July 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
PJ Harvey (121)
Bikini Kill (77)
Kraftwerk (52)
Le Tigre (47)
Björk (20)
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Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best...
– Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →
The Fall (237)
Liliput (55)
Talking Heads (55)
Elliott Smith (39)
The Magnetic Fields (34)
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Tiny Desk Concert: Tom Tom Club →
wilwheaton:
When it began back in 1981, Tom Tom Club was a side project of Talking Heads’ rhythm section: the bass of Tina Weymouth and the drums of Chris Frantz. Tom Tom Club’s music was a staple of parties and clubs back then, and the music took on a life of its own in various samples and remakes — most notably the pop hit “Genius of Love.”
It turns out that, all these years later, the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
Pulp (294)
Hole (35)
Adam and the Ants (15)
Grace Jones (10)
Leonard Cohen (8)
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3 days to stop Murdoch's UK media takeover
http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?rc=fb&pv=43
“Posted: 5 July 2011
Jeremy Hunt has just said he’ll allow Murdoch to own all of BSkyB. We have just three days to flood the government’s public consultation with requests to stop the deal. We’ve done it before — in the last consultation Hunt said our avalanche of 40,000 messages delayed the deal as his...