Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov's classic Chelovek Kinoapparatom (Man With A Movie Camera 1929) available for free download from the Internet Archive

Nobody does it better

Download a Radiohead cover version of the cheesy Nobody does it better Bond song from the golden age of Roger Moore.
via Superb Live

Claude Closky Net Artist

Net art by Claude Closky, I liked Pedagogy, U and his free wallpapers aren't bad either. And he's blogging too.

Are you ready to rock

Some classic live music downloads to remind you all that the interweb's still all about bootlegging - in a good, victimless kind of way of course.

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream release party, Tower records Chicago July 26, 1993. From a time when the Pumpkins were on top of their game and Billy still had hair, it's easy to forget how good they were.

Jane's Addiction, King County Fairgrounds, Washington, August 28, 1991.

From 1983 the Smiths' legendry lost Troy Tate sessions, recorded for their first Rough Trade record and rejected.

A beautiful Cat Power performance from Western Washington University, May 14, 1999. This has everything that makes her great, a real favourite of mine.

all from the incomparable rbally

Pinchneck & Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square

From the autumn update at the great UbuWeb Bruce Nauman's Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square available to download. I saw this during the summer at the excellent Mouvement des Images exhibition at the Pompideau in Paris and it really is worth the download.

The return of Sparklehorse

After a five year gap Sparklehorse are back with a new album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain and they're touring with dates in Dublin on the 14th & 15th of October. It's great to see to him back and healthy the last time I saw him in 2002 I wondered if I'd ever see him again.

Never heard of Sparklehorse? Download the live Radio France Black Session from September 25th 2006
via Kwaya Na Kisser

German Underground Music 1979 - 1983

Another great find from WFMU with Als die Partisanen kamen a compilation album of Berlin underground music which had appeared on the Zensor, Monogam, and Marat labels between 1979 and 1983 and the even more obscure compilation Kassettentäter, 35 MP3s for your downloading pleasure.

via WFMU

Free Bryce and Poser 3D software

For a limited time only you can download Bryce 5 and Poser 5 3D software packages, all legit and above board.

Stina Nordenstam Live

MP3s of a rare live performance by Stina Nordenstam in Fasching, Stockholm - January 1991.
via desire avenue

Radiohead, REM & Cat Power live

Some downloadz for y'all; classic Radiohead and REM at Milton Keynes, July 30th 1995 via Rbally and a two-parter Cat Power & The Memphis Rhythm Band at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Tennessee. Via Kwaya Na Kisser
Apparently this represents the new sober Chan, the one who actually performs unlike her last 'performance' in Dublin. If it holds I might even go see her again.

This Way Up

Issue three of the excellent collaborative Dublin Comic This Way Up is now available for download and should be hitting the streets in print format before too long

The Power of Nightmares

Adam Curtis's powerful three part BBC series The Power of Nightmares which tells the story of the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists and explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion available for free download from the Internet archive. Essential viewing.

My Bloody Valentine live in Vancouver 1992

My Bloody Valentine live in Vancouver, 1992. I discovered recently the Kevin Shields grew up just down the road from me. I don't remember him at all. Let that be your bit of fame-by-celebrity-association for the day.
via rbally

Chomsky vs Foucault

Torrent file (direct download) for the famous 1971 debate Human Nature: Justice versus Power between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, full transcript of the debate here
via secret cinema

Bande A Part

Nouvelle Vague have a new album Bande à part coming out soon with another great selection of new wave classics including
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Visage - Fade To Grey
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
New Order - Blue Monday
Old Kentucky blog have The Killing Moon and Bela Lugosi's Dead available as downloads in original and Nouvelle Vague's reworked versions.

Bande A Part

Nouvelle Vague have a new album Bande à part coming out soon with another great selection of new wave classics including
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Visage - Fade To Grey
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
New Order - Blue Monday
Old Kentucky blog have The Killing Moon and Bela Lugosi's Dead available as downloads in original and Nouvelle Vague's reworked versions.

Martha Wainwright & Neko Case live on NPR

Live NPR sessions from Martha Wainwright & Neko Case (The New Pornographers)to download.
via MOKB

Beck, Janes Addiction live downloads

From Rbally some great live bootlegs to download; Janes Addiction at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, California from lollapalozza '91? and Beck live at E-Werk in 1999.

The Flaming Lips

It's been a while since we've had a Flaming Lips post but their new album At War with the Mystics is out Monday (and being supported by a TV ad) and they're streaming it from their site (click the audio link). The new video is on youtube along with lots more Lips goodness of which I've picked the above which is The Lips with Cat Power singing Sabbath's War Pigs, and Chan even looks likes she's having a good time, wouldn't it be nice if the Lips' enthusiasm for live performance rubbed off on her.

