In conversations, protestors often share how they find inspiration in new methods of struggle. The rap music and protest songs of Toomaj Salehi, currently sentenced to six years in prison, is reminiscent of how African Americans advanced their struggle through spirituals, the blues and jazz. In ...
So everything we’re learning as absolutes makes us think we know, and we don’t know.And when you think you know, you no longer pay any attention.It makes us evaluative of other people who may see a different world.
The Utah Jazz duo were inducted into the Hall of Fame together, having been an integral part of their team’s success for over a decade. They were both excellent at executing the PNR, with Stockton being arguably one of the ball handlers in the history of the sport. On the other hand,...
The Grain Hoppers, a project led by the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of The Silent Boys, Wallace Dietz, recently released their second album, ‘Fireflies Trapped in a Jar’. Wallace Dietz initially picked up the guitar in his college dormitory, tracing chords from a Neil Young playbook. Since...
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, whil...
Japanese pop music sprouted a century ago, inspired by Western jazz and blues. The music evolved into folk and rock in the mid-20th century and incorporated electric sounds and jazz fusion, creating a city pop genre in the 1970s and ...
“ from jazzy and rap-inspired sounds, to softer harmonies and raspier deliveries. His “Traphousejazz†playbook is strong and the diverse nature of each song makes the album feel like a true event. Individuality isn’t always celebrated in this era of music, so props...
SFGMC, the first of its kind founded 40 years ago, has been taking a play right out of the old Soviet-US Cold War playbook, that of “cultural exchange” between sodomite culture and normative culture in performing arts. Just as once the Soviet Union deployed tours of the A. V. Alexandr...
tour; the previous the world may drive her to the studio, but her evening, they perform at a McNally Jackson Although Anthony Braxton is most closely music, which mines beauty out of survival, is book event for the producer Ian Brennan, associated with the avant-garde jazz scene, of ...
and all that jazz… flies out the door… …and in walks war. ‘Economy’ is just a tool… like any other technology. So ‘war’ is always war on us… whether they spill our guts with guns… or markets. The economy is just war by other means… and war is the profligate failure...