#undergound empire

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Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's must-read account of "How America Weaponized the World Economy."

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At the end of Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's new book Underground Empire, they cite the work of John Lewis Gaddis, "preeminent historian of the Cold War," who dubbed that perilous period "The Long Peace":

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250840554/undergroundempire

Despite several harrowing near-misses, neither of the two hair-trigger, nuclear-tipped arsenals were ever loosed. When the Cold War ended, the world breathed a sigh of relief and set about refashioning itself, braiding together economic and social interdependencies that were supposed to make future war unthinkable. Nations that depend on one another couldn't afford to go to war, because they couldn't hurt the other without hurting themselves.

The standard account of the Cold War's "Long Peace" is that the game theorists who invented Mutually Assured Destruction set up a game where "the only way to win was not to play" (to quote the Matthew Broderick documentary War Games). The interdependency strategy of the post-Cold War, neoliberal, "flat" world was built on the same fundamentals: make war more costly than peace, victory worse than the status quo, and war would be over – if we wanted it.

But Gaddis has a different idea. Any effect Mutually Assured Destruction had on keeping fingers from pushing the buttons was downstream of a much more important factor: independence. For the most part, the US and the USSR had nonintersecting spheres of influence. Each of these spheres was self-sufficient. That meant that they didn't compete with one another for the use of the same resource or territory, and neither could put the other in check by seizing some asset they both relied on. The exceptions to this – proxy wars in Latin America and Southeast Asia – were the disastrous exceptions that proved the rule.

But the past forty years rejected this theory. From Thomas Friedman's "World Is Flat" to Fukyama's "End of History," the modern road to peace is paved with networks whose nodes can be found in every country. These networks – shipping routes, money-clearing systems, supply chains, the internet itself – weave together nearly every nation on Earth into a single web of interdependencies that make war impossible.

War, you may have noticed, has become very, very possible. Even countries with their own McDonald's franchises are willing to take up arms against one another.

That's where Farrell and Newman's book comes in. The two political scientists tell the story of how these global networks were built through accidents of history, mostly by American corporations and/or the American state. The web was built by accident, but the spider at its center was always the USA.

At various junctures since the Cold War, American presidents, spies and military leaders have noticed this web and tugged at it. A tariff here, a sanction there, then an embargo. The NSA turns the internet into a surveillance grid and a weapon of war. The SWIFT system is turned into a way to project American political goals around the world – first by blocking transactions for things the US government disfavors, then to cut off access for people who do business with people who do things that the US wants stopped.

Networks tend to centralization, to hubs. These central points are efficient, but (as we learned during the covid lockdown) brittle. One factory fails and an entire category of goods can no longer be made – anywhere. When it comes to global resiliency, these bottlenecks are are a bug; but when it comes to US foreign policy, these chokepoints are a feature.

Farrell and Newman skillfully weave a tale of individuals, powers, circumstances and forces, showing how the rise and rise of world-is-flat rah-rah globalism created a series of irresistable opportunities for "weaponized interdependence." Some players of the game wield these weapons like a scalpel; others (like Trump) use them like a club.

This is a chronicle of the dawning realization – among US power-players and their foreign adversaries, particularly in China – that the US lured its trading partners into entrusting it with financial clearing, IP enforcement, fiber landings, and other chokepoints, on the grounds that American wouldn't risk the wealth these systems generated by turning them into engines of coercion.

But then, of course, that's exactly what America did, from the War on Terror to economic sanctions on Iran, from seizing Argentinian reserves to freezing Russia's cash. Sometimes, the US did this for reasons that I sympathize with, other times, for reasons I am aghast at. But they did it, and did it, and did it.

America's adversaries (and frenemies, like the EU) have tried to build alternative "underground empires" to offset the risk of having their interdependencies weaponized (or to escape from an ongoing situation). But therein lies a conundrum: world-is-flat-ism has ended the age of indepedence. Countries really do need each other – for energy, materials, and finished goods. Independence is a long way off.

