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Tomorrow’s a very special day indeed – Todd Rundgren, one of the world’s finest and most underrated musicians, will premiere his seminal masterpiece A Wizard, A True Star to a UK audience in its entirety. The album that arguably forever destroyed Rundgren’s chances of mainstream success was light years ahead of the record buying public’s tastes in 1973 and initially sold poorly. Fast forward 37 years and Wizard’s intensely amusing and sometimes confusing mixture of totally out there tunes sits easily next to all time classics like Pet Sounds and The White Album, and continues to inspire legions of contemporaries from Hot Chip via Daft Punk to Simian Mobile Disco.
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What's the worst website for a radio station you've ever seen?
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Station affiliates should be orbits of local cultural consequence, not simply distribution points for national content. And national content elements should have their own universes, their own "tribes," which allow me to join and contribute directly.
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Twin Sister “Ribbon Bow”
The trouble with all of us, he believed, is that when we were young we never knew anybody who could or would tell us any of the penalties of making it in the world on the usual terms: “I don’t mean just the pretty obvious penalties, I mean the ones that are just about unnoticeable and that do really lasting damage, the kind the world doesn’t even think of as damage.” He talked about how easily writers could become vain, complaining that they got puffed up by the same “authorities” who approved putting monosodium glutamate in baby food.
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This dual aspect of numbers — as part- heaven, and part- earth — is perhaps the most paradoxical thing about them, and the feature that makes them so useful. It is what the physicist Eugene Wigner had in mind when he wrote of “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences.”
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Chihei Hatakeyama “Waves”
This is my battle cry for bloggers, and even more so those in music industry. We want to produce as much content as possible for our audience and want to help them discover as much new music as possible. And the labels and promoters of these acts need to wake up and understand how valuable our time is and that by providing us with pre-formatted rich media press releases, their success rate would jump through the roof.
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The fascinating series, which was first screened at the gallery two weeks ago, is well worth investigating over the coming weeks as each episode is uploaded onto the Tate Modern website. Especially interesting is the film with Childish, where Billy the musician (sporting his old military togs) interviews Billy the artist (in smock), and we see a painting develop from first brush strokes to completion. Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti recalls her provocative work in the early 1970s, while Mark E Smith sucks deep on a Pilsner and makes typically opaque comments about artists who paint while listening to The Fall.
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"There is no such thing as radio anymore," said Tom. There's no such thing as radio or TV or newspaper or magazines or even ad agencies. There is only media. And all media is now in competition with all other media because the firm lines once separating audio from video from print are no more.
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Written and directed by Luke Snellin.
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