STREAM: Michael Franti & Spearhead - "The Sound of Silence" Bob Dylan wrote "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and, after listening to the new Michael Franti & Spearhead album, he is right. I saw Michael play a number of times in the early and mid-90's – both with Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and a few dates on the first two Spearhead tours. Michael always seemed to have a heavy political/social message and the beats got heavier from the first Spearhead to the second. It [...]
STREAM: Michael Franti & Spearhead - "The Sound of Silence" Michael Franti & Spearhead released their seventh disc, The Sound of Sunshine , last week and the title track has now become the band's first #1 single. This new disc was conceived after Franti was hospitalized for a ruptured appendix in August 2009. " Music is sunshine. It gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. You can't hold it in your hands, smell it, taste it or even see it, yet [...]
The link between listening to Go-Go flavoured Hip-Hop circa 1992 and increased turn out at polling booths remains unproven but as Mr Franti says: " No vote doesn't mean we're protected some suckas still gon' get elected... ." Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - "Rock The Vote (Exercise Your Right)" (MP3)
While taking one of my all too frequent trips on the nostalgia bus, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's album "Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury" is often the soundtrack. It's release in 1992 had a huge impact on me as an impressionable 15 year old and alongside bands like The 25th of May and Marxman fed my hunger for politically conscious music. "Television, The Drug of the Nation" was the first single from the album and despite the fact that it's sometimes a bit clunky lyrically, it's an absolutely brilliant tirade [...]
Wednesday, August 11, 2009 Alright, after taking a column off and returning with a show preview for the Free Press Summer Fest, it's time to settle back into the groove of a couple new picks combined with a sweet old school flashback pick. And I now return you to your regularly scheduled blogomania: NEW JAMS: : Bike For Three - Let's Never Meet : The odd long-distance combination of Canada's staccato MC Buck65 and Belgian producer Greetings from Tuksan seems like it [...]
Feeling a bit weary just now, so can't really think of much to type. mp3 : Ash - Does Your Mother Know? I don't think I put enough Ash on this blog. Cant promise that I'll do anything about it tho'. This cover of the Swedish phenomena's 1979 smash hit was made available on the b-side of Oh Yeah . mp3 : The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy [...]
Some conscious dub from seriously political group The Fire This Time. The Fire This time was Michael Franti and Patrick Andrade. Michael was in The Beatnigs and political hip-hop group The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy with Rono Tse in the early 1990s and then in Spearhead. Patrick Andrade The Fire This Time was founded by Pat Andrade and collects works from aboriginal cultures from around the world and presents the work in a political context. It operates as a loose collective of [...]
Hello folks. A somewhat disturbing story that I read on NME which can be read in a little more detail over at AllHipHop . The man in the picture at the top is called Trick Trick. Trick Trick is a collaborator of Eminem, and Trick Trick has some serious issues. The man is homophobic to his core. I am not going to reprint what he said here -with freedom of speech comes responsibility, and his views on homosexuality are just offensive, not just to those who define themselves as non-heterosexual but any right [...]
Was the hapless QVC presenter in the following clip stitched up by someone behind the scenes or was this a genuine coincidence? Whatever, it's bloomin' oolarious, pop chums. The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug of the Nation mp3 (for 7 days) The new series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe starts on November 18th on BBC Four.
If you're like me and are having trouble assessing the massive, albeit bland, field of presidential hopefuls, this will interest you. Now you can take a quiz to help you determine which candidate's positions on certain issues are most in line with your own, in theory helping you decide who to vote for in the upcoming presidential primaries. G o here to take it . I was slightly surprised by the candidate who matched mine the closest and then saddened because he doesn't have a chance in [...]
Delighted that Colin aka Dr Tristesse is back and blogging with some style again, both here at TVV and over at And Before The First Kiss. Must say, his comeback song at TVV caught me by surprise. Didn't think I knew the song at all and then when I played it, realised that I had heard it quite a bit on radio and probably telly a couple of decades ago. Couldn't have told you what is was or who the
gay! file this one in the who gives a shit file. last time i checked there was not a huge neil patrick harris "is he, or isnn't he" frenzy sweeping the nation. i am going to keep on not watching "how i met your mother" in a whole different light now. i just added a forums section to this here site, and it can be found here . if you have ever have visited the elbows forums, its exactly like that. so, feel free to register if the mood strikes you. [...]
Fifteen years ago a friend and I made a pact..I'll go to your gigs if you go to mine. And so it was that I found myself watching the ample charms but weak voice of Belinda Carlisle , while he ended up crammed into a london venue that now escapes me watching political hip-hop courtesy of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy . The performance of Michael Franti and Rono Tse that night remains one of the best things I've ever seen, powerful hip hop mixed up with [...]
Back when The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (most fun if pronounced "hiffo-prissy") loped onto the scene, Dr. Red Duke and I were initially hyped that we'd found us another Public Enemy. Stentorian baritone! Politically charged lyrics! Here we go! After a few weeks of trying real hard to make it our new favorite thing we both came to the same conclusion: classic PE works best with the comic foil that Flavor Flav provides. DHoH just had that one big Michael Franti voice. No Ernie-laughing high-pitched clown to help [...]
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