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Do The Independence

There are over 263 tracks on Do The Independence, a five-disc indie music compilation. The box set comes with a silver disc DVD (which contains 203 songs but no video); four CD-Rs (TDK or Sony discs) of 60 tracks; and printed artwork. All together there are over 175 acts.
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SHOJI HANO
Drums
(Heart Lord Studio)

The new five-track Drums album is a series of solo drum improvisations which draws from his Shintaido influences. Drum purists will love the crisp recording sound where every hi-hat is captured in pristine tones.
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PETER BROTZMANN and SHOJI HANO
Funny Rat/s 3... Flying Crow
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While Brotzmann is renowned as an energy player, Flying Crow can almost be considered mellow free. There is a roundedness in Brotzmann's sax tone, a certain composure that burns without setting off a fire. Or maybe it's Hano's gentle influence.
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Hoshizora No Drive
Syd Barrett Tribute Compilation Album
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The wildness, experimental anarchy and sheer noise are all here. The madcap is laughing alright.
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Bob Dylan
The Great White Wonder

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The Rolling Stones
Some Trax

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Rick Danko
The Last Performance 1999

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Genesis
Boston 1977

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Weather Report
Providence 1978

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The Beatles
Artifacts 2
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The Beatles
Artifacts 2
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The Beatles
Artifacts 2
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Queen
Tokyo 1975

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Little Feat
Boston 1975
R.I.P. Richie Hayward
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Dave Gilmour, Roger Waters
Hoping Benefit 2010

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Pink Floyd
Games For May

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Phil Ochs
Hollywood 1970

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Peter Frampton
Connecticut 2010

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Beatles
Artifacts (Disc 5)

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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
Leipzig 2007


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Linda Ronstadt
Keeping Out Of Mischief


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Liu Sola
Frankfurt 2006


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Country Joe McDonald
Wales 2007


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Miles Davis
Complete Friday


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Don McLean
New York 1971


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Crosby, Stills And Nash
Four Way Harmonies


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Another Public Service Announcement From $heep City

This video, A Girl's Hope, was made by Think Family, a part of the $ingapore government's National Family Council. It has been seen on television and cable TV since the middle of July. The reference to YOG, Youth Olympic Games, near the end refers to $ingapore hosting the games from August 14 to 26, 2010. The National Family Council and YOG are under the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports.

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Ten years ago, in 1998, Malaysians took to the streets and braved water cannons when they stood up for Anwar Ibrahim and reformasi. With what's happening in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysians might have to take to the streets again in 2008. Click here to read or buy Sabri Zain's first-person account of those early reformasi days in Face Off.

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Islamophobia may be a reason people are reluctant to give aid to Pakistan but what can President Asif Ali Zardari say when floods in Pakistan are killing thousands and leaving millions homeless while he is holidaying at his chateau in Europe? It's no wonder protestors let fly a shoe in his face. By writer and commentator Tariq Ali.

A disaster of biblical scope: the floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains a month ago have affected more than 17.2 million people and killed over 1,500, according to Pakistan's disaster management body - August is the monsoon season in Pakistan. This year a hard rain keeps falling, which is why the floodwaters are not abating. Nearly 2,000 deaths and over 20 million people are homeless. The man-made disasters - war in Afghanistan, its spillage into Pakistan - are bad enough. Now the country faces its worst ever natural disaster. Most governments would find it difficult to cope, but the current regime is virtually paralyzed.

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The mistranslation of the Stieg Larsson's first volume (originally Men Who Hate Women) is most revealing. In all three of his books, women are raped, tortured, violently abused, and murdered by men who often live "normal" public lives. When it comes to women and sex in Sweden, it's hell on earth. By literature professor Charles R. Larson.

All right, I confess. I've spent a major part of the last month reading Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. I'm not the only person with this confession. The novels - especially the first and third volumes - are addictive.

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Bought-and-paid-for-economists told Americans that "the new economy" would make them all rich, and so did the financial press. While the general public bought into the lie, the American economy is not only haemorrhaging, it is practically dead. By former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts.

On August 17, Bloomberg reported a US government release that industrial production rose twice as much as forecast, climbing 1 per cent. Bloomberg interpreted this to mean that "increased business investment is propelling the gains in manufacturing, which accounts for 11 per cent of the world's largest economy." The stock market rose. Let's look at this through the lens of statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com..