To create new interdependency networks, it's not enough for countries to agree that they don't trust America as neutral maintainer of their strategic chokepoints. They also have to agree to trust one of their own to operate those chokepoints. Lots of countries have come to mistrust US dollar-clearing and the SWIFT system – but few are willing to allow, say, China to run an alternative system that carries out settlements in Renminbi. The EU might be able to suck in some "friendly" countries for a Euro-clearing system, but would China trust them? How about Iran?

Farrell and Newman make a good case that US's position at the center of the web is a historical accident, and possibly a one-off, contingent on the ascendant post-Cold War ideology that said that markets and the interdependencies they create would neutralize the threat of handing a rival nation that much power.

Which leaves us in a world of interdependency in conflict. If Gaddis is right and the Long Peace was the result of independence, then this bodes very ill. The only thing worse than a world where no one can depend on anyone is a world where we must depend on entities that are hostile to us, and vice-versa. That way lies a widening gyre of conflict that felt eerily palpable as world events unfolded while I read this excellent, incisive book.

Political science, done right, has the power to reframe your whole understanding of events around you. Farrell and Newman set out a compelling thesis, defend it well, and tell a fascinating tale. And when they finish, they leave you with a way to make sense of things that seem senseless and terrible. This may not make those things less terrible, but at least they're comprehensible.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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Dollar Bin #3:

Fairport Convention's Angel Delight

This album has never looked promising. John, Paul and George didn't break up and then let Ringo call himself The Beatles; Lou, Cale, Sterling and Mo didn't want what's his name to make a record and claim it was by the Velvet Undergound. And Dave Swarbrick had about as much of a right to lead Fairport Convention in 1970 as Lepidus had to lead the Roman Empire in 48 BCE. Right?

Well, let's dive back into the dollar bin and find out.

A year earlier, when Sandy Denny left Fairport to form Fotheringay with her loser boyfriend and Ashley Hutchinson beat his own retreat to assemble the first and greatest incarnation of Steeleye Span, there was still plenty to love about Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson, the band's gawky genius, was writing increasingly uncanny and harrowing songs. Now Be Thankful and Farewell, Farewell are so good that it seems like the band's pimply medieval apprentice had snuck off with the spell books and everyone's maidenhead. He was even learning, reluctantly, to sing.

What's more, the band's producer, Joe Boyd, was still firmly in the mix. Boyd had already played a role in many of the greatest records from the whole wonderful era, from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter to Five Leaves Left. Thompson and Boyd made the band still vital.

What's even more, Fairport had already shown it could weather change. Two lead singers had already come and gone prior to Denny decamping. And, just before she left, they turned a fatal car crash into Liege and Leif, the founding, and greatest, record in the history of Folk Rock.

But in 1971, after a solid and occasionally brilliant 5th record and a (retrospectively anyway) historic tour of the US that saw Fairport blowing away Linda Ronstadt before inviting her on stage to play whatever she wanted with them, Thompson followed his muse right out of the convention's Full House and left Swarb in charge. Boyd was no fool; he hightailed it out of there as well. Dave Swarbrick, a homely but masterful fiddle player hooked on "diet pills" (as in Speed), was now the front man of one of the greatest rock bands in history. Uh-oh.

The cover for the next record, Angel Delight, is fitting: there they are, (see above), the lads left behind by everyone important, grinning savant-like midst the remains of a burnt out house. The joke is apt but discouraging: see here, the cover declares, the losers left behind in the wreckage.

And just take a look at these hobbits !

Seriously, doesn't this look like a Multiverse alternative of Aragorn (that's Thompson, in the middle) with Tolkien's plucky halflings? Moving right to left we've got the drummer, Dave Mattacks, standing in for Merry: Mattacks is the awkward, moody one in the fellowship with a forever kink in his neck, too shy to take off his looking glasses or his granddad's coat. Next up it's Dave Pegg, oddly tall for a hobbit, whose grandfather, legend has it, once rode a horse.

