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Taylor Swift’s Americana aesthetics in wartime

LB — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:42:21 +0000

All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.

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RIP Alan Vega

LB — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:34:18 +0000

RIP Alan Vega of the band Suicide. I’ve had a crush on him all this time. Goodbye, Alan, goodbye. 2016, you are a pitiless year.

America, America / Is killing its youth:

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I Can’t Stand The Rain – Ann Peebles, 1973

LB — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:28:42 +0000

For friends in America in these terrible days, a favourite from my childhood, probably because of the combination of Ann Peeble’s voice and the sound effects of the production.

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The women of the cast of Hair on Broadway, 1968

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 04:54:46 +0000

Back row standing: Suzannah Norstrand, Melba Moore, Marjorie LiPari, Lynn Kellogg, Emmeretta Marks. Middle row: Natalie Mosco, Lorrie Davis, Diane Keaton. Front row sitting: Shelley Plimpton, Leata Galloway

Progress isn’t a straight line, so feminism isn’t on a straight line either.

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Prince

LB — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:31:55 +0000

Photo: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

Purple is associated with mourning as well as all the better known things—royalty, magic and spirituality etc. Somehow I’d forgotten this until Prince died.

I am so gutted by this news, I don’t even know what to write.

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This is what the 80s were really like: a permanent Rickroll

LB — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:25:55 +0000

I was there; I should know. As one caption to this video read, very accurately, “this is what it was like 24/7.”

I went looking for clothes the other day but everything was 80s, badly printed shirts and high waisted jeans the colour of skim milk.

Album: Native North America Vol. 1

LB — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:31:09 +0000

This is a superb and historically important album, a compilation of music by indigenous musicians in Canada 1968-1985. It’s telling that I had only heard one of these tracks before hearing the album; it points to a disturbing lack of airplay of native music during those years.

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What might ancient Babylonian songs have sounded like?

LB — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:34:56 +0000

What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Possibly something close to this. Composer and performer Stef Conner and the Lyre Ensemble have put out an album of songs they believe are close to ancient Babylonian songs, using the original poetry.

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Secos & Molhados – Sangue Latino

LB — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:12:59 +0000

Oh 1973, I am so happy to see you yet again. Last week it was Sensations Fix, and then yesterday someone posted Sangue Latino by Secos & Molhados.

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“What was the gig like?” “I don’t know, everyone was dressed as a teddy bear in the Seventies.”

LB — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:19:35 +0000

Rolling Stone: Did you see that [Arcade Fire has] asked people to wear formal wear or costumes at their shows?