What are you listening to, right now................

red terror

dK

reliving my youth

mariner4life

I've been listening to a bit of Thievery Corporation, it's mellow as fuck and it relaxes me
 
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dK

For the trip home in Sydney traffic

red terror

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A lot of people will tell you that between shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, the last 10-15 years may represent the greatest period in the history of television drama. This is a defensible argument, I suppose, but it overlooks one important fact: Johnny Cash played the murderer in <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071351/'>a 1974 episode of Columbo titled â€œSwan Song,â€</a> and it was amazing.
 
How amazing? Wellâ€¦
 
Johnny Cash plays some sort of Gospel singer/televangelist named Tommy Brown. Turns out Tommy is an ex-con who has been carrying on an affair with one of his underage backup singers, which Tommyâ€™s wife uses to blackmail him into pumping all the earnings from his shows into the mega-temple sheâ€™s planning to build. So, Tommy, who is also a pilot, obviously, decides to take care of both of his problems at once by taking his wife and underage mistress up in a plane together, drugging them, then jumping out of the plane and parachuting to safety â€” with a parachute he made himself from the nylon they used for the robes worn by his backup singers â€” as it crashes into the side of a mountain.
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<div>So, to recap: Weâ€™ve got crooked religious types, a scandalous underage affair, blackmail, homemade parachutes, and a staggeringly elaborate murder that involves A. drugs, and B. a last-minute escape from a small plane as it screams toward its fiery demise. And all of that happens in like the first 20 minutes. And then the rest of the episode features Columbo trying to outwit Tommy. And, again, Tommy is played by Johnny Cash. Who sings a lot. Often for no discernible plot-based reason. You should watch it.</div>
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<div>Definitely worth hunting down.</div>
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<div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://uproxx.com/tv/2013/08/quick-note-time-johnny-cash-played-murderer-episode-columbo/'>Source</a>.</div>

Chris B.

That Johnny Cash episode aired on the Jones channel here in NZ earlier this year. I watched it and it was good. Columbo is still very watchable TV.

Tordah

lovely

red terror

I heard a very lame contemporary version of this gem on a jazz station that made me blow my gasket. I don't understand the point of doing covers of great songs that are mailed in. Here's the original (I think it should properly be titled "Ritmo Pilon," at least that's what I've always known it. I think whoever uploaded this grabbed it from a compilation found in coffee stores.). The rhythm, horns and vocals are fantastic. I believe it's from the '50s, but could be early 60s (?). Hard to get a lot of accurate recording dates from Cuba.
 
Doing the youtube search I found some swell vintage footage of Alonso. I love these cool-as-fuck Cuban bandleaders. Party time.

JC

Sad news for fans of 80s Kiwi music:
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/10500810/The-Chills-Peter-Gutteridge-dies'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/10500810/The-Chills-Peter-Gutteridge-dies</a>

The Chills' Peter Gutteridge dies

Musician Peter Gutteridge, a founding member in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dunedin bands The Chills and The Clean, has died.
Aged in his early 50s, Gutteridge was considered one of the pioneers of the Dunedin sound - a style of indie pop using jingly jangly guitar-playing, minimal bass lines and loose drumming.
Gutteridge was also the brains behind Dunedin band Snapper, which released its debut EP on Flying Nun Records in 1988.
In a statement on its website, Flying Nun said: "We are greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Gutteridge today.
"Peter was a Flying Nun original, a founding member of The Clean, The Chills and of course his own brilliant band Snapper. A great talent, he was also member of the Great Unwashed, involved in many Dunedin bands and went on to release beautiful solo material across the years.
"All of us, and so many people around the world, have been touched and affected by his music, whether it be the swirling fuzz of the guitar or haunting piano melodies, Peter was a true hero of New Zealand music, and will be deeply missed.
"Our thoughts and sympathies are with his family and friends at this very sad time. 
"Thank you Peter for all the music, may you rest in peace."
Wes Holland of Melbourne band The Sand Pebbles tracked Gutteridge down in Dunedin for an extended interview published in Mess and Noise in April 2013.
Gutteridge was back in the south after having lived in Auckland and being on an intense drug-treatment programme.
During the interview Gutteridge said he had become irritated with the Dunedin sound.
"People didn't think about the sound of things, people put on guitars and then clanged out stuff. I just got tired of a guitar sound that wasn't thought about."
Describing his own music he said it had "this hypnotic element that doesn't date". The basis of Snapper was something very old. All his music "encapsulated ideas going back to early Arabian and Indian music".
"Snapper has an honesty about it. There's something very genuine there. I never tried to copy other bands; I've just done what I've done. Followed my own course."
At that time Gutteridge had never been overseas, but was intending to go.
"I'd love to go to India - it's a spiritual heartland where much of the heart of the music I play comes from."
Gutteridge visited the US and played a show in New York in recent weeks.

red terror

Very sad. A couple weeks ago I saw an effusive listing for The Clean in the New Yorker magazine for an incredibly rare live performance in NYC two months ago, and was kicking myself I never heard that news until the show was over. That's a show I would have made the trip to see. Early 50's is much too young. R.I.P.

red terror

Always been curious if there was a psychedelic acid-rock PROG movement in NZ in the late 60s/early 70s, and am tickled to have just discovered the answer is in the affirmative!!!
 
They are called TICKET and they are . . . amazing?

I kinda like it. Here's a whole album's worth for me to decide...

Tim

Tim

Enjoying this track from Jonathan Wilson. David Crosby and Graham Nash provide guest vocals.

Found on this nice Dream Chimney mix: 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://soundcloud.com/the-dream-chimney/mix-of-the-week-steve-lee'>https://soundcloud.com/the-dream-chimney/mix-of-the-week-steve-lee</a>

red terror

Speaking of C&N, they are mentioned (along with S) by Y in this long and entertaining Howard Stern interview from three days ago. Howard claims Neil is his hero and has been trying to book him for over 30 years. This was his first appearance.