The show started off with Al-Thawra, a band featured on the soundtrack for The Taqwacores, a film about a Muslim punk rock movement inspired by Michael Muhammed Knight's book of the same name. Check out the video for 'Disorientation', which is chock full of Arab and Persian stereotypes sampled from American media:
The video collage technique in the 'Disorientation' video reminds me of the work of Negativland, a long-standing experimental A/V collage band from the Bay Area. We played a couple of their tracks, including an introductory announcement from their 1987 Escape From Noise album. Another track featured on that album is "Christianity Is Stupid", which is based on an audio excerpt from an obscure Cold War era film, If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (skip ahead to 34:00 to check out the source of the sample). See what frontman Mark Hosler had to say about it recently, or watch a newer version of the track, repurposed in the wake of The Passion Of The Christ.
I encourage you to check out Negativland's Wikipedia page to check out some of the wild stuff they've been involved in over the years. They are Sonic Outlaws, fighting for your right to Fair Use.
Speaking of copyright... Xan played several punk tracks from various midwestern bands, including The Copyrights cover of Kids of The Black Hole, a song about people flocking to Mike Ness' squat-like apartment to be part of the Southern California scene. One can imagine what growing up in the suburbs of Nowhere, USA may have been like for some of those kids...
Patton Oswalt - "The Gatekeepers Of Coolness"
Check out the playlist from the most recent show (10/15/10).
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