Chappelle showed up at the Skrillex concert in the Bay Area on Monday night. He took a dive off the stage, then rode the crowd to the bar to get a drink. What more is there to say? Besides, I’M RICH, BITCH! (via Beatport)
Midnight Music: 4 U by fwdslxsh
Ok, what genre is this song? Someone tell me, because I’m totally confused. We’ve found the sweet spot between chilled out trap beats & and almost R&B styled vocals. Just put it into your face, tell your friends, and get back to me!
Pussy Riot Killed It On Colbert In Their First American TV Appearance.
This is probably one of the most important interviews you’re going to watch involving music, dance & free expression in the surveillance age you’ll see in a long time. Pussy Riot stands strong & unbowed, taunting Putin to re-arrest them, discussing the secret number of Pussy Rioters (is that a word yet?) including the ones still jailed, and explaining their trip to the USA. Besides raising awareness, they’re also meeting prison & human rights activists in an effort to learn more about how to fight these kinds of tactics. Props to them & as always, #freepussyriot. (via Laughing Squid)
Tupac Has Probably Sparked The Brain That Will Change The World Already.
I mean, just saying. The number of inner city kids that were helped by his efforts to end gang violence, in addition to the millions of creatives that were influenced by his sound makes it seem likely. Just think, one day the president might be a Millennial who rocked backwards jeans because of Kriss Kross one month.
Midnight Music: Keeno’s Remix Of Love Letter By Champion
Keeno’s burst out of the gate here in 2014 with a new remix and it’s exactly what you need in your liquid D&B world. Keeno’s December feature on Hospital Records was featured here a while back. He’s back on Liquicity’s new Escapism compilation that’s out on the 17th. Man, a Liquicity & Hospital party would be dope.
Someone Is Making Mixtape Coffee Tables.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2014/01/29/custom-made-cassette-tape-coffee-tables/
Just in case you needed to spend $1500.00 and not feel it was a total waste, pick up one of these built-to-specification cassette tape coffee tables. If you know the difference between these different cassettes, you’ll have a good time with this. Just make sure to run the purchase by your spouse before it shows up at your front door. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard Always Provides Critical Information.
The statement is a sophisticated one, but one that rings true no matter whether you create, administrate, or obliterate.
Midnight Music: 8-Bit Renditions – Classic Rock Redone in Chip
Someone over at Metafilter shouted out this new YouTube Channel and its various hep renditions of classic rock & roll, alt rock & whatever else they feel like. A serious chiptune movement exists, that I’ve discussed often on the blerg. I believe tunes like this can remind others that chip is a legit genre and there’s a lot of work that needs to be done in that space to make EDM stronger as a whole. Can’t wait to see who does it and pushes the genre into the big room for the first time. (via Metafilter)
A Rape In Black Rock City
While this isn’t about music or dance culture, I think this is something the underground needs to grapple with meaningfully if they (as an aggregate & individuals) really want to claim to be better than your average gropefest bar or club.
A Guest Post by Clarisse Thorn
This is an article about sexual assault at the Burning Man arts festival, and the issues that surround this topic at Burning Man. It includes accounts of a particular assault.
I am writing this post as a feminist, as someone with extensive experience in the BDSM community, and from the perspective of a 2-year Burner with many many Burner friends. If you’d like to know more about my background, or if you don’t know much about Burning Man, it might help to read my review of Burning Man 2012. You can find my previous work about BDSM and sexual communication at my blog or in my books.
I want to acknowledge up front that there are a number of social justice issues at the festival, some of which I summarized in my review, and some of which were recently highlighted when the “Cargo…
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Pharrell’s Hat Had A Point. He’s Also Got Jokes On Everyone.
NYMag’s The Cut is the only outlet I’ve seen report this. It seems Pharrell’s hat was actually an elaborate fashion reference that throws all of the Smokey The Bear/Arbys/Curious George/Diglett references into sharp relief. Seems they’re not as clever as they thought they were.
Buffalo Girls (the video above), was first performed in 1844 by a Blackface minstrel singer, before it got picked up by the heads who re-did it. It’s actually just super retro, so, there’s your morning idle chatter salvo for you.
Terry Gotham 