentimental American composers like Copland, Ives, Barber and so on for some reason. What about you? Okay, let’s do Dollywood somehow sometime. Med school sounds intense. But then I guess it should be? ** Mark, Hi, Mark! I’d like to read ‘City of Quartz’ again. I haven’t read it since it was freshly birthed but, yeah, I found it impactful too. Everyone in LA was reading that book at one point. Yes, I had a period where I was really into American Noir. I think my favorites were Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and James Cain, off the top of my head. Exciting prose. I’ve never read Fante, always mean to. I guess it was just Byron’s birthday? Because he was suddenly all over my Facebook feed the other day, mostly due to ‘serious’ poets saying things like, ‘So, it’s the rock star’s birthday’ and snarky things like that. ** Nika Mavrody, That’s a nice one. I just put together a post about beds, and it could have gone in there too. ** Steve, Good questions there, man. Ooh, yes, the Obscure boxset, lovely b’day gift proposal. ** Harper, Ah, you too. I agree totally. Just trying to get those sonic effects to work in static language is exciting, and the translation failures can lead you to very new methods, I think. I swear by doing that. Great idea to feed off the ‘VU&N’ album and find a fictional approximation. At one point I was trying really hard to do that with the VU song ‘White Light/White Heat’, as much re: its insane production/mix as with its musical properties. Exciting! Oh, yeah, Seth Bogart! I’m surprised at myself that I didn’t think to include him. Great call. ** Darby 🚵‍♂️, You are, of course entirely correct re: my lazy clop-clop fallback when we all know their footfalls sound nothing like that. As bad as ‘bow wow’ or ‘mew’. Yes, where was the human skin one? My space out. I hope you have the best weekend in the entire history of weekends. ** Justin D, Thanks, pal. My favorite Haneke … hmmmm, I think either ‘Benny’s Video’ or ‘The White Ribbon’. My week has been sort of pretty respectable if lacking in specular occurrences or breakthroughs. And yours? I do like Cigarettes After Sex, and now I will listen to their new single, thanks to you. Oh, yeah, I love shoegaze and dream pop. The obvious British bigwig contingent (MBV, Lush, Ride, Swervedriver, et. al.) and the American versions like Swirlies and so on. Who do you especially like? I think I did a Shoegaze blog post way back when. I should restore it. Happy day! ** Uday, Hi. I’m still catching up. There are still obvious important things I haven’t read. It’s endless. ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’ is wonderful. ‘Sleepless Nights’ too. Quite a reading list you’ve got going on there. Have I even read a book recently that dated from before I was born? Hm. I seem to only read new things these days because there’s an avalanche of really good new writers and books, and it’s difficult just keeping up with them. And I was born pretty long ago, so it’s hard. When I was first reading seriously I read nothing but pre-me books, almost entirely French. No, I just had a think, and I haven’t read a pre-me book in a long time. Weird. When I was a kid, my parents moved us from a small house into a big mansion, and one of the rooms was ‘the library’ whose walls were nothing but bookshelves. So my parents, who barely read a book in their lives, went to the Salvation Army store and bought every hardcover book they had in stock and just filled the bookshelves with them. So, from a distance, it looked like my parents were serious book people, but when you got close to the shelves, you saw the the books were the most garbage-y crap popular books imaginable, and the jig was up. Hildegard of Bingen, no, I don’t know her. That is a nice phrase. Maybe I’ll look for some excerpts and skim them for tasty linguistic morsels. Thanks! ** Okay. Here’s a kind of goofy gig. Cover versions. I found the one at the top featuring a young Japanese band covering the Soft Boys song, and I loved it so much that I decided to use it to anchor a post, and I never found anything else that good, but there are some interesting and/or curiously awful things in there if you feel inclined to attend my gig today. See you tomorrow.

Christos Venetis Various

 

Diane Maclean Open Book

 

Anouk Kruithof Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour Invisibility

 

Conrad Bakker Robert Smithson Library & Book Club

 

Jane Cake In The Form Of An Open Book With A Bloody, Beating Heart

 

Ragnhildur Jóhanns Jackets

 

Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Black Books)

 

Kajsa Dahlberg A Room of One’s Own/One Thousand Libraries

 

Iain Hugh Machell Book 5

 

Adam Bateman Readings

 

Shilpa Gupta Someone Else: A Library of 35 Books Written Anonymously or Under Pseudonyms

 

Willy Verginer A True Story

 

Duncan Hannah Various

 

Jannis Kounellis Untitled

 

Rosie Leventon A long way from the bathroom

 

Mengyu Chen Untitled

 

Wim Botha Time Machine

 

Cara Barer Various

 

Scholz & Friends Monument

 

Frances Stark Various

 

Guy Laramee Rebound

 

Loris Cecchini Extruding Bodies

 

Kenny Pittock Ceramic sculpture of Kim Gordon’s Girl In A Band

 

Richard Artschwager Various

 

Susan Hiller Lucidity & Intuition: Homage to Gertrude Stein

 

Ed Ruscha Open Books

 

Jonathan Callan Various

 

Dieter Roth Diary

 

Anselm Kiefer Various

 

Unknown Lexington, Kentucky Bus Bench

 

John Latham Clusters

 

Olafur Eliasson Your House
‘Book with a laser-cut negative impression of Olafur Eliasson’s house in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each of the 454 pages is individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house. As readers leaf through the pages, they slowly make their way through the rooms of the house from front to back.’