Beside Aragorn/Thompson we've got Swarb himself. Forever enveloped pipe smoke, he's a merry trickster whose sideburns run all the way down his four foot frame to his giant, hairy feet.

Finally, there's Simon Nicol at furthest left. After Thompson leaves he's the only guy not named Dave in the band, and they all lived together! Just imagine the conversation at dinner.

Nicol, looking up from his kippers on toast: "Dave?"

All three Daves, eagerly: "Yes Simon?"

Nicol: "Never feckin' mind."

Though Nicol was the only founding member left at this point, he was just 20, a young Took still not old enough for pipe weed. Clearly he's the only guy in the band with a chance of one day getting himself an elf wife.

Without Thompson, Denny, Boyd, Hutchings or even Ian Matthews, there's none of Frodo's constipational anxiety, let alone Gandalf's enormous eyebrows, left to be found in this band. If there's a ring of power to protect they've already lost it.

But drop the needle on side 1 and Angel Delight sounds instantly promising. Swarb's has clearly learned to sing and we bounce along merrily to the opening track, Lord Marlborough. Perhaps these hobbits know the way to Mordor after all!

Don't get too excited. Track 2, Sir William Gower, finds them playing like Fatty Bolger. The song surely records the exploits of yet another British miscreant, war hero or goofball but it's hard to care when the noodling melody sounds like the band is sitting in an 80's middle school circle at midnight, crank calling confused old ladies who happen to answer the seven digit meandering melodies the boys are making up on their parents' push-button phone. Swarb calls out the numbers while the other boys cackle and chase: 7! 8! 3! 4568! "Hello!" Swarb hollers into the phone. "Sorry to call so late mam.  May I speak with a Sir William Gower please?  What's that now? Wrong number? Well, what about a Mr. Head?  First name Dick?"

The boys may fall over laughing but the song is a plodding bummer. So let's skip ahead to some greatness. Wizard of the Worldly Game isn't a dollar store tabletop Harry Potter knock off for 2-4 players that currently ranks last on Board Game Geek. It's a downright magestic song. Youtube contains zero tracks from this entire album (perhaps Muggles are forbidden to hear Angels Delight unless they brave the dollar bin) so I can't play it for you here. But it's lovely, with Swarb's tenor rising from tender to belting as the boys emerge from their respective holes on Bagshot Row to encircle him in stately harmony. Nicol is no Thompson on the electric guitar, but he knows it, and his solos here are patient and wonderful.

Journeyman's Grace, one of several songs co-written by Thompson before his departure, wraps up side 1 and it's a barnburner, with lyrics that are as oddly captivating and ineffable as anything Thompson would go on to write in his prestigious career:

Leave my weary flesh and bone to a circle made of stone Take me to the mountains for my pleasure. And if the dead man won't depart, drive a stake into his heart And let me ere deliver him his leisure.

The band hands the song's lead vocals back and forth like a hot tater, and listen to Swarb on the final chorus, hitting a high note and holding on like a puffed up Disney rooster.

Let's wrap up this visit to the dollar bin with a concert performance of the song from this era. Watch Swarb shuffle! Turns out the guy's yet another Fairport genius, and the band is in good hands after all.

[3garcons]

Empire Undergound October 2023 show with

Hayburner , The Hauntings, No such Things as ghosts

[jwscrobbles]

Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 2/11/2018

TW LW ARTIST – SONG

1 1 H.E.R. – FACTS (3 weeks @ #1) 2 3 Miguel/Travis Scott - SKYWALKER 3 2 Tom Misch – SOUTH OF THE RIVER(3 weeks @#1) 4 5 SZA - WEEKEND 5 8 Kelly Clarkson – LOVE SO SOFT 6 4 Jhene Aiko – WHILE WE’RE YOUNG 7 7 Ne-Yo – ANOTHER LOVE SONG 8 12 Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign – SOMETHING NEW 9 14 Sam Smith – TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES 10 6 Roy Davis Jr./Preven Everett – GABRIEL (LIVE GARACE MIX)

