August 2011
Mesmerism
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance - Mesmerism
Dirty Dancing
Frida Hyvönen
Frida Hyvönen - ‘Dirty Dancing’
Sorrow
The National
“Sorrow” - The National
Mortgage Your Organs
800beloved
800beloved - “Mortgage Your Organs”
No More Michael Jackson (Mastrad)
Teddybears
Teddybears - “No More Michael Jackson”
Runaway Love
Alice Gold
Alice Gold - Runaway Love
swim good
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean - Swim Good
Cyndi Lauper will launch LGBT youth housing program in NYC →
digitalspy.com
Singer Cyndi Lauper has announced she’s launching a safe haven housing area in New York’s Harlem neighborhood for LGBT youth.
True Colors Residence will open on West 154th St near Frederick Douglass Blvd in Manhattan on September 1. Youth who join the residence will be responsible for paying rent based on their income and will be linked with programs for education, recreation and employment.
Up to 40% of homeless youth in New York City are LGBT. From the press release:
“Although TCR will not require participation in its programs, a variety of social and educational support services will be available to all who request them. Our primary goal is to provide a physically and emotionally safe and supportive environment that will empower our young residents to be the self-loving, happy and successful individuals they were meant to be.”
Talk about giving back! This is really inspiring. You go, Cyndi Lauper.
The Jezabels - Endless Summer
The Jezabels
The Jezabels - Endless Summer
Call 911 (Florrie Remix)
Florrie
Florrie - Call 911 (Florrie Remix)
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Absofacto, I’m Gonna Make My Move (from the album Sinking Islands)
Absofacto is Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Jonathan Visger and I’m loving this closing track on the album “Sinking Islands.” I’m Gonna Make My Move has the feel of Jason Schwartzman’s Coconut Records mixed with some Weezer and there’s also a bit of an Enya meets Dum Dum Girls thing going on too. And oh it all works to make a delightful as fuck eargasm! If you like “I’m gonna Make My Move” and want to hear more you can stream (and purchase) all of “Sinking Islands” over at Bandcamp!
MoneyGrabber
Fitz & the Tantrums
MoneyGrabber ||| Fitz & the Tantrums
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Big Troubles, Sad Girls (from the album “Romantic Comedy”)
Big Troubles just makes damn delightful jams. the latest one “Sad Girls” sounds like a track you’d hear on a GIRLS album. It’s just pretty splendid. Romantic Comedy drops 9/27!
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A Crayon Called Wild Blue Yonder, Riptide
I suppose I just have a bias to anything with the words “Rip Tide” in it thanks to Zach Condon. I love Beirut’s album “The Rip Tide” so naturally when I saw that was the title of a song on A Crayon Called Wild Blue Yonder’s “Manchmal” I had to press play. And oh is “Riptide” an out of this world dreamy gorgeous track with vocals that just make you swoon like in a Shara Worden, Florence Welch, Katie Stelmanis, Annie Clark way. If you want to stream (and or purchase) all of Manchmal (and it’s excellent stuff) head on over to Bandcamp!
Caged Animals - Teflon Heart
Caged Animals, Teflon Heart
Seriously you go away for a week and it’s like everyone and their grandma came out with some new awesome jams. Ahh I’m so behind. I will catch up, oh I will! But I figured let’s start with one of my favorite Bandcamp-ers Caged Animals and a great new song called “Teflon Heart.” And there’s a Star Slinger mix of Teflon Heart found on the album “Teflon Heart” which drops on September 19th! You can check out all the Caged Animals goodness on Bandcamp because oh it’s some stellar stuff!
You’ve got a teflon heart and nothing sticks to you, you’ve got a teflon heart I think I want one too…
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ANNIE LENNOX - Love Song For A Vampire
45 rpm single
Song to the Siren
This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
Get Me Home (Feat. Blackstreet)
Foxy Brown
Foxy Brown - Get Me Home (Feat. Blackstreet)
I'll Drown
Sóley
“I’ll Drown” by Sóley
Take The L
The Motels
Take the L | The Motels
How France lives off Africa with the Colonial Pact →
thisisafrica.me
Just before France conceded to African demands for independence in the 1960s, it carefully organised its former colonies (CFA countries) in a system of “compulsory solidarity” which consisted of obliging the 14 African states to put 65% of their foreign currency reserves into the French Treasury, plus another 20% for financial liabilities. This means these 14 African countries only ever have access to 15% of their own money! If they need more they have to borrow their own money from the French at commercial rates! And this has been the case since the 1960s.
Believe it or not it gets worse.
France has the first right to buy or reject any natural resources found in the land of the Francophone countries. So even if the African countries can get better prices elsewhere, they can’t sell to anybody until France says it doesn’t need the resources.
In the award of government contracts, French companies must be considered first; only after that can these countries look elsewhere. It doesn’t matter if the CFA countries can obtain better value for money elsewhere.
Presidents of CFA countries that have tried to leave the CFA zone have had political and financial pressure put on them by successive French presidents.
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Many developing nations are in debt and poverty partly due to the policies of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
Their programs have been heavily criticized for many years for resulting in poverty. In addition, for developing or third world countries, there has been an increased dependency on the richer nations. This is despite the IMF and World Bank’s claim that they will reduce poverty.
Following an ideology known as neoliberalism, and spearheaded by these and other institutions known as the “Washington Consensus” (for being based in Washington D.C.), Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have been imposed to ensure debt repayment and economic restructuring. But the way it has happened has required poor countries to reduce spending on things like health, education and development, while debt repayment and other economic policies have been made the priority. In effect, the IMF and World Bank have demanded that poor nations lower the standard of living of their people.
” —Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty
(via janedoe225)
I'm a Winner
Robots in Disguise
Robots in Disguise || I’m a Winner
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The Strangers, Crying
“Crying” has this dark very sexy I could be in a Quentin Tarantino film vibe that I’m just loving. Madeleine Kate McGowan’s vocals are what eargasm dreams are made of! They are so damn gorgeous and sultry and ahhh they just make you a bit weak in the knees. This track is definitely for fans of Best Coast and the Dum Dum Girls…If you are smitten with it too you can download “Crying” (for a name your price value) over at Bandcamp!
Get Outta My Way
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
Young Hearts Run Free
Candi Staton
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Some Kind of Bliss
Kylie Minogue
“Some Kind of Bliss” by Kylie Minogue
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Go Cozy, Fruit Flies
Well I’m loving what I’m hearing from Silver Spring Maryland’s foursome Go Cozy. Think of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart mixed with Cults and some Au Revoir Simone and you get the jam Fruit Flies. It’s a delightful as fuck track that pretty much hooks you within seconds. If you fall for this one too and want to download it for free head on over to Bandcamp!
