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A Chicago-Inflected Concert For Cuba

Honoring Its Music And People

More than 60 renowned musicians from around the globe, including Dionne Warwick, Michael McDonald and Tom Morello, will perform in a Concert for Cuba this weekend, the world’s first COVID-19 era international music fest.
Joining them in honoring Cuba – its music and its people – will be a variety of well-known activists, political leaders and cultural icons including Danny Glover, Medea Benjamin, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Michael Moore.
Longtime Chicago musicians Erwin Helfer and Reginald Robinson have contributed compositions.

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Posted on July 16, 2020

Pandemophenia

By Bloodshot Records

The world is hunkered down, socially distanced, tearing apart and pulling together. Studios are closed, tours are cancelled, and festivals just seem terrifyingly stupid. Cramming into a stuffy club to have friends and bands alike sweating and shouting all over the room? Not us, buddy, and hopefully not you either. Not until tides turn; not until science, empathy and common sense re-emerge.
We count ourselves among the fortunate who have some spare (though worry-filled) time on our hands. And with that time we scoured the vaults to bring together this collection of heretofore unreleased or hard-to-find tracks from the Bloodshot gang of wayward music makers – who miss you just as much as you miss them.

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Posted on July 4, 2020

This Summer’s Soundtrack Started In Chicago

By The New York Times

“A strain of hip-hop that started in Chicago was tweaked by bedroom producers in Britain before taking over Brooklyn. Now it’s the soundtrack to a summer of unrest.”

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Posted on June 30, 2020

40 Years Of Laibach | Is This Slovenian Avant-Garde Band The Most Controversial In Rock History?

By Andrew Dawson/The Conversation

In June 1980, Laibach was formed. Soon, they became the musical wing of the Slovenian arts collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), or New Slovenian Art. Comprising visual artists, theatre companies and a unit dedicated to social theory, NSK was concerned with exploring the relationships between art and politics.
Laibach took its name from Austro-Hungarian and then Nazi-occupied Ljubliana, the capital city of Slovenia. They were the first Western band to perform in North Korea and their most recent album is a cover of the Sound of Music, which re-presents that most saccharine of musicals as an exercise in the celebration of Austrian fascism and paedophilia.
Laibach is one of the most controversial, innovative and truly strange bands in rock history.

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Posted on June 23, 2020

“#ICantBreathe”

By Korporate Bidness w/J. Writes and Gee Gray

Call for my mother
mama couldn’t help me
Hate’s on my neck
and it’s suffocating me

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Posted on June 10, 2020

20 Albums That Are Very Important To Me

By Timothy Inklebarger

Most of the albums that I ever pick for these lists were recorded in the late ’80s and early ’90s. No surprise since I was in my formative years at that time.
Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation is and will always be probably almost my favorite album of all time. It’s about as perfect as a record can get. I think the thing I loved about bands like Sonic Youth is it felt like they were ours. They belonged firmly in the Gen X generation and spoke our language. They helped invent the language.

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Posted on June 9, 2020

A Plan To Pay Musicians

By The Electronic Frontier Foundation

As Congress gets ready for yet another hearing on copyright and music, we’d like to suggest that rather than more “fact-finding,” where the facts are inevitably skewed toward the views of the finder, our legislators start focusing on a concrete solution that builds on and learns from decades of copyright policy: blanket licensing.

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Posted on May 28, 2020

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