"AC/DShe are an all-girl AC/DC cover band doing Bon-era songs. These gals have been committed to staying true to the heart pounding rhythms and high energy presentation of early AC/DC." Yes!

Michael Moore has shot the new video by System of a Down which includes lots of scenes from anti-war-protests. The clip is up on their site in various formats. Moore has also written an open letter to Bush you might be interested in.

"Funk45.com contains over 2000 audio clips of rare funk and soul 45 rpm singles recorded in the late 60s and early 70s with regular contributions from the world's top funk DJs and collectors. The music is often grittier than well known artists such as James Brown and has been ignored by the music industry for over 30 years."

Tons of stuff in streaming Real Player-format to listen to! Great source!

There's a great song for you over in the fashion victims paradise

The classic book about the Stones! I finally managed to read it. Tony Sanchez was Keith Richard's dealer for eight years and he's got quite a lot of stories to tell. Interesting view at the sixties and the seventies. Lots of junkie-stuff, juicy details about Mick Jagger and the death of Brian Jones. Great, hard-hitting writing and funny pictures. If you have a slight interest in pop-culture you absolutely don't wanna miss this one!

Order it through this site and make me richer than Mick Jagger!

The old Beatles vs.Stones-debate is lame by the way. It's like Kiss vs. Ac/Dc in the eighties. Fuck, Kiss were a bunch of guys dressing up with make-up and expensive special-effects. Compare that to Ac/DC! Sure, the Beatles... They were brilliant too. But the Beatles were pop while the Stones were nasty! And the guys from Liverpool were into merchandising and creating a fake image. They did all these stupid movies and they were basically the first boygroup. The Stones were something else. They had a much deeper understanding of spacing out and throwing yourself into the sound. I'm listening to an old collection of their classics right and I'm not even old enough to get sentimental. But it's just so much more radical than what Avril or whatever her name is puts out.

The story behind "Street Fighting Man" is kind of nice. Mick Jagger got trapped in one big marsh. When people recognized him, people wanted autographs and forgot their political motives. The security had to get him out there. What a great song. It's playing so much with the expectation of the listener. You keep expecting a different sort of chorus, but it doesn't happen. The congas come in and the whole thing really makes you listen to the lyrics and all that. This is where Ton, Steine, Scherben comes from "The time is right for revolution." That's the spirit. Uh-oh, "Midnight Rambler" coming up.

The Beastie Boys have released a new song against the war which they offer as a free MP3-download (4.4 MB)

Here is a much smaller version for the Media Player (832 kb)

Adam Goren alias Atom and his package is on tour in the US and he's got a tour-diary on his site. Adam is great. He plays music with his guitar and a bunch of sequencers and synthies while singing stuff like "The Palestinians Are NOT the Same Thing as the Rebel Alliance, Jackass".
Here's a interesting article about the new king of nerds titled "This is punk?"

Was für'n Hit!"Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado Lòpez aka DAF are re-united and their new album "Fünfzehn Neue DAF Lieder" will be released in Sweden and Norway by SubSpace Communications under exclusive license from Superstar Recordings. The new single "Der Sheriff (anti amerikanisches lied) is due out on Monday 17th February and "Fünfzehn Neue DAF Lieder" on Friday 28th of February." the videoclip is here

Some people find the time to record Songs about Boba Fett....

Lisa-Marie Presley's new single is about being buried in her garden with Big Daddy Elvis. Whew....

Listen to it yourself

Gene Simmons is re-starting his label, Simmons Records. He's looking for 20-30 year-old talents. Send demos to Simmons Records, Box 15097, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210.

The Björk Video Gallery is open. Some of the best music-videos ever made, I think.

The Puppetmastaz are a gang of rappin' dolls from Berlin. Celebrity Deathmatch meets Muppets meets NWA! Word!

Wired announces The Year The Music Dies and gives the the music industry only five or ten more years to live.