11 9 Stefflon Don/French Montana – HURTIN’ ME 12 17 Bonobo/Innov Gnawa – BAMBRO KOYO GANDA @ #1) 13 10 Syd – ON THE ROAD 14 20 Bryson Tiller – SOMETHIN TELLS ME 15 11 Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated, & Valleyz – PINE & GINGER 16 23 Lil Uzi Ver/Oh Wonder – THE WAY LIFE GOES 17 13 Jessie Ware - MIDNIGHT 18 15 Jax Jones/MNEK – HOUSE WORK (3 weeks @ #1) 19 21 Kanye West – REAL FRIENDS 20 16 SZA/Travis Scott – LOVE GALORE (3 week @ #1)

21 25 Empire of the Sun – ON OUR WAY HOME 22 29 Kendrick Lamar/Zacari – LOVE. 23 18 Major Lazer/Travis Scott/Camila Cabello/Quavo – KNOW NO BETTER (4 weeks @ #1) 24 31 MGMT – HAND IT OVER 25 19 Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - LOYALTY 26 22 The Weekend – ROCKIN’ 27 35 St. Vincent – LOS AGELESS 28 28 Chip/Ghetts – GETS LIKE THAT 29 24 GoldLink/Brent Faiyaz/Shy Gizzy – CREW 30 39 Bruno Mars/Cardi B – FINESSE (REMIX)

31 32 Dan Auerbach – MALIBU MAN 32 26 Selena Gomez – BAD LIAR 33 37 N.E.R.D./Rihanna - LEMON 34 34 French Montana/Pharrell – BRING DEM THINGS 35 27 KDA/Tinashe – JUST SAY 36 42 The Weeknd - SECRETS 37 33 Thundercat/Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins – SHOW YOU THE WAY 38 30 Calvin Harris/Pharrell Williams/Katy Perry/Big Sean - FEELS 39 45 Duke Dumont/Gorgon City/Naations – REAL LIFE (SOLARDO REMIX) 40 36 The Killers – THE MAN

41 38 DJ Khaled/Jay-Z/Beyonce – THE SHINING (4 weeks @ #1) 42 50 Dan Auerbach – STAND BY MY GIRL 43 --- NAO - Nostalgia 44 44 Rihanna – LOVE ON THE BRAIN 45 --- Craig David/GoldLink – LIVE IN THE MOMENT 46 43 Kraak/Smaak/Cleopold – ALONE WITH YOU 47 40 Russ – LOSIN CONTROL 48 41 Ten City – THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS (UNDERGOUND MIX) (1 week @ #1) 49 46 Zedd/Troye Sivan - PAPERCUT 50 --- Daniel Caesar/H.E.R. – BEST PART

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the heist

in the 40's there was a kingpin in the dramatic undergound of s?Chinatown NYC... his name was Pung and he ran the entire empire of light that existed in NNew york. No whopne really knew about this becasue {Ping was a mendicant, seemingly siumpokle.,but no! he was too tired not to. We reepresent her hardcore scene of myc..we love it and live it..we try hard not tobe dumb, tghat is all it akes..doin';t you know not to tal;k like that you stupid fu...never come in my head agfain...

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Yay! Been waiting a week for this. How about a Mob boss Nat where Tony is her mob rival. Nat breaks up with reader cause she doesn't want her into the crime world even though Reader insists she can. Tony later hires Reader to be his partner in his business and reader agrees to spite Nat. Nat and Reader meet again when Nat acuse Tony of stealing one of her contacts. Sorry, if it's confusing. Love your works! 💕

You know she's pissed the minute she walks through the door and spots you standing next to Tony. It flashed across her face and hardened her eyes for a brief moment. Had you not known her so well, you would have missed it.

You were dressed to the nines, trying to impress everyone around you now that you were Tony's business partner. Nat guessed Tony is the one who bought you the new clothing because there was no way you were able to afford name brands before now.

