secretslugs: The mapped radio waves of the first observed pulsar, observed by Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell on November 28, 1967. Also the album cover to Joy Division’s debut album Unknown Pleasures  1.337 seconds
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The mapped radio waves of the first observed pulsar, observed by Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell on November 28, 1967.

Also the album cover to Joy Division’s debut album Unknown Pleasures 

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Calexico — “Para”

(from the forthcoming LP, Algiers, out 11 September on Anti/City Slang)

R.E.M. - “Welcome To The Occupation” (live, McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, 24 May 1987).  

A famous live appearance, 25 years ago today.

Happy 53rd Birthday, Steven Patrick!

Howe Gelb talks Giant Giant Sand's country rock opera 'Tucson'

Giant Sand records have been written on the spot, in the studio or on the drive on the way to the studio. [Gelb has]… mixed in elements like a gospel choir or a horns sections from album to album. Or, y’know, made some sessions into an opera.


“’Music has always been about handing it over — music as evolution, it has to keep changing,’ he said in our recent interview. He spoke from his longtime home of Tucson, the album’s namesake. ‘I dared myself to plan a concept, and to strip away the stuff that isn’t it or meant for it. I took a pretty good gamble that the songs we were gonna write are already inside of us.’”
 
“Gelb first had the ‘nagging notion’ of making an opera around 1978, but like so many of his projects, he didn’t want to force it. Last year, he played music festival in Berlin, with ‘this big band which manifested itself by accident or by fate. None of us had gotten together until the moment we were on stage’.  The event commissioned artists that represented deserts from around the world, a construct for which Gelb is well-suited. The group – who barely knew each other but tangentially all had connections to Denmark and Tuscon – began jamming on a cumbia, a seed planted that would later become ‘Caranito’ on Tucson.”
 
“’If you’re hittin’ it, it’s gonna have a zing that you can never plan for. It got higher and higher in our set. It was wonderful night, and it was evident that something was in play…
Permeating my waking moments of near-sleep was a discussion in my head: can I make an opera taken from songs never intended for an opera?’ Gelb said. ‘Is there a story in here? There were pieces of stories lying around, all the talent in the world who became the different characters. I fell ass-backwards into an opera.’”
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Happy Mother’s Day

behindthegrooves:

On this day in music history: May 3, 1982 - “Pornography”, the fourth studio album by The Cure is released. Produced by Phil Thornalley and The Cure, it is recorded at RAK Studio One in London from January - February 1982. Part three in a trilogy of albums that includes “Seventeen Seconds” and “Faith”, it will be a career defining release for the band, and a high water mark for the goth music genre and subculture. Much of the material will be written and recorded while The Cure is in a state of flux, though it will become their most successful album to date in the UK and broaden their cult following in the US. “Pornography” will peak at #8 on the UK album chart.

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The Clippers — “Mature Women”

Sign O’ The Times
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rainbowsqueaks: iamwild: Absolutely amazing. The man who photobombed the most iconic photo in the history of forever. My boyfriend applaudes you, sir.
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iamwild:

Absolutely amazing. The man who photobombed the most iconic photo in the history of forever.

My boyfriend applaudes you, sir.

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