Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Tracklist:
01. Mars Intro
02. Meteor Shower (Ital Tek Remix) - Jonny Faith
03. Skulltaste - Mux Mool
04. Greatest Silence - Lorn
05. 1685 Bach - Nosaj Thing
06. Kiara - Bonobo
07. Neon Beams - Take
08. You and I Both Know - Alex B
09. Stay Blazed - Darkhouse Family
10. Full Moon - Jonny Faith
11. Cant Fathom This (Om Unit RMX) - Freddy Todd
12. I Miss Your Brains - Take
13. Soul Stew - Leonard Dstroy
14. Are You The One - Bullion
15. You - Gold Panda
16. Mahjongg - Charles Trees
17. OK Luv (Eprom rmx) - Starkey
18. Battlestar Terror - Harmonic 313 Vs Demolition Man
19. Blue Sky on Mars - Jonny Faith

(Thanx Audiozobe!)

Mark Kennedy: Confessions of an undercover cop

After seven years spent living as an environmental activist, Mark Stone was revealed to be policeman Mark Kennedy. He talks to Simon Hattenstone about life on the outside, with no job, no friends and no idea who he really is.

Read it HERE

Monday, 28 March 2011

Zoooom: The Gift Maker

Radioheads 'The Universal Sigh' Newspaper

Radiohead are releasing an exclusive newspaper entitled The Universal Sigh, worldwide today. The newspaper release coincides with the release of The King of Limbs, on CD and vinyl in stores and on iTunes today. Due to time differences New Zealand is the first place in the world to get the chance to see what all the fuss is about. GET IT HERE [PDF format] @ripitup.co.nz

UPDATE:

D/load NO longer available but you can see it HERE
along with photos from Melbourne yesterday and video of Thom himself handing the paper out at Rough Trade in London.

Reuters Reuters Top News

FLASH: Qatar recognises rebel Libyan national council as sole, legitimate representative of Libyan people - Al Jazeera

Life at a needle exchange

Politics of misogyny, or misogyny of politics … you decide

Deadmau5 @ Ultra Music Festival - Miami - USA 26-03-2011

Via
Winner of Beatport's artist of the year award!

Joe Bageant RIP

Poet, prophet and redneck revolutionary: Joe Bageant R.I.P.

Fracking the Wind River Country

Jeff and Rhonda Locker’s water changed abruptly one day in the mid-1990s while Rhonda was doing the laundry. A Denver-based gas company was working over an old well in back of their house, when the wash water turned black. “It happened just like that,” Jeff Locker says. “I stopped him and asked him what he did to our water, and of course he didn’t do anything to our water… It’s been bad ever since.”

Donna Meeks’ well water was so good, she used to haul it to town for the school office coffee pot. Neither she nor her husband Louis noticed anything wrong until her co-workers stopped drinking the coffee; it was 2004, and a Canadian company, EnCana, had just drilled a new well about 500 feet from the Meeks home. Some visiting friends later said they noticed the water tasted and smelled like gas, but didn’t want to be rude by saying anything about it.

John and Cathy Fenton had no reason to suspect there was anything wrong with their water—it tasted fine. But just to be neighborly, they went along with the Lockers, the Meeks, and other Pavillion-area residents when the Environmental Protection Agency came in 2009 for an initial round of testing. That’s when they found out that their family had been drinking water laced with methane. Follow-up tests a year later found a whole soup’s worth of semi-volatile organic compounds in the family’s stock well.

There’s something karmic about the possibility that Pavillion, Wyoming, might be the first community to prove its water damaged by natural gas production. While water literally is life everywhere in the arid West, here it’s the epicenter for deep social and political divisions.

Pavillion sits exposed to the wind and weather on the rolling high plains of the Wind River Valley’s northern flank. The town boasts two bars, two restaurants, one grocery, and serves as a social center for the community of farms and ranches that populate the Midvale irrigation district. It’s the schools—practically brand new—that bring people together here, says Jeff Locker, who sits on the school board. “Even retired people come to the ball games,” he says. By ball, Locker means basketball because this is a reservation town...