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Feb12

New Radio Department! Free MP3. (MP3)

INTERVIEWER: “People see Rock and Roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what is the youth to do — do you have any idea?”
YOUTH ON THE STREET: “I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.”

Sounds nice, but of course, history and human nature have proven that, even though Big Biz is fucked up, even in a world without the profit motive to blame,  you’d still have to destroy the cult of personality, and the (unintentionally ironic) tyranny of the herdspeak created by rebelling, identity-seeking youth, in addition to the inherent fetishism of fame which can bring out the worst in us and, as has been said, makes a man take things over, and which can eff up even the best-laid plans of artist. But I digress…In any case, thus begins the latest from Radio Department which you can download for free… …MORE

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Dec08

Beak – Beak (Review)

Beak

Beak

Released by Ipecac


It's impossible to listen to Beak and not search for traces of Geoff Barrow's other, slightly more epochal outfit, Portishead. Elusive and creepily perfect, Portishead records demand devotion and inspire a curiosity the band seems impossible to sate. So we turn to Beak, which emerged with every bit the attitude of a side project, with an investigative ear. It seems fair to surmise that few purchased Beak, after all, without foreknowledge of Barrow's other band. So, to make the comparisons, one hears in its rich percussive thrust echos of the ...

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Nov12

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (Video) (Video)

Growing up in post-WWII Germany must have been an bizarre thing. The generation after the fascists wound up creating a broad swath of art including cinema, visual art and music that pushed at what was, at the time, acceptable for any of those forms.

In the States, we joke about the mechanized efficiency of the Germanic peoples. And after a listen to “Autobahn” it would appear that Kraftwerk was able to appropriate the stereotype and render it in musical terms.

Ralf and Florian, though, weren’t the only German band of note and in the BBC documentary entitled Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany. Viewers get an hours long look at the scene, who contributed and why it mattered.

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