Here's one of my poet-turned-singer heroes singing about the place I happen to be going to college next year. Gil's very old now, but he's still got it - especially with a strangely modern beat like this. Listen:
M.I.A's latest album /\/\/\Y/\ has found me revisiting all her old stuff I loved. She's the best. I've seen all the criticism from the New York Times and others attacking the validity of her freedom fighter-supporting propositions, but her music still has immense value to me: I'm not about to go protest with the Tamil Tigers but her outward representation of the strange cultural ties that still hang to a very westernized child of immigrants resonate. I'm Indian and American, and sometimes it causes friction! That's what she's about!
This track is sweet, it's Maya collaborating with the guy from Sleigh Bells - who also happen to be on her N.E.E.T. record label. You can tell by the guitars and loud drum machines that sound as if they're about to break your speakers no matter what volume it's at. Listen to it:
"Lucidity" by Tame Impala - It's like John Lennon singing on a Pink Floyd song or something. Vintage!
Absolutely beautiful stuff from Dave Longstreth helped out by the famed Icelandic singer:
Great article in which Ron Rosenbaum flies from Huxley to James Brown and offers a compelling argument for non-agnostics:
Why has agnosticism fallen out of favor? New Atheism offers the glamour of fraudulent rebelliousness, while agnosticism has only the less eye-catching attractions of humility. The willingness to say "I don't know" is less attention-getting than "I know, I know. I know it all."
It was a team effort.