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Biting Elbows

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Ilya from the band Biting Elbows joins us.

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Here are the notes from the interview.

Website - http://bitingelbows.com/

Jamendo Page - jamendo artist - biting-elbows

IndieGoGo project - hardcore-the-first-ever-action-pov-feature-film

In Moscow right now.

Russian saying more or less a missed opportunities

indie/punk/alternative...some ska. Always punk!

punk is the soul

"If I wasn't the "

Toothpick

Ska

"Bad Motherfucker" - vimeo

"Stampede and Bad Motherfucker" - youtube.com

First person shooter

shitty snowboarder!

GoPro in the mouth

Day job: director

music videos, commercials, etc.

Russian contacts…

not as valued as in the western world

showed it to more companies...and found and one

If you have something you want sponsorship for, you have to present it nicely!

Bad Motherfucker did not cost a lot of money

The Office

 ...you miss 100% of the

First minute in a half was from the mouth

Bondage mask!

paintball store had predator masks: Predator Paintball Mask

Not Safe?

Not useful to give things to PR guys. You have to go hire up

The idea was where to put the product placement

old Jewish joke: Wailing Wall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Wall

"buy a fucking lottery ticket"

businesses are not charities

You gotta hustle (supposedly a North American phrase)

Scripts

for five years

Punk

Supposedly not a lot of great Russian bands...but…

crimson-blue

distemper

Lucky to have supportive people!

DP

stunt guys! you can try!

surprisingly very safe productions!

took a long time to do

both easy and difficult. easy to plan, but cannot change things

Also, http://thepiratebay.se ...which is down

The movie

Russian blockbuster:

Night Watch: Night Watch (NOCHNOI DOZOR)

spy film after Hardcore!

100 minute music video is not going to work!

Shoot it in English because Russian is not a worldwide language

too cold in Russia to do stuff in winter

Release date not set yet

He had the gun mug! He liked it.

no date for post-production to be done

first feature!

Saw

 is terrible, except the first one.

Lost in Translation not an action movie

Drive

right before Hardcore began, amazing tour stuff

6 gigs over last two years

writing new music!

rehearsing last night for a snowboard festival!

Double release perhaps when Hardcore released

played Olympics in Sochi

Red Bull not part of Olympics sponsorship

Nope!

"Toothpick" by Biting Elbows - Link

David Rovics- Fairness at Work Rally, Dunedin (Photo credit: Hickey/Scott)

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Tom talks with musician David Rovics

Here are the show links from the conversation.

http://davidrovics.com

David Rovics Thunderclap campaign - link

Switzerland to Iceland. A post from his travel blog - link

David Rovics Subscription Campaign -- Family, Concert and Song Circles - link

Apparently I set this up a while back and never actually posted it. Oops!

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We talk with musician David Rovics. We discuss his music, his projects and how he gets to travel the world to do it.

http://davidrovics.com/

The Descenters

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We talk with Matthew Stoff of post-punk band The Descenters.

Here are Doug's notes from the interview.

https://soundcloud.com/the-descenters

https://thedescenters.bandcamp.com/

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/376671/the-descenters

https://www.facebook.com/TheDescenters

Funny story!

Started as a band, but became a one-piece.

He even plays live solo!

Alternative rock, post-punk, goth. Electronic drums

“WE’LL DO IT LIVE!” sorta.

Still shakey in the promotion regard he says...but he’s here

I don’t see the image Tom does: Image link

Ableton is ok for recording

ProTools also

nothing pure!

melodic vocals: Placebo, Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Morrissey (The Smiths)

Matthew overlooked Talking Heads much like Tom overlooked The Smiths

“Burning Down the House” - Talking Heads

“It’s the End of the World As We Know It” - REM

New Album in February 2014

Intense couple of weeks!

moved from country to Melbourne.

Lots of the cultural stuff happens in the south

Much cooler in the south

lots of songs about the rain

All of it is self-recorded with Ableton. A selection of microphones

digital manipulation is cool

Not as quick as release seems.

EP recorded in 2012, but not released until there were CDs

always working on new material

“Creep” by Radiohead stories

you don’t just show up in the study

not sure what band he’s talking about. This one? http://www.choochootheband.com/

release set up takes a lot of time!

project completely up to him!

Friends

canvas pun!

coffee talk

Melbourne?

post-graduate work now

not a lot of gigging yet, but going to try to get out more in next 6 months

half an album recorded for comic book project

Robot Boy Destroys the Universe -- experimental electronic music

experimental labels

http://www.vuzhmusic.com/

deriv.cc

“vaguely avant-garde”

not much of a local way to get interesting ideas...except off the Internet

potential for revolution in approach to culture.

It’s a community thing as much as it is about individual expression

Why lock down art?

large numbers of people is liberating

Might have been in early 2000s

“The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt

originally collaboration

“an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.”

“a person who dissents.”

Plushgoolash interview: link

“Smuggly Biege” is the other Plushgoolash

Disappointing that there isn’t more in Australia

writes fiction

Out going track: Waste You

A hostile song!

Going back to childhood

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Hearse Pileup

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In a perfect world, this would have been out on this feed a while back, but that's life.

We talk with the band Hearse Pileup.

Here are Doug's notes from the interview

http://hearsepileup.bandcamp.com/

http://www.hearsepileup.de/ad/ ← don’t be fooled, they aren’t in Germany

Matt is a web developer.

