CULT RECORD:DEAD CAN DANCE:"SPLEEN & IDEAL"

Dead Can Dance is the kind of artsy British band that American alternative rock purists revile. For years its U.S. following was synonymous with the "art-fag"--the kind of Anglophile who rushed out to buy the latest pricey, exquisitely packaged import from 4AD.Ironically, DCD eventually found itself another, much bigger audience, the mainstream, the constituency that buys world music, new age, and Gregorian chants.It makes sence. Mixing the chants with Middle Eastern, African, and Celtic textures, DCD weaves a post-modern tapestry out of pre-modern threads, fascinated by periods of history (the medieval era) and cultures (the third world) where there's no division between the secular and sacred, where everyday life is infused with ritual and meaning. Lisa Gerrard's voice is the piercing, ululating vibrato you hear throughout traditional music, the sound of women speaking to the spirits.Gerrard and partner Brendan Perry moved from Australia to London in the early '80s. Taking its title from Baudelaire, Spleen and Ideal is the flowering of all Dead Can Dance's Late Romantic obsessions with orientalism, medievalism, and arcana.With its liturgical feel and a timpani that resounds like God's own fist, "De Profundis" oozes stern religiosity, while the serpentine "Mesmerism" is the closest DCD gets to a pop song.

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CULT MOVIE:WITHNAIL AND I(1987).

Although accurate, to describe Withnail and I  as a story about two 1960s unemployed actors who share a disastrous holiday in the country, does  nothing to convey the achingly brilliant perfomances, script and direction of one of the funniest  British movies of all time.It was not a huge succesS when it first came out, but has since been re-evaluated, partly due to the inspired supporting role of Uncle Monty, played with treacherous pathos by Richard Griffiths. It would be hard to pinpoint wich substance comes in for the most abuse (alcohol and lighter fluid feature, among others) but it's the scene with Danny the drugdealer (Ralph Brown), rolling his multi-Rizla super-spliff, The Camberwell Carrot, that most people remember.
Director:Bruce Robinson Cast:Richard E Grant,Paul McGann

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CULT RECORD:CRAMPS:"SONGS THE LORD TAUGHT US".(1980)

"I was a teenage werewolf/Braces on my fangs", Lux Interior growls on the Cramps' first album.Not a bad joke, and even if they haven't thought of another one, the Cramps can still clout your funnybone hard enough to coax out a few more primeval laughs if you're in the mood.Though they got their start in the primordial soup of CBGB in the late '70s, the Cramps always had less in common with punks or new wavers than with kitch compilers like the Chesterfield Kings' Greg Prevost or the Psychotronic Encyclopedia's Michael Weldon.Interior's slavering undead Elvis and guitarit/producer/coconspirator/albumcover cheescake "Poison" Ivy Rorschach's backwoods riffs grew a lurching monster from all the the stands of trash DNA;late-night TV, obscure novelty records, drunken rockabilly, garage punk, Vegas bump'n'grind.They anticipated the '80s romp through the junk archives and the '90s EC comics revival, proving that their bad taste was peerless-even if they did somehow miss the boat on Ed Wood."Songs the Lord Taught Us" is essentially a '50s horror comic set to a trebly buzz "one-half hillbilly and one-half punk," with instant classics like "TV Set" and "What's Behind the Mask" stomping sex-and-death taboos with ghoulish aplomb, and "Garbageman" defining the Cramps' trash aesthetic once and for all.Meanwhile, lines like "They write 'Born To Lose'/On zombie rest-room walls" convey a timeless B-movie lesson: monsters and teenagers really want the same things in life.

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CULT MOVIE:BADLANDS(1973).

