Category: Music releases
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Toys Noise
Love this song from French band Toys and the accompanying video although I’m sure someone will eventually complain about defacing public property! (via Joel Crookes) But I have to say my favourite is the new Alan Gay remix – something about that shimmers and flows nicely…
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Stepson
Stepson is a new El-P collaboration with Nick Diamonds who worked on Stay Down which is one of my favourite tracks from Cancer for Cure. First listen of the strangely titled ‘movie tit’ seems like it’s going to be a good one. (via Stereogum) El-P can do no wrong in my eyes, after a great…
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All the Rage
A random search of LGBTQ history blogs about Paul Cadmus lead me strangely to this blog post about the AB101 Veto Riots in San Francisco in 1991, and then this documentary about the riot and the Bob Ostertag & Kronos Quartet piece based on it called ‘All the Rage’ – you can download the MP3.…
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Cult vs SALEM
In a seemingly perfect collaboration, Ian Astbury loved witch house to reached out to SALEM for a remix…this works well, love the video by Kostas Elemental too – very now. Goes to show there is life in the old witch house yet. (via Eve Massacre)
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If I was gay I would think hip-hop hates me
Love this song and video by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Yes hip-hop has a problem, inability to face up with the false-machismo and being gay with “No Homo” and “faggot” and all that shit – as a gay hip-hop fan I do find it hard sometimes. But as Mac says: If I was gay I…
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Eugene McDaniels
Beth Orton on 6Music reminded me of this excellent Roberta Flack song, Compared to What which still sadly is completely relevant: I’d not heard in many years but wanted to know more, and it lead me to Eugene McDaniels, the writer. Originally a pop singer, he became more conscious and politically aware in the late…