"The labels' new legitimate online music services attracted fewer paying customers than the McDonald's in Times Square. (...) The electronics industry's attitude toward the labels is summed up by an Apple slogan: Rip. Mix. Burn. Which, a music executive once told me, translates into "Fuck you, record labels."

Capitalism eats itself. It's going to be interesting how big business is going to solve this problem. If they're interested in solving it. It's obvious that Sony makes more money with selling MP3-phones rather than Michael Jackson-cds and Bertelsmann aka. BMG is just too stupid to realize what's going on after buying Napster. The funniest example of globalism right now is AOL Time Warner. AOL sells high-speed-internet-connections to people who download all kinds of songs and movies produced by Warner. Look at this grand old player which used to be called Warner Brothers and what it came down to. . Now they're almost bankrupt and think about selling their music-labels.

Bohren und der Club of Gore is my favourite band. Some of these guys used to be in the hardcore-band 7"-Boots. I can't get enough of their urban death-jazz and I got all their records. I even have the split with Wald and the first 7" on Burt Reynolds Moustache Records with the handmade moustache attached to it. That's how cool I am, ok? It's like the Twin Peaks-soundtrack with the right sort of attitude (come on, David Lynch is lame!), the best soundtrack for those lonely nights you spend on your own with the computer and a bottle of vino. They play a handful of live-shows: 28.03. Potsdam   Waschhaus 29.03. Hannover   Glocksee Check out the site of Bohren und der Club of Gore yourself. Here are two songs of the last record for direct download as mp3s. It's just a click to the right: Song 1 Song 2

Jens Rachut is Jens Rachut.

This guy is the man. Just ask Frankie of Leatherface. This is the real voice of German punk. I've following this guy for 15 years now and he's still the best at what he does. And what he does is not nice. All songs of his old bands Angeschissen, Dackelblut, Blumen am Arsch der Hölle and the new one Oma Hans as MP3 over at schiffen.de

This a great new CD put out by the G7 Welcoming Committee and it aint punk or metal. Funky grooves combined with turntable-traditions, a touch of mellowness, interesting lyrics and w hole lot of Hip Hop.

"Justice - Peace and Equality, but, um... Power stems from the barrel of a gun We'll live and we die as One, but... Power stems from the barrel of a gun."

This is a really cool record by this new band from Canada. They got a bunch of sounds online. Catch up with the Warsawpack

I stumbled across this site called wuhanpunk.yeah.net which is the hub of punk-activities in China. They have soundfiles and some English translations of texts from "Chaos", the only Chinese Punk-fanzine. There is a column here which gives a brief introduction to the scene over there and there is also a statement about the university of punk and becoming a utopian person.
Nasty Vinyl, that classic old label from Hannover who brought you the forgotten gems of East-German punkrock has already released a record by SMZB who sing stuff like "I want to fuck chairman Jiang Zhemin".

the mechanics of destruction is the title of the new album by the most interesting guy running "around the house", the title of the milestone-record he produced a few years ago with his wife Dani Siciliano. Now, the guy who put politics into techno has just released his new cd as Radio Boy for free. You can download the tracks as MP3s or get a free CD if you send herbert a stamped and self-addressed envelope.
Don't miss this one and also visit his regular site called Magic and Accident

The Smoking Gun has a nice collection of backstage-riders by now.
Was it Missy Elliot or MC Lyte who wanted five different hair-dryers in the dressing-romm every night?

Great hectic political punkrock from Spain. Reminds me a lot of those jolly guys of Citizen Fish with a lot more Metal and moshing. Very good. I've been listening to it over a over a while ago.

hotmail@faccion.com

Another one of these bands who played with Propagandhi this summer. Those two nights they hung out with us, I always thought they were called something else like "Good for Nothing" , "Nevermore" or "Neverwhere", but that was just me. They have a great Split-CD with Monaguillos Sin Fronteras who don't have a homepage! That's punker than punk! Great energetic tunes from their side, very good band. Nevergood have much thicker metal-guitar here and there, but they also subscribe to the Nineties-Fat Wreck school. Did anyone expect NOFX to become one of the most influential bands of that decade? Not really. Nevergood have another CD called "Represion Regresiva" which is a lot of fun and also has some meaningful political lyrics I can't read since they're in English. My friend Ute would like this one and she's an expert concerning spanish Punk! The CD also has a very bad cover with Spider-man and the original X-Men in their old costumes from the Sixties smashing a swastika (am I missing some sort of a secret joke here, guys?)

