If you’re still excited about last night’s amazing Stooges Brass Band performance at the Levitt Shell, read this article about the exciting things the Stooges have going on.
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Fort Worth Hip-Hop: On the Verge | Fort Worth Weekly – News, Entertainment, Restaurants, Music
This is a great article about my homeboy Six-2 and Fort Worth hip-hop in general.
Fort Worth Hip-Hop: On the Verge | Fort Worth Weekly – News, Entertainment, Restaurants, Music
sethzdb: Electric Blue Watermelon
Electric Blue Watermelon
Blues revivalists? Jam band? Power trio? Psychedelic tripsters? Southern rockers? While previous releases have found the pride of North Mississippi exploring various manifestations of their musical identity, on Electric Blue Watermelon they pull everything together and…
A Complete Guide To ‘Hipster Racism’
“There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black friend’s blackness. It’s the gentler, more clueless, and more insidious cousin of a hick in a hood; the domain of educated, middle-class white people (like me—to be clear, I am one of those) who believe that not wanting to be racist makes it okay for them to be totally racist. “But I went to college — I can’t be racist!” Turns out, you can.”
Fuck yo ‘irony’.
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Why America’s Education System Is Like Apartheid
A new report reveals just how deep the education disparities in New York City really are.
HipHop Around The Lake – Music
Lake Okeechobee and the cities around it like Clewiston, Harlem, Pahokee and Belle Glade aren’t the Florida pictured in tourist guides. Life in these parts can be rough indeed (Belle Glade was once used by the State Department to train employees for Third World conditions), but the area is a hotbed for athletic talent and music talent. The Big O Hip-Hop is a site dedicated to the rap music of the Lake Okeechobee region, and is well worth checking out.