Brassed Off In Toronto
Down in the basement of a typically plush Toronto public library, residents from the Davenport Neighbors for Peace group...
Interview: Going Beyond The Green Zone With Dahr Jamail
It’s a cliché that the media was the first casualty of the Iraqi occupation, but few reacted like Dahr Jamail...
Interviews
Musicians Without Borders»
Like most traditional musics that gets welded onto the seam of more modern beat structures, Balkan Beat Box was born out of a diaspora melting pot. The sort of pressure cooker formed only by the mass urban carpets of places like New York city. There a klezmer tune has the freedom to wormhole [...]
Music
Vidiot: Silence»
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO8BvL87eks
Reddy’s always complaining about the need to update the DIY aesthetic for new technology, so I thought I’d flag this very good example of a video-maker doing just that. Lorcan Finnegan’s new video for Dublin locals Sickboy has got mad photocopy-based animation, playing around with the self-promotion aesthetic developed in the local music scene. Also [...]
Misc
In Me Ears 14: Sixfoot Apprentice.»
Kaboogie messer Sixfoot Apprentice delivered a head bashing set over at the Mantua festival last weekend, it’s been floating around on line all week and is here now as a plain and simple mp3 download so you don’t have to fuck around with those nasty ads that count down and go pop. Read the usual [...]
Polathicks/Society
This Way Up: Reimagining Argentina’s Shattered Economy From Below»
photo credit: Mate Amargo blus
Just recently Buenos Aires became a mass partying destination for Americans, all intent on a retail respite from the gringo trail that runs down the spine of the continent. It lends itself well to most of the disconnected vignettes that pass for travel writing. You give [...]
Screen/Print
The Wire: A Cracked Mirror.»
Raked over in newspapers since the fifth and final series made its way on to TnaG, it’s hard to write anything new about the Wire. It’s a portrait of America through Baltimore and the cop show vehicle; of failing school systems and crumbling communities, where drugs gangs and cops act in similar flurries of selfish [...]
