Listen: Turned Out A Punk Episode #4 - Meredith Graves

Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham recently started a podcast series called Turned Out A Punk, in the podcast he interviews people about their backgrounds in punk rock. On this week’s episode he chats with Perfect Pussy leader Meredith Graves where they discuss a multitude of social subjects including the singer's formative years, the misogyny, sexism, homophobia and racism that exists in the music scene today. It’s not all super serious though as the two also delve into some music geek type stuff and lighthearted fashion talk in the hour and a half chat. So grab a comfy chair and something to drink, kickback and enjoy the show.

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Listen: Flabmag Podcast #10 - Sonny Kay

This week’s guest on Flab Magazine’s podcast series  was is multi-media artist/singer/entrepreneur/art director and all around inspiring guy Sonny Kay, who is perhaps best known for starting indie label, Gold Standard Laboratories. Before closing it’s doors in 2007 the label was home of some of the most genre bending punk rock acts of my time including a number of bands that Sonny was a member of like Angel Hair, the VSS, Year Future, Savalas, Subpoena the Past and more. Sonny’s time now days is spent working on some of the best photo collage art works gracing LP covers today.

Sonny Kay – “Accidental Math” 2010 Photo Collage

In the hour and forty minute discussion Sonny talks about his career as a lover and performer of punk rock, a trip down memory lane on life in Boulder, Colorado circa the 90s, the rise of ‘mainstream punk rock” as compared to the rawer sound of GSL, his relationship with Omar from the Mars Volta, the transition from music to visual arts and much more. 

LISTEN HERE.

Listen/Download: WIFE–“ClashMusic DJ Mix Podcast”

Sticking with the Tri Angle roster we also have a new mix from James Kelly aka WIFE who is gearing up to release his début ep for the label next week with Stoic. James made his name in music as a member of Irish black metal band Altar of Plagues but like many black metal artists also finds comfort in producing electronic music. WIFE's mood and feel is most certainly on the darker, droney, side of things than your average club banger is as is evidence in the eclectic 46-minute mix he did for ClashMusic that you can stream and download below…

DJ Mix Tracklisting:

GOD - Fucked
Tangerine Dream - Birth of Liquid Plejades
LowLife - A Sullen Sky
Rachel Grimes -Every Morning
Steve Reich - Pulses
Portal - Larvae
Wilderness - Post Plethoric Rhetoric
1991 - Open to the Dark
Ami Dang - Treasure
Pom Pom - Untitled (19 A)
Ambivalent & Alexi Delano - Lights Down
Shifted - Leather
Drake - Make Me Proud
Ango - True Blue
Julianna Barwick - Envelop
Chasing Voices - Acid Bathory
The Prodigy - Break and Enter

Listen: The Modern Art Notes Podcast - Barry McGee

Photo: Sibila Savage

Graffiti legend Barry McGee was featured on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast in conjunction with his current  midcareer survey at  Berkley Art Museum (BAM). Some of the topics McGee discuss with interviewer Tyler Green include ...

-  How a street-driven artist changes when he’s in his 40s and is raising a daughter.

-  Why it is important for to make sculptures that represent the act of tagging itself.

-  How he got himself into a little bit of trouble with some freelance tagging at BAM.

-  His plans for the ads that the Berkeley Art Museum has placed on Bay Area MUNI buses.

-  The story behind his many alias'. 

-  Moving from Graffiti on the streets to contemporary art in galleries.
-  The influence of Barry's late wife, Margaret Killgallen, on his own work.

listen HERE.

Photo: Sibila Savage

Listen: Lyle Preslar (Minor Threat, Meatmen, Samhain) on Going Off Track Podcast

Photo: Nick Romanenko

Going Off Track podcast recently sat down with Lyle Preslar of Minor Threat, The Meatmen, and Samhain. In the very entertaining and informative hour and a half conversation Preslar discusses his time in Minor Threat, his record executive experience, and "what it's like to deal with Glenn Danzig under both circumstances." You can subscribe to the podcast HERE and hear a short preview below...

 

Listen: John Zorn - "FatCat Mix #1"

So here is something pretty random and special...We're very pleased to let you know that FatCat's latest podcast is now available. Compiled by legendary American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, the podcast is divided into two parts (to be released over this week), made up of choice selections from his notoriously expansive record collection. As far as i know this is a first for Zorn.

Some words from John Zorn about the Podcast...

