“It’s getting very hard to stay” is how a lot of the people in the dust bowl felt. “Every child had a pretty good shot to get at least as far as their old man got, but something happened on the way to that place means that children used to have futures, and they used to have good opportunities for when they grew up
The democrats wanted everybody to own their own home whether they could afford it or not, the republicans wanted an even freer free market place and between the two they killed the real estate market and caused the collapse of the banks through fake mortgages and loans. And none of it has anything to do with Bruce Springsteen, who is a billionaire and should take his fucking money and eat it.
“Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers”
And when I heard that, due to U.N. pressure, Stevie Wonder pulled out of a benefit for “Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces”, and who has played Israel often, I was frankly amazed.
A politicians job is to get re-elected. That’s it. That’s all It isn’t even the weilding of power that matters any more, it is just the doing of the job and the job is to be reelected. And that’s slimey but fine even when politicians lead nations into war for the sole purpose of being reelected
Frost is part of this lessening of hostility and getting a Beatle to speak to the network is some coup. Unless nobody knows about it, of course.
The myth of Bruce was bigger than party politics. The son of a blue collar worker who took his Daddy issues and placed it on the biggest stage of all, who spoke not just for him and his people but for all of us, everyone born to, as Chuck D recently put it, run till its dark
‘We tried to play good tonight since the president was here today. Don’t believe the media. I think it’s going to be a landslide.’
So let’s look at 2016: Christie better get to Weight Watchers fast if he wants it all and Cuomo better take that smug smile off his face. Plus, if Christie wins? All Springsteen all the time.
‘I would have said America wasn’t ready for it. And I don’t think they were, because they’re trying to drag him down now. I mean, the poor fucker’s only just gotten rid of all that George Bush shit that he left, or is trying to.’
‘REASON 86: Barack Obama is perhaps the greatest president of modern times at communicating directly with foreign populations. He has also changed the way the government communicates with its own citizens about the outside world.’
He just reminds me of somebody who’s trying to sell me a Mercedes Benz,’ declared Cube to Rolling Stone, talking about Romney. ‘He’ll tell me that it looks good on me and this is my color and I can afford it and everything, just to get the sale. It’s astonishing that people are buying into that at the rate they are.’
There is thunderstorms over Europe,…There are hailstorms, and I mean major hailstorms, in the Middle East. There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere, and there’s only one man that… The other night when President Barack Obama, God bless him, said to Mitt Romney, ‘The Cold War is over.’ I have never heard such a thing in my life…. There is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be — Gov. Mitt Romney!’
. I prefer it to a whole helluva lot of Wrecking Ball. “Forward and away we go” is a great little hook for the Prez’s re-election campaign and for the icing on the cake, Springsteen does a not lousy Obama impression. PLUS!!!! A great rhyme for the Prez’s name? “Let’s vote for the man who got Oussama”!!!
it is cool versus wet, rock versus Sousa, us versus them. But that doesn’t defer to good versus bad. The whole point is: if the country works it isn’t that important who runs it. In this day and age, if Killer Mike or Nicki Minaj really came out for Romney it would be an act of intense bravery.
‘You know, I think about ten and a half years ago, my wife Janna and I went to Mercy hospital in Janesville where I was born for our seven-week ultrasound for our first born child. And we saw that heartbeat. Our little baby was in the shape of a bean, and to this day we have nicknamed our first born, Liza, ‘Bean’.’
Assange is facing extradition to Sweden, and, let’s face it, who wants to go to Sweden in the best of time? Still, probably more fun than hanging with Lady Gaga
The point isn’t that Mary Magpie isn’t right, and isn’t morally superior, to me, but it isn’t a fight I care about enough to battle. Eating meat is sinful but, really, what isn’t? The only question left will be answered for me tonight: is it art?
Moscow court frees 1 member of dissident punk band Pussy Riot, upholds prison sentences for other 2
Snoop Dogg is a funny rapper, may be all that weed helps a little, who knows? Anyway, he posted this list describing why he is voting for Obama and not for Romney on instagram: it’s pretty hilarious, and of course totally irreverent:
‘The Killers are one group I enjoy,’ he said. But wait a minute, that guy from the Killers, Brandon Flowers, is big time Mormon, right? What a nice coincidence!
This made Ted Leo tweet the following: ‘THIN LIZZY WALK ON MUSIC FOR PAUL RYAN???!??!!?111!? I will find the music coordinator and ruin him or her. #HowDareYou’, yes indeed, why are republicans so obsessed by using music they shouldn’t do?
Sexism isn’t dead, men beat and kill wives and daughters and mothers, girlfriends. We kill each other as well, of course, but there is a terrible bullying brutality in our actions towards women. And Odd Future can get away with art for arts sake rapping, even if it’s stupid, but not this. This sucks and I am thoroughly ashamed of them.
The killings terrify us because they are so completely meaningless but for the people surrounding the victims, for the civilians, there is a semblance of cause and effect. Compare it to civilians being meaninglessly murdered by US Drone Aircrafts.
