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Friday 23 December 2011
OPEN MIND Special: Race Relations in Crisis 6/12/63 - 11/13/92 (1963/1992)
Guests: Malcolm X; Morrison, Alan; Walker, Wyatt Tee; Farmer, James (Original guests) Update Guests: Farmer, James and Walker, Wyatt Tee
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♪♫ Tack>>Head - Stealing (In The Name of the Lord)/Mind At The End Of The Tether
Highline Ballroom in NYC (3/22/09)
Thursday 22 December 2011
Dutch magazine editor resigns following race row with Rihanna
A Dutch magazine editor has resigned after publishing a controversial profile of Rihanna. In an article called "De Niggabitch", Jackie magazine mocked the Barbadian-born Rihanna as a "half naked … Jamaican". "With all [due] respect," the singer replied on Twitter, "here are my two words for you: Fuck You!!!"
The Rihanna profile appears in the latest issue of Jackie, a glossy women's magazine based in Amsterdam. "Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, is the ultimate niggabitch and displays that gladly," they write. The author goes on to describe the singer's "porn heels" and "ghetto ass".
After learning of the piece this week, Rihanna unleashed a volley of furious tweets:
"I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights," she snarled. "There are 1000's of Dutch girls who would love to be recognised for their contributions to your country, [and] you could have given them an article. Instead, u paid to print one degrading an entire race! That's your contribution to this world! To encourage segregation, to mislead the future leaders to act in the past! You put two words together … with the intent of abasement, that made no sense … 'N**** BITCH'?!"Eva Hoeke, Jackie's editor-in-chief, initially tried to laugh off the controversy. "The title of the article was intended as a joke," she wrote on Facebook. "There was no malice behind it." Because "you hear [those words] all the time on TV and radio," she claimed, Jackie's editors "[thought] that this was an acceptable form of slang".
"[It] slipped through my … fingers," she went on. "Stupid, painful and sucks for all concerned."
Apparently this apology was insufficient. Yesterday, Jackie magazine's publishers announced that Hoeke had resigned. In a parting statement, Hoeke blamed her departure not on the initial article, but on how she responded to it. "I realise that my first reaction … in which I indicated that [the article] was a joke, was … incomplete," she wrote:
"The term 'niggabitch' came from America and we solely used it to describe a style of dress … I should have counted to 10 before taking un-nuanced stands through social media channels … Because my credibility is now affected, it is better for all parties if I quit my function as editor-in-chief effective immediately."At the time of writing, Rihanna had not responded to Hoeke's resignation.
Sean Michaels @'The Guardian'
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Is no one gonna say it? What's with Kim Jong-un's hair? He looks like a dim Cure fan who bumped into the teracotta army static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Gua…
Is no one gonna say it? What's with Kim Jong-un's hair? He looks like a dim Cure fan who bumped into the teracotta army static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Gua…
At least 57 killed and 176 injured in Baghdad explosions
Deadly series of attacks rock Baghdad
America the next time you are going to 'liberate' a country and make it a better place, try and think ahead (even) just a little...
♪♫ Iggy Pop - Raw Power
Live at The Joint / Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas (1995)
Performed with Steve Jones, Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum, Teddy Andreadis
Performed with Steve Jones, Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum, Teddy Andreadis
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WikiLeaks hails SOPA: The sooner all internet infrastructure is forced to flee the US surveillance state the better for everyone
WikiLeaks hails SOPA: The sooner all internet infrastructure is forced to flee the US surveillance state the better for everyone
FUCK Christmas!!!
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DMReporter The DM Reporter
This week's Daily Mail Cancer List: Mon) Lard Tue) Concrete Wed) Snow Thu) Voicemail Fri) Shoelaces Sat) Slade Sun) Your reflection
This week's Daily Mail Cancer List: Mon) Lard Tue) Concrete Wed) Snow Thu) Voicemail Fri) Shoelaces Sat) Slade Sun) Your reflection
Smoking # 115
I'm sorry I have a hard enough time taking nuns seriously at the best of times but one with an Air Force tattoo?
My hexmass present to myself
His new album The Politics of Envy is due out 26th March, 2012 through Future Noise Music, and features a stellar cast, including original Clash/PiL guitarist Keith Levene, NYC punk innovator Richard Hell, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Gina Birch of the Raincoats, Slits bassist Tessa Pollitt, Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, Factory Floor, Daddy G of Massive Attack and all of Primal Scream.