Just

Download an excellent cover version of Radiohead's Just by Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald taken from Exit Music Songs from Radio Heads a new album of Radiohead cover versions. Incidentally Mark Ronson is son of Mick Ronson of the Spiders.

Via Scenestars

Trapped in the Closet

Now that it seems that the Southpark trapped in the closet (scientology)episode won't be shown here you could always download it from the pirates bay.
And from Variety Southpark's considered response to the affair

So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

Some Music Downloads

Download Jose Gonzalez's cover of Heartbeats (from that ad with the bouncy balls) from Copy, Right, My old Kentucky Blog has Talking Heads Road to Nowhere and And she was to mark the re-issue of Little Creatures - their last good album and You ain't no Picasso have Yo La tengo covers of manby songs including Stiff Little Finger's Suspect Device

Smiths bootleg

Shoplifters from Manchester, old school Smiths bootleg to download.
via rbally

Je t'aime

From a forthcoming Serge Gainsbourg tribute album I give you Cat Power & Karen Elson (jack white's missus) singing je t'aime bizarrely translated into english, a curiosity.
via Filles Sourires

Metropolis

Download Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis , I have the restored version on DVD and it really does deserve it's status as an all time classic.
via Bibi

The Fall live on the Tube 1983

A video of The Fall performing Smile on the Tube in 1983 with guest presenter John Peel. I used to know a guy in college who only listened to the Fall and Pere Ubu, I can see a logic to that.

Cat Power & Keren Ann live

Live sets from Cat Power at La Cigale in Paris and Keren Ann location unknown.

via rbally

MP3s from Sophia Coppola movies

Some MP3s from Sophia Coppola movies to download including Kevin Shields, My Bloody Valentine, Air and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
via aquarium drunk

Nirvana on top of the tops

A video of Kurt making a mockery of the revered institution of Top of the Pops, from 1991.

via WFMU's beware of the blog

John Peel Punk special from 1976

Very nice John Peel punk special (two 48MB zip files to download)with a session from the Damned, broadcast first on the 10th December 1976 - probably the first time punk music was heard on the radio pirates excluded. Also worth checking out is a Slits session from 1978.

via Jon Horne's Peel Tapes

Beckett on Ubu Web

From Ubuweb winter 2006 MP3s of 8 Beckett radio plays including the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable read by Cyril Cusack from a 1958 RTE production.

Straight outta Compton, the folk version

NWA's Straight Outta Compton (direct MP3 link) brilliantly sung by Nina Gordon as an acoustic folk song, surreal and strangely compelling.
via Eyebeam

Sonic Youth downloads

A vast collection of Sonic Youth goodies to download, videos and MP3s. Hard to pick a favourite from so much but check out in particular this video of Sonic Youth and Iggy Pop performing I wanna be your dog and this MP3 of their cover of the Carpenters' Superstar from the If I where a Carpenter tribute album.

Captain Beefheart from 1972

A video of Captain Beefheart from German TV, 1972. Make sure to check out the TV ad for the Spotlight Kid, they really don't make 'em like that anymore, in fact, I don't think they made 'em like that even then.

via WFMU's beware of the blog

Christmas really sucks

UPDATE: Had to take the MP3s down as my bandwidth is gone.

Some Christmas songs for you all. Sick of it already? Try the excellent Tom Waits & Peter Murphy - Christmas Really Sucks (direct MP3 link) (or if you believe the authorative Tom Waits Supplement soundalikes ) or if you're a hardcore Christmas nut the absolutely terrifying David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy (direct MP3 link). These MP3s are for novelty and testing purposes only and I'll keep them up till my bandwidth goes or I get threatened, whichever comes sooner.
On a related note I've always thought that David Bowie and Bing Crosby video - as an example of where uncontrolled drug use ends up -would make an excellent anti drugs ad, but does anyone listen to me...?

