http://www.spannered.org/music/search/date/down/0/features/1/ Music, art, film and literature from outside the mainstream bubble, a platform for writers. Spread a little mp3 love. en-gb Copyright 2007 Spannered. All Rights Reserved. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT 240 http://www.spannered.org/images/skins/spannered/RSS.jpg http://www.spannered.org/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1650/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1650/ Robots, Castro, Perez Prado, electrofunk and good ol' grandma's cooking. Spannered meets Miami resident Armando Martinez midway through his European tour. … Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1631/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1631/ Marking the launch of !Kaboogie label release #2, Dublin's bastion of bass music gathers together an exclusive showcase for Spannered. … Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1612/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1612/ Oddball opera, modernist classical kartoon klassics and the tone-transgressions of an avuncular middle-seventies gent? Martin Longley checks back in from New York. … Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1593/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1593/ You can't please all the people all the time, but you can bash them into a pulpy mass. Aphex Twin & Hecker show us how it's done, as witnessed by Fillip K Donk. … Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1592/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1592/ Techno, hip hop and sci-fi elements converge on Mark Pritchard's latest project. Laurent Fintoni talks to the many-monikered man behind some of electronic music's most enduring moments. … Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1576/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1576/ Extreme Inuit throat singing and Balkan wedding-band apeshitters? Martin Longley rounds up recent activity on New York's global music circuit. … Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1565/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1565/ Martin Longley tunes into new wave, funk-punk and art rock in NYC, taking in gigs by Tuxedomoon, ESG, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Camper Van Beethoven. … Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1552/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1552/ Heady Brazilian party tunes, bacchanalian beats and a reggae-induced stage invasion greet Martin Longley in New York. … Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1536/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1536/ Martin Longley takes in legendary LA drummer Chico Hamilton, Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen and punk jazz icon James Chance on his autumn tour of NYC's jazz haunts. … Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1534/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1534/ Is Shemekia Copeland the lovechild of James Brown and Tina Turner? And just what's in Bobby Bland's bottle of fruity beverage? Martin Longley gets blasted by blues in the Big Apple. … Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1526/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1526/ Glasgow's LuckyMe family are making the most of this 'beautifully open time in music'. Laurent Fintoni meets the idiosyncratic collective poised for world domination. … Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1525/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1525/ The Glitch Mob are much more than your regular turntable tagteam. Laurent Fintoni meets the Californian crew who sum up their musical approach in three words: dirty, fucking, bass. … Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1524/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1524/ Laurent Fintoni talks to LA-based producer Edward Ma, aka edIT, about the influences that have shaped his futuristic take on hip hop. … Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1518/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1518/ Since the start of the noughties, productions from both sides of the Atlantic have signalled a return to the boom bap beats of hip hop's golden era, says Laurent Fintoni. … Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1520/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1520/ Mystical sounds outta '70s California and a hefty homage to Captain Beefheart are just two of the delights encountered by Martin Longley during a two-night stint at NYC's Knitting Factory. … Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1453/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1453/ Spannered's man in NYC, Martin Longley, takes in Satyagraha, Philip Glass's second opera, along with performances from the Christian Wolff Sextet and Frederic Rzewski. … Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1441/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1441/ Caustic blues distortion and gobble'n'quaff foot-tappers? Spannered's man in New York, Martin Longley, gives his latest round-up of jazz-wise action from the Big Apple. … Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1433/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1433/ Martin Longley catches Paul Simon and David Byrne on stage in NYC, and soaks up sounds from Niger, Morocco, India and China on the city's global music circuit. … Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1411/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1411/ Martin Longley, Spannered's intrepid NYC correspondent, encounters tasteful bossa, post-bop and performance art jazz scores when he sets out for some sax in the city. … Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1403/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1403/ Laurent Fintoni takes a deep breath and dives into the world of bass operator Paul Rose, aka Scuba, the man behind the ever-evolving Hotflush label. … Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1398/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1398/ Electro-acoustic fireworks, headbanging afrobeat, Philippine gongs, New York jazz and a hearty dose of Zappa. Gig addict Martin Longley takes a springtime trek around his home turf. … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1399/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1399/ Topical performance art, a new Philip Glass production and some very big lungs greet Spannered's Martin Longley on his return to New York. … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1389/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1389/ Spannered's Martin Longley sates his appetite for blues with a gig-going spree spanning both sides of the Atlantic. … Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1374/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1374/ As part of his research on ‘globalist’ DJs, Camilo Rocha interviews maverick DJ, producer, blogger and radio presenter, Jace Clayton. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1375/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1375/ Brazilian journalist Camilo Rocha interviews much-in-demand DJ/producer Diplo about his musical ties with global subcultures. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1376/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1376/ For his article on ‘globalist DJs’ for Brazil’s most influential newspaper, Camilo Rocha interviews ethnomusicologist, blogger and DJ Wayne Marshall. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1377/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1377/ Camilo Rocha interviews Rio-based DJ/producer and music researcher Maga Bo for the fourth in a series of interviews exploring ‘globalist DJs’. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1379/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1379/ Spannered's man in New York, Martin Longley, takes in a dizzying array of jazz acts and clubs during the first month of 2008. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1362/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1362/ Trickling minimalism from China's Tan Dun and the strange tones of Harry Partch's quadrangularis reversum fill Martin Longley's ears during his latest foray into NYC's experimental music scene. … Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1350/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1350/ Martin Longley takes in skewed country, intensoid rock'n'roll, showbiz surf, all-nite Senegal and pumping New Orleans street bands in his final report of 2007 from New York's live music circuit. … Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT