Del.icio.us links for August 17th through August 21st:
- HOLY MONSTERS! (Interview with Kevin ‘the fucking’ Douche of Big Scary Monsters emo mega-tapping Record Label!) – To celebrate this release I got to interview BSM head honcho Kev Douche. I had to speak to many employees and ring back many times to their huge offices, before eventually securing a brief 15 minutes with the great man in his office. His walls were coated in gold discs, he was smoking a huge cigar and had a sweet crushed green velvet suit on when I interviewed him….Here is what went down.
Tags: labels music interview - Blog Scary Monsters: Clash of the titans – To promote Holy Monsters!, the forthcoming marriage of convenience between BSM and Holy Roar, Alex (Mr Holy Roar) and I decided to interview one another. As expected, it was a fairly dramatic affair, often descending into name calling and stereotype lauding, but you might be able to pick some interesting information out of it somewhere.
Tags: music labels interview - Hold Your Horse Is on MySpace Music – Excellent rocksome indie band from Hampshire.
Tags: band music - American psychos – Right-wing Americans are said to believe in small government. Certainly, where that government is doing something to look after poor people, they are opposed to it. But historically, the state’s legitimacy has always been unquestioned when it functioned as the racial state. When it functions in a racial capacity, either through its capacity to imprison, police, blockade immigration, or make war, its legitimacy is assured. I am not saying that these functions of the state can be reduced to racism – far from it. But if you think of America’s astonishingly high prison population, the severity of its policing, the regularity and expense of its wars, the byzantine bureaucracies devoted to policing immigration, and the trashing of civil liberties – all of these are accepted by a sufficient number of people because of America’s unique racial dynamics.
Tags: USA race racism power politics immigration war prison healthcare police reform - SourceWatch – Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
Tags: journalism research information database media propaganda thinktanks activism politics reference wiki - LENIN’S TOMB: Straining for effect – Interesting piece about the decline of “the war on terror” as an imperialist meta-narrative, and the grasping, wan nature of current pro-war agitprop.
Tags: imperialism war propaganda humanitarianintervention afghanistan USA britain - Interview with Sarah Lipstate! – Fresh off her tour with Parts & Labor in Berlin and Norway, Sarah Lipstate these days can be found with a double necked guitar and Moogerfooger Ring Modulator pedal for her solo project Noveller. With her second album Paint on Shadows, Sarah has carved out a niche for herself mixing Phillip Glass like minimalism with pulsing meditative rhythms. Just this week Sarah announced that she was parting ways with Parts & Labor to focus on Noveller and her film making career. We caught up with Sarah to see what she’s been up to.
Tags: band music interview experimental - Punknews.org | Frank Turner (Part 2) – The second part of an interview with Frank Turner.
Tags: band music interview - The Sandwiches – An EP stream by OrgCore in-joke pop-punk band the Sandwiches… I don’t know why they exist but I’m kinda happy they do.
Tags: band music - A culture of fear – Liberal spaces within Europe have brought many more Muslim women out of their old confinements Europe is at risk of being ‘colonised’ by its Muslim populations, argue a number of bestselling new books, acclaimed across the political spectrum. How has such hysteria gone unchallenged? Pankaj Mishra on the ‘Eurabia-mongers’
Tags: islamophobia racism europe multiculturalism - concert listings for brighton, england – brighton gigs provides information about live music in the Brighton area, sourced from public data available via the Last.fm API. The best way to keep up to date is to follow the twitter bot, or subscribe to the twitter RSS feed.
Tags: brighton gigs livemusic - Caustic Cover Critic: Deeply Odd POD – It does the soul good, every now and then, to point at book covers gone terribly wrong. Sometimes I’m not a fan of a cover, and I say so, but I feel a bit bad, as it’s a matter of taste, and maybe I’m wrong. Sometimes, though, there’s no way I could be wrong.
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