Detroit residents fight back over water shutoff: ‘It’s a life-or-death situation’ – The beleaguered city says a water shutoff is essential to recoup $89m in overdue bills. But the decision has outraged thousands of Detroiters – who have taken matters into their own hands. [The Guardian] 15,000 Detroit homes had their water shut off. You can help where the government won’t. [Huffington Post] Democracy Now – Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Bombed in Their Homes and in the Streets, Where Can Gazans Flee? Rula …
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Tommy Ramone, last original member of the Ramones passed away last Friday. [Variety][Splicing Up Eyeballs][The Sydney Morning Herald][PunkNews.org] End Of The Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003) Tommy Ramone of The Ramones talks about The Replacements in the documentary Color Me Obsessed (2011) Classic album covers minus deceased band members. [Dangerous Minds] UK Garage MC Sparks’ friends and family send off funeral clip – UK Garage MC Sparks’ funeral was on July 17th, he passed away of unknown causes on June …
Jimi: All Is By My Side (Official Trailer) See Outkast’s André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side. [Washington Post] 1st Look: Is That Don Cheadle or Miles Davis? – Don Cheadle embodies Miles Davis as fliming starts on the Miles Ahead biopic. [The Root] Studio Science: Bob Power on studio mixing. [RBMA] 2,500-year-old erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island – Racy inscriptions and phalluses carved into Astypalaia’s rocky peninsula shed light on very …
Last week Friday June 27th, Soul/R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Womack passed away at the age of 70. Known for his music in the 60’s, 70’s (contributing music to Blaxploitation film soundtracks, ex: Across 110th Street), and 80’s, an inductee in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2009, his work has been covered, interpolated, referenced by other Soul/R&B artists such as K-Ci of Jodeci, Mariah Carey, Jahiem, Calvin Richardson, Prince, Rome, Kelly Rowland, Gerald Levert and Mary J Blige, covered by Rock musicians …
Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead – A Miles Davis Biopic – Indiegogo campaign videos – Don Cheadle’s directorial debut is going to be a Miles Davis biopic called Miles Ahead. This is a project Don’s been thinking about doing for a number of years, and now he’s trying to crowd fund money to help this project see the light of day, and release this movie independently. Taking an idea Don’s had for years and turning it into a reality, a film about one …
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