She didn't take her eyes off you as she sat in the seat directly across from Tony's desk.

She wanted you to feel her anger. Her disappointment. She wanted to drown you in every negative feeling she felt.

But you stood there unfazed.

"Romanoff, I'd like you to meet my new-"

"I know who who she is," Nat snapped.

You shook your head. This was not a moment for anyone to lose their tempers.

Tony cleared his throat. "Very well, apparently. But aside from that, to what do we owe the pleasure of seeing you?"

Two days ago, Nat had a meeting with one of her associates - one who specialized in undergound weapons trade. He had his eyes and ears everywhere in the city, and she wanted to know when the next shipment was coming in to intercept it.

Except he told her he couldn't do business with her anymore.

He said he signed a contract with Tony Stark and his new partnert to be his informant, and no one else's.

Nat didn't think anything of it at first. He had been the type of guy everyone knew and used for information, so she let it go. She'd find another rat to give her what she needed.

When she lost two more informants, she finally grew suspicious.

And now she knew why she lost her informants: you. You took all of her secrets - all of her people - and handed it to Stark on a silver platter. And for what, exactly? Money? Fame? Who knew.

"I know you stole my contacts, Stark," she hissed. "And I know you had her give them to you."

"I don't need to steal from you, Romanoff. Your contacts came to me."

"Like hell they-"

"Nat, I would never willingly steal from you," you interrupted, keeping your voice firm even though you wanted to break. "I didn't join Tony to take you down and steal the empire you created. It's just a coincidence."

Nat laughed, but she held no humor in her expression.

"There are no coincidences in this world, Y/N. You are a snake, and I finally see that."

"Nat, please-"

She stood from the chair and quickly made her way to the door. She didn't have to look back at you to know you were tearing up. You were always the more sensitive one in the relationship.

"Don't bother coming home," she sighed. "I'll pack your shit and send it here. I'm sure Tony's office is cozier than our bed was."

You took a step forward to stop you but froze. Nat had never been this cold towards you before. And you weren't sure if you wanted to crumple into a ball or slap her across the face.

Tony placed a sympathetic hand on top of yours as you watched her walk through the door without another word. There was no use in stopping Nat once she got an idea in her head. You both knew she was far too stubborn to listen.

And he knew you hadn't given him the contacts. He knew the truth.

Before you got hired, you made it clear you'd do nothing to double cross the love of your life. You weren't that type of person. But Nat would never know that.

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Mount Baal, home to the Deltan Clan of Baal Sketch time: 2 hours.

In the mountain located in the far North of the Deltan lands live the clan of Baal. A ferocious and battle-ready clan, they are recognized for being a step up to a barbarian horde, with their battle-style favoring brutality in combat and pure offensive tactics. A comparatively small clan than most, they live inside the hollowed out Mount Baal, with reinforced interior walls due to their supply of metal ore. With Baal having a smaller supply in underground land suitable for farming, they rely on smaller encampments to feed their people - these camps are dotted around the mountains, keeping active trade between themselves and the Mount. If a camp is attacked, a message is sent to the surrounding villages which then reaches the Mount - once received, the Mount will sent a suitable battle party to fend off the attackers, or re-claim the village while the others prep for an attack as well.

The mountain interior is split into three sections. A large above-ground section that houses the 10,000 strong military, their arms, training rooms, and far-seeing ports. The bottom for the worker sect, who mine the clan’s metals and work with the various materials brought to the clan. Then finally the undergound storage, which protects food, treasures, resources, etc. Up on top, reachable by both a grand outer spiral staircase and an interior staircase known only the war sect, is the throne area that is in the open air and is highest atop the peak. The Clan Father, his advisors, and War-Chiefs live up on the top, discussing the actions and goals for the clan while remaining safest from any possible siege. The top is also where the Heroic Graveyard is located, where notable champions, chiefs, and Clan Fathers of Baal are buried.

