14/02/12

The 1,000-year long, non-repeating composition 'Longplayer', which began on 31 December 1999, is still playing - it will run, all being well, until the last moment of the year 2999. By my reckoning that means that today, it's around 1.21% complete. Longplayer

08/02/12

Here's an untitled Sonic Youth piece taken from their appearance at the Thurston Moore-curated Noise Fest event at White Columns, New York, in 1981. It was included in the cassette released as a document of the event, which is now impossibly rare and hard to find (and presumably expensive to buy, should it be found...)

It's thought that this is the earliest live recording of the band:

31/01/12

As seen on The Next Web, where you can find further details.

22/01/12

I recently came across the Tumblr website for The Wire magazine, subtitled 'Sleeves Recieved'. It's a superb archive of interesting music artwork and packaging drawn, presumably, from items sent to the magazine for review. Inspirational and of interest: Sleeves Received.

21/01/12

I'm very much enjoying exploring the droney, spacey soundworlds of Whirling Hall Of Knives, a collaborative project between Magnetize and The Last Sound.

I was turned on to them by Trensmat Records who recently released a split 7" featuring Whirling Hall Of Knives and New Zealand's Tlaotlon, continuing their ongoing run of high-quality product.

Lots of sounds, video and information can be found at the Whirling Hall Of Knives website, and here's a memseric video for their 'FCXO Analgesia (Midst)' from a few years ago: