After Anthony Bourdain and Sean Brock finish many, many, many rounds of drinks, they visit the best/only choice for late-night dining in Charleston, the Waffle House, an irony free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless of race, creed color or degree of inebriation, is welcomed. Its warm yellow glow a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry the lost the seriously hammered all across the south to come inside.
INXS Name Giles Martin as Executive Music Director for Future Projects
Legendary Australian rock band INXS and Petrol Records have today announced that renowned music producer, composer and arranger, Giles Martin, is named as their Executive Music Director across a variety of ground-breaking future projects.
The award-winning producer and composer will have a creative overview on all audio aspects of upcoming INXS developments, including the eagerly-awaited documentary the untold story of INXS, the reimagining of the INXS catalogue through a dynamic and entirely unique live theatre show and their forthcoming repackaged, remixed and expanded studio albums, to be released via Universal Music Group (UMG) in partnership with Petrol Records.
Martin first met INXS in 1994 when working on The Great Music Experience, a spectacular concert starring Japanese and international musicians staged at the eighth century Buddhist temple of Tōdai-ji, in Nara, Japan. The chance meeting was the starting point for almost 25 years of friendship and an innate musical bond that led to Martin working on the band’s Greatest Hits compilation and subsequent projects.
Martin’s most recent collaboration with INXS saw him mixing their classic, multi-platinum album Kick in Dolby Atmos with Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios for the seminal recording’s 30th anniversary reissue in 2017 via UMG. Delivering an avalanche of hits including ‘Need You Tonight’, ‘New Sensation’, ‘Never Tear Us Apart’, ‘Devil Inside’ and ‘Mystify’, Kick has sold over six million copies worldwide since its 1987 release and made INXS one of the biggest bands on the planet.
Martin famously reunited with his father, Sir George Martin, in 2004 to work on the soundtrack for “Love”, The Beatles-Cirque du Soleil show that opened in Las Vegas in June 2006. Earning Martin a Grammy Award, the critically acclaimed show and soundtrack album went on to break box office and sales records.
A chart-topping classical and pop songwriter and producer, Martin works across a diverse range of creative projects from film, television, emerging technology to the theatre. He is also a creative consultant for global audio giant, SONOS.
Originally formed in 1977, INXS’ career spans an extraordinary 40 years, during which they have sold over 50 million records worldwide, including No. 1 albums in four different continents. Their popularity has transcended generations, with 9.8 million monthly streams and over 3 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Nick Cave narrates The Cat Piano
A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.
Latest short film by The People’s Republic of Animation, directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson.
The Cat Piano features the voice of iconic Australian artist Nick Cave narrating a poem written by Eddie White. Nick Cave recorded the narration whilst in Melbourne in 2007 while on tour with his band, The Grinderman.
Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons Explain Millennial Slang
In the latest episode of Vanity Fair’s “Slang School” series, the stars of the new film Hearts Beat Loud, Kiersey Clemons and Nick Offerman, explain the meanings of some of the most popular Millennial slang words and phrases.
Adam Savage Upgrades His Nerf Blaster With A Wonderful1,000 Shot Magazine
Adam picks up a NERF Rival Nemesis blaster, and upgrades it with a custom magazine to hold a THOUSAND soft plastic NERF balls. Watch as Adam builds the new magazine from scratch, uses kit-bashing to detail the blaster, and adds more upgrades like the bi-pod and laser. And to test this massive rig, Adam sets his sights on some prehistoric prey! Life finds a way!
MINISTRY continue to support their critically acclaimed album AmeriKKKant with a full U.S. tour this November / December
American industrial juggernaut MINISTRY will continue to support their critically acclaimed album AmeriKKKant with a full U.S. tour this November / December. Joining them are new wave of synthwave cessations CARPENTER BRUT, and manic avant garde industrial act IGORRR.
“I think the sets are going to work really well together,” commented MINISTRY mastermind Al Jourgensen. “Looking forward to seeing the masses collapsing into a puddle of sweat by the end of the festivities.”
American industrial juggernaut MINISTRY will continue to support their critically acclaimed album AmeriKKKant with a full U.S. tour this November / December. Joining them are new wave of synthwave cessations CARPENTER BRUT, and manic avant garde industrial act IGORRR.
“I think the sets are going to work really well together,” commented MINISTRY mastermind Al Jourgensen. “Looking forward to seeing the masses collapsing into a puddle of sweat by the end of the festivities.”
Confirmed dates are as follows:
MINISTRY, CARPENTER BRUT, IGORRR
11/21/2018 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
11/23/2018 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
11/24/2018 – Denver, CO – Fillmore
11/27/2018 – Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre
11/29/2018 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
11/30/2018 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
12/01/2018 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater
12/02/2018 – Toronto, ON – Rebel
12/04/2018 – Rochester, NY – Anthology
12/05/2018 – Washington, DC – Fillmore
12/06/2018 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
12/07/2018 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
12/08/2018 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
12/10/2018 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
12/11/2018 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theater
12/12/2018 – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey
12/13/2018 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
12/14/2018 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
12/16/2018 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee
12/18/2018 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues San Diego
12/20/2018 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda
12/21/2018 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda
Produced by Al Jourgensen, recorded at Caribou Studios in Burbank, CA and with striking artwork created by Mister Sam Shearon, the psychedelic, politically influenced and very much in-your-face AmeriKKKant’s nine tracks are rooted in Jourgensen’s unadulterated anger for what’s happening in America today: the waning respect for the U.S. Constitution, the growing acceptance of one’s opinions replacing facts, the decline of our leaders’ sense of morals, ethics and personal responsibility to the country and to their constituents, and the mad man in the White House.
For decades, the powerhouse of psychotic sound that is MINISTRY has overcome millions with releases such as Filth Pig, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, Psalm 69, From Beer To Eternity, and a flood of others. Since the 80s, founder Al Jourgensen, has been combining elements of synth pop, punk, metal and even dub in a way that is instantly recognizable and has influenced many other bands.
With timeless classics such as “Just One Fix,” “Thieves,” and “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” MINISTRY are one of a kind musical pioneers.
With six Grammy nominations to date, over 3 million records sold, more than 2,000 live performances, and movie soundtrack work on Hurt Locker, Artificial Intelligence, Matrix, Robo Cop and SAW, MINISTRY has been contributing to the music industry for over three decades.
Spinning a Record to Pieces at 12,500fps
The Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan take a piece of vinyl and spin it so fast it becomes about 50,000 pieces of vinyl. The results are obviously captured by a very high speed camera.
Parliament Funkadelic TV Ad For Up For The Down Stroke From 1974
Parliament Funkadelic (July 1974): This is the very first Casablanca Records TV spot! Almost every Parliament LP had it’s own TV commercial and this amazing spot is for the first album UP FOR THE DOWN STROKE. Notice the mention of Casablanca’s then parent company, Warner Bros. in the voiceover. KISS Army: Did you notice that George Clinton is wearing Gene Simmons’ 1975 Dressed To Kill era platform boots in the summer of 1974?