
Stax Marquee You can't take two proverbial steps around the blog-o-sphere without running into a Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings song. And to be truthful, I've got nothing bad to say about that. Their music doesn't just sound retro - I'm convinced that somehow Sharon is channeling genuine soul music from the 60's that was mistakenly unreleased by Stax Records and is manifesting itself through her. I'm sure of it. That being said, if you've been groovin' to Sharon, [...]
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The erasing of Iraq It's hard to believe - but then again, that was pretty much Washington's game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make it all OK with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food. In Iraq, this cycle of culture erasing and culture replacing was not theoretical; it all unfolded in a matter of weeks. Like the prisoners [...]
100 Years (in Ten Jumps) 1946: Spade Cooley and His Orchestra, Three Way Boogie. Delmore Brothers, Boogie Woogie Baby. Henry "Red" Allen, Get the Mop. Big Joe Turner, My Gal's a Jockey. Moon Mullican, New Pretty Blonde (New Jole Blon). Edith Piaf, C'est Pour Ça. Billie Holiday, Big Stuff. Peggy Lee, I Don't Know Enough About You. Charlie Parker Septet, A Night in Tunisia. The Bebop Boys, Webb