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The Counterforce Podcast https://thecounterforce.net There's something about a great song that's like kissing someone you really fancy for the first time Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:22:33 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://thecounterforce.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-counterforce-logo-1-2-32x32.jpg The Counterforce Podcast https://thecounterforce.net 32 32 A great song is like that feeling you get when you first kiss someone you really fancy. Aug Stone talks to his favourite musicians and artists about their careers and what makes pop music so special. Aug Stone false Aug Stone augstone@hotmail.com podcast There's something about a great song that's like kissing someone you really fancy for the first time The Counterforce Podcast http://thecounterforce.net/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/counterforce_logo.jpg https://thecounterforce.net ec7957fc-b117-5666-9972-d1cce5f0a4af Episode Fourteen – Blackbyrd McKnight https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-fourteen-blackbyrd-mcknight/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:21:09 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=664 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-fourteen-blackbyrd-mcknight/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-fourteen-blackbyrd-mcknight/feed/ 0 “My three goals in life, set by the age of 13, were to play with Herbie Hancock, to play with Miles Davis, and the other… “My three goals in life, set by the age of 13, were to play with Herbie Hancock, to play with Miles Davis, and the other was to play with P-Funk”

Aug Stone talks to DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight about playing with these greats and others, hearing Hendrix for the first time, picking up the guitar, making his ‘Bout Funkin’ Time solo album, and much more.

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“My three goals in life, set by the age of 13, were to play with Herbie Hancock, to play with Miles Davis, and the other… Aug Stone talks to DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight about playing with these greats and others, hearing Hendrix for the first time, picking up the guitar, making his ‘Bout Funkin’ Time solo album, and much more.
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Episode Thirteen – Best Of 2018 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-thirteen-best-of-2018/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:15:24 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=652 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-thirteen-best-of-2018/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-thirteen-best-of-2018/feed/ 0 A look at and listen to the best songs of 2018 with an interlude about the best comics, movies, TV shows, and podcasts. Including Keith… A look at and listen to the best songs of 2018 with an interlude about the best comics, movies, TV shows, and podcasts. Including Keith TOTP, Karla Kane, James, The Ocean Party, Guided By Voices, Janelle Monáe, Say Lou Lou, Fightmilk, Chorusgirl, Gerard Way, Steve Kilbey, Accü, Postiljonen, Ani Glass, Birdie, The Cleaners From Venus, Carfax, Jah Wobble, Night Heron, Big Fox, Carla J. Easton, and Spiritualized. Happy Holidays and here’s to an Awesome 2019!

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A look at and listen to the best songs of 2018 with an interlude about the best comics, movies, TV shows, and podcasts. Including Keith… Show Notes here
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Episode Twelve – Say Lou Lou https://thecounterforce.net/uncategorized/episode-twelve-say-lou-lou/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:57:41 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=635 https://thecounterforce.net/uncategorized/episode-twelve-say-lou-lou/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/uncategorized/episode-twelve-say-lou-lou/feed/ 0 “There’s always a bit of Bergman when we do anything. Especially because with us being two women, the visual placements of faces together are so… “There’s always a bit of Bergman when we do anything. Especially because with us being two women, the visual placements of faces together are so Bergman, how he structurally and visually put people in relation to each other…His depiction of women in film is so real, so true.”

Aug Stone talks to Miranda & Elektra Kilbey about The Eternal Spirit of Woman on their gorgeous new Say Lou Lou album Immortelle, Bergman, James Bond, covering their parents’ classic ‘Under The Milky Way’, and much more.

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“There’s always a bit of Bergman when we do anything. Especially because with us being two women, the visual placements of faces together are so… Aug Stone talks to Miranda & Elektra Kilbey about The Eternal Spirit of Woman on their gorgeous new Say Lou Lou album Immortelle, Bergman, James Bond, covering their parents’ classic ‘Under The Milky Way’, and much more.
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Episode Eleven – Fightmilk https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eleven-fightmilk/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 02:57:42 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=620 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eleven-fightmilk/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eleven-fightmilk/feed/ 0 Alex: Tell me that riff doesn’t rule. Lily: It does rule. But it came from a place of grumpy, instead of a place of love.… Alex: Tell me that riff doesn’t rule.
Lily: It does rule. But it came from a place of grumpy, instead of a place of love. And it should’ve come from a place of…lumpy.
– Fightmilk on their anthem ‘Your Girlfriend’

Aug Stone talks to Fightmilk about their brilliant debut album Not With That Attitude, ill-fated foreign holidays making great songs, putting Weezer in a blender, romanticizing Scandinavian crime dramas, hayfever being more complicated than you might think, Keith Top Of The Pops’ eternal benevolence in bestowing life to new bands, falling madly in love with music, and much much more.