Due to their aggressive nature and isolationist behavior, Clan Baal is disliked by most of their neighbors - although their ferocity in battle puts down any suggestion for warfare against them. They would often declare war against other smaller clans, and only in rare occasions go against anyone stronger. However their wars are usually done to raid supplies and tributes, thereby casting the image of a bully in the eyes of many.

This strategy however would die out when their Clan Father was slain by Avgnar Baal, who returned to the throne after being banished as a child and left for dead. When Avgnar was granted the title of War God, he radically transformed his clan to be more self-sustaining, creating a stronger expansion from the Mount and uplifting the camps to fortified keeps. His actions would greatly fuel the clan’s warring ability, as he adopted tactics he learned in his travels and set about the stepping stones that would transform the once small Clan of Baal into the first ever Deltan Empire.

[uneminuteparseconde]

Des concerts à Paris et alentour

Janvier 30/31. Arnaud Rebotini : musique live pour "Fix Me" d'Alban Richard – théâtre de Chaillot 31. Deena Abdelwahed + M.E.S.H. – Gaîté lyrique 31. Go!Zilla + Siz + Deaf Parade – Supersonic (gratuit)

Février 01. Le Comte + Christine + Atoem – Palais de le Porte dorée 01. Negative Space + Volition Immanent + N0v3l – La Station 01. Lust For Youth + Dead Horse One + San Carol + Venice Bliss – Supersonic 01. Autrenoir + Linda Olah + Uriel Bartélémi – théâtre de Vanves 01. Cylene (François Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley) + Kreemer (Cameron Jamie & Dennis Tyfus) + Xavier Boussiron – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) ||COMPLET|| 01/02. Erik Minkkinen – Pauline Perplexe (Arcueil) 01/02. Arnaud Rebotini : musique live pour "Fix Me" d'Alban Richard – théâtre de Chaillot 02. Tempers – Supersonic (gratuit) 02. Fraction + Frédéric D. Oberland + Clara De Asis + MTUA + Raphaël Mouterde + Sébastien Roux + Fantasia Nei Dessert & Romain Al'l + Hourvari + Aloyse Lucas (fest. Les Sonifères) – DOC 02. The Residents – Gaîté lyrique 02. Shabazz Palaces + Dälek (fest. Sons d'hiver) – Théâtre de la Cité internationale 02. Venetian Snares + Dbridge + Zoe McPherson + Bastos + Behzad Ghorbani – Concrete 02. Jennifer Cardini + Javi Rodondo – Badaboum 03. Mesce basse + :such: + Duncan Pinhas + Alexandre del Torchio + Isothesis & Alexandra Radulescu + Opaque + Armand Lesecq + NO3sis (fest. Les Sonifères) – DOC 03. Aidan Baker + The Eye of Time (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 05. Zombie Zombie – Bigwax Records (gratuit) 05. Nadja + Saudaa Group + Lacustre – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 06. Binidu + Hilgege + Deux Boules vanille – Supersonic (gratuit) 06. Brendan Perry – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 07. VNV Nation – Le Trabendo 07. Tomaga + Jozef Van Wissem + Noyades + La Jungle – Petit Bain 07. Subtle Turnhips – La Pointe Lafayette 08. Cartouche + Ddash + VHS from Space + Professeur Postérieur – Le Cirque électrique 08. Manu le Malin + 3FAZé + DKLé + Nawak – Glazart 08. Headless Horseman + Ø [Phase] + Joton + Electric Rescue – Rex Club 09. Psyche + Sarin + Law & Haktion + Cassie Raptor b2b Mila Dietrich  – La Station 09. Leopardo + Rose Mercie + Eggs – Le Zorba 09. The Ex : "Ethiopian Night" (fest. Sons d'hiver) – salle Jacques-Brel (Fontenay-sous-Bois) 09. Veronica Vasicka – Badaboum 10. Therapy? – La Maroquinerie 10. Fake Off + Youth Avoiders + Potence – Le Rigoletto 11. Massive Attack feat. Liz Fraser jouent « Mezzanine » – Zénith 13. Pierre Bastien & Philippe Dupuy + Laake – Petit Bain 14. Slash Roubex + Krab + Joan Jett Fanclub + Gauchoir + Zaraz Wam Zagram – Les Nautes 15. Peter Kernel + Totorro – Petit Bain 15. Codex Empire + Schwefelgelb + Philipp Strobel + Panzer – Petit Bain 15. Kælan Mikla + Some Ember – Black Star 16. Krikor (fest. FAME) – Gaîté lyrique (gratuit) 16. Teledetente666 + Balladur + Bajram Bili + Teknomom + Coeval + Marai + Steep Incline b2b Quentin Pierce – La Station 16. Anthony Braxton + Dave Douglas & Bill Laswell (fest. Sons d'hiver) – théâtre Jacques-Carat (Cachan) 16. Homoagent + Huren + Orphan Swords + Salem Unsigned + Sirio Gry J + Verset Zero... – tba 16. Jasss + Dactylo + Nizar + Pipi de Freche – NF-34 19. Bruit noir + Red – Point FMR 21. Mlada Fronta + Absolute Valentine + Neoslave – Petit Bain 21. Collection d'Arnell Andrea + Katzkab – Bus Palladium 21. Rouge Gorge + Fiasco + Peur bleue – L'International 22. Marquis de Sade – Petit Bain 22. Lucie Antunes + Clémence Lasme, Kim, Gaspar Claus, Halo Maud & Yadh Elyes – Théâtre de Vanves 22/23. Nils Frahm – Le Trianon ||COMPLET|| 24. Nils Frahm – Le Trianon 28. Bryan's Magic Tears + Steeple Remove + Seppuku – Point FMR 28. The Zeros + Astaffort Mods – Le Klub

