Honey Owens has been an important figure in the Portland experimental music scene for more than 10 years, collaborating with an array of both oscure and well-known music projects including World, Nudge, Dark Yoga and Jackie-O Motherfucker. Blood is Clean is the debut release under the name Valet and is due for release on kranky on April 16th.
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Peter Christopherson of Coil has announced some forthcoming items at ThresholdHouse.com, including Form Goes Rampant, a CD/DVD of The Threshold Houseboys Choir "under the direction of Peter Christopherson," featuring videos and music previously shown in St. Petersburg and the Brainwaves festival, as well as an LP edition of The Ape of Naples to be released by Important Records.
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Throbbing Gristle are leaking a sneaky peak at their forthcoming album, Part Two: The Endless Not, which has been purported to be coming out for well over a year now. The latest date to be publicized is April 1st, 2007 (isn't that April Fool's Day?)
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Brainwashed's first two band pages, Meat Beat Manifesto and Greater Than One have undergone facelifts. The GTO page now has a page for YouTubed music videos as well as links to the shop at iTunes, where out of print recordings are being made again, while the MBM site has a link to their new official online shop.
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Colin Newman (Wire, Githead, solo) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact, solo) continue with their monthly radio broadcasts on Tel Aviv student radio network Campus Radio (106 FM & online at 106fm.co.il) in a show on Tuesday 23rd January at 8:00 pm local time [6:00 pm GMT (London time)/1:00 PM EST].
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New releases from Volcano the Bear include Eggs and Two Books, a live recording from the VTB quartet recorded in Leicester as part of the Eggstock festival in May 2006; Birth of Streisand 7" from No-Fi; and Massive Furniture Invasion 8" lathe cut from alt.vinyl. European tour dates are being worked out for the autumn of 2007 and there's more releases due soon.
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New images are available at the Brainwaves page thanks to Kathleen Pingelton. This is a great set to see as there's now more wide shot images available including plenty of back screen shots with projections. Thanks to all who have been submitting photos and if you've got an online photo place we can link to, contact us!
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In case you haven't noticed, we've been building a little collection to the right hand side there of free MP3s. Although Brainwashed was the first music reviewing Web site to give sample MP3s with every review back in the late '90s, expect to see entire MP3 downloads here.
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It's hard to believe that the Brainwashed Podcast has been online for over two years now. This coming weekend'd Podcast is #93 and David Tibet of Current 93 will host, trying to cram some of his fave songs as well as some new and upcoming Durtro releases as well as some C93 classics or rarities all in about an hour long program.
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It's a new year and Brainwashed is always looking for new writers. People still email Brainwashed saying how much they appreciate being turned on to some of the most innovative music so let's keep it going. We're looking for new writers to cover all genres, but most specifically the music that the mainstream still hasn't picked up on.
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Happy 2007 to everybody. 2006 was a banner year for Brainwashed and we hope to continue the tradition of providing the small corner of independent music a place. Look forward to new releases this year by hosted Kranky, Important, and Badabing!, all of which have release dates already posted in the new releases section as well as forthcoming records from Stars of the Lid, Aranos (on Soleilmoon!), Diana Rogerson, more Coil reissues, and a collection from Jessica Bailiff. More details will be posted when available. Stay up on the Podcast for the latest sounds from some of these current, forthcoming and classic releases.
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In a recent mailout, Meat Beat Manifesto has announced work on a new album with anticipated release in Summer of 2007. Additionally, MBM won the award for best electronic act in the 17th Annual SF Weekly Music Awards. Look for a new MBM Web site in the new year to include commerce and a reissue of Perennial Divide material.
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The final Absinthe box in the Duplais series is now available from Absinthvertrieb Lion. Like the previous editions by Current 93 and Nurse With Wound, this Coil commemorative edition comes in a custom wooden box with two glasses, two spoons, a CD of exclusive material, and a designed bottle label. Box and label designed by Peter Christopherson.
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The Lights Are On But Nobody's Home is the brand new full-length album from Diana Rogerson (formerly known as Chrystal Belle Scrodd). It was produced with Steven Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound) and Matt Waldron (of Irr.App.(Ext.)) and should be available from United Jnana in early 2007.
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Brainwashed contributor of both Arabic and Jewish descent, Jonathan Dean, has whipped up his favorite Christmas tunes for this week's Podcast. As with other guest hosts you might not always find information out about these acts on Brainwashed. You'll live.
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Under the direction of David Jackman, the Organum pages on Brainwashed has been rebirthed. We're sorry we haven't made the announcement sooner, with the fest and such that have been going on. We're delighted to have the site updated and maintained again although fans might find it dramatically different from the one before and just about every other brainwashed artist site.
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Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound has provided more information on the brand new Diana Rogerson album, The Lights Are On But No One's Home, including a tracklist and a free sample.
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