The Dead Kennedys Logo by Winston Smith.

Winston Smith writes from over at the great Brand Upon the Brain blog:

“I created that after I’d met (Jello)Biafra in either late 1979 or very early 1980. I’d done some work with him and come up with a few things and one evening he gave me a call to ask if I could cook up something they could use for an emblem for the band. He explained that since lots of bands just went by their initials (MDC, DOA, DRI, etc.), they usually got referred to as the DKs. I spent the evening going through dozens of different ideas utilizing differentgeometric shapes. Finally I got it down to the most minimal amount of pen strokes one could make and still have a legible image. I wanted to create something that would be E-Z for anyone to draw quickly and completely. At least, in that regard, it looks like I was successful. I don’t think it’s any artistic masterpiece but at least it was original. Anyway, when I first showed it to Biafra a week or so later he said “That’s IT!,” and before I knew it the logo was drawn all over the walls in the back of the club they were gigging at in Berkeley where we were that night. Unfortunately artists usually can’t collect any royalties from tattoos or graffiti, otherwise I’d be retired somewhere in the south of France with a really bad drug habit (which is, fortunately, unaffordable in my current economic situation).”

October 9, 2010 marks what would have been the 70th birthday of legend, lover, artist and activist, John Lennon. In celebration of the musician’s illustrious life and career, East Village Radio is hosting an all day special tribute starting at 12pm ET this Saturday. Over the course of 8 hours, you can listen live to exclusive interviews with Lennon, tribute programs highlighting The Beatles’ era songs, covers, classics and more.

SCHEDULE

12:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Simon Harper, of Clash Magazine, remembers John Lennon during The Beatles’ years. Harper also discusses his personal connection and memories surrounding Lennon and his music.

2:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Andy Rourke, of EVR’s Jet Lag, hosts 2 hours of John Lennon tunes, including a rare interview with John and Yoko courtesy of  Wolfgang’s Vault. Make sure to check out Wolfgang’s Vault for more Lennon-related exclusives.

4:00pm – 6:00pm ET
Atlantic Tunnel host Ed has lots of vinyl, Rubber Soul and The White Album outtakes, acoustic and demo versions of Lennon songs, dotted with personal stories and memoirs. This is the true “odds n sods” of Lennon’s career.

6:00pm – 8:00pm ET
All Over The Shop will feature only covers of Lennon’s solo work. Stu and Ben will also welcome a live, in-studio performance by Icelandic songstress, Ólöf Arnalds, who will stop by to cover a couple of her favorite Lennon songs. Arnalds recently celebrated The Beatles with Time Out New York, selecting Abbey Road as her favorite of their albums.

(as of Saturday 12PM EST)

“When Dan [Stowell] started tweeting snippets of SuperCollider code he expected a lot of “throwaway waffle” but collated also a bunch of really interesting things…Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.”

—Susanna Glaser at The Mire
writing about the live coding music project Supercollider140, 22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with just 140 characters of code.