One of the most stunning debuts by any director, Malick's own script, based loosely on the Starkweather-Fugatte killing spree of the fifties, unussually never passes judgement on the two young killers.Sheen is a James Dean lookalike and garbage collector Kit who goes on the run with his girlfriend(Spacek) after he kills her father for disapproving of their relationship.The pair leave a trail of seemingly random yet brutal killings in their wake.The lack of sensationalism is aided by Malick,cinematographer Tak Fujimoto's golden hues of colour and Spacek's flat monotone narration.Malick gives himself a cameo as the visitor of the mansion owner taken hostage by Sheen and Spacek.
Director:Terrence Malick Cast:Martin Sheen,Sissy Spacek.

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CULT RECORD:SONIC YOUTH:"DAYDREAM NATION".

Let's start where the going got great.On "Daydream Nation", the hymnal guitar trebles of Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, joined with the abstract furor of Steve Shelley's drumming and Kim Gordon's parenthetical bass pokes, finally reverberate with the muscle and heart of body music."Teen Age Riot" has a sinuous groove a New Order fan wouldn't turn away from."Silver Rocket" pounds.Art swirl is there,too, a "Sprawl" modeled on sf notions of cyberspace, as if the guitar licks that curl around every song were artificial intelligences.In contrast, Sonic Youth offers the antihumanist humanism of subcult;Ranaldo the hollow-eyed sound scientist,psychedelic casualty,and traveler;Gordon the pro-porn feminist, pop art theorist, and riot mom;Moore the youth/punk advocate, "Total Trash" maven, and rocker.(Add Shelley's cultivated anonymity and you've got the title of SY's 1994 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star album.)Excepting the Mekons, who also needed three leaders, no one offered such a powerfully urbane symbolic coalition against Reagan's daydream nation.Sonic Youth also fulfilled New York punk's ambittion;the fussion of gallery art and popular song.

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TOP TEN:GREG DULLI(AFGHAN WHIGS)

1.PRINCE:"Purple Rain"
2.BIG STAR:"Third/Sister Lovers"
3.VELVET UNDERGROUND:"The Velvet Underground and Nico"
4.PRINCE:"Sign "O" the Times"
5.HUSKER DU:"Flip Your Wig"
6.N.W.A.:"Straight Outta Compton"
7.DAVID BOWIE:"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars"
8.MY BLOODY VALENTINE:"Loveless"
9.FLAMING LIPS:"In a Priest Driven Ambulance"
10.PUBLIC ENEMY:"Fear of a Black Planet

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CULT MOVIE:THE STRAIGHT STORY(1999).

Gentle and sweet film,based on a true story about an old man who drove for six months on a ride-on lawnmower in order to visit his sick brother.Farnsworth plays Alvin Straight, a man who cannot be dissuaded from his journey,no matter how many offers of help he gets from people along the way.Fans of  Lynch who expect the lawnmower to burst into flames,or Alvin to suddenly develop a healthy sexual or a bizzare hairstyle, will be disappointed.This is the director at his lyrical, thoughtful best--still concerned with people's underlying quirks, their individuality and personal stories, and Middle America in general, but leaving his more twisted territory alone for a while.Farnsworth, an ex-stuntman who used to double for Roy Rogers and Gary Cooper, is a joy as Alvin and deserved his Oscar nomination for the role.Sadly he commited suicide after receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer.
Director:David Lynch Cast:Richard Farnsworth,Sissy Spacek.

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CULT RECORD:STOOGES:"THE STOOGES"

