LOS ANGELES TIMES: In the 1930s an estimated 1 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans unjustly deported or scared into leaving their homes in the United States by federal and local officials seeking remedies for the Great Depression. “Americans, reeling from the economic disorientation of the depression, sought a convenient scapegoat. They found it in the Mexican community,” Rodriguez and co-author Francisco Balderrama wrote in the 1995 book, which sparked legislative hearings and formal apologies from the state of California and Los Angeles County officials. The deportations began a decade before the World War II internment of 110,000 Japanese and […]

  BUZZFEED: In 1998, Ross was acting as liaison to the Iraq weapons inspectors when the US and the U.K. gave the Iraqis an ultimatum. Iraq blocked yet another inspection. The Americans prepared to send over bombers. “And they actually launched bombers into the air when inspectors rang me up and said actually we’ve been let into the site,” Ross said. “My hands were shaking and I ran this telegram to London saying actually they’re cooperating, and the bombers were called back. It was really extraordinary. It makes my hair stand up even talking about it now.” His personal life, […]

Market Street, 8:01 a.m. Monday by JEFF FUSCO

On September 10, Anti- will release the new album by MAN MAN entitled On Oni Pond. The band’s latest features an arresting reconstruction of MAN MAN’s visionary sound – stripped to its core and rebuilt as something new and compelling yet still very much MAN MAN. This marked shift is a direct result of an intensive collaboration between the band’s frontman, Honus Honus, and drummer Pow Pow, who has assumed a new-found prominence in the songwriting process, bringing an exhilarating array of new rhythmic ideas to the mix. “With this album we got to do something that very few bands […]

  Laura Marling, Mercury Prize nominee and darling of the NME, is genius for several reasons.  I could tell you about how gorgeous her melodies are, or her album’s excellent production, or her clear, crystalline British voice that reminds you of lakes and woods and flannel, or how good looking she is, or how in love with her I am, but honestly the best thing about Laura Marling is her lyrics.  Confessional, poetic, wry, and most of all, they all feel true.  She presents heartbreak and romance in an entirely personal, relatable way that feels so much more believable and realer than […]

  The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia is pleased to announce two screenings of the new short documentary Coltrane’s Philadelphia on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 7pm, at International House Philadelphia and Thursday, September 19, 6pm, at WHYY Studios. Both events are free and open to the public. The August 7th Screening will include an additional film, and appearances by local filmmakers. (See details below.) Coltrane’s Philadelphia explores John Coltrane’s remarkable Philadelphia years and features captivating interviews including those with renowned saxophonist and Coltrane peer Odean Pope and The Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, jazz historian Dr. Diane Turner, author and editor […]

MIA TEASER 2012 sm from Maya Fan on Vimeo. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Musically, M.I.A. has lived up to her name — at least as it pertains to her forever-delayed new album Matangi. […] But it seems as though the delay may be because she’s on the outs with her label, Roc Nation (who, according to M.I.A., do not approve of positive jams). Along with Matangi, M.I.A. has been working on a documentary about her life with director Steve Loveridge. The doc has been similarly delayed, and over the weekend Loveridge put up a five minute teaser for the flick on his Tumblr. YouTube pulled […]

  GLENN GREENWALD: For the last two weeks, Snowden has been unable to speak publicly as he attempts to secure asylum. During that time, all sorts of accusations, innuendo, and other demonization campaigns have been directed at him by political officials and various members of the US media. Today, we published below another video of new excerpts from the interview which Laura Poitras and I conducted with Snowden, this one 7-minutes long. It was filmed in Hong Kong on June 6. The video is taken from the extensive footage Poitras filmed as part of the documentary she has been making […]

THE GUARDIAN: As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure. MORE

Belle And Sebastian play the Mann’s Skyline Stage on Wednesday July 10th, with special guests Yo La Tengo.