Radio Colifata is a beloved weekly Buenos Aires radio show run by psychiatric patients that breaks down boundaries between the "interned" and the "externed." During his Argentina tour, radio supporter
Manu Chao invited a few Colifatos to join him.
LT22 Radio La Colifata is 94 minute a documentary (in Spanish) shot over ten years that celebrates the station and the tour.
posted by madamjujujive
on Nov 14, 2012 -
7 comments
What do you do when your viola recital gets interrupted by someone in the audience getting a call on their cellphone?
Improvise.
posted by scalefree
on Jan 24, 2012 -
26 comments
We Will Survive Capitalism! flash mob with
US Uncut [previously] and the
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Previous BLO flash mobs include Bad Hotel [previously], Operation Hey Mackey [previously], and "PAY UP!" (demanding Bank of America pay their taxes). Speaking of BofA, in San Francisco on Thursday activists turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine, using special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses. [more inside]
posted by finite
on Jan 15, 2012 -
42 comments
Before there were yuppies, there were uppies—the term Up With People members use to refer to themselves. Most Americans over the age of 35 are vaguely familiar with Up With People, as its cast members have sung to more than 20 million people worldwide, and at the height of the ensemble’s fame it provided the halftime entertainment at four Super Bowls (1976, 1980, ’82, ’86). But many are unaware of the group’s cultish utopian ideology, its political connectedness, and how it was funded by corporate America, part of a deliberate propaganda effort to discredit liberal counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s. In the documentary Smile ’Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (Storey Vision), writer-director-producer Lee Storey provides a thorough, balanced look at the organization’s history, demonstrating “what can happen when ideology, money and groupthink converge to co-opt youthful idealism.” [more inside]
posted by Trurl
on Aug 14, 2011 -
93 comments
People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest is a 65 minute compilation of stage banter by Paul Stanley of KISS.
Paul repeatedly reminds the Army that they’re getting their money’s worth... , that the next tune is the first time they’ve played it on tour, that he was talking backstage to someone... about what kind of alcohol that people in the area like to drink, that they’re just getting started, and that he’s got an “uzi of ooze” in his pants.
posted by Trurl
on Jun 4, 2011 -
69 comments
"We are Nirvana The Band , the live musical that will never play the same show twice. To not let us play on your stage would be a terrible mistake. We are Nirvana The Band. For now; forever; for better; for worse. Four -- times four -- is sixteen."
posted by JohnMarston
on Oct 1, 2010 -
17 comments
French website Le Cargo has a long-running series of live performance videos by alternative musicians,
all of which can be watched on their YouTube channel. Here are a few that I liked:
Erin McKeown - Put the Fun Back in the Funeral,
Kings of Convenience - Mrs. Cold,
Soltero - I'll Be a Writer,
The Concretes - Military Madness,
My Brightest Diamond - Be My Husband,
Jose Gonzalez - The Nest,
Jaymay - Lonely Men Build Lonely Cities,
Vic Chestnutt - Supernatural,
Metric - Gimme Sympathy,
Françoiz Breut - Les jeunes pousses,
Bowerbirds - Moonshiner,
Joseph Arthur - A Smile That Explodes,
Lambchop - You're a Big Girl Now,
Alela Diane - The Rifle,
Ane Brun - The Puzzle,
Matt Elliott - Broken Bones and
Fredo Viola - Sad Song. There are roughly 600 more videos.
posted by Kattullus
on May 13, 2010 -
6 comments
Claudio Montuori is an Italian, one-man band, street performer. He plays Kalimba, an accordeon, a nacchere, various found objects, and a bevy of other instruments. And he whistles and sings. See also,
Amibuz.
[more inside]
posted by Toekneesan
on Mar 28, 2010 -
13 comments
My Beat Club has a whole ton of classic rock perfomance videos, mostly from old German TV shows
Musikladen and
Beat Club. Among the videos on offer are
Small Faces' Tin Soldier,
Chuck Berry's School Days,
Ike & Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High,
The Who's My Generation,
Country Joe McDonald's I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag,
The Everly Brothers' All I Have to Do is Dream,
The Ramones' Sheena is a Punk Rocker,
Mungo Jerry's In the Summertime,
T. Rex's 20th Century Boy,
New York Dolls' Looking for a Kiss,
The Byrds' So You Want to Be a Rock n' Roll Star,
Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar,
Slade's We'll Bring the House Down,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Purple Haze and so much, much more!
posted by Kattullus
on Jul 29, 2009 -
30 comments
With the wild success of the Guitar Hero series, using video game controllers shaped like guitars is nothing new. However, the duo at
Modal Kombat actually use guitars as video game controllers. They won't reveal all of their tricks, but you can read a bit about their technology
here and at
this interview with Urban Guitar. The results are awfully impressive. View the original Modal Kombat
here, and their newest installment, the admittedly trippy GuitarKart
here.
via
posted by Ufez Jones
on Dec 3, 2007 -
5 comments
On May 14th, 1967, the new British pop group The Pink Floyd makes one of their first ever TV appearances. Despite a stellar performance of the song Astronomy Domine, the pretentious host of the show, Hans Keller, has nothing good to say about the band. During the
interview (youtube, performance comes first, interview starts about 5:50 in.
transcript here.), he chastises the band for their "continuous repetition", "terribly loud" volume, and their "proportionately a bit boring" sound.
However, it seems that all Hans' show will ever be remembered for is
this single interview. Pink Floyd, on the other hand.. Well, we all know what happened to
them. Syd Barrett, on the other hand,
was not so lucky.
posted by Afroblanco
on May 29, 2006 -
67 comments
Busker Dü: You're short of money. You're not afraid to make a fool of yourself. You have no pride. You have a musical instrument to abuse. Well - that, apparently, is easy. At least if you're a Guardian journalist. But what else can a feller do these days to drum up that old "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?" spirit?
posted by Carlos Quevedo
on Feb 26, 2003 -
12 comments
