Posts tagged radio
Mish from Bitch Please is being interviewed about our rejection from the MCA Zine Fair on Queering The Air, 3-4pm (Syd/Melb time) this Sunday on 3CR Community Radio. 855AM in Melbourne or listen live online!
in that case it’s probably relevant to you that I first heard this track through a music show called “After Party — The Solo Hour” on local (Melbourne, Australia) radical radio station, 3CR 855AM. it’s my best mate’s show and she started presenting it as a way to work through melancholy by cracking bleak jokes and playing sad hip-hop/experimental electronica music. it’s really good! I get most of my new music recommendations from it. If you’re not in Melbourne you can stream it every Sunday 11pm-12 midnight Australian Eastern Standard Time. There’s also an After Party tumblr you can follow for music news and recommendations.yes, perfect, i would love more recs from this genre, should you ever want to. dancing my own is my personal fave
Interview with Reem from IMARA Advocacy on Different Like Us on 3CR community radio Melbourne, Australia. The Racial Discrimination Case begins on the 18th of February at the Federal Magistrates Court. Donate to their legal fund here.
Hottest 100 shortlist:
1. Youth Culture
2. Playlisted
3. High Rotation
4. Pingers
5. Angus Stone’s Blind Luck
6. Southern Cross Tattoo
7. Familiarity
lol
for real though, if you’re having a Hottest 100 Party you should probably 1) be ashamed of your shitty taste in music and 2) quit kidding yourself that it’s a progressive alternative to celebrating Australia Day, it’s an Australia Day party, you fool, and fuck that
(via wildbayou)
btw australians apparently hugo schwyzer was on triple j last night, RUINED FOREVER
Queering the Air’s gaysian spectacular is now up! Pt 1 focuses on LGBT Asia and features Benjamin Law and Dr Julian Lee. Pt 2 focuses on Asian-Australian queer communities and features a huge cast of queer Asian-Australian writers, artists, media makers and community organisers.
far from being the case that Asia is this sort of heterosexual place, Southeast Asia has this long history of relative sexual permissiveness, and in fact this allegation that this is somehow not part of our culture is completely back to front – the thing that is not part of Southeast Asian culture or not part of Malaysian culture is really the homophobia, which was imported through colonialism …
- Dr Julian Lee
downloadable for free at the link!
LOOK WHAT I’M WEARING RIGHT NOW. if this isn’t the best hoodie you’ve ever seen I wanna live in your world. that is a RAISED GOLD GLITTER ink on that print by the way. design is by local artist Marisa Lai!
anyway, these are being sold for AU $50 as a fundraiser for Hip Sista Hop and 3CR Community Radio 855am. Hip Sista Hop airs every Monday from 1-2 pm AEST (streaming live at 3cr.org.au for listeners outside Melbourne) and showcases primarily women’s and indigenous hip-hop music and culture, it’s a great program that plays awesome music. you should check out their facebook page as well.
the parent station, 3CR, is a radical left-wing community radio station that’s been on air since the 70s. they do a really good job of practising what they preach and not just being a voice of the latte left — the station broadcasts an amazingly eclectic mix of unionists, Indigenous activists, community language broadcasters, motley queers, young people, the very old, and music nerds, plus a majority of programmers and all senior staff are women. not every show is explicitly political — the station’s ethos of actively providing a platform for voices that aren’t heard in the mainstream media runs through everything they do, but what people do with that platform is up to them. it’s really respectful and hands-off. they also train more people in radio production than anyone else in Australia. there are as few barriers as possible to participation in 3cr.
what I’m saying is that you should send me a message about buying a hoodie. there’s also another design which is really good, a more old-school hip hop aesthetic with graf lettering, but I don’t have a picture of that one. the hoodies are really warm and high-quality and are made by Qualitops sweatshop-free labour right down the road from the 3CR offices. you can also possibly get other colour combinations if you order fast. I’d say sizing runs small, considering a hoodie should be slouchy, and I would suggest that women order men’s sizes unless you’re very short or very thin — I’m wearing a men’s S and I would normally wear an AU women’s 14/L, if that’s helpful. IT’S SO WARM. I’M SO HAPPY TO OWN THIS MAGNIFICENT ITEM.
ETA: this print run is almost completely SOLD OUT, they’re doing another one, if you let me know what size and colour you want ASAP then I can pass on the info and you can probably get a custom order with the new print run. there will defs be more gold and black men’s XS/S/M though.
2. Hip Hop Spa - Fatima Al Qadiri
3. $ u ӎ ӎ є r Я a i n ✌ - ~Ǥõ§ƪõŵ~Õçëånßrõ~
5. My Life - jj
8. Hustling (ft. oOoOO) - Butterclock
look at this great playlist from last week’s After Party: The Solo Hour, and go follow. hip hop spa (track 2) and summer rain (track 3) are particularly awesome.
you can listen to this week’s After Party tomorrow night/the morning of the day after, Friday 12:30 AM australian eastern standard time on 3CR 855 AM if you live in Melbourne, or streaming live on 3cr.org.au for non-local listeners.
they’re not allowed to podcast the actual show because of copyright shit but as it happens it’s a really hilarious macabre carnival version of late night love song dedications, therefore both worth taking the time to listen to live and much improved by the graveyard slot.
when I listen to it I feel like I’m back in the early 2000s listening to the radio in bed, but a rewritten version of those times where I find a station that doesn’t feel like a complete joke in the face of my crippling insomnia/anxiety/depression/sexual frustration. it’s really a total experience is what I’m trying to say.
I’m told you may also ask Captain Solo for life advice but I don’t know if that would be very reassuring.
NPR Science Correspondent Alix Spiegel tells the story of Robert Dixon, who’s in a maximum security prison in Vacaville California and is unlikely to ever get parole because of his score on the psychopath test. The test also is called “the checklist” or, more formally, the PCL-R, which stands for “Psychopathy Check List—Revised.” Alix tells the story of its creation and reports that the man who created the test, Bob Hare, is concerned at how it’s being used today in the criminal justice system. A version of this story aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. (28 minutes)
this is a link to the audio. full transcipt of the show here.
this is an interesting little case study on the politics behind the categorisation of personality disorders, their use in controlling a marginalised population (in this case, prisoners), and the move in recent decades towards a model of criminal justice based on pathologising the criminal and away from sociological explanations for crime.
note: contains a description of a murder with a gun and some discussion around physical and sexual violence.