Nevergood

Mid-Tempo Bubblepunk with an attitude from Madrid. These kids have changed their wardrobe. They used to like Satanic Surfers-hoodies and now they dress like those Noise conspirators from Sweden. They played with Propagandhi when we were conquering Europe a while ago and I'm still listening to it. Memories of a sweet summer...

gasdrummers.com
new CD - The True Charm of Bourgeoisie on wildpunkrecords.com
first CD - Proud to be Nothing on slidechorus.com

I spent an interesting time over at AfricanHipHop.com and Bushradio
after reading this story on African HipHop

Slim Shady plays Jimmy ”The Rabbit” Smith, a rapping loser based on the singer himself of course. Kim Basinger plays the queeen of a trailer-park in Detroit. There will be nasty language and sexual references, so, the movie by director Curtis Hanson might be controversial. It sounds pretty good from what people say who have seen it already.

The soundtrack hits Stores Oct. 29th. It Includes 3 new songs from Eminem, including "Lose Yourself" and new music by 50 Cent ("Wanksta"), Jay-Z, Nas, Xzibit, D12, Rakim, Gangstar, Obie Trice and More....
A Free Shady/Aftermath Records Sampler and Enhanced CD is included with purchase while supplies last.
"Lose Yourself", the single and the video, can be heard and seen exclusively at Rapbasement (Real- & Windows-Players)

Trailer for 8 Mile at quicktime.com
Homepage for 8 Mile
Review of the movie by Dr.Strangelove at AICN.com
The homepage of Eminem is great!
I also loved his cartoon-site slimshadyworld. . There are some nice games and a hilarious South Park-parody

If you're into that bastard pop and who is not, ladies and gentlemen, you sholud pay attention to the doctor over at boomselection.

He points you into the right direction. Yes, illegal MP3s the record-industry doesn't like to hear about and all that.

Rhino put out a the first collection of muppet-songs, 27 all-together.

CD: 25 years of Muppets

And don't forget to visit Muppet.com

A new band from Hamburg, mellow like hanging out at a rainy beach around the north-sea, driven by bad luck and on tour in a little while. They hang out with Tomte and Kettcar and they're gonna tour with those guys in November. And I bet they will play with the Weakerthans whenever they get their asses back to Europe.
_DATES 02.10. BERLIN_Magnet Klub (+ Virginia Jetzt, special guest)
03.10. tba (Kassel ist ausgefallen!!!)
04.10. LEIPZIG_Moritzbastei (+ Palestar)
05.10. MAGDEBURG_H.O.T. (+ L´Altra)
06.10. BONN_BLA (+Neighbour Rosicky)
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[Marr]-[Tomte]-[Kettcar] on Tour
19.11. HAMBURG_Schlachthof
20.11. MÜNSTER_Gleis 22
21.11. BIELFELD_JUZ Kamp
22.11. MAGDEBURG_Projekt 7

MARR - Homepage

Songs for Download:

MARR - the new arms of the ruling class - mp3 MARR - song No.2 - mp3

CD: Zootic coisa nenhuma
Political New School-Hardcore riding a bulldozer to hell. Thick sound and alot of screaming. Comes in a nice booklet with all lyrics translated. check the homepage of Zootic

CD: Royal Flush Compilation
This is HC the way they used to play it in New York. This cd has More than Hate, face Fall, Blood to share, Criminal Waste, Da Switch, Age of Hate and Pura Repressao on it and you can get it at 383records@hotmail.com. If you're into this kind of sound this will give you a good overview of the scene in and around lisbon.