In the latter part of the '60s,as Detroit's racial tensions boiled toward riot temperatures,a bunch of underskilled colege-town burnouts plugged in their amps and created a crass and messy mixture of Motown's rhythmic heartbeat and John Coltrane's holy wail, adding deafening distortion via pre-pinball Who to arrive at an unprecedently brutal riff-rock.The Stooges--four dum-dum boys from the not-so-mean streets of Ann Arbor,Michigan,and nearby Ypsilanti--combined the transgressive antics of singer/perfomance artist James Osterberg(better known by his nom de rock Iggy Stooge) with fast power chords,ample feedback,and enough wah-wah to damage the chromosomes of listeners.Unlike the similarly straightforward, no-frills punk thud that they would inspire,however,the Stooges grooved and swang.Their dissonant attack wasn't merely heavy metal but something much funkier-noise,maybe,but noise raised to the level of art.Produced by John Cale,the Stooges' first album is a masterpiece (aside from the yawn-inducing proto-goth indulgence of the ten-minute-long "We Will Fall"), a perfect summation of teenage angst back when it didn't pay one thin dime.Armed with three chords and just one thing on its mind,the band rips through primal mating calls like "Real Cool Time," "Little Doll,"  and "I Wanna Be Your Dog," the ultimate anthem of sexual debasement and animal lust.Iggy reduces the most turbulent year in modern American history to a cant of utter boredom and alienation on "1969"("another year with nothing to do"),while "No Fun" 's numbskull haikus ("Maybe go out/Maybe stay home/Maybe call mom on the telephone") articullated the slacker ethos decades before such ennui was de rigueur.

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CULT MOVIE:EL BARON DEL TERROR(1962)

Probably the weirdest and most disturbing horror movie ever created.Made in Mexico on a shoestring budget, El Baron Del Terror tells the grisly tale of an evil baron (Salazar) from a few centuries back who is reincarnated and,riding on a meteor, returns from outer space as a brain-eating monster with an enormous forked tongue.He uses this gruesome appendage on his unsuspecting dinner-guest victims,first killing them with a campy kiss before scooping out their grey matter and gulping it down.What the creature can't manage sitting is saved in a secret cupboard for seconds.The hallucinatory feeling that one experiences while watching this movie is certainly hard to shake off.And here's a fascinated fact: cult rock musician Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) paid lyrical homage to El Baron Del Terror in a song called Debra Kadabra,which he co-wrote with Frank Zappa for the Bongo Fury akbum(1975)
Director:Chano Urueta Cast:Abel Salazar,Ariadna Welter.

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VIC CHESNUTT R.I.P.

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VIC CHESNUTT R.I.P.

The Constellation Records website has posted an announcement that Vic Chesnutt died a couple of days ago in Athens,Georgia.45-year-old singer-songwriter was in a coma as a result of a suicide attempt according to tweets from Chesnutt's friend Kristin Hersh.Hersh has set up a website for those who want to donate to help Chesnutt's family with expences

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THE FIERY FURNACES LIVE IN ATHENS

The Fiery Furnaces live in Athens.2-3-2009@ΑΝ CLUB

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CULT RECORD:"NEW YORK DOLLS"

The argument can be made-indeed,New York rockers made it-that the Dolls not only sired New York's heady '70s underground (the Ramones,for instance,who also invaded from the outer boroughs), they also taught English punks (the Damned, the Sex Pistols) how to spit,swagger,and roar.As David Johansen put it in "Frankenstein," on the Dolls' debut, "Something musta happened over Manhattan," a cloud that blew around the world,altering the music genes in descendants as farflung as Axl Rose and Morrissey.Efficiently produced by Todd Rundgren,the first album holds up as an essential compendium of urban rock,drenched in whatcha-lookin'-at street-corner defiance, full of alley-cat sex howls.For all the draggy, grimy undertones,however,the Dolls were romantics at heart, unabashed lovers looking for a kiss, citing the threat of nuclear apocalypse (in the hysterical "Bad Girl") as the excuse to get it on right now.They knew the city was doomed and loved it nonetheless,making songs out of daily life ("Trash","Subway Train","Personality Crisis").Always swinging,teetering on its platform shoes,the band, particularly guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan, threatened to implode at any moment, and sometimes did.

