play loud! proudly announces a record deal with Berlin based rock'n'roll band FLOATING DI MOREL. Their new record "said my say" will only be available on vinyl and for download. Also, play loud! will offer for the first time Floating di Morel's back catalogue for download. It consists of mostly old art projects: "more memory than now" (LP 1995), "takna, pakna, g(k)ram..." (EP 1997) and "real people psych" (PROMO EDITION 2004). Also available by Floating di Morel is their contribution to play loud!'s 2006 SILVER MONK TIME double CD. Don Allred of Village Voice wrote: "Shut Up" tapped out by the tremulously tight toot-toot-tootsies of Floating Di Morel. One German critic couldn't really categorize the music by Floating di Morel and ask...

Film Review: Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback By Evan ~ July 7th, 2009. Filed under: review . My boss dropped a DVD on my desk yesterday as he was leaving asking if I wanted to borrow it. The cover was a macabre-looking painting of a monk holding a banjo. It read, Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback . I asked if it was simply live performance clips, or was it a full documentary. He said it was a full documentary, so I excited grabbed at it and told him I’d take good care of it and return it tomorrow. Last night was something of a lazy night, as I had a long day beginning with a morning hike through Runyon Canyon, so we watched Capote (a pretty alright flick!) followed by the Monks DVD. My knowledge of the Monks before taking in the documentary was solid, but not exceptionally deep. Five Americans stationed in Germany in the early ’60s began playing social clubs and GI bars in and around the area in which they were living. They began as a band called The 5 Torquays, softer and more “...

TWO NEW FILMS from directors Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios (FESTIVAL FILM ) KLANGBAD: AVANT-GARDE IN THE MEADOWS + (CONCERT FILM) FAUST LIVE 2005 Ready for festival submissions There are two kinds of rock festivals: the conventional and the adventurous ones. The former present music that everyone knows. Others are more experimental and put their ear into boundary zones. The Klangbad Festival, curated by Faust’s Jochen Irmler, belongs to the latter. Since 2004 the picturesque village of Scheer hosts an innovative musical journey crossing various genres. In today's profit-oriented event scene it is hard to find anything comparable. The festival is small but growing constantly. Despite this fact, it abandons commercial sponsoring funds unlike normal open air festivals. Award-winning filmmakers Dietmar Post (USA/Germany) and Lucia Palacios (Spain) portrait this fine festival in the style of DIRECT CINEMA pioneers, such as, Murray Lerner, Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker....

Reverend Billy & The Choir of Life after Shopping, New York: STOP SHOPPING CS MUNDY 1 2 3 SCHAUSPIEL DEUTSCHE ERSTAUFFÜHRUNG FR 14.08. / SA 15.08. / SO 16.08. 19:00 Kampnagel - K2 in englischer Sprache Singen gegen den Kapitalismus, was kann es Schöneres geben. Seit Jahren predigt Reverend Billy mit seinem Stop-Shopping-Gospelchor gegen die Kommerzialisierung unserer Städte und die Privatisierung des Öffentlichen Raumes in New York und im Rest der Welt. Sein künstlerischer und politischer Kampf gilt der hemmungslosen Ökonomisierung aller Lebensbereiche. Gerade wurde er nun Bürgermeisterkandidat der Grünen in New York City für die Wahl im Herbst. Was wie ein Witz klingt und begann, ist mittlerweile eine ernste Herausforderung für den amtierenden Bürgermeister Bloomberg und die anderen Kandidaten geworden. Im Shopping-Paradies New York ist mit der Finanz- auch die Sinnkrise eingekehrt. Reverend Billys Interventionen in den Konsumalltag der Metropole werden von den sie einst verlache...

TWO NEW FILMS from directors Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios (FESTIVAL FILM) KLANGBAD: AVANT-GARDE IN THE MEADOWS + (CONCERT FILM) FAUST LIVE 2005 Ready for festival submissions There are two kinds of rock festivals: the conventional and the adventurous ones. The former present music that everyone knows. Others are more experimental and put their ear into boundary zones. The Klangbad Festival, curated by Faust’s Jochen Irmler, belongs to the latter. Since 2004 the picturesque village of Scheer hosts an innovative musical journey crossing various genres. In today's profit-oriented event scene it is hard to find anything comparable. The festival is small but growing constantly. Despite this fact, it abandons commercial sponsoring funds unlike normal open air festivals. Award-winning filmmakers Dietmar Post (USA/Germany) and Lucia Palacios (Spain) portrait this fine festival in the style of DIRECT CINEMA pioneers, such as, Murray Lerner, Albert Maysles and D.A. Penn...

Mai 18, 2009 - Montag  US fans raving about monks documentary 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:   It's Monk Time. , May 8, 2009 By  Vic "Vic"  (USA) -  See all my reviews I'm glad this has been made available through Amazon. I was going to the Play Loud! website regularly to find out when it was coming out.  It's the documentary we've all been waiting for, and a real revelation. So little is known about the Monks, especially in the US -- just that they had a seminal sound and dark, weird presentation. And they were slightly funny, too. Most of all,they influenced all kinds of other bands and have been called the precursor to punk.  My only regret is that the producers were unable to interview the managers of the Monks who set them into motion and were such an influence on their sound and presentation. However, on the plus side, I'm glad they were able to interview all the Monks as two of them have passed away since this documentary was i...