The Real Pirate Radio: Music's Eternal Influencer

The Real Pirate Radio: Music's Eternal Influencer

I finally watched this movie the other night on HBO and wanted to research it further. The back story is always better than the movie about, well, Pirate Radio. If this interests you, you'll also enjoy the links below.

Offshore Radio Guide
Hans Knot
Radio Caroline

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TUN3R RADIO

TUN3R: Your mood. Your station.
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Ooze Out with Peter Poffenberger

Ooze Out

with Peter Poffenberger

Join host Peter Poffenberger each week as he injects the analog ooze into our digital culture, playing the very best of Rock/Experimental from around the world. In addition to a play list of heavy levels come and enjoy special guests, long distance interviews and field trips with the ooze out correspondents Byron Browne and Carley Dergins and with Erik Bluhm.

Luv from Big Sur, May 20 2008--last week's show, is archived here for one week. Ooze Out archives

Tuesday May 20th, was WPVM's Ooze Out's tribute to Cluster's first stand/fast land/stash band/mast hand in Big Sur. The last time Cluster came here to play was way back when Kraftwerk first came back and Jean-Jacques Perrey gave a presentation at Art Center. That was a good week. This time Arthur is sponsoring them for a few West Coast shows... [via]

Ooze Out is online at Asheville's Progressive Voice of the Mountains, WPVM.org.

CALL THEM UP AT 828 258 0085

Listen to OOZE OUT!
Tuesdays 10pm to 1am (Eastern time)
WPVM 103.5 FM
Asheville NC

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Save Net Radio

Save Net Radio

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever. By David Downs

Currently capturing 72 million listeners per month — versus 280 million for terrestrial radio — Net radio has hijacked the authority of terrestrial radio with one-billionth the resources over the last 15 years.

"Big radio's least-common-denominator approach creates playlists that the least amount of people will ever turn off. There's no personality, no edge," says Hodge. "The challenge here is to do a lot with a little."

Webcasters like Seattle's KEXP and San Francisco's SomaFM are the de facto curators of America's most avant-garde electric art galleries. Their playlists read like Next Big Thing cheat sheets for mainstream DJs, college radio stations, marketers, and advertisers. What was once a cult of hobbyists now encompasses major players like Clear Channel, which simulcasts existing holdings and compete against offerings from National Public Radio, AOL, and Yahoo.

Now this weird radio empire could all come crashing down in less than a month on what people in the industry are calling D-Day, or "the day the music dies."


On July 15, the bill comes due for a whole new set of royalties that will wipe out Net radio as we know it. No more KEXP, no more SomaFM, you name it.

A ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board back in March hiked SomaFM's royalty bill from $10,000 in 2006 to $600,000, retroactively — even though the little radio company's gross revenues were only $125,000 last year.

But SomaFM and other Webcasters are fighting back. David Downs has a good article on SFWeekly and explains the situation very well.

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What You Can Do:
Visit Save Net Radio for tips about calling your political representatives.

Sign "Save Net Radio" Petition

Spread the word. We ARE the media. Don't fuck with our internet radio.

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Virato Live with Steven Halpern

Sound and Healing and Consciousness

The topic on Virato Live today was Sound & Healing. His radio program runs each Saturday from 10A to 1P.

Steven Halpern was a return guest today. Halpern's website is Inner Peace Music, where you can buy his music and listen to the samples. Nurture your soul and spirit.

Listen live or download the podcast at 880 The Revolution.

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Musicovery

Musicovery - Interactive web radio. Pick the year. Pick the mood. And GO! Musicovery

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G8 Summit Protests

More On The G8 Summit Protests

700 anti-war activists started a new settlement in two places on the planned bombing range at the Kyritz-Ruppiner Heide. The former command tower was painted in anti-militaristic pink, accompanied by a performance by musicians from "Lebenslaute" and over 100 clowns. Tons of accommodations for protesters. link

Here you can see underreported videos on g8tv, g8 radio transmissions, and get updates from the g8 protest timeline, see the anti-g8 camps, etc.

Links:
Dissent!-Network
G8 Podcast
G8 Protests Timeline
G8-TV
G8 Radio
Indymedia - Germany

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ARTIST EATS A CORGI

ARTIST EATS A CORGI

In an extraordinary art event artist and animal rights activist Mark McGowan ate a Corgi dog live on the Radio on Tuesday 29th May 2007, in a protest against the Royals and their treatment of animals. The dog died at a Corgi breeding farm in Southern England and was prepared and cooked for McGowan's consumption on the Bob and Roberta Smith radio programme on 104.4 Resonance FM. McGowan says,

'I know some people will find this offensive and tasteless but i did this to raise awarness about the RSPCA's inability to prosecute Prince Phillip and his friends shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for 5 minutes and then beating it to death with a stick.'