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CULT MOVIE:FREAKS(1932)

MGM pulled this masterpiece from the screens soon after its release,happier to lose $164.000 on the movie it had commissioned to be "more horrifying than Dracula" than face the wrath of various guardians of public morality.MGM boss Louis B Mayer had already insisted that the studio's famous logo would not be on the film which,coupled with the film's rapid withdrawal,has set conspiracy theorists wondering:could it be that Mayer recognized that the circus master's relation to its "freak" performers was an allegory of the studio's relationship to its star performers?Or that the cigar-smoking dwarf Hans,who deluded himself into thinking beautiful women would love him for himself(and not his welth),may or may not have been a representation of the diminutive,cigar-smoking and powerful Mayer?The advertising campaing for this film wasn't exactly sensitive either (one choice slogan was:"Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?").In many respects,the most remarkable thing about this film is that it ever got made.The cast's presence in the MGM canteen during the filming was a matter of studio-wide controversy and Browning was plagued during filming by a recurring dream that two of the cast kept interrupting scenes by dragging a cow through a door backwards.On top of all these "offences",the film's dialogue was pretty racy for its day.
Director:Tod Browning Cast:Wallace Ford,Olga Baclanova,Leila Hyams,Roscoe Ates,Harry Earles,Johny Eck,Prince Randian,Zip and Pip.

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CULT RECORD:REPLACEMENTS:"LET IT BE"

The Replacements were the great punk band of the '80s.They invented the gags that became indie-rock orthodoxy:the '70s nerd-wear,the Kiss and Black Sabbath covers,the shifts from blustery feedback into tender melody.These scruffy Catholic boys from Minneapolis drank too much beer and wore too much eyeliner to fit in with the hardcore crowd,but they defined a new brat-punk sublime.Bob Stinson's virtuosic junk guitar outraced Chris Mars's tumbling drums,and if Bob's little brother Tommy never learned much bass beyond the elementary hardcore thunderhud,he made up by blossoming into the all-time indie-rock pinupp boy.The Replacements' main attraction was Paul Westerberg,resident bard.Whether the Apostle Paul was screaming "Gimme Noise" or wrapping his Kool-corroded lungs around the melody of  "Unsatisfied," he spoke in the vice of a true parking-lot sage."Let It Be" is the 'Mats' testament,from the stirring psychodramas of  "I Will Dare" and "Answering Machine" to the lovely cover photo of Tommy picking his nose.The guitars careen in search of cheesburgers and cigarettes,while Westerberg stumbles from Kiss and Ted Nugent tributes to the twelve-string ballad "Sixteen Blue" ("You wonder to yourself if you might be gay") and the desperately infatuated "Favorite Thing" ("Wanna be something/Wanna be anything").Oozing both belligerence and compassion,"Let It Be" reaches deep into the pop-culture garbage disposal and belches proudly in the face of fear.

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TOP TEN:LAETITIA SADIER(STEREOLAB)

1.YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS:"Colossal Youth"

2.RESIDENTS:"The Commercial Album"

3.SMITHS:"The Smiths"

4.PRAM:"The Stars Are So Big. . ."

5.CHRIS KNOX:"Songs Of You And Me"

6.HALO BENDERS:"God Don't Make No Junk"

7.KING KONG:"Funny Farm"

8.JOY DIVISION:"Uknown Pleasures"

9.NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS:"The Good Son"

10.WEEN:"Pure Guava"

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(26-12-2009).TWO LANE BLACKTOP(1971)

Suffering from tremendous hype when released,"Blacktop" disappointed critics who were expecting an offbeat,but still mainstream,masterpiece along the lines of "Easy Rider".It soon sank without a trace,but not before gathering a small band of enthusiastic fans who still hail it as the road movie that puts all others to shade.It deals with a cross-country race between an alienated driver with his silent machine(Dennis Wilson,drummer for the Beach Boys)and GTO,a character of the road,that gets disrupted by The Girl,a hippie hitchiker.The winner of the race is supposed to get the other's car but the race is about more than winning,in this existential study of life on the road and what it means to the men,the woman and society in large.Hellman makes extraordinary use of his camera,with mesmerising flashing by,and experimental elements like the melting celluloid at the end.
Director:Monte Hellman Cast:James Taylor,Warren Oates