Daniel Johnston

Download Daniel Johnston (a new discovery for me)MP3 True love will find you in the end
via Rejected Unknown

Classic Movie downloads

From archive.org a selection of classic movies to download :
Fritz Lang's classic M (pictured)
Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou
F.W. Munarau's 1922 Nosferatu
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari the sets of which were believed to have been a great influence on Kurt Schwitters Merzbau
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Hitchcock's 1934 The man who knew too much
Bela Lugosi in White Zombie
And finally a 1942 propaganda film for ehh...hemp Hemp for victory

MP3s : Keren Ann, Stereolab and the Flaming Lips

Some MP3s for y'all to download

Three MP3s French (actually I think she's Dutch but sings in French and English) chanteuse Keren Ann,and from the same source Martha Wainwright singing Dis quand reviendras-tu? and a nice potted history of the disfunctional wainwright/mcgarrigle family feuding in song.
via Filles Sourires

Two MP3s from Stereolab's Refried Ectoplasm
via Oh Sweet Nothing and on a Sterolab theme check out Stereolab Radio to find out what the band's listening to.

Finally not an MP3 but a video for a new Flaming Lips song You've got to hold on
via you ain't no picasso

dEUS MP3s

As a preview of Deus at the Ambassador here in Dublin tomorrow an MP3 of Bad Timing from the personally highly recommended Pocket Revolution for your downloading pleasure.

New Cat Power album

The new Cat Power album entitled The Greatest will be released January Matador have the full track listing, details of the world tour if you're feeling brave and a free mp3 of the title track (MP3 link) to download, , she's back with a band and sounds great.

Ubuweb film back online

After some initial difficulties over copyright issues the good news is that the Ubu Web film section is back online. Many, many downloads including films by Luis Buñuel, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Robert Smithson, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Robert Morris.

New Orleans

Listening to the interview with the New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin makes you wonder what the hell is happening there, is it incompetence or just that they couldn't be bothered. If they'd asked Mexico or even Venzuela for aid I bet they'd have it by now.
Download this MP3 of Tom Barman's (of deus) version of the Randy Newman song Lousiana 1927 (MP3 link) which contains the immortal line President says...ain't it a shame what the river has done to this poor crackers land, seems little has changed.

Irish Documentary Torrents

Chomsky torrents is a site dedicated to bittorrent files of Noam Chomsky and related content. Among the torrents that caught my eye are were this one (torrent file save it to disk - instructions below) of Eamonn Crudden / Irish Indymedia's Berlusconi's Mousetrap a powerful account of the Genoa G8 protests and this one (torrent file) Kim Bartley & Donnacha O Briain's excellent Irish documentary Chavez: Inside the Coup - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised a film which gives a whole new meaning to being in the right place at the right time, co-funded by RTE.

Another one I noticed but haven't seen personally is an interview with Chomsky by Zack de La Rocha of Rage against the Machine hmmm.
All you need to know about torrent files and how to use them

Free Flaming Lips album

The Flaming Lips have made the Fearless Freaks soundtrack available to download for free, the album consists of the following 8 live tracks and includes cover artwork

1. Wayne's Intro
2. With You
3. You Can't Stop the Spring
4. Shine On Sweet Jesus
5. Space Age Love Song
6. Mouth in the Incubator
7. When You Smile
8. Sleeping on the Roof

More Music downloads

From The Ten Thousand Things William S Burrough's advice for young people and two Stina Nordenstam songs from The World is Saved at The Hype Machine

David Byrne and the Tosca Strings, Bob Dylan and Beethoven

Lots of free downloads today. Firstly a bittorrent file for David Byrne with the Tosca Strings performing at the Mountain Winery Saratoga, CA June 21 2005 in FLAC (free lossless audio codec) format. Free and legal from the excellent etree.org community bittorrent tracker.

MP3s of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash from 1969, from the session that the duet Girl from the North Country comes from. Via Between thought and Expression

The BBC Beethoven experience continues with a free download of Symphony 6 with the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda for one week only.

Copy what?

If you're a fan of cover versions here's two new MP3 blogs for your entertainment Copy,right? and Music Maniacs both dedicated to cover version downloads fron the weird to the wonderful. On a related note check out Cartel Communique a group who specialise in subversive video cut-ups, very slickly done, check out Bush whacked you may have seen it before but it's still very, very funny.

The Beethoven Experience

As I mentioned earlier as part of the BBC's Beethoven Experience free downloads of all nine Symphonies performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda are to be made available for free for a limited period. Get the first five Symphonies now.

Dub will tear us apart

From Scenestars download Jah Division's Dub will tear us apart

Download all nine Beethoven symphonies

As part of the BBC's Beethoven Cycle the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda will be performing all Beethoven symphonies and will be making them available to download for free for a limited period of a week the day after each performance. The cycle starts on June 6th and continues until the 30th with downloads available from June 7th until July 7th. Full details here

Pause Online Music Videos

From Pause Online a large selection of music videos from the likes of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry et al and from elsewhere the video for Emiliana Torrini's heartstopper

Emiliana Torrini live

Some MP3s to download from a Emiliana Torrini live session on Planet Claire, also check out the Cat Power and Mary Timony sessions from their archive.

