April 2012
25 posts
March 2012
19 posts
“Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind or linguistic...”
– Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)
“To this day, I consider the summer 1995 Chico Science & @NacaoZumbi...”
– Idelber Avelar - “Mangue Beat Music and the Coding of Citizenship in Sound” in Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship www.dukeupress.edu
“I love the simplicity of Sesame Street characters. I love that [Elmo is] just an...”
– Kevin Clash: Making Elmo Come To Life (via nprfreshair)
Facebook asserts trademark on word "book" in new... →
Interesting to see this kind of grab just after reading Tumblr’s new, transparently written and fair Terms of Service….
itsthemusicpeople:
infoneer-pulse:
Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word “book” by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using or...
Chicha Libre at globalFEST #sxsw: the perfect...
Finally, just before I headed home, I took a chance on checking out Speakeasy, even though I’d already gone and missed Chicha Libre, supposed to play at 10 p.m. Fate was in my favor at last, and the schedule had changed, so the Brooklyn-bred, Peruvian-inspired group was still playing its psychedelic surf-rock cumbias at almost midnight, as dancers undulated in front of the stage and in a small...
Spin magazine picks Debo Band at globalFEST as a...
(Debo Band) rumbled through Ethiopian wedding songs and mighty, constantly evolving originals. Every hot blast of brass or well-placed outburst of strangled guitar combined to resembled a smartly tweaked, off-kilter version of what you might find in the Ethiopiques series.
Tonight it all felt like a celebration: wild, unabashed dancing during every song, and hugging between friends and...
Bradford Cox plays an hour long My Sharona: "an... →