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(25-12-2009).X-RAY SPEX:"GERMFREE ADOLESCENTS"

X-Ray Spex were punk's ultimate coffee achievers;their tunes were wound tight enough to make the Buzzcocks sound like the Doobie Brothers.The hero of the story was Poly Styrene,a racially mixed London teen with braces who proclaimed, "I am a poseur and i don't care/I like to make people stare!"Styrene began X-Ray Spex's debut single by mumbling, "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard,but i think . . .Oh bondage up yours!"Styrene's screech and Lora Logic's saxophone baited each other through the careering quitars,both women sounding bored and ready to explode.On "Germfree Adolescent","Styrene toys with her shrill voice the same way she toys with her bubblegum melodies,flashing them as emblems of an exuberant worldliness.Her songs are about,well,stuff-latex,acrylic,plastic popper beads,deadorant,fast food,fast drummers."Art-I-Ficial", "Plastic Bag",and "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo"  detour the waste products of industrial culture into props for one loud  Typperware party.And although Styrene cheerfully includes herself as one of these waste products ("I wanna be instamatic/I wanna be a frozen pea"),anybody who tries to tell her she's nobody gets slapped with her pet rat."Germfree Adolescents" is so exhilarating,so inspiring,so . . .fun.

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(25-12-2009).MIDNIGHT COWBOY(1969)

This is a touching movie(originally supposed to star Elvis as gigolo)about a country boy who wants to become a(straight)male prostitute in New York,his descent into seediness and poverty,and his street-hustling pal's eventual death.Maybe it's the strong lead perfomances,or the way Schlesinger keeps it ticking along,or Nillson's "Everybody Talkin'",but this movie is far more enjoyable than it has to be from the synopsis.
Director:John Schlesinger Cast:Dustin Hoffman,Jon Voight

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(24-12-2009).BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS:"CRIMINAL MINDED"

"I am the God of Hip-Hop music"
By the time Blastmaster KRS-One(Knowledge Rules Supreme Over Nearly Everyone)announced his latest self-affirmation,it was not only ironic but gratuitous.Ironic because he began his career dissing Run-D.M.C. for pronouncing themselves the "Kings of Rap."Gratuitous because by his seventh album there was hardly a Hip-Hop fan on the planet who'd quible about his role in creating modern rap.With "Return of the Boom Bap" he'd come full circle.A homeless B-boy from hip hop's birthplace,the South Bronx(the Boogie Down),Kris Parker released his debut classic "Criminal Minded" to reclaim hardcore.Thanks to the commercial success of Run-D.M.C.,the music and culture had spread beyond New York's five boroughs.With "Criminal Minded",Boogie Down Productions(primarily KRS and his mentor,DJ Scott La Rock)stripped hip hop to its essence.KRS kept the beats,expertly crafted on no more than a RE 808 Drum machine,simple,his diction clear,and his delivery direct.Shortly after the release of "Criminal Minded",Scott La Rock was murdered trying to settle a dispute for BDP member D-Nice.KRS had an epiphany after the loss.The result was "Self-Destruction,"which went on to become an all-star posse cut and one of the most important singles in hip-hop history ,prompting the Stop the Violence movement.The album's cover art(an allusion to a photo of an armed Malcolm X)and songs like "Illegal Business"were explicitly political.Suddenly MCs bore more responsibility than simply moving the crowd:KRS insisted that rap artists were teachers with the attention of a generation and the mesmerizing power of the microphone.This is KRS-One:An improvisational innovator onstage and a radical philosopher in the studio.

