V/Vm have launched a micro-website to give away all the music from the Goodiepal and Demonpal picturediscs, issued years ago.

A UK-based graffiti artist known as Banksy made the news this week as word got out that he smuggled his own art into the Metroplitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Modern Art, all earlier in March. 

Windy and Carl are awaking from a musical output slumber with some new releases in the horizon and concert dates down the road. Dedications To Flea is a limited CD EP, to be released on the new Brainwashed Handmade imprint of Brainwashed Recordings, printed in a letterpressed edition of 500 copies, a new split single is also due, and their long awaited full-length follow up to Consciousness on Kranky is being completed. Furthermore, European dates are being talked about for the fall including two festivals and a short romp. More details (although they're pretty sketchy at this stage) can be seen on their website.

Sounds and images are now available for the forthcoming new !!! single, two brand new tracks, both cover tunes. "Take Ecstasy With Me" is a Magnetic Fields tune while "Get Up!" was originally by Nate Dogg. The single should hit the stores in June.

Current 93 has just announced three upcoming shows in Venice, Italy. 

The date and location of the Throbbing Gristle performance in Italy has been announced. 

Richard H. Kirk has released another CD as Blacworld. Subduing Demons In South Yorkshire is described as "An exercise in sonic meditation and satanic dub, essentially an ambient remix of Blacworld. Clocking in as a single track at a staggering 53 minutes 52 seconds, I.D.s have been added at relevant points throughout to enable the listener to easily access into the body of the track should they so desire. Due to the hypnotic nature of the soundscapes, it is a genre defying composition that soon draws in the listener to terrifying effect." It's out now on Intone.

For the upcoming Meat Beat Manifesto tour, Jack Dangers will be joined by Mark Pistel on the laptop/samples, Lynn Farmer on drums and Ben Stokes manning a spectacular, high definition video presentation. Tour dates are listed below, at the website, and there's a discussion group at meatbeattour.com.

Please note our new P.O. Box. After nine years we've moved on up in the world from the tiny suburb of East Arlington to the powerful, thriving mecca which is Arlington! Our full new address is updated below and pretty much everywhere else on the website where we had it. Old packages will be forwarded (don't worry). Just update your address books.

Antony and the Johnsons have just released the second single from their newest full-length I Am A Bird Now. "Hope There's Someone" is already out on Rough Trade in the UK, in 10" vinyl and CD formats. There are two non-album b-sides: "Frankenstein," a demo of which was briefly available for download on Antony's homepage and the previously unreleased "Just One Star." The domestic version is due on June 7th on Secretly Canadian, and is reported to also contain a music video for "Hope There's Someone" directed by Glen Fogel.

Lee Newman was 1/2 of Greater Than One, GTO, Tricky Disco, Technohead, etc,... until her untimely passing in 1995. An audio interview with her has been uncovered and is now available at the website. From what we can tell, it was conducted for an American radio station via telephone. (Proper credits will be given when we're provided them.)

And the Ambulance Died in His Arms, the latest relase from Coil has made its way into the shops this past week rather suddenly with little warning. The disc is a recording from their appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties and features five songs that have never been released in studio versions: "Triple Sun Introduction," "Snow Falls into Military Temples," "A Slip in the Marylebone Road," "Triple Sons and the One You Bury," and "The Dreamer is Still Asleep - The Somnambulist in an Ambulance." While stores like Rough Trade are carrying it already, the Threshold House should offer it soon.

While we're at the video thing, there's a new section at Kranky compiling various videos from the artists released over the years.

In preparation for the Brainwashed Birthday Bash in Boston, we have been hunting and gathering music videos from some of the bands hosted here on the site. This week, we've added the following promotional videos that you can see (by clicking on the title and it'll pop up just like The Eye does:

• !!! - Hello, Is This Thing On?
• Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying
• Bowery Electric - Freedom Fighter
• Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
• The Soft Pink Truth - Promofunk

If you're in the Boston area and want to see them on a big screen, come to the 9th Birthday of Brainwashed.com at River Gods in Cambridge, MA (125 River Street, Central Square) on Friday, April 15th (the official birthday and release of Otology is the 16th but if you bought the set, you can get it at the birthday party if you tell us you're coming). All night we'll be showing videos from the various artists and labels hosted on Brainwashed over the years. Videos on the big screen will include Wire, !!!, Coil, The New Year, Pan American, The Dead Texan, and many, many, many more surprises. The video show starts and 9pm and runs through closing time (1am) and there is no cover charge. Show up early as space is limited.

Brainwashed is proud to launch The Eye Volume 13: Dial M. The latest Eye DVD-R features segments from Mogwai, Mono, Mouse on Mars, and Papa M. It's now available in the Commerce Section of Brainwashed. Kindest gratitude to all the bands for making it happen.

In the aftermath of the Brainwashed Birthday Bash in Boston, we have some more music videos to present from some of the bands hosted here on the site. This week, we've added the following promotional videos that you can see (by clicking on the title and it'll pop up just like The Eye does:

• Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis
• Bomb the Bass - Don't Make Me Wait

Some interesting news from the Emerald Isle: Aranos will be playing live, spinning some records and performing as part of an improv trio as an accompaniment to a UV light show, all proceeds going towards the Galway circus project, which gives local kids the opportunity to learn circus skills like juggling, unicycling and clowning. This sounds like a joke, but apparently it's not, and the outdoor show takes place on the 23rd of April at 3:00 PM in Millennium Park, and 9:00 PM at the Galway Rowing Club. Aranos will also be performing in Townhall Theatre in Galway on the 26th on May. Be there or be sane.

Tour dates are coming in for the first Meat Beat Manifesto tour in years. Additionally, the website now features images and sound samples from THREE upcoming releases involving Jack Dangers: At the Center, the new Meat Beat Manifesto album on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series; Drums of Death as presented by DJ Spooky and Dave Lombardo and produced by Jack Dangers; and "Lovefingers"/"Radio Free Republic" 7" single on Brainwashed. The new Brainwashed single celebrates the 9th Anniversary of Brainwashed.com, as Meat Beat Manifesto was the first band website launched on Brainwashed.com. It is catalogue number 009 and a pre-order edition of 53 hand-made copies by Jack Dangers is available in the Brainwashed Commerce section for $9.99. The regular edition will be limited to 500 copies and will be available on June 1st.

It's a Camac electic/acoustic harp. It stands about five and a half feet tall and is painted blue and green and lavender and gold and pink with vines growing up the column and on the sounding board and there's a picture of an angel with an acordion and a fishing pole catching a fish and it says in large letters "Hooray For Baby Dee." It was stolen from a house in Ghent, Belgium. Baby Dee is offering a reward of five hundred dollars for its safe return—no questions asked.
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Sounds and images are now available for the forthcoming new !!! single, two brand new tracks, both cover tunes. "Take Ecstasy With Me" is a Magnetic Fields tune while "Get Up!" was originally by Nate Dogg. The single should hit the stores in June.