Mixing Music and Politics

Geez, why the hating on Sheryl Crow?

DC repeatedly gets skipped on cool shows.

IMP books them into Baltimore instead of 9:30.

This is probably because crowds in DC that aren't go go crowds, are passive and sucky. All them 80's punks and skins are all growed up (or moved to Baltimore).

bsimon,

The Afghan Whigs are good, but take a listen to The Twilight. they are even better.

http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightcleveland

Drive By Truckers and The Hold Steady may be good ... but a Neil Young/Wilco mini-tour was just announced with a Philly stop.

looking for a comment from you re jackson browne's objections to mc same using running on empty

That Spoon album is awesome. Caught them on tour with The New Pornographers late last year.

The music/politics thing that's bugged me for years is Rush using "My City Was Gone" as his theme song - surely Chrissy Hynde MUST disapprove, and yet it persists.....

IN MEMORY OF STEPHANIE TUBB JONES...

This item, originally posted here on Monday, is re-posted for your careful consideration:

BURIED IN LAST SATURDAY'S WASHINGTON POST AND UNREPORTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE LATEST AFFRONT TO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.
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By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson

Comment:

CONGRESS MUST PROBE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ABUSES AND OVERTURN THIS DECISION -- BEFORE THIS JUDICIAL "BYPASS" TOTALLY DESTROYS THE RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA

At a time when members of government-funded volunteer "service" and "watch" organizations are accused of harassing, intimidating and possibly physically abusing citizens, the administration's defense is a "good" offense: Just say anything goes.

Local police authority has been usurped and sworn officers who are charged with protecting their communities from crime are being turned into secret agents.

We have descended into a police state; federal grants are funding the police use of dangerous "radiation energy" weapons that fire concentrated blasts of silent, invisible radiation. Victims of organized "gang stalking" allege that these weapons are being used to degrade the lives of these so-called "targets", whose lives are being financially and physically destroyed by an extra-legal "control mechanism" similar to that practiced by the Nazis, the Stasi and the KKK.

These are the "mechanics of personal destruction," using the war on terror as a convenient rationale for imposition of a police state.

Where are McCain and Obama on this? Will the national press corps even ask the question?

BUT WILL THE ELECTION EVEN MATTER? Not when government-supported "vigilante injustice" squads are "gang stalking" American citizens, making a mockery of the rule of law:
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/get-political-vic-livingston-opinion-expose-state-supported-vigilante-squads-doing-domestic-terrorism

WHAT IF THEY COULD SHOOT YOU
WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE? THEY CAN.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/zap-have-you-been-targeted-directed-energy-weapon-victims-organized-gang-stalking-say-its-happening-usa-1

Have to say...gotta love Wolfson's music site. Hated the guy (still kinda do...but the music site helps to get over it just a little bit.

a guy who talks about "Living Color" gotta have some character somewhere in his soul...haha.

I noticed Celine Diom's "You and I" didn't seem to make the cut though...lol

Yo- Ohio Whigs, it was actually the Afghan Whigs that brought 'cool' back to the word 'whigs'.

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/afghanwhigs

bhoomes: And is the Republican theme going to be "You can't always get what you want"?

Bhoomes, did you make that up?

No field hockey, but there is a fun posting on the Whigs in Virginia blog about a leader of this revived Modern Whig Party movement whose regionally acclaimed rock band is bringing the word "cool" back to the "Whigs."

http://whigsinvirginia.blogspot.com/2008/08/coolest-whig.html

Harold Wolfson likes The Hold Steady? They're my favorite band, but now that I know Wolfson likes them, I may need to reconsider.

At least I heard about the tour yesterday. I'd hate to find out about the tour through Wolfson's blog!

Hey Silly Chrissie the WAPO Obama Gurly Boy
Shill,so hw come your soooo afraid to bring
up the fact that sudden Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain is up
over Democrat Peacenik Marxist Socialist
Democrat Liberal Loser Gurly Boy Wimpy Wuss
Barack Hussein Obama now then? Still in
denial and shock here wimpy silly sissy
Crissie Gurl? God Chrissie Is A Doofus!
NOBAMA 2008 Or Ever!

Democrat's theme song at Convention"Eve of Destruction" . Of course they think the World is on the Eve of Destruction: but we Republicans are confident its the Dem party with its whiney and pessimistic views that will eventualy let the dems go the way of the Whig party.

What about the other way round- i.e. bands that have endorsed Obama e.g. REM, Morrissey, Joan Baez, Dylan, Arcade Fire, Springsteen and a gazillion others(all endorsements for Obama over Clinton, initially). MccAin even managed to get an posthumous unendorsement from Johnny Cash's daughter this week. I agree with dch, though: a bit of classical music also wouldn't go astray in this campaign.

if Fix had a theme song... it would be the "Leave it to Beaver" theme song. Same concept.

wipe the cum off your chin before you post, dude...