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(24-12-2009).VANISHING POINT(1971)

Cross en ex-cop with en ex-race car driver and you get a man who,when put behind the wheel of a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T,just has to drive as fast as he can,ingnoring a growing fleet of cops on his tail.Obviously we eventually discover the deep and meaningful reasons behind the recless behaviour of our driver Kowalski(Newman),but Vanishing Point-complete with the mysterious guiding light of blind DJ Super Soul(Little)-is a surreal interpretation of the ultimate car chase.The chases,as exciting as any in more recent action films,are interspersed with esoteric scenes of gay hitchhikers and naked motorcyclists.Charlotte Rampling originally appeared as one of those whom Kowalski met along the way but her scenes were cut.Avoid the 1997 remake with Jason Priestly in the DJ role.

Director:Richard Sarafian Cast:Barry Newman,Cleavon Little

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TOP TEN:COURTNEY LOVE(HOLE)

1.ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN:"Heaven Up Here"
2.NIRVANA:"Nevermind"
3.GUN CLUB:"Fire of Love"
4.PIXIES:"Surfer Rosa"
5.MUDHONEY:"Superfuzz Bigmuff"EP
6.LEONARD COHEN:"Songs From a Room"
7.PJ HARVEY:"Dry"
8.HUSKER DU:"New Day Rising"
9.NIRVANA:"In Utero"
10.NINE INCH NAILS:"The Downward Spiral"

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(23-12-2009).FREEDY JOHNSTON:"CAN YOU FLY"

Freedy Johnston writes songs about roughnecks,loose dreams,and unforgivable heartbreak.Like characters in a film noir,his protagonists tend to discover themselves cast off from ordinary life by unavoidable traumas or the contagions of desire.The father in "Responsible" watches his daughter run away to New York City and wonders if the example set by his fleeing for a moment to the same place on her first birthday had something to do whith it-almost whishing it did;his life has been so sterile since.No visible line separates his own ambitions and those of the people he sings about."Can you fly" is by far the best of Johnston's albums.It begins,"Well i sold the dirt to feed the band," based on the singer's own experience pawning his family farm to raise studio money,and continues along for a dozen more beautiful melodies and scrappy rockers.The sounds Johnston's music immerses itself with have been used so frequently,in the name of such mediocrity,by the hundreds of semi-articulate bands who emerged in the college-radio era,that the most difficult thing about listening to "Can you fly" may be finding the conviction to believe in its greatness.

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(23-12-2009).THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER(1955)

As Laughton himself liked to say,he had a face like an elephant's backside,so it's odd that he didn't go behind the camera more often-especially as Mitchum always said he was the best director  he'd ever worked with.Laughton may,though,have been depressed by the commercial and critical failure of this film which,almost inevitably(given its storyline about a psychotic preacher who pesters two kids to find out where where their dad has hidden his loot from a robbery),was banned in Finland.Gish's casting is just one of many nods by Laughton to DW Griffith.Nobody has ever played a psychopath with the charisma and complete confidence of Mitchum.Laughton apparently warned him:"The character you are about to play is a complete shit."To which Mitchum replied:"Present."
Director:Charles Laughton. Cast:Robert Mitchum,Lillian Gish

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(22-12-2009).ROYAL TRUX:"CATS AND DOGS"

Demigods of U.S.lo-fi,kings of cool,Royal Trux are the '90s finest exponent of the avant-garage mess-thetic,rivalled only by Pavement.Neil Hagerty began Trux with partner Jenifer Herrema as a sideline from his main squeeze Pussy Galore.Like Galore,Trux combine rock classicism with Lower East Side skronk."Cats and Dogs" is the band's 4th album with great songs and psycho-surreal  lyrics.Hagerty's and Herrema's slurred,unison vocals exude a ghoulish cool.Dissipation is the keynote."Turn of the Century" starts like the bottleneck blues on the soundtrack to "Perfomance",then crumples and wilts into a dust-blown ghost town of sound.There's so much more to this band than a Stones fetish.

