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Some time ago a friend, who is now well on the way to owning his own island (or perhaps a gellato shop in Costa Rica), summed up his previous life as a slave to the corporate world with one single word. "Demeaning." I suppose that, with so many people not having a gig since the grown-ups crashed the economy in a quest for each and every last dollar, it could be considered poor form to admit that I agreed with his assessment. (of course, it is disconcerting to know that, if you do [...]

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Download: J. Rawls x Copywrite - Current Events New music from Copywrite & J Rawls "Current Events" with cuts by DJ Drastic and mixed by DJ O Sharp.

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R.E.M. announced their end last week and it's taken me until now to ponder that news. That alone is evidence of how much I'd lost touch of a band that, for a good half decade or so, was a fixture in my world. Now that I do reflect on the career of the Athens, Georgia quartet, I realize that R.E.M. was arguably the ultimate college rock act for me and, like a lot of people from that period of higher education, we simply went in separate directions, unable to maintain a once seemingly unbreakable connection. I'm [...]

Talking to The Guardian Guide, Leona Lewis struggled to explain the riots . Fair enough: it's going to be quite a while before anyone will actually really understand the causes of the riots, and by then the world will have moved on and will be rioting elsewhere, for different reasons. So perhaps it's a bit much to expect Leona to have something coherent to offer. "It was just hoodrats getting totally out of control," she froths, with an indignant swish of her newly dark, single-plaited hair. "I don't think there was any motivation behind it [...]

Noel Gallagher has shared his views on the riots : "I can't understand where their energy for these riots is coming from. We live in this age of violence - and I don't care what other people say: Brutal TV and brutal video games are a reason for this pointless violence as well. The people are immune to violence, they are used to it. And if they get caught they aren't punished the right way. The prisons are already full? Then build new ones! "It's crazy! It's just violence for the sake of violence. The [...]

On Twitter : im going down to the riots to hand out tea and mars bars #london I think you'll find that most of asshats have grabbed Mars bars for themselves, MIA. Also, aren't you tucked up in Malibu at the moment? -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

Morrissey played London last night - Brixton, where apparently there was a minor kick-off later on - and offered his response to the riots : Performing as rioting erupted in Brixton less than 24 hours after similar clashes in Tottenham, Morrissey criticised the prime minister's response to the incidents. "Does anyone think that David Cameron has been to Tottenham? I don't think so," he told the crowd. Later in the gig, Morrissey also referred to the student riots last December, according to the Evening Standard. "In what our slanted media called [...]

It was June 9, 1984 - a Saturday - that I made it into Cincinnati and bought a copy of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's Born In The U.S.A , which had been released five days earlier. Though I knew a handful of songs by Springsteen from the radio, Born In The U.S.A. was his first album released with the E Street Band since I had become obsessed with music. It was their first album where I was there. It was the first album by the already-legendary band that [...]

Random lines from Joesph Heller's Catch-22 keep popping into my head. It makes sense that I have kinship with Yossaran, the protagonist of Heller's masterpiece, as work has been a serious mash-up of Catch-22 with a twist of Lord Of The Flies . I used to keep a dog-eared copy of Catch-22 by my bed. It was the go-to when I just wanted to grab something and be entertained. (surprisingly, the inexplicable logic of those in charge at the heart of the novel is more whimsical to read [...]

Since that whole Rapture dealio surprisingly fizzled, I can't help but think that the real losers were the non-pants wearing inhibitants of this planet. Imagine how elated the animal kingdom would have been had several hundred million humans simply vanished. I picture camels, cockatoos, coyotes - all creatures great and small - breaking into song and dance like cartoon characters at the idea of fewer of us humans mucking up the scene. Word would obviously be spread by the whales as they are able to communicate to all of the world's oceans [...]

Sometime last week, during the spate of coverage on the demise of Osama bin Laden, I happened upon a program on the life of the iconic terrorist. One of the people interviewed was described as bin Laden's best friend as a teenager. It must make a pretzel of the mind to have such a notorious character as a former best friend. The first best friend that I can remember having was a kid named George. There's little else I recall aside from his name and I have no recollection as to what [...]

Here and there - for what seems has been weeks now - I've seen a commercial for that reality show with Donald Trump and celebrities. In the clip that's caught my attention, Meat Loaf is threatening to go Fight Club on Gary Busey. It makes me uncomfortable to see Meat Loaf so worked up. By the time I started purchasing music in '81 or so, Meat Loaf's career had bottomed out. I don't remember hearing anything on the radio from his second album, Dead Ringer in '81. I didn't [...]

As someone who, as a kid, watched Bird and Magic in the '79 NCAA basketball title game, March has long been, perhaps, the most wonderful month of the year. Like December, March is a month-long trek full of anticipation and excitement, culminating in one massive blowout. But hoops in March trumps holidays in December. The latter can be a slog, filled with stress and when you've reached the end, whether it's been memorable or miserable, you're staring at the deepest, darkest stretch of winter. The former, even in less memorable years, is bound [...]

New visuals from artist Charmingly Ghetto. This new video for "Current Events" is a very well put together video with a sound to match. CG is really making some big moves and I am a huge fan. You can check out his latest mixtape "The Opening Act: The Birth Of An MC" HERE . It just dropped a couple weeks back. Check out the video after the jump. Charmingly Ghetto - Current Events (dir. by Yuri Vaysgant) from Charmingly Ghetto [...]

CG aka Charmingly Ghetto, is here with his first video for his new track "Current Events". Shot on a wintery night by videographer Yuri Yaysgant , this track is a calm and mellow track manifested with an important message, spit over a lo-fi piano sampled beat, produced by Steve Jones of Introspective Minds. The Boston MC released his debut mixtape The Opening Act a couple weeks back, Yet "Current Events" is featured on the upcoming project from producer Steve Jones of Introspective Minds and CG, more details to come [...]

Sagnasty! After the two minute Super Bowl commercial that featured Eminem driving through Detroit in a Chrysler, my Facebook newsfeed blew up with status updates from my Michigander friends, both current residents and those who have left, who announced with pride, "Detroit is back!" or some variation of the same sentiment: Hell yeah. The D. Michigan. Stand up. Represent. The commercial suggests that Detroit has been through hell and back, and the story it presents, that Detroit is a city that knows about luxury, is probably not the story you've been reading in the [...]

T: Terrific R: Radical A: Awesome I: Incredible N: Not joking I: Indefatigable N: Neat G: Good M: Marvelous I: Inspiring X: eXciting I know I'm not the only Hi Feverer training for a half marathon this spring, so I thought I'd share some of what's been keeping me going for long runs lately. This mix is just about two hours and has a lot of new things (to me) and even some songs I nabbed off this very blog ! I included some slow jams for you to catch your breath on [...]

I've noticed that less than half of the things I begin to scribble end up posted here. Most of these discarded efforts don't get beyond a few lines and sometimes there is nothing more than a few cryptic words that meant something momentarily important to me. (for Seinfeld fans, it's a "flaming globes of Sigmond!" moment) Then, there are times when something gets lodged in my head like some cranial hairball that just won't dislodge. No matter how much I might attempt to zig or zag my thoughts to a different subject, [...]

This just in: Due to circumstances beyond their control, the organizers of the Mykal Rose concert have postponed the event until a later date. Stay tuned for more information. Filed under: News Tagged: Atlanta , concert , current events , Mykal Rose