“Interview” (Used 6 times)

Do you want SEX SCANDALS?  Do you want BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS?  Do you want CRONYISM?  We'd be telling LIES if we said WE HAVE IT ALL HERE! That's right, hear Jason of the FMA's tell-all interview with the Music Manumit Podcast.

Jason tells us how a shadowy benefactor named WFMU launched the FMA as a vieled assault on American values.  He explains that FMA is coordinating a new world order with the likes of blocSonic, KEXP and the Issue Project Room.  The reach of these organizations will have you packing food in your basement as even our music show gets infiltrated with a couple -ND tracks.

There's more than meets the eye when Jason revels that not only is he a part of WFMU and FMA, but also of Lame Drivers and the Grey Area Podcast.  You can run, but you can't hide.

Isaac's punk roots don't really come out in his debut album "Empty Vessels," but his fantastic and somtimes playful ("Photographs and Histories") song-writing certainly do.  The variety of influences certainly do make appearances; blues, folk, singer-songwriter and sciffle all make appearances.  If not a direct homage to sciffle, the use of chair and drumsticks for the drum recording only fail to deliver that homage because they sound so good.  While mostly a singer and his guitar, a variety of other instruments make appearances; harmonica, piano, violin.  One would also be remiss if they didn't mention Isaac's progressive leanings, obvious in a track title like Karl Marx and the Reds and stated influences such as Billy Bragg.

The punk roots come out out on the myriad of cover songs recorded on his YouTube page.  Frank Turner, formerly of post-hardcore band Million Dead, also choose one Isaac's song to be featured on one of his albums and despite my opinion it doesn't belong, that doesn't stop punknews.org from giving it a review.

Despite an otherwise glowing review, punknews.org points out that the variety of influences coming into the album might not be for everyone.  If the DIY production values coveted by the punk and folk scenes don't do it for you, you'll just have to wait for the much-anticipated second album where Isaac is sure to hone his sound.  Hell, if you're a production snob, make sure you donate to the cause of getting him in a studio.  One thing is for sure - Isaac Graham is a rising star in Creative Commons music.

Find out more during the Music Manumit Podcast's interview with the head of his label, Copyleft Records, and then an interview with Isaac himself.

via WFMU's Blog, March 8th 2011 -- Satanicpornocultshop are a band from Osaka, Japan who specialize in creating music that blends hip-hop, glitchy noise, traditional folk music, pop standards, and much more into a sound that is both frantic and reassuring, comforting and hysterical. In 2007, the group appeared on Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations, the special created for Ergo Phizmiz's Phuj Phactory on WFMU, which is now available for download via the Free Music Archive. Since then, the group has released a few stellar records, including the impossibily-long titled yet brilliant Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos, the super funky Catholic Sunspot Apron, and the Kesalan Patharan e.p. available here on the FMA courtesy of UpitUp Records.

I was delighted to e-mail core Satanicpornocultshop member Ugh via e-mail:

On Catholic Sunspot Apron, the band covers the M.A.S.H. theme song several times. Why did you decide to play this song with the group? What does the song mean to Satanicpornocultshop?

Ψ(Θ)_(Θ)Ψ This song on this album [Catholic Sunspot Apron] is very important. I have covered this song under three different situations - "Logic," "Expression," and "Destruction." To transform an original song’s outlook by a cover song, this is an important theme of Satanicpornocultshop. An original song’s outlook is transformed by combining layers of sampling, the language, and the arrangement. Especially, "Suicide Is
Painless," which is a wonderful song that can be interpreted. I wanted to present the variation of "Selection of Recognition" on this album by same song.

Anyway, now I fight to complex the work for release Catholic Sunspot Apron on Some Bizzare, UK. It’s UK edition with a different mix, the different order. I will try to one more remix version of "Suicide Is Painless" on this forthcoming edition, to be released this year.
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The Free Music Archive is at its best when used to fuel and inspire creative web projects that nobody could've dreamt up until the internet came along. Blank on Blank is one of those projects. It's a nonprofit that turns previously unheard user-submitted interviews (conducted by professionals and amateurs alike) into quality 3-5 minute radio segments, and then broadcasts them to a wider audience. Music is key to the whole project, and Blank on Blank primarily uses Creative Commons music that is cleared for noncommercial podcasting and digital storytelling.

DG: Music is essential. It brings interviews alive. It might just be a 10-second snippet of a bridge from some song, but it sets the table and brings listeners into a story. It provides depth and layers to the personal tales. Sometimes the music is in direct reference to an experience, or a song or genre someone mentions. But other times we simply want music to add a mood to what you are hearing. Our stories cross many fields and I think the music should, as well. I was particularly drawn to The Free Music Archive, because there is such a wide cross section of music and it often comes from rising artists. It fits with our mission to introduce our listeners to new interviews, new journalists, and new music.

JS: You've described Blank on Blank as "broadcasting this great journalism that would otherwise never be heard." Do you envision this broadcast taking place through the site itself -- as a destination where people will go to listen online? Or perhaps as a platform for distribution to other broadcast outlets à la PRX?
DG: Both. We want the site to be a living, searchable archive of the American interview. But we also plan to distribute podcasts to hear on the go—on mp3 players and smartphones-and also on public radio. I forsee PRX being a great outlet to bring these stories--and the work of our partner journalists and publications--to public radio stations and new audiences.