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(22-12-2009).UP IN SMOKE(1978)

The first and best of Cheech and Chong's good-natured movies about their eternal quest for the best grass.Here they head across to Mexico,where they agree to drive a highly suspect van back to the US.A long hillarious road movie about meeting weirdos and getting high,with cameos from Stacey Keach and Tom Skerritt and inspired sillines that will get you laughing as if you'd indulged in one of the boy's monster joint.
Director:Lou Adler Cast:Cheech Marin,Tommy Chong

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INDIE CHRISTMAS SONGS

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INDIE CHRISTMAS SONGS

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INDIE CHRISTMAS SONGS

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(21-12-2009).MY BLOODY VALENTINE:"LOVELESS"

Two men and two women,England's extraordinary My Bloody Valentine emerged during the early '90s,when words like "dreampop" and "shoegazers" lumped together bands as diverse as Lush,Pale Saints,Crane,Ride,Slowdive,Curve,and A.R.Kane."Dreampop" meant to describe a slowish but loud and lyrical rock balad style that blended smooth pop tonality with quitar distortions."Shoegazers" gained currency because this general school of bands,descended from the '80s great sound of Psychedelic Fursor Jesus And Mary Chain.Ultimately, My Bloody Valentine was part of all this and way beyond it."Loveless" appeared in the United States in 1991.This album started the transantlantic grunge movement.The usual verse-chorus-verse outing was put on hold.Rhymes loomed high above sung melodies,quitar lines went underwater,and synths bloomed improbably large.A landmark recording from engineer Alan Moulder.

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(21-12-2009).CRUMB(1994)

Think your family is a mess?Think again:you have nothing on the Crumbs.Robert Crumb,creator of Fritz the Cat,is a legend among fans of underground comics and this film asks what inspires Crumb.Zwigoff gets some astoundingly intimate interviews with Crumb,his deranged mother and tortured brothers Max and Charles.Like Crumb's work,the documentary is politically incorrect,hilarious and disturbing.
Director:Terry Zwigoff

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TOP TEN:JIM REID(JESUS AND MARY CHAIN)

• VIC GODARD & THE SUBWAY SECT.:"A Retrospective(1977-81)
• FIRE ENGINES:"Fond"
• DR.MIX & THE REMIX:"Wall of noise"
• HAPPY MONDAYS:"Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches"
• SUICIDE:"Suicide"
• SPACEMEN 3:"Recurring"
• MY BLOODY VALENTINE:"Loveless"
• CAN:"Soundtracks"
• PUSSY GALLORE:"Right now"
• PASTELS:"Sitting'Pretty"
  

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CULT MOVIE OF THE DAY(20-12-2009).DOG DAY AFTERNOON(1975)

Pacino  and Cazale star as Sonny and Sal,holding up a bank to pay for Sonny's lover's(Sarandon in his debut film)sex change operation.What should be a simple heist turns into a media frenzy with the pair holed up whith the bank clerks and customers while the media delve into their private lives and humiliate the inept police force.The clever absence of any musical score gives the film its claustrophobic feel.Brilliant perfomances by Pacino(note the phone conversation he has with Sarandon)and Penny Allen as one of the frazzled bank staff.Cazale is just as good,reminding you of what a loss his early death(from bone cancer)in 1979 really was.
Director:Sidmey Lumet Cast:Al Pacino,John Cazale,Chris Sarandon.

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CULT RECORD OF THE DAY(20-12-2009).GANG OF FOUR:ENTERTAINMENT(1979)

The Clash and Sex Pistols wrote songs complaining about how record labels screwed them over,but no punk group before Leed's Gang of four had ever assaulted the entire popular culture industry so radically.Filled with bitter references to television and disco as elements of state control,the band's debut,"Entertainment",comes perilously close to priggish hypocricy in its suggestion that this particullar commodity could escape the taint it describes."Down at the disco floor/They make their profits/From the things they sell."So,"Saturday Night Fever" fans are suckers.Dave Allen(bass)and Hugo Burnham(drums)create an uneasy rhythm.Andy Gill's quitar is precise and startling,choking on its own fumes and coughing up bursts of sharp notes,feedback,and melodic phrases.An impossible ambition to infiltrate mass culture and tear it apart from within.

