Gainsbourg and Olatunji
In 1964, the French singer/scamp issued his sixth studio album, Gainsbourg Percussions, a beat-driven project that included three remade (and uncredited) songs from Olatunji’s watershed recording,...
View ArticleNow Playing: Tinariwen
Tassili is Tinariwen’s latest collection of desert blues from Mali. This song features Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, the contemporary indie rock band from Brooklyn.
View ArticleHello Mumia, Goodbye Columbus
There is only one voice like Mumia Abu-Jamal’s, its tone perfect for professional broadcasting, and its message carrying necessary information for our times. But Abu-Jamal as most people know, is not...
View ArticleWe Insist! Freedom Now
Two albums credited for fusing the politics of black liberation with the sound of freedom are Sonny Rollins’s Freedom Suite—the first experiment in 1958—and We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite—...
View Article“Five to One” Again
(Preview of the book, Shaman’s Blues: The Art and Influences Behind Jim Morrison and the Doors, by Denise Sullivan, coming soon) “Five to One,” was the outgrowth of a philosophical conversation among...
View ArticleThe Long Distance Revolutionary: Mumia Abu-Jamal
There is only one voice like Mumia Abu-Jamal’s, its tone perfect for professional broadcasting, its message carrying necessary information for our times. But Abu-Jamal, as most people know, is no...
View ArticleVeterans Day: War Is Over
Iraq Veterans Against the War asked supporters to use social media this Veteran’s Day to speak about personal experience with militarism. I don’t have much direct contact to report, unless you count...
View ArticleJim Morrison For Sale
This week’s news that Jim Morrison’s Paris notebook will be auctioned later next month, 10 days after what would’ve been the singer and poet’s 70th birthday, hasn’t exactly set the night on fire. The...
View ArticleWriting on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been in jail longer than members of the millennial generation have been alive. Those who’ve followed his case know he’s served his time in the Pennsylvania State Correctional...
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