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- David Lynch: Live Twitter interview with @guardianmusic!
Join us from 8pm GMT tonight for a live Twitter chat with David Lynch featuring your questions
Read the full interview hereguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Audio advent calendar: Download Gonjasufi's Holidaze
8 December: Another day closer to Christmas and we're giving you a free track from the brilliant Gonjasufi
This year we loved the hiss, crackle and pop of Gonjasufi's debut album, A Sufi and a Killer. So as part of 24 Plays of Christmas, our advent calendar countdown, Warp Records is giving away (just click on the little arrow symbol on the right of the Soundcloud widget) the brilliant track Holidaze.
Gonjasufi plays the Rhythm Factory tomorrow night (9 December) in London. Check out more Gonjasufi music and video clips hereguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - While Britain rails against the government, the music world remains silent
When BBC 6 Music was at risk, the backlash was loud and effective. Now students and the welfare state are under fire, musicians and DJs have nothing to say
First they came for BBC 6 Music, and everyone who had ever looked at a guitar, never mind played one, spoke up. Then they came for affordable higher education, the maintenance allowance, 500,000 public sector jobs and the foundations of the welfare state – and the music world remained silent.
The protests against the closure of BBC 6 Music earlier this year comprised effective anti-establishment campaigning from within. Middle-class, indie-loving, media-savvy 18-40-year-olds in their tens of thousands joined Facebook groups, signed online petitions, added Twibbons, wrote letters of complaint and politely but efficiently kicked against the pricks. Naturally, they won.
Music fans stood up to save the station, but so did many leading figures within the music and broadcasting industries, including Lauren Laverne, David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Lily Allen, Adam Buxton, Phill Jupitus, Richard Bacon, Emily Eavis and Edith Bowman. They were undoubtedly driven by a passionate commitment to the music the station plays, though the fact that several of the above had shows on 6 Music made their outspokenness seem a little less selfless. Cocker was happy to find himself front and centre in the battle to save the station: "Just because you are a part of a bit of the establishment, you don't have to sell out your ideas. The thing to do, if possible, is to try to change that establishment; to try to engage with the establishment to make something good. It is time to man the barricades."
The question facing a Britain polarised between youth-led masses and a venal political establishment is: why won't the 6 Music rebels man the barricades now there's something more important to save than their own jobs? However, there are notable exceptions to this silence in the music world. The mainstays of the Red Wedge generation are still doing what they were doing 25 years ago: Johnny Marr dismissing the prime minister's outspoken love of the Smiths by publicly forbidding him to like their music, and Billy Bragg, naturally, speaking at the UCL occupation. Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, tweeted his support for student protestors, and Arcade Fire voiced theirs at recent London show. Dizzee Rascal told me last week the protests were "good to see", and fellow grime MC Ghetts has done the same. On Rinse FM, bashment team the Heatwave have been dedicating political tunes to Nick Clegg and David Cameron.
But elsewhere the silence of careerist musicians and broadcasters has been deafening. Here are students trying to bring down the government, for God's sake. Lily Allen inadvertently summed up the mood among Save 6 Music campaigners in a piece for the Guardian in March: "If you look at everything that's happened in the last year or so at the BBC, you can't help but feel that they are scared of taking risks."
Rightbackatcha, pop world.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo: why I love Sandy Denny
The guitarist recalls the magic moment when the magnitude of an artist suddenly hits you and an obsession begins
I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music – songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.
I'll tell you what first drew me in. I was driving through the west Texas desert with my friend Mark, listening to his mixtape, and Meet On the Ledge came on. And there it was: an entry into a new and magical world. Fairport Convention bloomed like a crazy and beautiful desert flower for me out of that one amazing song (which I played over and over on that drive, I couldn't get it out of my head). Immediately after that trip through Texas you could find me listening constantly to What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and, in particular, Liege and Lief. Finally, many years late, I was totally digging Fairport. And most especially Sandy.
That magical voice. I couldn't believe I'd overlooked it for so long, and I wanted to hear more, everything. I'd known many folks held captive under her spell, and I even had her recordings with the Strawbs already on my shelf, but sometimes it takes a particular moment for the magnitude of a certain artist to hit you. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? set me off on a search for all things Sandy. I spent the next couple of years finding out all I could about her, and listening to everything I could get my hands on – her studio albums, bootlegs, rarities – as well as pestering many collector friends to comb their archives for me.Sandy always transports me to a unique musical place, and defines a certain time in music history to my ears. Her music and voice have been elevated to the top-most reverential rungs of all I hold dear in my musical life. I've performed Bushes and Briars, while her solo albums, in particular Northstar Grassman and the Fotheringay records, will forever have pride of place near my turntable.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - New music video: Chase & Status - Blind Faith
The south London dance duo come over all nostalgic for the rave days in their latest video
Sigh. You know you're getting old when footage of Rizla packets, puffa jackets and dilated pupils makes you feel nostalgic. Such is the effect of Chase & Status' video for ravey new single Blind Faith. The found-footage-style vid begins with a bunch of mates "preparing" for a night out while a TV news report on police crackdowns on warehouse raves plays in the background. Then they pile into the car, drive to the pub, down a rainy A road and into a field, where the party continues. It almost makes you wish you were freezing your arse off in a smelly barn at dawn. Almost.
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