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Alex: Tell me that riff doesn’t rule. Lily: It does rule. But it came from a place of grumpy, instead of a place of love.… Lily: It does rule. But it came from a place of grumpy, instead of a place of love. And it should’ve come from a place of…lumpy.
– Fightmilk on their anthem ‘Your Girlfriend’
Aug Stone talks to Fightmilk about their brilliant debut album Not With That Attitude, ill-fated foreign holidays making great songs, putting Weezer in a blender, romanticizing Scandinavian crime dramas, hayfever being more complicated than you might think, Keith Top Of The Pops’ eternal benevolence in bestowing life to new bands, falling madly in love with music, and much much more.
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Episode Ten – Typex https://thecounterforce.net/art/episode-ten-typex/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:49:10 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=603 https://thecounterforce.net/art/episode-ten-typex/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/art/episode-ten-typex/feed/ 0 “Crumb never met up with Andy Warhol or The Velvet Underground as far as I know. But I put him in the story anyway. Cause… “Crumb never met up with Andy Warhol or The Velvet Underground as far as I know. But I put him in the story anyway. Cause he’s very important for the way we see a lot of the 60’s, especially the underground. He changed the vision. Our vision of the 60’s is formed by Robert Crumb and other artists, I think, as well as the way we see the 80’s is informed by the drawings of Tom Of Finland.”

Aug Stone talks to Dutch artist Typex about his dazzling new book andy: A Factual Fairytale The Life And Times of Andy Warhol which tells Warhol’s life story in ten parts, each section drawn in the style of the time period it deals with, his extensive research on the book, falling in love with music and comics, drawing comix reviews of concerts, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman and MAD magazine, Guy Peellaert, and much more.

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“Crumb never met up with Andy Warhol or The Velvet Underground as far as I know. But I put him in the story anyway. Cause… Aug Stone talks to Dutch artist Typex about his dazzling new book andy: A Factual Fairytale The Life And Times of Andy Warhol which tells Warhol’s life story in ten parts, each section drawn in the style of the time period it deals with, his extensive research on the book, falling in love with music and comics, drawing comix reviews of concerts, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman and MAD magazine, Guy Peellaert, and much more.
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Episode Nine – Even As We Speak https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-nine-even-as-we-speak/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:05:03 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=597 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-nine-even-as-we-speak/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-nine-even-as-we-speak/feed/ 0 “I was on the train to work listening to Camper Van Beethoven, thinking what’s gonna be a good direction. In particular, I was listening to… “I was on the train to work listening to Camper Van Beethoven, thinking what’s gonna be a good direction. In particular, I was listening to the way they were using a lot of different instrumentation, and from that it occurred to me that we really need to stop having a style, stop looking for a sound or a direction, and just do everything. And do it in a very spontaneous way. The idea was to have no real filters on what we were doing, so there’s really no editing on Feral Pop Frenzy. Everything that came into our heads, we’d do it. It’s a record that was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, but at its heart it’s still pop music. It’s the creative process without being limited by what you think you should or shouldn’t do.” – Matt Love, Even As We Speak

 

Aug Stone talks to Australian POP legends Even As We Speak about creative freedom, America, rock masses, John Peel, their time with such luminous indie labels as Phantom Records, Sarah Records and now Emotional Response, their summer 2018 tour, and much more.

 

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“I was on the train to work listening to Camper Van Beethoven, thinking what’s gonna be a good direction. In particular, I was listening to…  
Aug Stone talks to Australian POP legends Even As We Speak about creative freedom, America, rock masses, John Peel, their time with such luminous indie labels as Phantom Records, Sarah Records and now Emotional Response, their summer 2018 tour, and much more.
 
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Episode Eight – Tim Booth https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eight-tim-booth/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:24:33 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=575 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eight-tim-booth/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-eight-tim-booth/feed/ 0 “We are psychically connected to each other whether we like it or not, but we are also globally connected.” Aug Stone talks to James singer… “We are psychically connected to each other whether we like it or not, but we are also globally connected.”

Aug Stone talks to James singer Tim Booth about Patti Smith, the transformative power of dance, global warming, Russia and our current political climate, Love being the answer to our problems, being a dad who has to go away on tour, the unconscious revealing itself through creativity, and much more. NOTE: Strong language is used. NSFW.