Mars 02. Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado jouent Alan Vega et Suicide – Silencio (gratuit sur résa) 02. Le Groupe obscur + Le Ton mité + Golden Q – L'International 02. Shlømo + UVB + Charles Fenckler + Darzack + Delta Funktionen + Keepsakes – Studio du Lendit (Saint-Denis) 02. Boy Harsher + Kontravoid – Badaboum ||COMPLET|| 03. Camera – Olympic café 03. Geld + Youth Avoiders + Plomb – Le Picolo (Saint-Ouen) 05. Orgue Agnès + Borja Flames + Gilles Poizat – Petit Bain 07. Scratch Massive – Gaîté lyrique 07. Gum Takes Tooth + Usé + Society of Silence – Badaboum 07. The Dead Brothers + Dédé Macchabée – Péniche Antipode 08. FTR + Deadpan – Olympic café 09. Deeat Palace + Maoupa Mazzoccheti + Krikor + Crave + Iueke + Moyō – La Station 09. Paulie Jan + Witnesses Without Hands + Mod303 & The SHADERS + Alexandre Navarro (dj) (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 10. James Chance & Die Contortions – Supersonic 12. Yann Tiersen – Salle Pleyel 12. Dominique A – Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen) 13.  Helluvah + IDK IDA + Cebe Barnes (dj)(Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 13. F/lor + Jérôme Lorichon & Quentin Rollet + Don Nino – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 14. Parade Ground + BadBad + The Wheal + Versolo – Supersonic (gratuit) 14. Stefan Rusconi & Tobias Preisig + Étienne Jaumet (fest. Paris Music) – Église Saint-Eustache 14. La Colonie de vacances – Cabaret sauvage 14. Raoul Vignal (fest. Paris Music) – Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris 14. Dave Phillips + Evil Moisture + Feromil – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Rubin Steiner (fest. Paris Music) – Crypte archéologique du parvis de Notre-Dame 15. Bertrand Burgalat (fest. Paris Music) – Musée des Arts et Métiers 15. Zombie Zombie (fest. Paris Music) – Cathédrale américaine 15. Silent Servant + Machine Woman + Tolouse Low Trax – Concrete 16. Christ. + Alexandre Navarro (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 17. Giulio Aldinucci + Paskine + Waveland (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 19. thisquietarmy + Haxo + Ilia Gorovitz (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 20. Oomph! – La Machine 21. Olivia Block + Marc Baron – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 22. Delia Derbyshire (diff.) + Lettera 22 + Evil Moisture + Caterina Barbieri + Drew McDowall : "Coil's Time Machines" (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 22. The Young Gods – La Maroquinerie 22. Crystal Fighters – Gaîté lyrique 23. Pierre Boeswillwald (diff.) + Max Eilbacher + Andrea Belfi + Sarah Davachi + William Basinski & Lawrence English (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23. Snapped Ankles + Wild Classical Music Ensemble + Man from Uranus – La Maroquinerie 23. Les Harry's & Stefan Neville (fest. Sonic Protest) – Châpiteaux turbulents 23. Kas:st + Paule Temple + Shlømo + VTSS + Parfait – tba 24. Warren Burt (diff.) + Mats Erlandsson + Okkyung Lee + Low Jack + BJ Nielsen (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 24. Chantal Acda + Miles Oliver + Julien Ledru (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 25. Laibach – Trabendo 26. Jon Porras (Barn Owl) + Mathias Delplanque (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 27. Strangelove + Background (dj) (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 28. Scanner + Openendedgroup & Natasha Barrett + Raphaël Imbert & Benjamin Lévy – Centre Pompidou 28. Euromilliard + Humbros + Peür + Pumice (fest. Sonic Protest) – La Station 29. Perturbator – Le Trianon 29. Jandek + Confusional Quartet + Société étrange (fest. Sonic Protest) – théâtre de l'Échangeur (Bagnolet) 30. Marc Almond – Le Trianon 30. Seabuckthorn + Rach Three + CollAGE D (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 30. Lahcen Akil & les Chaâbi Brothers + Suzanne Ciani + The Coolies + Lemones + Les Statonells (fest. Sonic Protest) – théâtre de l'Échangeur (Bagnolet) 31. Fuji Kureta + Mei (Sulfure fest.) – Le vent se lève 31. Claudio Simonetti (Goblin) joue "Suspiria" et autres – Flow