The Hold Syeady performed at the 9:30 club last week.

Dear "Repub"

Merkel / Germany blocked Georgia and Ukraine from NATO membership.

Stop Russia now or the stakes grow geometrically.

Mc Cain has the credentials, Obama has a jump shot.

http://milkavkaz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=196932249d20106d29f30bca258ecb3a

Released: August 20, 2008
Reuters/Zogby Poll:
MCCAIN TAKES 5-POINT LEAD OVER OBAMA - OBAMA LOSES GROUND AMONG DEMS, WOMEN, CATHOLICS & EVEN YOUNGER VOTERS

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1541

Democrats are still on time to choose Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee. Otherwise, they are doomed to suffer one of the most spectacular, unthinkable political defeats in history.

BUT WILL THE ELECTION EVEN MATTER? Not when government-supported "vigilante injustice" squads are "gang stalking" American citizens, making a mockery of the rule of law:
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/get-political-vic-livingston-opinion-expose-state-supported-vigilante-squads-doing-domestic-terrorism

WHAT IF THEY COULD SHOOT YOU
WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE? THEY CAN.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/zap-have-you-been-targeted-directed-energy-weapon-victims-organized-gang-stalking-say-its-happening-usa-1

Is there anyone dumb enough to believe Barack Obama's bulls*** that his favorite music is the same as what most white voters think of as 'good music'? You'd have to be really dumb to believe that Barack Obama is not a hip-hopping gang-banger type music lover who is only saying what his liberal usefull idiot white voters want to hear in order to align himself with them to get their votes. It's just like his new-found patriotism and love for America. This phony was a member and supporter of a racist white-hating and America-hating church Trinity United for Christ for over 20 years, and there's no way on the planet a TRUE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN would have stayed in this racist church for that long without agreeing with their message and teachings. Oprah Winfrey joined that same church just long enough to get to know what was going on, and quit. Barack and Michelle Obama never did in the 20 years that they were there until it dawned on them that maybe being members of a racist white--hating and America--hating church is not a good white vote getter in the presidential elections. Obama will gear his belief's and what he say's and does to what each of his audience he speaks to at the time believes in. He's not only a racist white-hater and America-hater from way back but he's a con-artist trying to bulls*** the usefull idiot white liberal voters that he needs to get elected that he's one of them. His 20 year membership in Trinity proves otherwise.

Wolfson has no clue. If there weren't anything new in Corsi's book, one wonders why BHO and his surrogates would have come out with such long-winded responses, many simply ad homs against Corsi himself. Speaking of music, Corsi obviously struck a chord.

Perhaps Cillizza could consider some real reporting for a change and could ask the BHO campaign why they deleted a whole sentence from the interior of a Corsi quote, without indicating that they'd deleted that whole sentence:

http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/007909.html

Needless to say, that whole sentence they deleted modified the meaning of the quote in Corsi's favor.

Obama: deception you can believe in.

Just tell me who listens to J. S. Bach on a regular basis and the rest will take care of itself.

rtfanning:

You mean the same person whose campaign manager is working for the Georgians? The same one President Saahkasvilli called out on the "We are all Georgians" statement by saying "That's all very nice but I need action."? The same one who said Bush and Rummy were doing great running the Iraq war? The same one who said today that the Draft should be re-enstated? We don't need a president who talks loud and carries a small stick.

Where is any mention of Obama slipping. Chris is not using his powers of selective reporting again, is he?

Chris is such a putz. Lets talk about his buddy Obama slipping in the polls not this bull!

Fix your this really cool Guy in your own mind. Do you even play field Hockey? You strike me as the kind of person that gets winded opening a box of Twinkies.

If you want to mix politics & music, SEIU is sponsoring a 'take back labor day' event across the river from the Repub Nat'l convention called Take Back Labor Day.

http://www.takebacklaborday.com/event.php

billy bragg
atmosphere
mos def
steve earle
allison moorer
the pharcyde
tom morello and friends

Wilco fans will recall Billy Bragg from the Mermaid Avenue project in which they joined forces to record previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie songs. Atmosphere is a critically acclaimed hip hop band from Minneapolis.

In fact McCain is such a bold leader he was talking big EVEN BEFORE the Georgia war, encouraging Saakashvilli to think we'd protect him if he took on Russia.

Just remember who spoke out first,loudest and clearest when Russia invaded Georgia when you vote in November.

http://milkavkaz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=171ac547325a9b8b1b2f438ad73