 

Raymond Pettibon Untitled

 

Ricardo Brey Everyday Life is a Fire

 

Alec Stevens and Jo Kimber Naturally Forming Glory Hole

 

Jonathan Callan Graded remains

 

Nikos Navridis All of old. Nothing else ever…

 

Henning M. Lederer Covers

 

Alexis Arnold Various

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Yes, when I reference acid, it’s always the highest praise. Jeez, 30k for a single containing unusual mono mixes of known songs. That’s dedication. I will say it’s not uncommon at all that my fellow Robert Pollard fanatics pay in the very high hundreds of $ for o.o.p. GbV vinyl. I could probably finance a film if I sold off my collection. ** Steve, I look forward to that podcast. Agreed about the Spectacle prospect. Some people in LA associated with the venerable Film Forum just held an experimental film festival in LA that’s still pretty infant-like but apparently packed houses and might become an annual, bigger thing, I sure hope. ** Nasir, Hi! I’ve read about half of your piece so far, and I really like it. I love the detailing, like the shiny toenail and lighting cigarettes with Satan’s breath and so on. Very strong. I look forward to finishing it. Kudos, sir. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yes, the ‘cancelled’ factor is huge in virtually every cultural everything right now. You would think that would make apolitical work, a film in our case, an easier fit, but that isn’t happening either. One big festival that said they really liked the film but rejected it anyway and told us that the biggest reason for its rejection was that the committee ultimately couldn’t support a film directed by two white guys over films they liked less that were directed by ‘minorities’. The route is a tough one. Amazing that there could be more than one paper on the use of AI in precision farming. Love rocking passersby in his neon pink ballerina costume, G. ** Dev, Hi, Dev. She’s worth trying out. Interesting that Gass liked her. I wouldn’t have predicted that. Toughened decision, eh? Just remember what it must like in the summer? But you’re from Mississippi, so I guess that doesn’t much imagining. Let me know the decision/scoop. You were a violinist! ‘Were’ meaning you bailed? Did you still play at all? Cool, let’s hit Dollywood together someday. And Memphis intrigues me, pretty much only for its amazing music-producing history. Well, you’ll still get summers off in med school, no? Paris isn’t too awful in the summer. ** Charalampos, Hi. Initially when I went to community college, I studied filmmaking, drawing, European history, and took two poetry writing workshops, But after about 6 months I dropped everything except the poetry workshops. They were huge. Luckily a great poet, Ron Koertge, was teaching one of them, and the other was taught by a not well known poet, but she was very smart. They both saw talent in me that definitely wasn’t manifesting yet and encouraged me very much, and I think that was kind of the final thing that made me totally commit to being a writer. You seem pretty okay with negotiating the language barrier, but, yes, Greek literature is no slouch. I think you told me you did Theater Studies. A noble pursuit. You just brought that old Cher turning back time song to mind. Now I have to get rid of it, ha ha. The future is everything. Chase it, man. I send you some mildly chilly Parisian air. ** Bill, Right? PS doing TTM. I’ve heard the name Sean Carnage, but that’s all. Time to learn. If Spark’s work had sex with Williams’s work, they would make a very distorted baby. Thanks, B. ** Brendan, Hey! Yeah, dying to show you the film. We’re super happy with it. I just found your email. I’ll pop it. I’m even more behind on email than ever right now. I need one of those cones they put around dogs’s heads so they won’t chew their wounds. Baseball, hm, that’s an idea. As soon we sort our dates, I’ll give that some pointed thought. Love, me. ** Misanthrope, That’s really nice to hear about Joe re: Zac. I was thinking about Joe the other day and feeling sad. Alex’s parents sound a wee bit primitive. Oh, right, I remember cornhole now. As I’m sure you know, it was all the social media talk for day because I guess Vampire Weekend brought Paris Hilton onstage to play cornhole with them at Coachella. What a fucking world that I even know that. ** Harper, Hi. ‘Boom’ is a total trip. People always told me it was, and I was, like, ‘oh, sure’, but then I watched it, and it is a total trip, and now I’m one of those people telling other people they should watch ‘Boom’ and getting the eye-rolls. Yeah, I’m a giant fan of the early Eno albums, especially ‘HCTWJ’ and ‘TTM’, obviously. They still sound totally radical even now. ‘Mechanical’, yeah, that’s good. ‘The True Wheel’ is one of my ultra-favorite songs ever. Cool that you’e a fellow acolyte. I feel like I learned things as a writer from studying how those records worked. ** Darby🏇, Clop clop clop. D-ster like Easter without the Jesus baggage. I tend to always write ‘oh’ in front of sentences. I’m always having to delete them. That’s really exciting about the college tour! Tell me what that was like. Like I told Charalampos up above, I initially took filmmaking, drawing, history and poetry workshops, but I quit everything but he poetry workshops because I just wanted to write and not do anything else. And also I wasn’t good at drawing and filmmaking, I quickly discovered. On my mind? Hm, just getting the film finished pretty much. I’m very anxious to. And answering emails because I’m very, very far behind. I envy your mind swimming with prions and anthrax. ** Uday, Hey. Spark and Compton-Burnett are so very different. I mean, Spark is fun and clever, as is C-B, but I think C-B is kind of a genius, so I guess her. Wow, I think I read a lot, but you are extremely ahead of me. What’s your fave of the year so far? A-okay on the double commenting, of course. I think ‘I talk too much and ask too many questions and have an oddly sinuous build’ would get you customers. But I’m strange. Yeah, I meant utmost/youngest re: those sites. I mean Daddy’s are very popular, but I’ve never been a Daddy type, I don’t think. Not that I can judge what makes older guys a Daddy. ** Ника Мавроди, Really? I’ll look into that. ** Right. All hail the mighty book! See you tomorrow.