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“We are psychically connected to each other whether we like it or not, but we are also globally connected.” Aug Stone talks to James singer… Aug Stone talks to James singer Tim Booth about Patti Smith, the transformative power of dance, global warming, Russia and our current political climate, Love being the answer to our problems, being a dad who has to go away on tour, the unconscious revealing itself through creativity, and much more. NOTE: Strong language is used. NSFW.
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Episode Seven – Sarah Cracknell https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-seven-sarah-cracknell/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:28:50 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=566 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-seven-sarah-cracknell/#comments https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-seven-sarah-cracknell/feed/ 1 “Good Humor is our fantasy America from when we were kids. It’s our vision of what the States was like, probably wholly inaccurate, but it’s… “Good Humor is our fantasy America from when we were kids. It’s our vision of what the States was like, probably wholly inaccurate, but it’s our fantasy America.”

 

Aug Stone talks to Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell about the 20th anniversary of ‘Good Humor’, America, the band’s perceived “quintessential Englishness”, Swedish Pop, the use of the telephone in pop songs, and more.

 

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“Good Humor is our fantasy America from when we were kids. It’s our vision of what the States was like, probably wholly inaccurate, but it’s…  
Aug Stone talks to Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell about the 20th anniversary of ‘Good Humor’, America, the band’s perceived “quintessential Englishness”, Swedish Pop, the use of the telephone in pop songs, and more.
 
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Episode Six – Simon Indelicate https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-six-simon-indelicate/ Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:49:31 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=555 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-six-simon-indelicate/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-six-simon-indelicate/feed/ 0 Aug Stone talks to Simon Indelicate about his new musical, Paradise Rocks! A reimagining of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ as if it were one of Elvis’… Aug Stone talks to Simon Indelicate about his new musical, Paradise Rocks! A reimagining of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ as if it were one of Elvis’ Hawaii movies. We get a brief history of The Indelicates, Corporate Records, and Simon’s other musicals, as well as an account of Simon and friends’ attempt to recreate Bill Drummond & Mark Manning’s ‘Bad Wisdom’ journey to place an icon of Elvis on the North Pole to spread good vibes down the latitudes and save the world.  Also synchronicities, Robert Anton Wilson, performance poetry, and the Vanilla Ice movie…

“There is a sense that Elvis embodies this figure of pure rebellion, the James Dean ‘what are you rebelling against?’ ‘what have you got?’ thing, where you just rebel against whatever it is, subvert the dominant paradigm, that’s the first moral obligation, that Luciferian idea which reaches its apotheosis in Elvis. He’s the archetypal figure who represents that, and everyone since Elvis is like a version of Elvis, even Bowie and glam is a version of that, slightly androgynous, slightly weird, but just pure rebellion through the form of rock n roll.”

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Aug Stone talks to Simon Indelicate about his new musical, Paradise Rocks! A reimagining of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ as if it were one of Elvis’… “There is a sense that Elvis embodies this figure of pure rebellion, the James Dean ‘what are you rebelling against?’ ‘what have you got?’ thing, where you just rebel against whatever it is, subvert the dominant paradigm, that’s the first moral obligation, that Luciferian idea which reaches its apotheosis in Elvis. He’s the archetypal figure who represents that, and everyone since Elvis is like a version of Elvis, even Bowie and glam is a version of that, slightly androgynous, slightly weird, but just pure rebellion through the form of rock n roll.”
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Episode Five – Jah Wobble https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-five-jah-wobble/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:42:30 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=543 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-five-jah-wobble/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-five-jah-wobble/feed/ 0 Jah Wobble talks to Aug Stone about his new album Dream World, the 2018 World Cup, his 2011 collaboration with Julie Campbell on Psychic Life,… Jah Wobble talks to Aug Stone about his new album Dream World, the 2018 World Cup, his 2011 collaboration with Julie Campbell on Psychic Life, his first musical loves, post-punk, the creative process, film scoring, and more.

“I think that post-punk was such a fascinating area of music and yet the idea of it was generally better than the music that was produced. There were so many variations, so many kind of records you could have made back then – you could have made Metal Box and put radio collages over the top of it – you could’ve done spoken word, you could’ve done so many different kinds of records, there were so many possibilities, you could use disco, it was very post-modern…it was a great anti-bourgeois kind of thing, but there weren’t enough good albums…not enough brave records at that time.”

