Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A consortium wants half a billion in U.S. Stimulus money to create 2,000 Chinese jobs making turbines in Shenyang for a wind farm in West Texas. We’ve outsourced factories, technology and jobs. We must hold the line at off-shoring our tax dollars.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
words & photos by Jacob Blickenstaff Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and Barbara Lynn @ The Bell House The 1st Brooklyn Soul Festival was a great success. Sell out crowd on the 1st night and nearly so on the second. The crowd...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 28/07/2009
The Mighty Hannibal @ McCarren Park Pool Party 2006 (heartonastick) "When soul singer the Mighty Hannibal invites you to his birthday party, it's wise to take him up on it! The Atlanta-born Hannibal--who has been making records for 50 years...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 29/03/2009
What on earth would I do without the totally indispensable Reverend Billy's Rhythm Revival !? Last night, he played an amazing singer I was only marginally aware of, South Carolina's own Baby Washington . Immediately, I knew Dead Air has been waiting all this time for her wonderfulness. Let's hear it for husky-voiced, alto girls! (I am one, too.) Just take a listen to this. The old-timey drive-in visuals...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Rhino Handmade is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Atlantic Records with a series of 4-CD boxsets devoted to the label's different musical styles, including this new Atlantic Soul 1959-1975 CD boxset. Opening with Ray Charles' Come Rain Or Come Shine...
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