The Incredible String Band and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Read an exclusive extract from Wire's editor-at-large Rob Young's new book published by Faber & Faber and out this week.

The Incredible String Band and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Extract from Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young
Published by Faber And Faber, 5 August 2010. {via}

For more information go to: http://electriceden.net, which happens to be a very good read as is The Wire.

In the summer of 1967 The Incredible String Band's Robin Williamson and Mike Heron traveled to the United States to perform at the Newport Folk Festival. Passing through Elektra's New York offices on their way back, they helped themselves to as many LPs as they could carry from the famous Nonesuch International Series, which was part of Jac Holzman's record-company empire.

In the wake of Alan Lomax's pioneering Columbia World Library, Nonesuch was one of the first off the block to market the indigenous music of non-Western cultures with professionalism and integrity. Their world-music releases had been available for a few years, but in 1967 producer David Lewiston and field recordist Peter K. Siegel initiated the Nonesuch Explorer Series, recordings from far-flung regions marketed at a sophisticated younger listenership assumed to possess the intelligence to join the aural dots between ancient ethnic musics, modern folk and psychedelic rock.

Robin Williamson and Mike Heron walked away with albums of kabuki theatre from Japan; of Bulgarian choirs; Greek bouzoukis; an album of guitarists from the Bahamas – Brucie Green, Frederick McQueen and Joseph Spence; and one of the first widely available glimpses of Balinese gamelan, Music from the Morning of the World.

Steadily imbibed along with hallucinogenics over the following autumn, this grand bazaar of non-tempered noises would play its part in steering the direction of the album The Incredible String Band created in December 1967. It's the album that remains their best known, one that took them to a high placing in the British charts: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. {via: arthur newsletter}

Have It All (2006) by Planningtorock

Damn, why haven't I heard of this chick before? I think this is her most recent work and this cd is fucking mind blowing. ALL of it.


The alter ego of multi-instrumentalist/programmer/videographer Janine Rostron, Planningtorock fuses all of Rostron’s talents into a dazzling audiovisual presentation that borrows from classical music, glam rock, spacey imagery, and hip-hop. A classically trained violinist who began playing at age eight, Rostron moved from Bolton, Lancashire, to Berlin in 2002 the Planningtorock persona first surfaced in 2004, when she began performing at the city’s clubs. Planningtorock’s live shows blurred the boundaries between concerts and performance art, with Rostron wearing outlandish helmets and costumes and interacting with video characters.

* Have a listen to Planningtorock - Hiding Where I'll Find Me. {via}

* And watch a recent video from her Vimeo below.

HAVE IT ALL from planningtorock on Vimeo.

Link | Last.fm

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What's New With Beck?

Unpredictable (and that's only part of why we like him) Beck Hansen, true to form, has so many musical irons in the fire. Besides doing tracks for the new Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World film, he's also done some Yanni tracks via New Beck’s Record Club, and some work with Devendra Banhart.
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Record Club: Yanni "One Man's Dream" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Check out the new track written by Todd Soldonz with vocals by Devendra Banhart and recorded by Beck for the film Life During Wartime.
Life During Wartime by planned_obsolescence

His website @ www.beck.com is always full of his latest project news including videos and mp3s and possibly a new cd posted there in the future. Keep 'em coming, Beck. We're still listening.

Animal Collective – “Mr. Fingers” And “Screens”

Animal Collective’s Oddsac is out today, and you can hear two songs from their “visual album” below right now.