IE6 ← August 27, 2001

Been around for 3 years

Matt started the band after a long period of doing nothing. British art school people are often insular.

Tony is an old friend. Band is angry.

Matt did listen to a lot of prog, but

First drummer came up with the bad luck name.

somewhere between messy punk/noise

The Coachwhips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachwhips),

Queens of the Stoneage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Of_The_Stoneage), 

Iggy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop), 

White Stripes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stripes)

criticism of capitalism while being entrenched in it.

Matt works at a design company, where he’s gotten some help with band promo.

Johnny Rotten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon) is in a house robe. Rotten apparently did some butter commercials.

Martin Atkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Atkins

“Pay what you want” EP

Montage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9Uwhjlog8

just got a new drummer!

no gigs yet, but that should be changing soon

2 months...which Tom claims is nothing!

lots of new stuff...enough for an album,

They want to do another music video -- probably something new

Defecation is the name of a song!

We are eating shit!

Matt did graphic design, but likes short films!

songs can be violent, but it comes from a critical standpoint

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons'_Den 

aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Tank

http://ccmixter.org/view/media/samples

CC BY-NC vs. CC BY-NC-SA

Just an accident, but maybe not ShareAlike in the future.

CCMixter interview

Why restrict people?

Also, a good way for publicity

student protest movement.

Some people think the pay what you want is being devalued.

Wu-Tang clan has one album out!

Definitely not Irish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin

7-inch was popular because cheaper

Not a lot locally.

Little Death Machine: http://littledeathmachine.bandcamp.com/ -- not CC

The Vitamin Pets: http://vitaminpets.bandcamp.com/ , sadly, no derivatives

Festival upcoming!

The Wild

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I apologize for the long hiatus loyal Punkcast listeners. I don't have any ETA on when I'll be back. I finish law school in very late April though, so I'm hoping some time after that I can get back in the swing of things.

The first thing I need to do is go back through the Music Manumit catalog and see if there is anything I need to re-release. I doubt there is. If there was, I probably would have thought to do it like I am doing now.

Anyway, enjoy this interview with Witt from folk punk band The Wild!

Louis Lingg

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I did a little better on show notes this time.

Dogmazic.net is cool!

Jamendo is Luxemborg, not French.

Jamendo has been unfriendly and banning people.

Punk rock is political. ALWAYS. Politics is similar

Crass! Josh grew up in England. Thatcher is dead!

Government has changed. Now there is a socialist government. That's the only thing that has changed! Still hunting down immigrants.

No human value.

French socialism!

France cannot welcome all the misery of the world. People that say that are idiots!

Immigrants make new innovations! That's why America used to be great.

Fascism is there to say "it's all the immigrants fault."

Always doing crazy concerts.

They played in an old mineshaft with insane anarchist squatters in the suburbs of Paris. A lot of luck with the band. Enough room for 200 people in the cave.

Played in Berlin recently and got to see squats.

Playing Paris all the time. Playing a new squat, aka "Jew Town".

Brittany is just green.

Acoustic shows all the time. New acoustic recordings coming soon. Getting better at acoustic shows.

Police have decibel meters and such bars down. Basically, music is illegal.

Just trying stuff out.

With AF Music (http://www.af-music.de/en/bands/) which started releasing under CC ~6 years ago.

Not to be confused with AF Records (http://www.a-frecords.com/) or the Air Force (http://www.afmusic.org/)

What are some of your favorite CC punk artists?Pete Vyler

If you want to know more, check out the interview Tom and I did with Josh last year. I've also played several of their tracks in the past on the Punkcast.

"R.E.V.O.L.T." by Louis Lingg and the Bombs (punk) - CC BY-SA - Website

"Burn It Down" by Louis Lingg and the Bombs (punk) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

"Chomsky Changed My Life" by Louis Lingg and the Bombs (rock) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

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This summer, I plan on doing interviews every other week with punk artists of various types from all over the world. David Rovics is American, but is currently touring in Scotland. He sat down with me for 20 minutes or so talk to punk music, politics and more. I couldn't really take notes like I normally do when Tom and I do shows together. The plus side of doing these summer shows is that I have ultimate flexibility with scheduling. The down side is that show notes are either not going to happen or will require going back and reconstructing them.

I'd also like to apologize to David for taking so long to get this out. I was traveling last week and managed to get sick while doing so.

"I'm a Better Anarchist than You" by David Rovics (folk punk) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

"Halliburton Boardroom Massacre" by David Rovics (folk punk) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

"Why Don't They Play You On The Radio?" by David Rovics (folk punk) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

It's been way too long, so I thought we should have a quickie. Er... Well, you know what I mean, right?

I probably wouldn't be sharing this particular track except that it comes from an album entitled "Experiments in Punk Pedagogy / Live at The New School" and I thought it might engender some discussion.

So, is it punk?

"Suicide" by Dreamweapon (other) - CC BY-NC-SA - Website

PS: This is a subscriber exclusive. Since it's just a single track and the track is already on archive.org, I didn't bother iterating on archive.org. Rare release, just for you. ;)

In the spirit of being as random as possible in dispensing with remixable Creative Commons punk goodness, I have another show for you today!!!!

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This time, the unifying theme is my banshee plays. I use my phone sometimes and I have had other computers in the past and don't port over my plays, so this is a reasonable approximation of the tracks from the past year, but won't line up with Last.fm exactly.

I did a similar thing on the main show, where there are no genre limitations (and a different list of previously played tunes)