Nouvelle Vague The Guns of Brixton

Nouvelle Vague are a French collective with eight chanteuses who do cover versions of late 70s early 80s new wave songs, download this version of the Clash's The Guns of Brixton (direct mp3 link) from Insound sung by the latest French singing sensation Camille , you'll either love it or hate it, I love it.
link via fingertips Music weekly finds

Get behind me Satan

Scenestars are streaming all of Get Behind Me Satan the new album from the White Stripes

Controlled impact movies

NASA aircraft controlled impact movies.

Billy Corgan online

Billy Pumpkin's rehabilitation continues online as he writes his autobiography chapter by chapter, and it's pretty interesting. He also has a great download page with many free MP3s and videos of live and rare recordings, guitar tabs, nintendo ROMs(Billy as Mario), fonts and some pretty scary wallpapers. Keep it up, Billy, and we may even forgive you those last few pumpkin's albums.

How to find MP3s with Google

A nice interface which takes the techniques on how to find MP3s with Google and incorporates them into a single search box which does all the work for you.

John Peel Sessions

John Peel sessions to download

Concert Bootlegs

The Bootleg browser is a one stop shop for live bootleg recordings with 526 performances from over 351 bands including some great Sonic Youth - one of my favourite live bands - My Bloody Valentine and even an extensive catalogue of The Frames. This is what bootlegs should be free for fans!

Talking Heads live at CBGBs June 1975

Talking Heads live at CBGBs June 1975 MP3s to download.

Free Music to download

Epitonic top mp3 free and legal downloads from a huge variety of music particularly strong on indie and electronic with a large 20th century composers section. In addition to the top download list if you browse the categories every band has at least one free sample mp3. Even better is the Epitonic Radio player which lets you select from 50 music categories and make a streaming playlist of 20-500 tracks or stream entire albums or even select a band and automatically generate a similar band playlist. I can't think of a better way to discover new music.

RSS feed (copy link) of the Amazon top 200 free MP3s

Hidden Beck track from his website via

Even more MP3s from the Hype Machine archive of blog audio

Yet more free MP3s

Yet more free MP3 downloads, this time from Pitchfork

Ubu web artist's film downloads

UbuWeb has launched a collection of historic artist's films to download including Luis Buñuel, Yoko Ono, Kenneth Anger, Luis Buñuel, John Cage, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Morris & Stan VanDerBeek, Isidore Isou, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Richter, Harry Smith and Jack Smith, George Maciunas, Robert Watts, John Cale.

Even more free MP3s

From Scenestars even more free MP3s to download, also worth checking out are Erik Brown's MP3 link page, the internet archive's live music archive, Matador Record's MP3 archive and of course the brilliant 1 Million free MP3s.

200 free MP3s

The Amazon top 200 free MP3s to download, updated every six hours.

Irish ISP speed test

Nice tool to test just how fast your connection is.

Emiliana Torrini

Emiliana Torrini has a new album out called Fisherman's Woman a very belated followup to 1999's brilliantLove in the Time of Science. This one is a wholly different album, stripped down, very sombre in mood but lifted by her incredible voice. You can download a free track -Lifesaver -here and she's playing Dublin's Sugarclub on Tuesday the 5th.

Free Mp3s

More free MP3 downloads; from audiolunchbox free songs from bettie serveert, walking concert and 7 seconds. Many more from Better Propaganda and 1 million mp3s a geat source of new music to try.

Andy Warhol Tapes

Andy Warhol conversation tape MP3s to download, my favourite is collecting money for a bottle of scotch (receipt used to make a print for cover of Paris Review)
via happy famous artists

Free MP3s & stuff

Hiëronymus Bosch figurines also action figures from Dali, Klimt, Pieter Bruegel the elder and Modigliani among others. via things magazine

Download Bloody motherfucking asshole free MP3 from Martha Wainwright - daughter of Kate McGarrigle (no relation) & Loudon Wainwright sister of Rufus - a song about her father who incidently wrote hitting you about her - think of a mixture of Mary Margaret O'Hara and Sinead O'Connor's Troy, fantastic.

Another free MP3, this time Out of Control (right click save as)by Jacqueline Tuck a young Dublin based singer-songwriter who has a new album called Soul Napper -recorded literally in her bedroom- a name to watch.

Amateur enhanced versions of the Huygens Titan photos.

Weekly free MP3s from a variety of artists.