Rock and Roll pt 738

Punk musical

"Peaches on exploding dicks, Nicki Minaj and her new rock opera"

Music-Sport Nexus

Billboard's roundtable discussion:

NFL, MLB & NBA: How Music Biz Can Get a Bigger Slice of Sports Pie

Punk Rock Films

In New York City throughout the 1970s, CBGB's became the main nightclub for the acts that would become called punk. Here are the Ramones playing 'Now I wanna sniff some glue' in 1974. A lot of early punk film and video is mostly designed just to capture the live event.

 

 Here are Talking Heads at CBGBs in December 1975 playing 'Psycho Killer


 

 Don Letts shot a lot of film and DJ-ed reggae and dub tracks at punk gigs. He went on to become a member of Big Audio Dynamite. He shot this film in 1977-78.

 


 He later made this retrospective documentary

 


 In the US, on the west coast, Penelope Spheeris' film is considered the classic documentary on the scene.

 

 I'm almost feeling nostalgic for VHS videotape. Here are San Francisco's finest, Dead Kennedys playing what would become their first single "California über Alles"


 

 Derek Jarman's 'Jubilee' is considered one of the first punk influenced feature films from London. It isn't a documentary.

 

 Maybe the most (in)famous punk group were immortalized in Julien Temple's film The Great Rock n Roll Swindle which was really the version of them that their manager Malcolm McLaren wanted to peddle to the public. It was a mix of documentary and thin fiction storyline.

 

Temple would revisit the myth in his documentary The Filth and the Fury, and interview the band members

 


 The Clash made a docudrama in 1980 based on a roadie who works for the band.

 

 OK that's a start...

Is Lorde's 'Royals' racist?

    Is the top song on the Billboard charts racist?

Hot Pockets including some ventriloquism

10 reasons it's OK to use your mobile at a gig

    Wendy Fonarow tells you why

Miley: the pop industry and its sexualisation of women

    Miley Cyrus: does the music business exploit women?

    Miley Cyrus: what women her age think about her

    Sinead vs. Miley

   I think I agree with this assessment

The Ramones

Percussive Maintenance

Percussive Maintenance from Duncan Robson on Vimeo.

Lip Sync Battle

What Was, Is and Will Be Popular

The Culture Package in the New York Times

RIP Tupac Shakur

Fans commemorate Tupac's death anniversay on twitter

Vevo kills MTV

Vevo

Sound editing Django Unchained with Wylie Stateman & Harry Cohen

Note here how the sound designers talk about the importance of getting the music for Tarantino's film early in the process.

'The 2013 VMAs Were Dominated by Miley’s Minstrel Show'

Jody Rosen on Miley Cyrus's performance at the MTV Video Music Awards this week.

Here's another comment from Maurice McLeod about how the twerking isn't working.

Jon Caramanica in the New York Times on why the show was blah.

The Onion on the importance of 'Ratchetgate'. This is satire, just in case....

Ninjacate on point

A sexologist's two cents on the 2013 MTV VMAs

On the other hand, Molly Lambert on #MILEYTAUGHTME: The Lessons We're Learning From Mileygate

'The American Idol Audition Contract Is Insane'

It is

The gif that keeps on giving

Ian Curtis of Joy Division and Peter Saville's record sleeve design for the group's debut album Unknown Pleasures

Piha audiophilia (community radio)

Thanks to Brent Kennedy for the heads-up on this recent web series High Road about a guy who runs a community radio station from a caravan out west. It's written and directed by Justin Harwood, formerly of The Chills and also the group Luna. Six episodes about 8 minutes each. Some great tunes and even more great record sleeves. Viva la Radio.

'Sight dominates sound in music competition judging'

Here's a BBC story about research that demonstrates the look of the performance being more important than the sound of the music being played. Thanks to Brent Kennedy for this.

'Every Cultural Reference You Probably Didn’t Catch In Lady Gaga’s New Video'

Here's an example of a Lady Gaga scholar with some music video analysis, blogging the life out of/into 'Applause'

Music documentaries then and now

Thanks to Barnard Longbottom:

Music documentaries then and now

New Zealand's Pop Stars

New Zealand's popstars

Total eclipses of the heart

you may not believe this, but...

laptops in class might lower grades

Corporate celebrities

An article on Jay Z and Alicia Keys by Robin D.G. Kelley 

Songs for driving part 71

Failuresville

Stranded in Paradise

PJ Harvey releases Guantanamo song

For Shaker Aamer

Beyoncé in AKL

Opinion: I can’t fathom why you’d want to go to my concert

Blurred Lines?

Peter Robinson "Naked women in pop videos: art, misogyny or downright cynical?"

Phil Donahue on freedom of speech during wartime

Music Videos Without Music

CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos

When Björk met Attenborough

Channel 4 documentary about the Biophilia project and nature broadcaster David Attenborough's engagement with it. Sound, music, nature, technology and the image. Just screened in the UK. I'm not sure how long this will remain online.