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Monkey’s butt is red.:

monkey’s butt is red. An odd but lovely little work by the video artist min oh. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin).

(Via Boing Boing.)

ElectroVee’s “Popstars” video:

The song on this video by ElectroVee is catchy. I hope he makes more videos.

(Via Clippings.)

20/20 Report on Music Video (1980):

(Via Rhizome.org.)

Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen” sung by octagenerian Aussie ladies:

The video above is taken from the exhibition ‘no future’ by Christoph Büchel, at the Sydney Biennale 2008:

‘no future’ transforms the gallery into a rehearsal space for a punk band of volunteers who are over the age of 80 years. in the space they rehearse the 1977 sex pistol’s hit, ‘god save the queen’, originally called ‘no future’, which was banned from BBC, but still made its way to the top of the charts despite this. the band gathers for practice and performs in public whenever they please during the gallery’s opening hours, during which their sessions are video-taped and recorded and will be released on DVD and CD at the end of the biennale.

christoph büchel at the biennale of sydney 2008 (designboom, thanks Susannah Breslin)
Image: ‘Lead singer jill mckay practices ‘god save the queen’ with her band mates photo courtesy of lisa wiltse’

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(Via Boing Boing.)

COUNTRY MUSICIANS CAN’T BE DEMOCRATS!:

Here are the Red State Update guys talking about Toby Keith being a Democrat:

It might be useful for starting a discussion about the way country music is so associated with conservative politics and the Republican party today, and why we would be surprised that a guy like Toby Keith (who has proudly acknowledged smoking pot-liberal!-but also wrote the song ‘Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue’-conservative!) would be a Democrat-what does that say about our ideas of what a Democrat (or Republican) must be or act like? You might contrast that with the number of country artists in the first half of the 20th century who were often progressive Democrats or (gasp!) even socialists. It’s pretty fascinating how much the politics associated with country music have changed, and how ‘obvious’ it seems to people today that country musicians would be conservative, to the point that country music has in many ways become a symbol of conservatism (as opposed to ‘alt country,’ which is often associated with a more liberal outlook*).

For an excellent discussion of the early political culture of the California country music scene, see Pete LaChapelle’s book Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California.

(Via Sociological Images.)

Christian Ska band performs “Jesus is My Friend”:

I hardly go out to see bands any more, but I’d pay a lot to attend a Sonseed concert.

♫ Once I tried to run, once I tried to hide, but Jesus found me and touched me deep down inside. ♫

‘Jesus is My Friend’ by Sonseed (Via Arbroath)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

1940s phone assembles itself to industrial soundtrack:

micromov004 – Assemblage #1 from Chris Randall on Vimeo.

In Chris Randall’s mesmerizing music video, Micronaut: Assemblage #1, an old-timey animation from 1947 of a phone assembling itself is set to a modern sountrack. ‘I went and kited some footage from the Prelinger archive and made new music for it,’ he writes at his website.

Some New Micronaut For You… [Chris Randall via jwz]

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(Via Boing Boing Gadgets.)

Originally from Split Screen on February 22, 2007, 11:59pm

Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! (2006, 7.4MB, 3:22 min)

Epiphany (2006, 1.9MB, 11 sec loop)

From the town that brought you Boling & Morales here’s more,
this time from John Crowe of pluralmedium.com
Is it something in the water or just that unrelenting Southern sun
that seems to make Athens a crucible of weirdness?
Be afraid, be very afraid &c.

Music for the delicately entitled Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! by the
Violent Femmes.

Originally from DVblog on February 26, 2007, 2:00am

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 25, 2007, 10:55pm

Cory Doctorow:
Will sez, “Gizmodo has decided to declare war against the RIAA, rightly noting that they get their money from us (the consuming public) and that if we don’t like what they do, we can do something about it. It’s a good rant, and they offer nice alternatives to buying RIAA controlled music like attending concerts and buying music from emusic.”

Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason alone: it’s totally loaded. Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don’t like the way they’re behaving, we can let them know with our wallets.

I’ve always been skeptical of entertainment industry boycotts — I question how big a popular movement you can build by telling people not to listen to popular music — but maybe it’s time. I haven’t bought anything from an RIAA member in six months (the new Beatles Love mashup disc), and before that, I’d probably gone six more months. They just aren’t making anything I want anymore, and there’s so much stuff out there in Internet land from creators who aren’t set on destroying democracy, privacy and free speech that it’s almost impossible not to boycott these bastards.

Link

(Thanks, Will!)

Originally by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on February 24, 2007, 8:49am

Régine over at we-make-money-not-art reports on Swedish design duo Unsworn currently previewing their new Ophonine Pophorn sofware at the Ophonines at Museo de Artes at Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Columbia.

The Ophonine software enables mobile users to turn their mobile phone into different musical instruments, record and play sound loops with a simple press of a button.

“The mobile is not just a phone – it’s a powerful and very portable multimedia computer. By downloading a piece of software to your phone everyone could be walking around with a set of musical instruments in their pocket!” says Unsworn representative Erik Sandelin.

Watch demo

Originally posted by emily from ringtonia.com, ReBlogged by Rosanna Flouty on Feb 25, 2007 at 10:42 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on February 25, 2007, 9:42am

Web site Radio.Blog Downloader provides an easy way to download MP3s from the fairly popular streaming music site, Radio.Blog.Club.

Just enter the artist or song you’re looking for, and if it’s available on Radio.Blog.Club, select it and click the Download File link. Radio.Blog Downloader does make you earn the download – it takes about 10 seconds for the actual download link to show up. When you download the file, be sure to change the extension to .mp3 and you should be good to go. The quality of the MP3s vary, but, in this case, you get what you pay for. If you’re looking for more free ways to get free music online, we’ve got ‘em. — Adam Pash

Originally from Lifehacker on February 23, 2007, 4:30pm

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 24, 2007, 3:38pm

Xeni Jardin:
Klaus Harmony, “The Mozart of Erotic Film,” was born in Baden, Germany, in 1941.

[He] was the foremost German composer of erotik film scores in the 1970’s, crafting music for over nine classic movies in just thirteen years. In collaboration with filmmaker and long time friend, Friedrich Wohlfäht, he expanded and thrust the genre beyond its known limits.

Link to a website with many mp3s of his work, with much wakka-chikka-wakka-chikkage, and refreshingly candid pornomuzik album titles like “Who Needs Dialogue?” (Thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

Reader comment: Craig Hollinshead says,

If Klaus Harmony was the Mozart of erotic film music, then Gert
Wilden was the Beethoven of such music…or Bach…or maybe W. Axl
Rose, who knows. Anyway: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

lance grabmiller says,

More classic(al) porn soundtrakcs: Link

Jorge Santos says,

That music reminded me of the classic 70s car chase music. This is a link to a forum with a few links to some samples. See also blacksploitation.

Originally by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on February 21, 2007, 3:10pm