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'...If you want the definition of a new fascism it is faceless people, setting the rules, not forgetting, not forgiving and promising that they’re coming. That’s really a frightening vision of what’s going on. Imagine if this becomes a general activity.'
- Stratfor CEO George Friedman on being hacked by Anonymous

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Shut Up And Play The Hits (Trailer)

On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event "a marvel of pure craft" and TIME magazine lamenting "we may never dance again." SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.
Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
http://www.pulsefilms.com/

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'[SOPA is championed by] politicians who are proudly unfamiliar with how the internet works, but who are well familiar with favors from well-heeled copyright extremists.'
- Gary Shapiro (President of the Consumer Electronics Association)

George Harrison on Phil Spector

'...Thirty years later, Harrison would reissue a remixed version of the album ('All Things Must Pass') on a CD box-set, explaining in his sleeve notes his feeling that some songs required 'liberating' from a production that 'seemed appropriate at the time but now seems a bit over the top with the reverb in the wall of the sound'. Harrison also paid credit to Spector.
'In his company I came to realise the true value of the Hare Krishna mantra'. Whether as an expression of universal love, or personal forbearance in the face pf trying circumstances, he did not specify.'
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