All together now... EWWWW

Mark McGowan | Via | You Tube

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Earl Greyhound

Earl Greyhound

Rock critic's E F Hutton, Sasha Frere Jones, once said "Whether or not Earl Greyhound are the Next Big Thing is irrelevant - watching them will convince you that they are." Earl Greyhound



Random 10 Songs

1. Bjork - Earth Intruders
2. Bob Dylan - I Want You
3. Neenah Cherry - Braided Hair
4. Rolling Stones - Memo to Turner
5. Panda Bear - Bros
6. Patti Smith - Gimme Shelter
7. All India Radio - Four Three
8. Rickie Lee Jones - Nobody Knows My Name
9. Joseph Arthur - Diamond Ring (See Notes From The Road
10.Earl Greyhound - S.O.S listen to mp3 or watch the video on You Tube. Power rock trio is like the good stuff we used to listen to.

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Still Culture Jamming

Negativland's Mark Hosler (and Asheville area resident) talks about intellectual property, creativity and multimedia art

Viewed by some as artistic outlaws, Negativland are either the merry pranksters of music, or the monkey wrench gang of popular culture.

For almost 30 years, the group has created striking political statements via media collages--initially in the realms of music and live performance, and now also in the area of visual art, video, books and radio--appropriating sounds, imagery and text from other sources. This sometimes got the group into hot water.

Mark Hosler, de facto leader and spokesman for the group, visited Tucson this weekend with his multimedia lecture about Negativland and its activities. "Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland," was Friday night, April 13.

As the raw material for its singular art form, Negativland uses information and the ways of disseminating and manipulating information (media), the 45-year-old Hosler says in a telephone interview from his home outside Asheville, NC, where he had shared some of his artwork in February with the locals.

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Friday Random 10

Random 10 Songs on Shuffle


1. Arcade Fire - The Well and The Lighthouse
2. Volunteer Pioneer - Separate Planes
3. Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird
4. Patti Smith - Mother Rose
5. Buddy Miles - Them Changes
6. All India Radio - Four Three
7. Steve Earle - Long Way Down To Tannietown
8. Espers - Moon Occults The Sun
9. Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby
10. Low - Breaker

What are you listening to?

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Ethics Crusade

We're riding a big ol' bus to the Ethics Crusade. It's tried to gather steam before but eventually petered out. It later got a bump in popularity when Janet Jackson accidentally bared her breast on worldwide television and the family values people wanted everyone involved punished severely.

The Don Imus controversy has so many layers. People are talking about it everywhere you go; you can't escape it by turning off your television. You hear it at the doctor's office, at work, in the market. It's Free Speech vs racist comments on tv and radio. There appears to be an audience for his misogynistic and racist remarks, but does that mean he should keep broadcasting because of Free Speech in our country?

The squeaky wheel always gets the grease. Big business is listening and fretting over profits so they bow to the pressure. Any disgusting slip of the tongue (or breast) is cause for the moral police to protest and boycott.

Will someone be making a list of targets for them to go after next? I like that they have to power to affect change but while they police the people of this nation, couldn't they use this kind of fire and motivation towards ending the war in Iraq?

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Saturday Morning Me

saturday AFTERNOON me//
ooops/a glorious day in the mountains today/
been weeding/potting/pruning/toking/
grilledcheesesandwich/tea--sweet, of course/
pink sweatshorts/white ACT-UP tee/flipflops/
listening: Four Three by All India Radio/
forecast: finalfourbasketball/
wondering what i can feed my dog now/
still a study in contradictions, aren't i?/
so how about you?/

Today's Quote: If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? -- Shantideva

Round of Zimas. My treat, bitches.

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Anti-War Protests

Live from the electronic teat..... the Anti-War edition

* On March 19 the fifth year of the illegal, immoral, disastrous war in Iraq will begin. Activists across the country are mobilizing to mark the occasion with demonstrations, vigils and direct actions from Friday March 16 through Tuesday March 20. Add your voice to the rising call for peace: right here

* Congress is expected to vote on the bill to suspend operations at the SOA/WHINSEC in as early as May 2007. April will be a critical time for us to organize and make our voices heard.

This April 25-27, SOA Watch activists will organize local public fasts and events throughout the United States to educate the general public and members of Congress on the SOA/WHINSEC issue. link

* Activists 'Purify' Site After Bush Visit link

* 20 Arrested At SDS New York Counter Recruitment Action - link

* Do you have a protest or topical song available on the web? As of today Neil Young's Living With War website has 1430 song listings. Send your song link to: songs@lwwtoday.com

* Sign The Petition - The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio -- royalty rates so high that they will put RP and every other US-based indie webcaster out of business.