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A trailer for ODDSAC, a visual album by Danny Perez and Animal Collective. Screening dates and news: http://www.oddsac.com

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Crook&Flail ‘Unearthing’ influences Mix

Crook&Flail (aka Andy Broder of Fog and Adam "Doseone" Drucker) created and curated the soundtrack to Unearthing - The forthcoming audiobook box set written and narrated by Alan Moore. The band will be playing with Alan reading live at 2 exclusive shows in London (info here) and will also be playing a music-only show on the following night (info here). As an insight into the influences behind their original score and musical direction, Crook&Flail have assembled and blended a free, promo-only mix. Download link and tracklist below…

Crook&Flail ‘Unearthing’ influences Mix – Download HERE
File details: 192 kbps MP3, Time: 43:39, Size: 63.8MB

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CocoRosie - Grey Oceans

CocoRosie are two American-born sisters, Sierra (Rosie) and Bianca (Coco), who started making music together in Paris in 2003.

The nomadic duo (currently and temporarily residing in New Mexico) spent much of 2008 writing and recording in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Berlin, New York, and Paris, finding amazing and diverse musicians to collaborate along the way. The result is their 11-song Sub Pop debut, Grey Oceans, which came out May 11th, 2010.

CocoRosie's Lemonade | Buy Grey Oceans

New Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

One of the most-anticipated albums of the year, The Suburbs will be released Aug. 2 in the UK and Aug. 3 in the U.S. and Canada via Merge and the band’s own Sonovox label.

At this very moment, there isn’t anyone hotter than Arcade Fire, and for good reason. “The Suburbs” and “Month of May” 7″ kicked off a blistering month that included the announcement of an album worth paying for, tour dates, and a few secret shows. Continuing their takeover of the blogosphere, the Canadian rockers have now unveiled the first official US single from The Suburbs, the striking “Ready to Start”.

“We Used to Wait”
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"Ready To Start"
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The Rolling Stones Album : Exile on Main Street (Remastered)

The Rolling Stones
Album : Exile on Main Street (Remastered) (Deluxe Edition)
Type : NORMAL
Source : CD
Year : 2010

Genre : Rock

Encoder : LAME 3.97 (-V2 --VBR-NEW)
Mode : Joint Stereo
Bitrate : 183 kbps avg

Rip Date : 2010-05-17
Rel Date : 2010-05-17

Size : 150.28

Comment : Brought To You By FRAY

Disc 1/2

1 Rocks Off 4:32
2 Rip This Joint 2:23
3 Shake Your Hips 2:59
4 Casino Boogie 3:34
5 Tumbling Dice 3:47
6 Sweet Virginia 4:26
7 Torn And Frayed 4:18
8 Sweet Black Angel 2:58
9 Loving Cup 4:26
10 Happy 3:04
11 Turd On The Run 2:38
12 Ventilator Blues 3:24
13 I Just Want To See His Face 2:53
14 Let It Loose 5:18
15 All Down The Line 3:50
16 Stop Breaking Down 4:34
17 Shine A Light 4:16
18 Soul Survivor 3:48
67:08


Disc 2/2

1 Pass The Wine (Sophia Loren) 4:54
2 Plundered My Soul 3:58
3 I'm Not Signifying 3:56
4 Following The River 4:51
5 Dancing In The Light 4:21
6 So Divine (Aladdin Story) 4:32
7 Loving Cup (Alternate Take) 5:26
8 Soul Survivor (Alternate Take) 3:59
9 Good Time Women 3:21
10 Title 5 1:47

Download: http://hotfile.com/dl/43356708/31bb4c1/The_Rolling_Stones-Exile_On_Main_Street_(Remastered)_(Deluxe_Edition)-2CD-2010-FRAY.zip.html

For Stones' Exile Info

FRAY just released the remastered version of classic album “Exile on Main Street” by The Rolling Stones which is scheduled to be released on May 17, 2010. The deluxe edition includes the remastered 18 track album, plus 10 never before heard tracks and an exclusive 12 page booklet. You can add this album to your collection :p

Description: The Rolling Stones’ classic album Exile on Main Street–regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock’n'roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones’ catalogue-gets the well-deserved remastering and repackaging treatment. This deluxe edition comes in digipak packaging and includes the remastered 18-track album, along with a bonus disc featuring an additional ten never-before-heard tracks. Also included is a 12-page booklet.