The Daily Swarm - Who own your likeness when you kick?
Topic: Music
2:23 pm EDT, May 24, 2007
Saatchi & Saatchi/London has a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. that cleverly employs four dead rock stars – Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer – as Doc Martens endorsers. “We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ ” explains writer Andrew Petch, “and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.” As for the legal implications of enlisting the support of this particular fab four from beyond the grave, Petch says the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.
All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?
Johnny Strange | Download these tracks, or rock n' roll gets it...
Topic: Music
11:42 am EDT, May 8, 2007
A number of MemeStreamers will remember becoming acquainted with Johnny Strange several years ago in NYC while HOPE was going on. A gang of us dropped in on him in the studio, hung out for a few, and (of course) caused a bunch of trouble. We wound up getting trapped in an elevator, kicked off the roof of a building by the Secret Service, and completely fucking plastered at the Molly Wee. It was a fun night.
Anyway, some of you are already in tune with The Strange, and some of you are not. All of you need to cruise over to Johnny's MySpace page and download his latest tracks. Otherwise, rock n' roll will die, and it will be all your fault.
Do you want the death of rock on your conscience? I didn't fucking think so... So, go and buy some tracks from an independent artist that doesn't suck, or shut the hell up and stop complaining about the current state of music.
Eventually we will get an Internet radio kinda thing going on that makes it possible to taste bands' music beyond little clips, without having to initially buy whole tracks. It will be recommendation driven, so you can depend on the hip to clue you into stuff. You'll wind up paying for it somehow too, so indie artists can actually make some money. Bands have all kinds of expenses. Stuff like guitar strings, whiskey, condoms, and pot.
In the meantime, while all this is getting worked out, buy some tracks from independent artists occasionally. Seriously.
Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the 13,880-square-foot (1,289-square-meter) home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003.
"So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house -- everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.
Stuart said the man who designed the house, Nashville builder Braxton Dixon, was "the closest thing this part of the country had to Frank Lloyd Wright."
When Cash moved there, the road was a quiet country lane that skirts Old Hickory Lake. Kris Kristofferson, then an aspiring songwriter, once landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to pitch him a song. Roy Orbison was his next-door neighbor for a while.
The landmark video for Cash's song "Hurt" was shot inside the house.
"It was a sanctuary and a fortress for him," Stuart said. "There was a lot of writing that took place there."
Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys lives on the same road as Cash. "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house," Sterban said.
I fell in to a burning ring of fire I went down,down,down and the flames went higher. And it burns,burns,burns the ring of fire the ring of fire.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Does Richards have a son? If so, he's in for a big treat one day...
Christian Rock - God Hates Fags - CollegeHumor video
Topic: Music
3:39 pm EST, Jan 26, 2007
God hates fags... The Christian rock VIDEO.
It's also somewhat ironic that the singer is wearing a pink shirt and khakis and that it's being put out by the "Love God's Way" ministries. Aparently, God's way is by hating.
PRUSSIAN BLUE Official Web Site Biography and Photos
Topic: Music
4:15 pm EDT, Sep 22, 2006
Lamb and Lynx Gaede are two 13 year old twin sisters who are also known as the band Prussian Blue.
Recently they received international media attention because Prussian Blue is a White Pride band. The songs they the girls sing reflect their White Nationalist beliefs. Today, if you are White ,and proud to be White , it is considered Politically Incorrect by the media. The music that Prussian Blue performs is intended for White people. They hope to help fellow Whites come to understand that love for one’s race is a beautiful gift that we should celebrate.
I'd like to see these two in a death match with Mary Kate & Ashley... It doesn't matter who wins, just as long as there's alot of blood.
Put on your METAL FACE!!! | James Vance vs. Judas Priest
Topic: Music
11:57 pm EST, Jan 22, 2006
The T-Shirts are now available! Enjoy the METAL!!!!! James Vance made metal history on 12/23/85 when he was inspired by Judas Priest to blow his face off. WAY TO GO JAMES! A TRUE METAL HERO!! Support the METAL!!! Tell your friends!!!! Buy T-Shirts NOW!!!
Boing Boing: iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?
Topic: Music
2:58 pm EST, Jan 14, 2006
A new version of Apple's iTunes for Mac appears to communicate information about every song you play to Apple, and it's not clear if there's any way to turn this off, nor what Apple's privacy policy is on this information.