These punk girls have become a symbol of freedom, now, if more Russians protest against Putin, this will be a good example of insurrection driven by music.
“Ghandi used a protest around salt taxes, MLK and Rosa Parks targeted buses. The American Revolution focused on tea. None of these targets were the whole point, they were the venue. The Russian Orthodox church has shown how clearly they are collaborating with the Putin regime, and was a target of a NON VIOLENT mocking protest. That is legitimate.”
‘Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.’
First of all, it seems that Republicans will never learn anything and will always try to use songs without the permission of artists and that’s absolutely unforgivable.
The verdict for the Pussy Riot trial will be stated on Friday August 17 @ 3pm Moscow Time (8am EST). ALSO: There will be a march and rally on Friday. Free Pussy Riot encourages any artists / activists to join Friday in solidarity with the three detained women, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich of Pussy Riot.
rock nyc is Obama Boomers. The Prez was inaugurated in January 2009, we began posting in April 2009, so, yeah, he is the only President we’ve known. As the election season heats up, some opinion
If the British can begin the Opening Ceremony with a song about the rebirth of an Israeli city, why the Olympic Committee can’t honor the fallen Israeli athletes is a political mystery and mind field. It is repulsive.
We are not discussing the Plastic People Of The Universe here, folks. And my guess is stuff is happening behind the scenes. Look at it this way: LOG are not Pissed Jeans. They are signed to Sony Music, they have supported Metallica on tour, they are a successful band and they have powerful people who are working, I guess, to get Randy out.
Blythe also spoke about his lack of understanding of the Czech legal system. He said that he had expected to have been released after paying a $125,000 for bail.
He said: “In terms of justice, I honestly do not know what to expect because it is different than the U.S. I thought that if I made bail, I would be released.”
“Who’s taking you home tonight?” sings Laura Jane Grace during the very first song of Against Me’s opening slot at T5 Friday night, “True Trans Soul Rebel” she replies on a sparkling new rocker that does the difficult. displaces concepts of dysfunction with axioms on lead singer sexiness
Here in the States, we consider it a mix of smart and silly, we can afford not to care after handing King George his hat back in the day. Will Elizabeth Rex ever retire? Morrissey is considering it yeah, but Lizzy? I sincerely doubt we will ever see her leaving any way except thru Westminster Abby.
the extreme right leader is not happy about it and is considering suing Madonna if she uses the same video in France when she performs on July 14 in Paris and on August 21 in Nice. Le Pen, declared: It’s understandable when ageing singers who need publicity go to such extremes. Her songs don’t work any more’.
Sharpton considered Brown a mentor and was very, very close friends with him, and RJ interviewed the Reverand for the bio. Sharpton said he thought nthing much of the interview at the time because he was often asked about Brown but he was very impressed with RJ’s work.
No, THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHITE SLAVES, IT ISN’T ABOUT KIDS, IT IS ABOUT MISAPPLIED WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND PRURIENT CONSERVATIVE HATRED OF RECREATIONAL SEX. It is amazing to me how the States learnt nothing from Prohibition.
D’une manière générale, la musique de M83 est apolitique et je refuse d’être associé a un quelconque parti, tout particulièrement le Front National…’
So if someone is rich, he can’t be offended or have an opinion about the powers that be, whom they believe responsible for fucking up the country? Nonsense
I know I’ve said lots of mean things about the band, but I have never said they’re bad live. Martin is energetic and handsome, all three songs were good, especially “Viva La Vida”.
‘You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum.’
The FBI advises us they have zero files on Joe Strummer. You gotta think they would, I mean, this was before Arabs were number one on the enermies of the State, surely a good socialist lad like Joe would be right up there?
‘If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people’.
The Russian girls believe revolution should be done by women because, as they told the Guardian, ‘For now, they don’t beat us or jail us as much. There’s a deep tradition in Russia of gender and revolution – we’ve had amazing women revolutionaries.’
Check out the President nailing a couple of lines off the Reverend Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” and doing so with such an infectious smile. This was at a Fundraiser at the Apollo Theater last Thursday
At the core of the issue is that these bills could cause censorship of the Web and deny website owners the right of due process central to our legal system. It is the first salvo in a war to make the Internet less Open. Many sites, including Google and Wikipedia staged black-outs of their sites yester
Ron Aniello? The guy who produced Jars Of Clay? That should give him that angry, contemp…. I can’t even write it. Maybe Rolling Stone was right. Maybe Working On A Dream was a 5 star album, relatively speaking.
Helen Bach is a pacifist who loaths all forms of jingoism with a passion similar to her love of all animals and refusal to eat them: she has “vegan” tattoed on her wrist
Herman Cain listened to Gospel music and country, that doesn’t mean he isn’t innocent of sexual harrassment and, similarly, nothing proves he is guilty either. Music is as much a matter of tradition, envrioment, age, as it is the ability to listen and appreciate sound.