Quote For Today
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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All India Radio

ALL INDIA RADIO

I've recently discovered All India Radio, an Australian group, and I'm really enjoying their sound. If Boards Of Canada were from India, they'd be All India Radio. Well, almost. I should quote some reviews so you can get a better idea of what they sound like.

"Sigur Ros without the vocals meets Brian Eno and Transglobal Underground. Lo-fi & ambient soundscapes & eerie ethnic street sounds." - The Age Newspaper

And, DJ Shadow meets Boards Of Canada, ambient soundscapes and lo-fi beats with some Twin Peaks & Ennio Morricone weirdness thrown in for good measure. "This is some good shit. Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in our imaginations" - Beat Magazine.

"A.I.R. takes you on a dreamlike journey-not unlike what one could imagine the results would be if K&D, Alan Parsons and Calexico were to hang in a studio for a week. Top notch" - Groove Palace Radio

I picked out some songs from their 002, Permanent Evolutions, and Echo Other CDs and bought them at iTunes after sampling them on CDBaby.com. Maybe it's something you might also enjoy.

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Bhagavan Das

The American kirtan movement is alive and well in Asheville, NC.

Bhagavan Das, one of the central figures in Ram Dass' Be Here Now, returned to Asheville this week to lead kirtan at the Namaste Center on Saturday, Jan. 6. (Virato interviewed him on his radio program the last time he was in town.)

And there's Sangita Devi, a group that holds kirtan Namaste every Tuesday @ 7:30 p.m., for a donation. Info: sangitadevi.com.

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This Week in Peace & Justice History is a collection designed to help us appreciate the fact that we are part of rich history advocating peace and social justice. While the entries often focus on large and dramatic events there are so many smaller things done everyday to promote peace and justice.

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December 4, 1969
President Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, and 40 U.S. governors embarked on a fact-finding mission to discover the causes of the generation gap. They viewed films of "simulated acid trips" and listened to hours of "anti-establishment rock music."

December 4, 1968
264 were arrested at a military induction center in New York City during War Resisters League civil disobedience action.

December 4, 1916
Five members of a woman's suffragist group unrolled a banner from the visitor's gallery during President Wilson's annual message (state of the union) to Congress, asking, "Mr. President, What will you do for woman suffrage?" There was no mention of the issue in his speech.

December 4, 1833
The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia. He and his brother Lewis were active abolitionists throughout their lives, including providing legal defense for the Africans who mutinied on the slave ship Amistad.

December 4, 1970
Cesar Chavez was sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to call off United Farm Workers? consumer boycott of lettuce.

December 4, 1980
United Nations agreed to establish the University of Peace and a short wave radio station, Radio Peace International, in Costa Rica.

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TERRY RILEY

One of Terry Riley's recent projects has him paired with the Kronos Quartet working for NASA. Thanks in no small part to Kronos leader David Harrington, Riley is commissioned to compose music based on radio waves collected by the Voyager space shuttle." [NASA] has done a couple of music projects before," explains Riley. "This one is based on Voyager's exploration, which flew by all of the planets. On board Voyager was a device called the Plasma Wave Receptor, which was invented by a Dr. Gurnett in Iowa. This [device] is able to receive radio waves the planets themselves broadcast, and each planet has a different sound wave."

Riley is the perfect candidate for NASA's space-age string quartets. Here on Earth, he's spent his time creating music light years ahead of his peers. Riley made his giant leap in the '60s with In C, a towering obelisk of a composition that cast an influential shadow over Philip Glass, Brian Eno and Pete Townshend (remember the intro to "Baba O'Riley" from. Who's Next?) and blurred the boundaries between classical music, avant-garde experimentalism and trance-inducing improvisation for all who followed.

Terry influenced not only Steve Reich, Philip Glass and their protégés, such as John Adams, but his influence spread out to certain European rock groups, such as Daevid Allen's Gong, Can and Tangerine Dream. In the case of these rock groups, I think sometimes Terry was the direct link."

He's been around for a long time and is still making beautiful music.

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Coast To Coast-Whitley Streiber
No matter what your beliefs are about ufos, crop circles or ghosts and intelligent life "out there" you must admit Coast To Coast is a very interesting talk radio program.

Early this morning I listened to author Whitley Strieber discussing his experiences with alien entities, some of which were incorporated into his new novel The Grays. I haven't read anything by him except Communion: A True Story but I'll have to read this one now.

George Noory interviewed Whitley Strieber last night, but he'll be back on the show with Art Bell this Sunday. Amazing stories. But are they true or not?

The Saturday show's guest is the good doctor, Rick Strassman.

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Rush Limpdick's latest drug run-in: Viagra.

Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours for possible possession of illegal prescription drugs found in his luggage, including a bottle of Viagra.

I could have gone all damn day without hearing about Rush and his schlong problems. [/shudder]

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