Velvet Underground's Rock Legend Lou Reed Dies At 71

Rock music has lost another legend. I guess nobody knows exactly how to feel.

Thank you for the good music.

Rest in peace.

FOXYGEN: CLIP / / WATTFCAOPAM

Foxygen vokali Sam France'in altı haftalık fizik tedavi süreci yüzünden ertelenen turne dışında keyifler yerinde. Albüm ve çıkış parçası adıyla çıktıkları We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic tekrar bizlerle!

THE SPYRALS / / OUT OF SIGHT

San Francisco'lu garage / fuzz topluluk Spyrals 2012'de kendi adıyla çıkardıkları efsane albümden bir sene sonra tekrar karşımızda. Kaldığı yerden devam eden topluluk Out Of Sight klibiyle listelere girdi.

''The production has a more natural, live feel than the debut.'' RECORD GEEK

''I'ts a raw aesthetic approach that encapsulates the band’s distinctive style and where it lands on the broad spectrum of “psych” music...'' THE BAY BRIDGED

THE SPYRALS / OUT OF SIGHT

POND / / HOBO ROCKET

Nick Albrook, nam-ı diğer Tame Impala'nın eski 'tuhaf çocuğu' artık denizlere kendi başına açılıyor ve Hobo Rocket bunun ilk örneği! TI'ya kıyasla psychedelic-pop'a karşı daima daha 'uçuk, aşırı ve ölçüsüz' yaklaşan Pond beşinci albümleri Hobo Rocket ile bunu kanıtlamışa benziyor. En iyisi hiç değil - şimdilik...

''When a million heads collide, it seems, it’s a colourstorm...'' NME

''Hobo Rocket rampages through psychedelia, funk, 70s soft rock, grunge and even a shuffle rhythm in sprawling opener Whatever Happened to the Million Head Collide.'' GUARDIAN

POND / GIANT TORTOISE

DIRTY BEACHES / / DRIFTERS / LOVE IS THE DEVIL

Dirty Beaches denilince aklıma çocukluğumuzdan kalan müzik kutuları geliyor. Kutunun küçük çekmecesini açarsın ve elinde sepeti olan beyaz bir tavşan chim chim cheree melodisinde dans eder. Melodi aynıdır, kendini tekrarlar ve nedense melankolizm paçalardan aşağıya akar.

Tayvan doğumlu Kanadalı müzsiyen Alex Zhang Hungtai beşinci albümü Drifters / Love Is The Devil ile aramıza geri döndü. İki sene önce çıkardığı epik albümü Badlands'da görülen hip-hop / rockabilly ikilisi daha komplike hale gelmiş. Dirty Beaches'in rockabilly ve garage müziğine olan sadık tarafı albümü daha ilginç hale getiriyor.


''I Dream in Neon” makes the most of the lo-fi, on-the-cheap electro sound Dirty Beaches are going for this time out, with a synth loop that almost seems like it was ripped from “Tainted Love”...'' POP MATTERS

''Drifters/Love Is the Devil is more robust and eccentric than anything he's ever released before...'' PITCHFORK

DB / CASINO LISBOA

NEIL KRUG / / LAUREN MARIE YOUNG

NIGHT BEATS / / SONIC BLOOM

Seattle'li topluluk iki senedir ayağını Austin'den kaldırmıyor ve bunun için çok iyi nedenleri var. Psychedelic müziğin beşiği haline gelen Austin, kısa sürede karşı konulması zor bir merak uyandıran Austin Psych Fest projesiyle gözlerini kendine çevirdi. Festival şimdilik senede bir kere düzenleniyor. Gelecek sene için posterler ve reklamlar şimdiden yapıldı. Ancak kafamızın arka kısmında kalan soru, neden özellikle Austin, Teksas?

