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Thought I'd bring things to a grinding halt around here. Put another way, sometime a song offers no music at all except a well-constructed, multi-idea-synthesizing, passionate, and very human talk about the state of Things today. Give Simon's lecture an hour of your day and your socio-economic understanding will be much enhanced. Promise.

The Concept: Check out what great videos you can see on MTV if you keep watching. The Reality: You can watch Meatloaf maul Karla Devito three times in an hour, but you'll never see those other videos more than once. Flowers - We Can Get Together The Vapors - Jimmie Jones

• Flowers - We Can Get Together
• The Vapors - Jimmie Jones (LP Version)

Guns, God and Gay-bashers. Tea Party patriots or terrorists? I can't really tell the difference nowadays. Michelle Bachmann looks like she chews on her pearl necklaces for breakfast and Glenn Beck is so far removed from reality it's shocking he hasn't commandeered a spaceship to Jupiter. What's become of a nation when we so haphazardly consume vast amounts of sensationalist crap from a group that, while they proclaim to be strict constitutionalists and proud Americans, are nothing but corporately-backed racists working as mouthpieces for the powers that [...]

Filed under: Book Club Noah Kalina Bob Mould is one of those rare musical artists who has achieved musical success not just once but three times. From the late '70s through the '80s, he fronted the legendary punk group Hüsker Dü . Then in the early to mid '90s, Mould enjoyed popularity with his group Sugar . Since then, he has maintained a very active solo career, most recently with his last album, [...]

Economist, professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what happened to the American economy in two minutes and fifteen seconds. I really hope a publisher has contacted him about doing an illustrated book of economics. Maybe the right is already working on a reponse to this with "Professor" Glenn Beck and his chalkboard where they blame the implosion of the US economy on the poor and the working class for being greedy, lazy and stupid. Wait, haven't they already done that? Regardless, what Reich does here is succint, prescise and simple. This is [...]

Yeah, it's another Detox -related post but this one is coming straight from the Doberman's mouth. Nobody was believing that ying-yang Swizz was poppin' the other day and Snoop Dogg went to England to set the record straight with Tim Westwood about his original mentor's much-maligned album. Uncharacteristic to his clownish behavior of recent years, Snoop tackled the question head on, confirming what most of us pretty much assumed. However, it was refreshing to hear it spoken from a reputable source without the sugar coating. [...]

Shag - Happiness So when Diggler first posed emphasis on "Shag"..It was Volume 7...and by 30 seconds of hearing the production it was making a fan out of me...Now introducing "Vol. 9 Seperation" Very dope and highly skilled craft productions with chops, drum breaks, pauses, and of course sample snipps...Really take a listen to the album...track posted isnt what the definition of the "Seperation" tape portrays...Support the Artist...Drop a donation if you could....ghea! This collection of beats follows a relationship chronologically. Things start out strong: there's happiness and loving words being traded, [...]

• Shag - Happiness

Photos by G. Art by BEAU. On February 25, 2011 I received a cryptic invitation to cover a pop-up art show. I'm always up for an adventure, so I showed up at the address at the designated time. To my delight, the show was "It Ain't About The Filling/The Truth About The Occult" by BEAU. Loyal readers of the site are no stranger to the talents of artist Beau as he is one of the most prolific street artists in New York. He leaves presents for Manhattan residents [...]

Zugegeben, am Anfang erinnern The Truth About an ein deutsches Musikfilmverbrechen aus den späten 90ern. Aber vielleicht ist das ja bei allen Frauenrockbands aus Deutschland so. Und mal davon abgesehen: Eine reine Frauenrockband sind The Truth about ja auch gar nicht. An der Gitarre steht nämlich ein Mann. 1 Die Songs auf "You Win Some You Lose Some", dem Debutalbum der Band, sind zwar nicht die eingängigsten, aber beim Hören kann man so einiges entdecken: Ein bisschen Britpop hier, ein bisschen Postrock da - nahezu alle Genres der Gitarrenmusik werden [...]