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Bootlegs: Future/Now
In October 1995, the Recording Industry Association of America was making great advancements in building a wall between music fans and their beloved live music bootlegs. But was it just a battle won by the industry in a war destined for failure? We all know the answer to that now, but things weren't so certain back then. In that month's issue of Live! Music Review, editor Bill Glahn, ICE's Erik Flannigan, and a few anonymous bootleggers surmised about the future.
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Them Boots!
July 12 Update: Live! Music Review is now at Facebook. Click here. All comments welcome. He's also on Twitter [LMRonTwit]
Bootleg releases might have circulated via vinyl in the early days but by 1999, the technology of the Internet and CD-R burners was already creating a boon for collectors. Record labels finally wised up on bonus live tracks and demos much, much later. As Bill Glahn, editor of Live! Music Review noted, by then torrents were on their way. Them boots!
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Davies & Dickens
Ray Davies of The Kinks is an English rock 'n' roller while Charles Dickens was a writer from the Victorian era. Yet, according to Bill Glahn, editor of Live! Music Review, a case could probably be made that Ray Davies is the Charles Dickens of rock 'n' roll.
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Machine-Man
In the gory Meatball Machine, it is not a radioactive spider that turns a mild-mannered factory into a super killer. Thanks to an alien parasite in this cyberpunk clone by Yudai Yamaguchi and Junichi Yamamoto, all hell breaks loose when the man-machine starts sprouting tendrils, chainsaws and even a canon from his chest. Stephen Tan reviews.
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Trouble In Mind
With Shozin Fukui's 1996 cyberpunk movie, Rubber's Lover, "ass on the line" or "getting the ass shot" are phrases that easily come to mind. Stephen Tan reviews.
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Blood Bath
In Koji Kawano's The Girls Rebel Force Of Competitive Swimmers (2007), a virus ravages a school and it's only the school pool that will prevent everyone from turning into flesh-eating zombies. Stephen Tan reviews.
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DVD Archive Of Rare Films
Jimmy Cliff - Rockpalast 1984
Norah Jones - Glastonbury 2010
Florence And The Machine - Glastonbury 2010
Rickie Lee Jones - Stockholm 2010
R.E.M. - Rock Am Ring 2005
R.E.M. - Rockpalast 1985
Shakira - Glastonbury 2010
Slash - Glastonbury 2010
Neil Young - Rock Am Ring 2002
Michael Buble - An Audience With... 2010
Jackson Browne & David Lindley - Glastonbury 2010
Willie Nelson - Glastonbury 2010
Dire Straits - Dortmund 1980
Stevie Wonder - Glastonbury 2010
Ray Davis - Glastonbury 2010
Burning Spear - Hamburg 1981
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Documentary and Live Concert
Heart and Santana - Concert For The Americas 1982
The Monkees - Hey, Hey It's The Monkees 1997
Bill Nelson - Tower Records 1996
Talking Heads - Dortmund 1980


New ROIOs*
Elvis Costello - Birmingham 2010
The Beach Boys - Leggo My Ego
Beck's Record Club - No 4: Inxs' Kick
George Harrison - Songs For Patti: DEFINITIVE
Ringo Starr - Can't Fight Lightning
The Beatles - Alternative Love
Paul McCartney - Hyde Park 2010
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension - Uppsala Konsert 2010: Prof Goody FIXED VERSION
Peter Brotzmann as Hairy Bones - Be Music, Night, Roma 2009
The Human Beinz - In Japan
Hilary Hahn & conductor Paavo Jarvi - All-Beethoven, Japan 2006
The Rolling Stones - Roundhouse 1971
Shakira/Alicia Keys - World Cup Kick Off Concert 2010
Sting - Live At The Hollywood Bowl: Symphonicity 2010
Suzanne Vega - UK Promo Tour 2010
The Beatles - The Ballad Of John & Yoko Acetate
Paul McCartney & Wings - The Trevor Jones Collection Pt 4
John Lennon - Free As A Bird
Judy Collins - World Cafe Live 2010
Donovan w Peter, Paul & Mary - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 1969
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ROIO Of The Week
Bob Dylan - The Great White Wonder [A Philip Cohen Reconstruction; 2CD]
. "This July 1969 two-LP set is where rock bootlegging began. I have re-created this 24-track double album, taking 20 tracks from tape-derived CD sources, one track from an MP3 download, and three others from my original vinyl edition."
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The Ecstasy Of Empire
The US economy has not recovered, and Washington cannot spend the economy out of recession. In fact the deficits are already too large for the dollar to survive. In other words, there is no money left, and none especially to wage wars in foreign lands. It's time the US stop dreaming of itself as a superpower. By former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts.
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Olmert And The Jackals
On August 30, 2009 an indictment against former prime minister Ehud Olmert was served at the Jerusalem District Court, writes wikipedia. The indictment includes the following counts: obtaining by fraud under aggravating circumstances, fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate documents and tax evasion. The indictment refers to three out of the four corruption-related cases standing against him: 'Rishontours', 'Talansky' (also known as 'money envelopes' affair) and the 'Investment Center'. This is the first indictment of someone who has ever held the office of Israeli Prime Minister. Peace activist Uri Avnery tracks the fall.
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Buffett, Gates, Rockefeller And The Conscience Of The Very, Very Rich

So Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and the "Great Givers" club are giving handouts to... well, details are sketchy says New York journalist Carl Ginsburg. What is not sketchy is the wealth of detail on how these "Great Givers" earned their wealth. Let's just say, it ain't fair.
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MUSIC REVIEWS

QUEEN
Live At The Rainbow 1974 [no label, 1DVD, PAL]
Queen never did things by halves, and that includes concert films. The opening "Now I'm Here," stagelit specifically to showcase Freddie's hide-and-seek abilities, reminds us just what a fine line Queen walked between Glam and Rock, and how effortlessly they pulled it off. Of course Freddie looks a prize prat in an outfit that is half medieval smock, half Mothercare sale item, but nobody could relish that role like he did. By Dave Thompson
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Top Of The Pops 1975/1976 [no label 1DVD]
By late 1974, the mad rush of glorious new talent (or even non-talent) that had hallmarked the last couple of years of British popdom had finally run out of steam, and the first Top Of The Pops of the new year had no intention of making you think otherwise. By Dave Thompson
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MOVIE REVIEWS

The Ghost Writer
Dir: Roman Polanski

When you watch Roman Polanski's latest film you inevitably have to deal with the issue of Polanski himself - he's an excellent example of the artist-director who does interesting to great films but whose private life, or opinions, or deeds tend to overshadow that work. As Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, his latest work, The Ghost Writer, is no different.
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Salt
Dir: Philip Noyce

Philip Noyce's Salt is ridiculous, it's reactionary, it's over-the-top and, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, whaddaya know, it's a lot of fun.
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