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Jah Wobble talks to Aug Stone about his new album Dream World, the 2018 World Cup, his 2011 collaboration with Julie Campbell on Psychic Life,… “I think that post-punk was such a fascinating area of music and yet the idea of it was generally better than the music that was produced. There were so many variations, so many kind of records you could have made back then – you could have made Metal Box and put radio collages over the top of it – you could’ve done spoken word, you could’ve done so many different kinds of records, there were so many possibilities, you could use disco, it was very post-modern…it was a great anti-bourgeois kind of thing, but there weren’t enough good albums…not enough brave records at that time.”
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Episode Four – Ian Button https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-four-ian-button/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 02:03:57 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=531 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-four-ian-button/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-four-ian-button/feed/ 0 Ian Button discusses the history of Papernut Cambridge from dreaming the band name to their fifth album, Outstairs Instairs, out June 29th on Gare Du Nord… Ian Button discusses the history of Papernut Cambridge from dreaming the band name to their fifth album, Outstairs Instairs, out June 29th on Gare Du Nord Records. We talk about the label as a collective as well as his time with Death In Vegas,working with Lawrence and Terry Miles on the latest Go-Kart Mozart album, almost joining The Sisters Of Mercy twice, and falling in love with psychedelic pop as a child. WARNING: During the re-telling of a story, the ‘c’ word gets dropped at 40:22, so NSFW or sensitive ears.

 

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Ian Button discusses the history of Papernut Cambridge from dreaming the band name to their fifth album, Outstairs Instairs, out June 29th on Gare Du Nord…  
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Episode Three – Tyson Meade https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-three-tyson-meade/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:07:08 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=526 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-three-tyson-meade/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-three-tyson-meade/feed/ 0 “I sent David Immerglück ‘Confused 22’ and I said ‘ok so imagine this song and it’s basically if John Lennon went into a time machine… “I sent David Immerglück ‘Confused 22’ and I said ‘ok so imagine this song and it’s basically if John Lennon went into a time machine and wound up at the Led Zeppelin III sessions but in the next room Rickie Lee Jones and Black Francis from The Pixies were having a fist fight. That’s what I want this song to sound like’. And he’s like ‘Got it!’”

An excellent conversation with Tyson Meade from Chainsaw Kittens about his new solo record, Robbing The Nuclear Family, and the Kittens 1996 self-titled album, both released this Record Store Day, April 21st. We chat about his surly muse for the new record, living in China, his time with the Kittens, all infused with a whole lotta rock n roll.

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“I sent David Immerglück ‘Confused 22’ and I said ‘ok so imagine this song and it’s basically if John Lennon went into a time machine… An excellent conversation with Tyson Meade from Chainsaw Kittens about his new solo record, Robbing The Nuclear Family, and the Kittens 1996 self-titled album, both released this Record Store Day, April 21st. We chat about his surly muse for the new record, living in China, his time with the Kittens, all infused with a whole lotta rock n roll.
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Episode Two – Carla J. Easton https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-two-carla-j-easton/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:05:06 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=490 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-two-carla-j-easton/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-two-carla-j-easton/feed/ 0 “without girl groups we probably wouldn’t have had music as we know it…everyone always talks about punk being this seminal period but to me it’s… “without girl groups we probably wouldn’t have had music as we know it…everyone always talks about punk being this seminal period but to me it’s ’58-‘63”

The poptastic Carla J. Easton talks about the new record she’s made with producer Howard Bilerman, her favourite songs and songwriters, recording the TeenCanteen album in mono, co-writing and singing a song on the new Belle & Sebastian EP, her love of the girl groups, buying records, and much more. #popforever

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“without girl groups we probably wouldn’t have had music as we know it…everyone always talks about punk being this seminal period but to me it’s… The poptastic Carla J. Easton talks about the new record she’s made with producer Howard Bilerman, her favourite songs and songwriters, recording the TeenCanteen album in mono, co-writing and singing a song on the new Belle & Sebastian EP, her love of the girl groups, buying records, and much more. #popforever
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Episode One – Martin Newell https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-one-martin-newell/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 02:07:42 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=475 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-one-martin-newell/#comments https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-one-martin-newell/feed/ 1 Martin Newell discusses working with Andy Partridge on 1993’s The Greatest Living Englishman, his new Star Café indie-musical, and the state of music today. Show Notes Here… Martin Newell discusses working with Andy Partridge on 1993’s The Greatest Living Englishman, his new Star Café indie-musical, and the state of music today.

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Martin Newell discusses working with Andy Partridge on 1993’s The Greatest Living Englishman, his new Star Café indie-musical, and the state of music today. Show Notes Here… Show Notes Here…
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Episode Zero – Introduction https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-zero-introduction/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 02:05:21 +0000 http://thecounterforce.net/?p=473 https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-zero-introduction/#respond https://thecounterforce.net/music/episode-zero-introduction/feed/ 0 A short introduction to The Counterforce, the music I’m into and what I hope to do with the podcast, as well as recapping the best… A short introduction to The Counterforce, the music I’m into and what I hope to do with the podcast, as well as recapping the best of 2017.

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