All roads have been leading to this. The Politics of Envy cages, consolidates and hotwires the rampant barrage of elements which have infused Mark Stewart’s work since his first band, The Pop Group blasted the post-punk landscape.
Vanity Kills kicks off the resulting LP with cult film-maker Kenneth Anger on Theremin, plus Richard Hell and Bristol new blood Kahn. Followed by Autonomia, featuring Bobby Gillespie’s frenetic call-and-response chant with Stewart, who wrote the song about Carlo Giuliani, killed at the 2001 G8 demonstrations in Genoa. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry guests on Gang War, spitting diamonds, with Tessa Pollitt blanketing the dense, heavyweight urban dubscape, before Stewart takes us into the slo-mo coldwave of Codex. Joined by Factory Floor and Youth for Want, Stewart then hits us with the album’s fine example of 21st-century schizoid wall of sound Gustav Says.
Railing against “corporate cocksuckers” and declaring “sanity sucks” on the cool disco electro Baby Bourgeois, we’re then taken into the huge, seething synth-crawl of Method to the Madness, providing one of the album’s atmospheric highlights, gouging beyond industrial or dubstep to create a frightening new take on modern mood music. Daddy G’s unmistakable deep-throat intonations make the perfect garnish for the bleak, heaving whale of a tune, that is Apocalypse Hotel. Being mutual fans of their work, Stewart gives us his version of David Bowie’s Letter to Hermione, now a spookily-orchestrated, beat-less lament. Stewart turns on the light and lets Keith Levene unleash some of his inimitable metal guitar jangle on Stereotype. They are joined by Factory Floor and Gina Birch on this slice of gorgeously-melancholic brilliance, an effortless modern pop classic, which provides the perfect end to this intoxicatingly provocative set of songs.
Continuing an unmatchable track record of anarchic pioneering and seismic influence, Mark Stewart is back with his eighth album and what must be his most high profile project to date, reasserting him as one of the great volcanic creative minds.
Disc Two: Bonus Dubs EP.
*Signed copies are strictly limited and will be sent out on a first come, first served basis. One signed copy per household. Once all signed copies have been sold the offer will be taken down and replaced with an unsigned version of the album. Signed copies are allocated upon the order processing, not when the order is placed.
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♪♫ David Bowie - The Jean Genie (TOTP 3/1/73)
Bonus:
Interview with John Henshall who found the footage...
The Lost recording of Jean Genie
Broadcast TOTP 3rd January 1973
A rare David Bowie Top of
the Pops performance will be shown on television for the first time
since it was originally broadcast in 1973.
It was believed that every recording of the singer's performing number two hit "The Jean Genie" had been destroyed. It emerged in October that one had been found - and it will feature in a Top of The Pops Christmas Special on BBC 2.
The footage belonged to TV cameraman John Henshall, who was unaware how rare the performance was.
Mr Henshall, from Oxfordshire, worked on the show and kept a copy of Bowie's appearance.
He mentioned that he had the tape during an interview on Johnnie Walker's Radio 2 show earlier this year, after which excited Bowie afficionados contacted him to explain its status.
The film was later shown at the Missing Believed Wiped event at the British Film Institute in London, which celebrates the discovery of long-lost TV shows.
The four-minute clip shows Bowie performing alongside his then-band The Spiders From Mars, who play a slightly extended version of Jean Genie.
It will be screened in full on the Top of The Pops special.
Tapes wiped
The performance has not been broadcast on TV since it originally aired on 4 January 1973, the day after it was recorded.
It was lost when hundreds of shows were wiped to allow video tape to be reused by the BBC, because of its high cost.
Mr Henshall was unaware until recently that the BBC had not kept a copy.
"I just couldn't believe that I was the only one with it. I just thought you wouldn't be mad enough to wipe a tape like that," he said earlier this month.
Mark Cooper, executive producer of Top Of The Pops 2, said: "Bowie singing The Jean Genie is electric and the kind of piece of archive that not only brings back how brilliant Top Of The Pops could be, but also how a piece of archive can speak to us down the years.
"I can't imagine what other piece of TOTP from the early Seventies would be as extraordinary a find."
BBC Two's 90-minute Top of the Pops Christmas Special will be screened at 19:30 GMT on Wednesday
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