"About 30 years ago Derek Bailey invited me on a Company tour of Britain. Evan Parker, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, George Lewis, Jamie Muir, Derek and I traveled by van for 3 weeks from Brighton to Edinburgh. George Lewis (then as now always ahead of the pack) brought a walkman. The walkman changed everything. Being able to choose your own playlist and listen to it privately made traveling so much easier. The process of making a personalized "playlist" was laborious, and days were spent making mix tapes (music romances) that compiled music from all over the map. 12-16 tracks usually fit on one side of a cassette so 32 LPs/CDs were chosen from a collection and one track from each was loaded in careful sequence—the wilder the juxtaposition the better. The sequence was crucial and I learned a LOT from making these tapes. Everything you do touches your creativity and there is little doubt that these tapes informed a lot of my own composing, from the file card pieces like Spillane (long form composition as mix tape), the compositions and repertory of Naked City (band as mix tape), the Music Romance series on Tzadik (cd as mix tape) to even perhaps the more recent Masada Marathons (concert as mix tape). Today this method of listening to music is becoming more and more prominent via the iPod shuffle—but there still is nothing quite like a personalized and carefully sequenced "Music Romance." The music chosen here comes entirely from my laptop's library and contains pieces that inspire me, tracks that comfort me, music you may not be aware of and some rarities few people have heard. Please enjoy."

FatCat Records Podcast - John Zorn Mix 1 by Fatcat Records on Mixcloud

Tracklisting
1. Riena (Anathema) — Värttinä
2. Anakrousis — Musique de la Grèce Antique
3. Colloquio — Lesiman
4. Sonaten ber die Misterien des Rosenkranzes — Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
5. Lonely Nightingale — Bert Kaempfert
6. Line Up — Lennie Tristano
7. Our Prayer — Beach Boys
8. Lotus Land — Cyril Scott
9. Mysterious Island (main title) — Bernard Herrmann
10. Other Side of the Flame — Asakawa Maki
11. Moses Theme (Main Titles) — Ennio Morricone
12. Black Root — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
13. Fantasias for the Viols - In Nomine In 7 Parts — Henry Purcell
14. Danville Girl — Dock Boggs
15. Pale Flower (main title) — Takemitsu Toru and Takahashi Yuji
Love Dance — Les Baxter
16. Mumbles — Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson
17. Instrumental Piece — Hildegard von Bingen
18. I'll See You In My Dreams — Jimmy Durante
19. A Rush of Blood — Cleric

Listen: SCV Podcasts Vol 86 - Gravity Records

Gravity Records is one of my all time favorite labels so it’s with great pleasure that they just released a SCV Podcast. Compiled by Matt Anderson, track order by Sonny Kay, mixed by Erik Otis

Gravity Records owner Matt Anderson is responsible for creating the machine that would launch out wave after wave of independent experimental, indie, punk, noise and hardcore music in the 1990′s and onward. Based out of San Diego, Gravity Records was one label that kept the energy and life of experimental deviations in rock music alive from the 90′s and on. We contacted Gravity Records owner Matt Anderson to explore his favorite releases over the years and this is the collection of material he sent us. With no track order in mind, we contacted Sonny Kay of one of the bands who is on this comp, Angel Hair, about what order he thought would be best for this podcast. The answer was simple, chronological order of the music as it was released. Gravity Records presented some of the most honest and raw music of the 90′s. A label full of emotional, passionately dedicated and intense bands all with their own unique sound. Enjoy this mix from Matt Anderson of Gravity Records and everyone at Sound Colour Vibration. A very special thanks goes out to Matt Anderson and Sonny Kay for their time. – Erik Otis

Track Listing:

1. Heroin – In General
2. Antioch Arrow – Space Age
3. Clikatat Ikatowi – Affirmation
4. U.O.A. – Painfully Obvious (live)
5. Angel Hair – Land Ov Enchantment
6. M.I.T.B. – Puppy Mill
7. 3MP – On A Ship To Bangladesh
8. D.C.0. – Observation Of The Perpetual
9. Monorchid – Destroy This Converter
10. Crom-Tech - Ex-Prestu Plod
11. B.H.P. – Outside The Glass
12. The Rapture – Olio
13. Tristeza – Glimpse Exposure
14. Spacehorse – Burn You Kerosene
15. S.O.T. – Glass Sun
16. Bastard Noise – Ryobi Party
17. Crime Desire – Carrion
18. Amenity – Screaming in the Mirror

SCV Podcasts Vol 86 "Gravity Records" by Sound Colour Vibration on Mixcloud