Welcome
to the worlds largest fourth of July back yard picnic and barbecue!
Its a special day for America as we celebrate our birth as an
independent nation with all our inalienable rights. How I, and we feel
as Americans is summed up perfectly in the collection of music I have
for your listening pleasure on todays episode of the Charlie. Fuck
Yeah America! The Organization for Preservation of the Soundtrack
of Our Lives has approved the public performances of todays music as
fair use, Our party is no different than anyone elses boombox at a
picnic, were just a bigger party. Pass the hot dogs!
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Music in this episode: Bree Noble - The Star Spangled Banner Jesta - Independence Day Frank Sinatra - The House I live in Team America - Fuck Yeah! Lee Alexander - Soul Of America 2 Live Krew - Banned In The USA Billy Joel - We Didnt Start The Fire John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. James Brown - Livin In America
Zappa ZAPPA! Do you speak it?. Frank Zappa - The Gigantic Spoken Word Project. Numerous volumes of a very large collection of Frank Zappa spoken word releases. They consist of radio interviews and journalist reporter type personal interviews. During the radio interviews sometimes music was played as background or added before the broadcast in between questions and answers. Sometimes FZ acts as D.J., plays records from his collection and talks to the radio audience. But the main focus of this series is FZ interviews which to me is as interesting as his music. (Just a quick warning; the download mechanism is a tad annoying) [MetaFilter]
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Stephen Baker, Blogspotting MySpace ponders Brazil. Within a half hour of returning to this office for the first time in eons, I sit down with colleagues and MySpace co-founder and CEO, Chris DeWolfe. He talks confidently about expansion 18 countries, from France to China. But one...
Shoegaze, according to Wikipedia, is a genre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, lasting until the end of the mid 1990s, peaking circa 1990 to 1991, but no one seemed to explain those kill dates to Pacific Northwest dream makers Saturna. On their debut offering Some Delicious Enemy, a cavalcade of knurly guitars and curvilinear racket, Saturna spills face splat into that lucid vat of free falling fantasy where My Bloody Valentine, Dandy Warhols, Smashing Pumpkins gather to terrorize pulverize demonize their scorching instruments with a distorted recalescence while partaking in an abundant supper of mellow narcotics.
"Pop Rocks" is a concise, sleek and sleazy package, which appears to be the record's greatest commercial contender and therefore least attractive to my ornery ears. Catchy calamity aside, I admired and felt strangely aroused by the "gazey" sounds which sauntered out of my friable speakers, creating an untarnished pane of pellucidity. The auto-erotic throat strangler "Roll Down" along with "Blanket Of Stars" and "Much More" are robust with elongated guitars that stretch like rubber, bouncing around the stars of the galaxy like a friendly game of delusional Plinko.
With breezy vocals wafting in a grand ballroom of bubbles blown from the mouth of a schoolboy sitting alone at a Sadie Hawkins dance, the elegant composure of "Leader Of The Western Stars" makes it a delicate champion amongst this lot of atmospheric thwack!
The sound waves that Saturna have configured on the glimmering vixen Some Delicious Enemy, ripple with brassy electronics and spacious rock that fits the Shoegaze like a Cinderalla slipper.
MSN's hoping for big time online video creds with this one, after being left out of the whole video-sharing movement (though that's a simplistic analysis at best): and it doesn't get bigger than this: LiveEarth, the Al Gore-promoted series of concerts aimed at increasing awareness about climate change, will start on Saturday morning, and go on for 24 hours, hopping across six continents with concerts in cities across the world. That the concert itself is getting lukewarm response overall from fans is not deterring it, at least for now.
This THR story lays out MSN's efforts in covering and webcasting LiveEarth online: MSN has exclusive rights in MSN 24 countries, and counting in multiple local feeds, will have 39 simultaneous feeds available worldwide. MSN is working with ControlRoom, the digital entertainment distributor headed by Kevin Wall (it also organized Live 8, though under a different company name)...Wall is also the overall producer of the concert. Every show in each city will be webcast live, beginning to end, with up to eight shows broadcast simultaneously. On the mobile side, MSN has a deal with Sprint in which mobile simulcasting and on-demand replays of shows from the U.S. and the U.K. will be available to U.S. customers.
Variety: MSN will be able to draw traffic to its music site by offering footage of acts such as Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Lenny Kravitz, Pussycat Dolls and hundreds of others throughout the next four months.
Meanwhile, NBC Universal has TV rights, and will be broadcasting the show on its network of channels, including NBC, bravo, Sundance and others. It will cut down the commercial time from 18 minutes in an hour to 10 minutes every hour, keeping in mind how MTV got skewered for its overtly-commercial coverage of the last megaconcert Live8. More details on NBCU's plans here.
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MSN's hoping for big time online video creds with this one, after being left out of the whole video-sharing movement (though that's a simplistic analysis at best): and it doesn't get bigger than this: 