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THE JEDI MIND TRICKS sample VOSKOPOULOS

The Jedi Mind Tricks sample the greek legend Tolis Voskopoulos on track "Blood in blood".Original track:"Ki Esy Tha Fygeis",Music by:Mimis Plessas.Many thanks to:apotis4stis5.blogspot.com

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THE NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND TRACK -"WHITE SKY"

You might remember Vampire Weekend doing this track on Jimmy Fallon months ago.Now the studio version is out.Check it out on the bands my space.

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THE BEST MOVIES OF 00's

• CITY OF GOD(2002,Fernando Meirelles

• CROUCHING TIGER,HIDDEN DRAGON(2000,Ang Lee)
• MYSTIC RIVER(2003,Clint Eastwood)
• NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN(2007,Eathan&Joel Coen)
• BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN(2005,Ang Lee)
• THERE WILL BE BLOOD(2007,Paul Thomas Anderson)
• MULHOLLAND DR.(2001,David Lynch)
• TRAFFIC(2000,Steven Soderbergh)
• LOST IN TRANSLATION(2003,Sofia Coppola)
• ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND(2004,Michel Gondry)
• MILLION DOLLAR BABY(2004,Clint Eastwood)
• CRASH(2005,Paul Haggis)
• IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE(2000,Kar Wai Wong)
• ALMOST FAMOUS(2000,Cameron Crowe)
• MEMENTO(2000,Christopher Nolan)
• DANCER IN THE DARK(2000,Lars Von Trier)
• THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS(2001,Wes Anderson)
• KILL BILL VOL1(2003,Quentin Tarantino)
• DONNIE DARKO(2001,Richard Kelly)
• REQUIEM FOR A DREAM(2000,Daren Aronofsky)

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LADIES GOT THE BLUES

Aν δεν τις πηρες ειδηση κακο του κεφαλιου σου.....Προλαβαινεις.Τρεξε

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SLEIGH BELLS:"RING RING"

Κατι τρεχει με τους "Sleigh Bells"...Tσεκαρε το βιντεακι του "Ring Ring" που ειναι ενα πελωριο sample του "Can you get to that"των Funcadelic

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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA LIVE IN ATHENS

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THE BEST OF 00'S

• Radiohead-Kid A


• The Strokes-Is This it


• The White Stripes-Elephant


• Arcade Fire-Funeral


• Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Fever to tell


• L.C.D. Soundsystem-Sound of silver


• Bob Dylan-Modern times


• P.J.Harvey-Stories from the city,stories from the sea


• Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes


• The White Stripes-White blood cells


• Tv On The Radio-Dear science


• Radiohead-In Rainbows


• Interpol-Turn on the bright lights


• The Shins-Oh,inverted world


• Antony and the Johnsons-I am a bird now


• The Black keys-Attack and release


• Kings of leon-Youth and young manhood


• The Flaming lips-Yoshimi battles the pink robots


• Outcast-Stankonia


• Animal Collective-Sung tongs
  

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THE BEST OF 2009

• Animal Collective-Merriweather post Pavilion


• Yeah Yeah Yeahs-It's Blitz


• Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest


• Girls-Album


• The Dead Weather-Horehound


• Antony and the Johnsons-The crying light


• The Flaming lips-Embryonic


• The Avett Brothers-I and love and you


• The xx -xx


• Wild Beasts-2 Dancers


• Memory Tapes-Seek Magic


• Bill Callahan-Sometimes I wish we were an angel


• The Horrors-Primary Colors


• The Low Anthem-Oh my god,Charlie Darwin


• Neko Case-Middle cyclone


• Monsters of Folk-Monsters of Folk


• Dirty Projectors-Bitte Orca


• Raekwon-Only Built 4 Cuban linx...Pt II


• Wolfmother-Cosmic egg


• MGMT-Oracular Spectacular
  

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