Very good piece by David Segal in the New York Times this weekend on the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger: what it is, how it happened, what it means. And the guy behind it: legendary asshole Irving Azoff. Learn more about the USA’s “Commissioner of Music” here: “Calling Almost Everyone’s Tune”
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LIFE IS A DREAM
Photo by Ira Cohen
Tax Collection to Art Collection
As tax season slowly releases its grip on April USA Today reports on the amazing tax policy in Mexico in place since 1957 that allows artists to pay their taxes with artwork, creating an invaluable collection for the nation.
“Some of the art is explicit, but no matter.
‘There’s no censorship here,’ says Julieta Ruiz, a curator at the museum.
If anything, the temptation to needle the taxman makes the art even edgier.”
Perusing the eOccult
SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT
From Yoga Records:
[Here is] “Music Is Math,” a talk by Chris Weingarten. Sums up in ten entertaining minutes the harsh story of what the blogosphere did to music criticism and by extension, music itself. For some reason this isn’t getting a lot of reposts.
March 30 Prominence Eruption on the Sun, courtesy new NASA observatory satellite
"African Earth"
“FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter — building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.”
FIRST EARTH official website
http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth
FRANK SINATRA & ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM LIVE
From the period that gave us Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings
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