Saturday, May 30, 2009
MRETV80_THE STROKES FEAT. EDDIE VEDDER AND JOSH HOMME
“We All Live in the Coal Fields”
West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal
At least thirty people were arrested in West Virginia Saturday as protesters marked a new phase of Operation Appalachian Spring, a campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. The protests came just a week after the Obama administration gave the green light for forty-two more mountaintop removal permits in a major victory for the coal industry. (Mountaintop removal has destroyed 450 mountains in West Virgina, Virginia and Kentucky.)
- details and interview at Democracy Now
An excerpt from the interview with author and activist Jeff Biggers on May 29:
AMY GOODMAN: What about media coverage, Jeff Biggers, of Appalachia?
JEFF BIGGERS: Media coverage. You know, this is something that I’m just not quite sure what’s going on. You know, here you have one of the most egregious environmental and human rights violations right before our very eyes.
You have little communities in West Virginia, a little town outside called Prenter, where 97 percent of the people have some sort of gallbladder disease. You have Americans who cannot drink their water. You have people who are living under daily explosions and silica dust coming into their gardens and their farms. People are having to be relocated and removed. And yet the mainstream media is not handling it. They’re just sort of acting as if this is something that can wait, that something—that it’s not really an urgent issue.
Related
End Mountain Top Removal / Action And Resource Center
The Struggle Against Mountaintop Removal / via Democracy Now
Friday, May 29, 2009
EVENT: HOMEBASE AT SANTOS
Scenes from HomeBase at Santos Party House from last week. A night of left-field soul and the new cool rap featuring Fresh Daily, Outasight, Brittany Bosco, Eyeris and Tiara Wiles. MRE members GetLive and Alice Wonderland continuing to build the HomeBase movement as it only gets stronger from month to month. What started as a conversation between the three of us in January '08 has now become one of the key platforms for exposing new music in the city.Photography courtesy of Richard Louissaint
- posted by LEE
MRETV79_ARETHA FRANKLIN
Not the first to say it but necessary to state it - thank you God for Aretha Franklin.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
DESIGN: FASHION, POP, VINYL AND JAZZ
Some images that have been catching my attention around London. Top to bottom:
BIG MAN MAGAZINE
New bi-annual men's fashion magazine created by photographer Toni Torres.
DAZED&CONFUSED
Dazed has been pushing some creative covers and slowly but surely getting back to exposing the cutting-edge pop they were known for in the '90s.
WATCH TV "WILD SAFARI" 12" SINGLE
Sometimes the best design is no design at all. Inside its clear plastic sleeve with just the price and a small write-up on a white sticker - this 12" single is killing on the shelves of Rough Trade.
ORNETTE COLEMAN'S MELTDOWN
Yoko Ono, The Roots, Mike Patton, James Blood Ulmer, Charlie Haden and other heavyweights are coming to town for part of this festival curated by Coleman.
- posted by LEE (MRE / US&THEM)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
MIX: TREVOR JACKSON LIVE AT PRIME TIME
Trevor Jackson live in the mix at Studio B for Prime Time February 2009. Over 90 minutes of music covering electro, house, soulful grooves, dirty beats and everything in between. This cat doesn't make too many mixes available so cop this one while it's around. Download link: Eamon Harkin / Prime TimeMRE listeners who liked this mix also enjoyed: MRE14 How Does It Feel
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
SEEMS LIKE HOME TO ME
Can't forget that the Express is about all types of good music. The BBC's Colin Murray played this tonight on his show. It made me think how much I'd like to be back home right now - heading out of New York, going up to the Hudson Valley with the windows down. Check Collin Murray's Radio 1 show on the regular, he's always championing great songs.
- LEE / MRE
Monday, May 25, 2009
MEMORIAL DAY
Before the Iraq War is over the war in Afghanistan and the Central Asia region is just beginning, do Americans care?
From an article on CQ Politics covering Senator John Kerry's hearings in April with Afghanistan vets speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Exactly 38 years after he testified against the Vietnam War.
An excerpt from "Echoes Of Vietnam...", April 23 2009:
Boston University professor and a retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich observed that the starkest difference between the hearing Thursday and the one in 1971 is public disengagement.
“When the young John Kerry spoke, many of his contemporaries had angrily turned against their generation’s war. Today, most of the contemporaries of those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have simply tuned out the Long War,” Bacevich said. “The predominant mood of the country is not one of anger or anxiety, but of dull acceptance.”
Where is the justice for the Americans that were sent to a war based on lies? Why aren't we as a country asking for someone to be held accountable for the dead and wounded American troops and Iraqi people?
