Spoon plays MADE IN AMERICA on Sunday August 31st. RELATED: I think Anheuser-Busch should eat the cost of putting on Made in America and make it a free concert, and Jay-Z is the one person who could convince them to do so. He could start by waiving whatever fees he’s charging to curate, promote and perform at Made in America, as well as any profit-sharing he would have participated in. I don’t pretend to know exactly how much putting on a concert like Made in America will cost, but for the sake of argument let’s say it’s $10 million, a […]
BEING THERE: Sleep @ Union Transfer
Photo by DAN LONG It was easy to fade into the ether last night. Between the langorous doom-riddled sludge of Windhand and the colossal cannabinoidal metallurgy of Sleep, one could get seriously lost in the shear density of each performance, not to mention all the sonic ooze lathering the venue much to the absolute delight of the sold out crowd at Union Transfer. Bodies were flung, necks were tested, weed was incinerated and any unplugged ears, I’m certain, were rendered inoperable within the first few minutes of Sleep’s set. Following a series of recorded NASA transmissions which aired as the […]
HEROES & VILLAINS: For Your Consideration
Because the Internet. Via CELLULOID SLAMMER.
Miley Cyrus’ Homeless Dude VMA Switcheroo Was Bravest/Coolest Use Of Celebrity Power Since Marlon Brando Sent Sacheen Littlefeather To Decline His Oscar For The Godfather In Protest
WIKIPEDIA: Marlon Brando became involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the early 1970s. In 1973, he decided to make a statement about the Wounded Knee incident and contacted AIM about providing a person to accept the Oscar for him. Dennis Banks and Russell Means picked Sacheen Littlefeather. She represented Brando and his boycott of the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), as a way to protest the ongoing siege at Wounded Knee and Hollywood‘s and television‘s misrepresentation of American Indians. Brando had written a 15-page speech for Littlefeather to […]
MIC DROP: Jon Stewart Evicerates Fox New’s Race-Baiting Blame-The-Victim Ferguson Coverage
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive TALKING POINTS MEMO: “The Daily Show” returned from hiatus Tuesday night and Jon Stewart finally tackled the situation in Ferguson, Mo., directing the brunt of his criticism at what he saw as Fox News’ misplaced outrage over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. He took Bill O’Reilly to task for cutting his vacation short to rage against the way the media covered the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, but not at the shooting itself. The comedian also slammed Sean Hannity for […]
DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER: 20 Years Later Oasis Still Sounds Like The Beatles On Coke
The follow-up to Oasis’s 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? was recorded between May and June 1995 in Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire, with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing. Released on October 2nd 1995, it sold a record-breaking (at the time) 347,000 copies in its first week. The album spent 10 weeks at No.1 in the UK, and is Oasis’s most commercially successful, with 22 million copies sold worldwide to date, including 4 million in the US. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? features many of Oasis’s biggest hit singles, including Don’t Look Back In Anger, Wonderwall, […]
WORTH REPEATING: We Been Took
Artwork by SHEPARD FAIREY “[Obama] posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice […]
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: Today Is The Last Day To Stop The Merger Of Comcast & Time-Warner
Today is the deadline for final public comments to the FCC regarding the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner. This merger would concentrate a majority share of cable customers in the hands one company — a company that The Consumerist ranked THE WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA IN 2014, decisively beating out Monsanto. We’ve never been shy about where we stand on this merger, and you are welcome to go HERE to read previous posts condemning both Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner as well as the Comcast’s status as THE MOST CRUELLY EFFECTIVE CONSUMER RAPISTS IN THE FREE […]
BENJAMIN BOOKER: Violent Shiver
Hells yeah! He plays World Cafe Live on October 21st.
Did This Shitty London Rapper Behead James Foley?
AUS: London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary has been identified as the leading suspect in the beheading of US journalist James Foley, according to reports. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was just six years old when his father was arrested and taken away from their London home. At such a tender age, he could not have known the seriousness of the accusations his father would soon face: that he was one of Osama Bin Laden’s lieutenants in Britain, and had played a role in the bombings of two US embassies in east Africa. Still, the little boy experienced feelings of anger and […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Believe In Werner Herzog
FRESH AIR There are lots of good filmmakers, but only a handful are always, unmistakably themselves. One of these is Werner Herzog, the 71-year-old German director who now lives in L.A. Herzog has done things nobody else would do for a film — like trying to tug a 350-ton steamship over a small mountain. This has made him notorious as a wild, love-him-or-hate-him monomaniac — an image he’s been canny enough to milk. Herzog rose to fame as part of the New German Cinema, a ’70s boom that also included Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Margarethe von Trotta. […]
BEING THERE: The Maggot Brain Surgeon General
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Ardmore Music Hall, Wed. night by DAN LONG
CINEMA: Frank Blank
FRANK (2014, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, 95 minutes, UK/Ireland) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC My whimsy alert was on hair trigger at the start of this indie rock flick about the adventures of a band led by the paper-mâché-head-wearing title character. Was this story of a rising and falling band really going to try to sell me on the child-like wonders of painted smiles and singing a simple tune? The opening of this music-driven little film hits exactly that mindlessly carefree note but it is a great pleasure when Frank dares to takes its oddball situation seriously and heads for […]