From Boingboing.net: “After years of trying to cloud the public mind by calling it “piracy” instead of “unauthorised downloading,” key copyright industry reps are starting to realize that “piracy” actually sounds kind of cool. So now they’re lobbying for the even less intellectually rigorous term “theft,” which describes an entirely different offence, enumerated in an [...]

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Last minute win! Tomorrow one of the godfathers of free jazz, Peter Brötzmann will play at SJU Jazzpodium Utrecht, together with bassplayer Massimo Pupillo (Zu), trumpet player Toshinori Kondo and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Recently this quartet recorded the cd ‘Hairy Bones‘ in the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. For this concert, we give away 3 x 2 tickets! [...]

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SXSW, day 1 So, today (wednesday) is the official kick off of SXSW music, and also Saint Patrick’s day. What more could a man wish for. Started the day with a bike ride into town, where I bumped into Walter of the Roadburn festival, and Joep, promotor of 013 Popcentre in Tilburg. We decided to [...]

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Canadian all-girl metal band KITTIE will support INSANE CLOWN POSSE on a U.S. tour in May/June. Also scheduled to appear on the bill are COOLIO, NECRO and KOTTONMOUTH KINGS. Too bad it’s only a US tour, but this looks like the worst tour scheduled in music history. So what’s your favourite #fail-star band? (via)

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31 March Paradox hosts a Doom Drone Night featuring Thrones (USA), Nadja (CAN) and OvO (it). Joe fuckin Preston!!!! was a member of legendary groups such as EARTH, Melvins, SunnO))) and High On Fire. THRONES is his solo project, with Preston playing all instruments, incluiding bass, drums, vocals and synths. NADJA is a dronenoise collective from [...]

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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation

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Chris Carter from the legendary Throbbing Gristle is teaming-up with Dirty Electronics led by noise doctor John Richards to perform a piece for a specially designed DIY electronic instrument. The instrument will feature an original copper etching artwork designed by Carter that will become part of a dirty electronics instrument. Random sequences, distortion and noise [...]

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On the verge of the madness. Started out today (Tuesday) with lunch at Freddies (as recommended), together with Erwin Blom and Gert-Jan, hosts of the Posterous blog I’m also writing this for.  A bit later, Sander Kerkhof joined.  Erwin and Gert-Jan were here in Austin for the Interactive part of SXSW, Sander came over to [...]

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Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. Every Thursday, 2pm local time, we will announce the artists that were confirmed for the Incubate 2010 festival during the past week. Whether it’s one or twenty names. Here are the new names for this week: Acre (US) The Chap (UK) Cold Pumas (UK) Daniel Francis Doyle (US) Fair [...]

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