Protesters backing imprisoned punk group Pussy Riot wear balaclavas, in solidarity with the trio, as German Green party activists urge the Russian embassy to release the band.
Photograph: Thomas Peter
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“This Ms Mr track may be the best chillwave track of the first half of 2012.” … More »
Here’s What the Higgs Boson Sounds Like
The discovery of the Higgs boson was a singular event, but it was also the product of a long effort: the Atlas project, which used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to analyze particle acceleration. The existence of the Higgs was confirmed — or, well, the existence of a particle that “looks for all the world” to be the Higgs was confirmed — when groups of researchers detected a “bump” corresponding to a particle weighing 126 GeV, making it consistent with Dr. Higgs’ mysterious particule.
The Higgs, in other words, was discovered due to a data anomaly. And now, that data set — and that anomaly — have been set to music. Or, more precisely, music has emerged from that data set and that anomaly.
That music being, precisely, an upbeat melody that resembles the habanera, a tango-like Cuban dance.
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Dog Is Dead – Glockenspiel Song (130 plays)
Dog Is Dead - Glockenspiel Song
These guys are good live. They have an album out in the autumn called All Our Favourite Stories, and here is its lead single.
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Why Woody Guthrie Endures
Forty-five years after his death, Guthrie’s principal lament about America is still obvious and irrefutable: The nation is divided into haves and have-nots—and the have-nots are always the ones in pain. Born of the Great Depression, hardened by war, Kerouac before there was Kerouac, Guthrie’s music was sung by war protestors in the 1960s and by “Occupy” protestors in 2012. “This Land is Your Land”—haunting, teasing, eternally illusive—is as relevant today as it was when Guthrie first wrote it nearly three quarters of a century ago. No wonder Springsteen called it “about the greatest song ever written about America.”
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Forty-five years after his death, Guthrie’s principal lament about America is still obvious and irrefutable: The nation is divided into haves and have-nots—and the have-nots are always the ones in pain. Born of the Great Depression, hardened by war, Kerouac before there was Kerouac, Guthrie’s music was sung by war protestors in the 1960s and by “Occupy” protestors in 2012. “This Land is Your Land”—haunting, teasing, eternally illusive—is as relevant today as it was when Guthrie first wrote it nearly three quarters of a century ago. No wonder Springsteen called it “about the greatest song ever written about America.”
Read more. [Image: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images]
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
Kids need intelligent music. They dont need false idols.
—Damon Albarn (via brethrenz)
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“This is not exactly brand new, but chances are you haven’t heard it on a U.S. commercial radio station. It’s a fiercely political hip-hop track from the young British MC and filmmaker Plan B. The song decries the demonization of working class kids blamed for the riots that swept across British cities in 2011. It’s as seething as any Clash track you can name, and it owes some of its frenzied pacing to rappers like Eminem. But you’ll know something distinctive is going on when you hear a clip from the fourth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony right off the top.” … More »
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin, and a pair of bondage trousers.
—Billy Bragg (via behindtheriffagesandharmonies)
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