Related
Faces Of The Fallen: US service members who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Central Asia)
via The Washington Post
Winter Soldier On The Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress
via Democracy Now
Rethink Afghanistan
Film: Body Of War on DVD
Iraq Vets Against War
Disabled Veterans Of America
- posted by LEE for MRE / US&THEM
Memorial Day May 25, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM
The MRE's Carlos Ramos ran the sound for his client the Jazz Foundation during their "Great Night" concert in Harlem on May 14th. In between supervising the set up of PA systems and running the boards for two outdoor stages Los found time to dip inside the Apollo Theater to rub the Tree Of Hope and get a photo in front of their Wall Of Fame. Carlos on being inside the world famous Apollo: "The wall with all the signatures was really inspiring. The famous ones and names you don't know are on there. It shows the struggle. Each one of them tried in their own way."
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
THE PALLADIUM
Related
The DJ in the mix on WQHT is Craig Kallman who now runs Atlantic Records.
The Palladium is now a dorm for NYU, what a terrible waste of a New York City landmark.
The MRE's Carlos Ramos held down a residency there playing world music influenced club tracks for a packed crowd. Fly chicks dancing the Lambada, what!!??
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
MRE PSA / NO JUSTICE AND NO PEACE
In the news, May 2009: lack of truth and justice regarding the terror and torture by the Bush administration and the expanding war in Central Asia.
Obama Can't Turn The Page On Bush
Op-Ed, NY Times by Frank Rich
A Hollow And Horrible Equivocation
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post by John Cusack
The Bush Administration Homicides
via The Daily Beast by John Sifton, attorney and researcher for human rights groups
Iraq War Casualties via CNN
Afghanistan War Casualties via CNN
Red Cross-Red Crescent and civilian casualties in Afghanistan
Will Pakistan Become Obama's Vietnam?
via Truthout by Steve Weismann
House Passes $97 Billion Funding Bill for occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, $93 Billion approved by the Senate. / via The Hill
Obama Can't Turn The Page On Bush
Op-Ed, NY Times by Frank Rich
A Hollow And Horrible Equivocation
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post by John Cusack
The Bush Administration Homicides
via The Daily Beast by John Sifton, attorney and researcher for human rights groups
Iraq War Casualties via CNN
Afghanistan War Casualties via CNN
Red Cross-Red Crescent and civilian casualties in Afghanistan
Will Pakistan Become Obama's Vietnam?
via Truthout by Steve Weismann
House Passes $97 Billion Funding Bill for occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, $93 Billion approved by the Senate. / via The Hill
MRE74_STARK REALITY
Via Stones Throw
Stark Reality performing "Acting, Thinking, Feeling" on the Say Brother public television program from the late 1960s.
This clip was released on "Stones Throw 101" DVD.
Friday, May 15, 2009
MRE PSA / EAT RIGHT
Michael Pollan / main siteInterview with Democracy Now / topics include swine flu and industrialized farms, genetic engineering of food, the buying of fertile land in Africa to feed other parts of the world, the relationship between America's food system and health care and climate change
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
MIXES: DJGETLIVE / MRE14 + HOMEBASE SUMMER 08
Next month DJ GETLIVE touches down in the UK to rep the MIDNIGHT ROCKERS at CARGO. Expect a wide ranging set that covers the ground between the club sounds of MRE14 to the smoked-out soul haze of his HOMEBASE mix from last summer. Basically, we're in for a hell of a good time.
MRE14 Tracklist / Download
MRE14 Tracklist / Download 
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
CLASSIC ROCKER_LITTLE RICHARD
Who's really and truly bugged out and bringing the God sent talent lately? There's alot of folks who act bugged and put on the pose but the music is not jamming the way the legends like this did it.
IMAGES: SPIN
Spin is celebrating 25 years so they posted some covers they feel are classics. The best ones are all from when Bob Guccione Jr owned and ran the publication in the 1980's and early '90's. (I still have these joints on ice in the archives.)
- LEE / MRE
- LEE / MRE
Monday, May 11, 2009
FRANK151 X DEL LA SOUL
FRANK151 will be producing a special issue this summer to celebrate 20 years of De La Soul with the Plugs 1,2 and 3 curating the entire publication.
EPK for De La's first album via Frank151.
De La playing the entire 3Ft High And Rising album at a music fest in Manchester in July.
Bonus remix video:
EPK for De La's first album via Frank151.
De La playing the entire 3Ft High And Rising album at a music fest in Manchester in July.
Bonus remix video:
Friday, May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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