''...seattle rabble-rousers Night Beats specialize in squalling, reverb-blasted garage rock that openly pays homage to the psych and soul leanings of forbearers the Zombies.'' SPIN

Outta Mind / The Seven Poison Wonders

CRYSTAL STILTS / / DARK NOIR

Post-Punk / Psychedelic topluluk Crystal Stilts onuncu senesinde üçüncü albüm Dark Noir ile sahnelere geri dönüyor. Joy Division ve 13th Floor Elevators arasında gidip gelen ve sanırım herkesi Dream Pop çatısı altında ikna eden NY'lu toplulu Star Crawl parçasıyla karşımıza çıkıyor.

''Dark corners of metropolitan noise pop starts to fall...'' PITCHFORK

''I definitely won’t piss away the chance to see Crystal Stilts on their upcoming UK tour this November and neither should you.'' LONDON IN STEREO

CS / Star Crawl

Istanbul Bar Association: The Police Forces Are Commiting Crime In Taksim

The method employed by the police forces against citizens and a group of non-governmental organizations protesting and demonstrating over the decision to turn the Gezi Park in Taksim into a residence and a shopping mall with an artillery barrack look is not legally acceptable both in scope and scale.

We have to denote clearly that the only measure the police forces can make use of against these kinds of protests in a democratic society is“toleration”. These sorts of activities is a “right” of the citizens and the duty of law enforcement authorities is to make sure for the people to be able to exercise this right.

If it's kept in mind that the protesters are awaiting a court decision and that the report of the court experts is supporting the case of the demonstrators, the legal basis of this resistance can be understood. In other words this resistance has a justified legal ground.
In spite of all these facts, it's clearly a "crime" to prevent people to enjoy a democratic right through violence and to go beyond the limits in strong-arm methods. The article 256 of the Turkish Criminal Code defines to go beyond the limits of strong-arm methods as an injury crime. Therefore we warn the police forces as a law institution. Police forces are committing a crime in Taksim.
On the other hand, it is another crime that the "supervisors" who have the responsibility to give orders and instructions to the police forces, have failed to make an effort to prevent this violence in spite of the method maintained by the law enforcement officers persistently and systematically for the last four days. That the violence committed by the police forces on the field under the name of “orders” is illegal and unjustified, make the ones accountable who give these orders, against the law.

By the way, the persistence on the usage of paper spray cannot be understood anymore, in spite of scientific proof that the pepper spray, which is used by police forces during the demonstrations, is a threat to the human healthy. Results of usage of the pepper spray as “a weapon”, which is an indicator of the violence and indignity to people, are today hurting demonstrators, but will be tomorrow a reason for responsibilities of police forces.

In view of all events the Istanbul Bar Association, which is reporting rights violations and the blocking of the democratic rights of citizens for 4 days, filed a criminal complaint today about police forces, which cause violence and indignity, about those, who gives instructions, and about those, who are responsible to avoid these actions, but not avoiding them, at Istanbul Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor.
In spite of troubles in jurisdiction of a democratic country we want to hope that police forces need to review themselves again in case of an effective investigation.

With respect,

Head of Istanbul Bar Association


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THE SPYRALS / / OUT OF SIGHT

Uzun zaman oldu sevgili dinleyici,

Tame Impala sarhoşluğu geçti mi?
Mick Jagger hala Hyde Park'ta konser verecek mi?
Bob Dylan'ın son albümünü en son ne zaman dinlediniz?
60'lar macerası devam edecek mi?

Edecek, ediyor: Sıcak havalarda kafası karışan haklı kümenin içindeyseniz dişinizi sıkın, güzel günler bizi bekliyor. The Spyrals, mesaj kaygısı içermeyen müzik şöleni.

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2005'ten bu yana aktif olarak devam eden California'lı duo rock topluluğu Foxygen, 2. albümleri Take the Kids Off Broadway ile tekrardan gün yüzüne çıktı. 'Brian Jonestown Massacre' bünyesi altında aynı sepetten farklı yumurtalar çıkaran California, Jonathan Rado ve Sam France'in birlikteliği ile bazı yerlerde hız kazandı.