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- Nine Inch Nails -Trent Reznor is one very angry lad, but he writes some good stuff. A bit postmodern in his approach, he says some pertinent things in his music. Here's a taste.
- rage against the machine (soon)
miscellaneous musical entrails...
- depeche mode
- Madonna has really come of age in American Life.
No longer the sugary pop of the 80s, or merely the
" material girl", it seems like her personal search
for meaning and involvement with studies of the
Kabbalah have produced some great results.
Not to mention great music!
If you like her, here's a very comprehensive external site from a fan in Italy.
(Consumercide relevancy: especially the lyrics
to the song I'm So Stupid. )
Checkout the anticonsumercidal band Freeland:
- "We Want Your Soul" -get an online quote on your soul from here.
- Itchy Article
- see the video at the Freeland website...
- pop culture, hip-hop and the commodification of dissent
- Artist
Janis Ian speaks about the hysteria regarding
the internet's supposed 'impact' on the music industry - A letter on Australian Music Censorship by the industry itself...
With
“eMOTIVe,” A Perfect Circle restore rock ‘n' roll to its revolutionary
roots by throwing a 12-megaton musical bomb in the face of the ruling
class. Described by APC's Maynard James Keenan as “a collection of
songs about war, peace, love and greed,” the astonishing set blends
all-new original material with a provocative selection of cover
versions. The tracks chosen bridge three decades of protest songs,
spanning an array of genres – hardcore punk and heavy metal, new wave
and Delta blues, folk rock and rhythm & blues. Among the insurgent
classics reinterpreted on “eMOTIVe” are John Lennon's “Imagine,” Marvin
Gaye's “What's Going On,” Memphis Minnie's blues stomper, “When The
Levee Breaks” (made famous by Led Zeppelin), Depeche Mode's “People Are
People,” Devo's “Freedom Of Choice,” Black Flag's “Gimmie Gimmie
Gimmie,” Fear's “Let's Have A War,” Joni Mitchell's “Fiddle And The
Drum,” and the Nick Lowe (by way of Elvis Costello) anti-anthem,
“(What's So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding.” The album
kicks off with an explosive take on “Annihilation,” originally recorded
by Berkeley aggro-punk legends, Crucifix. The eMOTIVe release is a
limited edition special package that includes a lenticular cover.
http://www.aperfectcircle.com/
Remember one of the the lessons of 'fight club'
Anatomy is Destiny
abandon the current musical paradigm with serial music
Hip Hop Artist Michael Franti Speaks Out on U.S. Government Surveillance of his Band and MTV Self-Censorship
“There’s a lot of us who are now making a blip on the radar… [the government is] starting to pay attention and collect information”
“Our label received a letter,
a mass e-mail from MTV instructing the fact that no videos could be
shown that mentioned the word bombing or war.”
NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT
Amy Goodman, Democracy
Now! Host: For nearly a decade hip-hop artist and activist Michael Franti
has been a leading progressive voice in music. He grew out of the Bay
area music and political scene of the 90’s and in 1986 he founded the
drum and bass duo “The Beatniks” paving the way for his next musical
endeavor “The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy”. His most recent musical
project is the musical collective “Spearhead” begun in 1994 and he’s
used his music to push social boundaries, speaks out against sexual
violence, encourages his community to prevent the spread of HIV and
has been very vocal in his opposition to war. And now it maybe the reason
why the government is looking at him and his group Spearhead. Welcome
to Democracy Now Michael.
Michael Franti: Hi Amy.
Amy Goodman: It’s good
to have you with us. Can you talk about what’s been happening as you’ve
been touring the country with songs like “Bomb da World.”
Michael Franti: Well we’ve
been touring for the last year and a half performing that song and everywhere
we go it gets standing ovations, people begin to cry. People are just
very grateful to hear any voice out there right now who are speaking
in support of peace and human rights.
Amy Goodman: What’s happened
as you’ve been on this tour?
Michael Franti: Well, what’s
happened most recently is that we performed at a rally on March 15th
in San Francisco and the next day on the 16th—that, that rally was out
here—and on the 16th on the East Coast, a band member of mine who prefers
to go unnamed, his mother received a visit from two plain clothes men
from the military and this band member of mine has a sibling who is
in the Gulf. And they came in and talked to her and said you have a
child who’s in the gulf and you have a child who’s in this band Spearhead
who’s part of the “resistance” in their words, and they had pictures
of us performing the day before at the rally, they had pictures of us
performing at some of our annual concerts that we put on that are in
support of peace and human rights. They had his flight records for the
past several months, they had the names of everybody who works in my
office, our management office “Guerilla Management”. They had his checking
account records. They asked his mother a lot of questions about where
he was, what he was doing in this place, why he was going here. They
confiscated his sibling’s CD collection that they had brought over to
listen to while they were in the Gulf, and basically were intimidating—told
her which members of the press she could talk to and which members of
the press she should not speak to.
And basically what this
signals to me is that—I don’t feel like we’re being particulary singled
out or under any investigation for any activity because all the activity
that we do is very much above board and all the events where photos
were taken out were all public things we were at. But what it does signal
to me is that there’s a lot of us who are now making a blip on the radar,
you know, whether we’re organizers at rallies, whether we’re musicians,
whether we’re people who are speaking out, authors, writers, actors.
And we’re beginning to make little blips on the radar. They’re starting
to pay attention and collect information about what’s going on. You
know , more important to me or more important than me you know, being
a part of that is the fact that our civil rights are being eroded across
the board for every person.
And for musicians in particular
it’s a really hard time. Last week our label received a letter, a mass
e-mail from MTV instructing the fact that no videos could be shown that
mentioned the word bombing or war. No videos could be shown that had
protesters in it. Any footage from military—they gave a list of prior
videos that could not be shown, yet MTV has aired videos that show troops
saying goodbye to their loved ones and going off to war in a very heroic
fashion and troops which are gonna be coming home traumatized, wounded
and dead and then be treated and thrown onto the scrap heap of veterans,
as we’ve seen veterans treated in this country. And at the Academy Awards,
there were also letters and talk that went around saying not to speak
out. Radio—mainstream radio, Clear Channel in particular, of course
has put the word out not to air songs that are in opposition to the
war and in support of peace. Meanwhile, our song “Bomb Da World” which
we just put out is now in heavy rotation on a top youth radio station
in Australia and in Denmark and it’s expected to get added to a lot
of stations in other countries.
Amy Goodman: A few days
ago, Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill and I were at the Ani
DiFranco concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center to talk about
Democracy Now and the importance of independent media in a time of war,
just before she went on. And Clear Channel, which owns New Jersey Performing
Arts Center, runs that venue, told her no political information could
be given out and threatened—it seemed the venue threatened to close
down the concert if there was any political speech.
Michael Franti: It’s incredible,
it’s outrageous and I think it’s something that we all need to be aware
of and need to support the art, you know, whether it’s music, whether
it’s films, whether it’s dance performances or whatever, this is the
last place, apart from Pacifica and a few other stations around the
country, where these voices are being heard.
Amy Goodman: And Clear
Channel that runs 1,200 radio stations now, runs many of the big venues
in this country for musicians.
Michael Franti: So it’s
important that we call these stations and demand that these voices be
heard.
Amy Goodman: Well Michael Franti, I want to thank you for being with us, as we go out with your voice, with “Bomb Da World.”
