July 2010
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WatchAmazing new song by our national treasure, Pete Seeger, via Rolling Stone. Just posted it on my other blog but figured I better put it up here too.
What Happened in My Birth Year? →
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Type in your birth year. A bittersweet story of pop-culture and your place in the world. “What path have you taken?”
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WatchKilling Them Safely - Trailer (by Nick Berardini)
In the summer of 2008, Stanley Harlan was pulled over by police in the small Missouri town of Moberly. Minutes later, he was fighting for his life. It was a fight he would ultimately lose. As he lay dying in front of his mother, who begged for an ambulance, police officers mocked him. On August 28, 2008, just after midnight, Stanley Harlan was...
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Arizona Helped Deport 26,000 without New Law →
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Without the benefit of their state’s strict new immigration law, officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was responsible for deportations or...
“We recorded it on tape, we press it to vinyl, and the digital is the archive of...”
– The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback - NYTimes.com
Facebook security fears after 'private details of... →
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Coroner Calls Death of Mississippi Man Homicide,... →
On my other blog.
Jermaine Williams, a 30-year-old African-American man from Bolivar County, MS, died in police custody on July 23, 2010. Little has been released about the circumstances of his death—except that the local deputy coroner is calling it a homicide by taser.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Woody Guthrie (58)
Arcade Fire (49)
Low (27)
CAKE (23)
The Morning Benders (21)
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“The easy way to rebel early on for us, the White Stripes, was not to give out...”
– Jack White, on building mystique, in the Detroit Free Press. (via crumbler)
WatchRoute du Rock - Jour 2 (by Nathanaël Le Scouarnec)
Quirky, casual, backyard concert by one of my favorite bands of late, Forest Fire.
WatchOK Go - This Too Shall Pass (Live)
WatchDYKCTV: “Porter” (by Do You KNOW Clarence?)
Filmed and edited on an iPhone 4 by Mr. @dykc. Nice work Clarence. You took an experience from my everyday, took it apart and put it back together again and gave it drama I didn’t know it had.
“Some people may think i’m crazy for shooting a Leica M2 (beside the obvious),...”
– lamlux.net: Photography with a meterless camera.
A photographer friend of mine taught me to spot meter from my SLR on something more or less neutral grey (caucasian skin, concrete, grass) and choose my settings and then forget about them and shoot away. I don’t always shoot this way, but the...
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Rokia Traore - M’Bifo (2003)
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WatchLykke Li - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT AT THE AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART →
I was pretty thrilled when The Austin Museum of Art asked me if I wanted to do a Newspaper Blackout event. We got to display a mini-exhibit of originals and prints, and I led a 90 minute blackout poetry workshop. It was a great time, and we had a terrific turnout.
Congrats, Austin!
Low - (That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace ...
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Watch: Jack White Sings “Mother Nature’s Son” at White House
Last month, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Seinfeld, Emmylou Harris, and others joined President Obama at the White House for a tribute concert in honor of Paul McCartney. Though a video of the closing credits — featuring the whole troupe singing along to “Hey Jude” — surfaced the morning after,...
“She said Fox showed no professionalism in continuing to bother her for an...”
– The Plum Line - Shirley Sherrod blasts Fox News as racist
Damn straight, Shirley Sherrod. (via champagnecandy)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
The Arcade Fire (52)
Louis Armstrong (45)
CAKE (24)
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (22)
She & Him (22)
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Hear Jeff Tweedy Sing "You Are Not Alone"
twentyfourbit:
Earlier this month, the title track off Mavis Staples’ forthcoming album, You Are Not Alone, (one of two new songs penned for the iconic singer by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy), premiered on Pitchfork. And though the inspirational tune seamlessly took its place among Staples’ timeless oeuvre, I couldn’t help but imagine the LP’s producer, Tweedy himself, joining the backup singers for one...
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Shock Treatment, Suspicious Blacks and Oscar Grant... →
From my other blog.
We are to suppose, then, that when police arrive on a scene where fighting that they have not observed has reportedly occurred it is acceptable to brandish weapons to gain compliance from black men. We are to suppose it is proper procedure to threaten any young black man with weapons if he is suspected of having been fighting prior to the arrival of the police.
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Morning Benders - Pull Up the Roots
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WatchLook At What The Light Did Now (Little Wings) (by Bob Thayer)
Arcade Fire - Naive Melody (live)
WatchThe New Pornographers (by Black Cab Sessions)
WatchLyyke Li (by Black Cab Sessions)
WatchSt Vincent (by Black Cab Sessions)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
CAKE (37)
Team B (26)
Sleepy Sun (16)
Autoclave (11)
The Mynabirds (10)
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