Avril 02. Schtum + Shit & Shine (fest. Sonic Protest) – Mona Bismarck American Center 02. Steve Gunn + Papercuts – Petit Bain 02. Ballaké Cissoko & Vincent Segal (fest. Les Rares Talents) – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 03. Han Bennink + Jean-François Pauvros + Anne-Laure Pigache & Anne-Julie Rollet + Parlophonie (fest. Sonic Protest) – théâtre de Vanves 03>06. Shannon Wright + Regina Demina + Camilla Sparksss (fest. Les femmes s'en mêlent) – Trabendo 04. Dust Breeders & Mattin + Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado jouent Suicide et Alan Vega + Anna Zaradny (fest. Sonic Protest) – église Saint-Merry 05. Bégayer + France + Frédéric Blondy joue "Occam XXV" d'Éliane Radigue (fest. Sonic Protest) – église Saint-Merry 05. Beirut – Le Grand Rex 05. Rendez-Vous + Qual – Gaîté lyrique 05/06. Nadia Lauro & Zeena Parkins : Stichomythia – Centre Pompidou 06. Molecule – Gaîté lyrique 06. These New Puritans + Scintii – Petit Bain 06. Kokoko! – Badaboum 06. Dylan Carlson + Julien Clauss + Hermine + Lee Patterson + Ut + Blenno Die Wurstbrücke (fest. Sonic Protest) – Cirque électrique 08. The Specials – La Cigale 09. Young Widows + Nesseria – Petit Bain 10. Daughters – Point FMR 13. Toner Low + Ambassador 21 + The Fat + Orso + Evil Grimace + Gurt + Ddent + Froe Char + End of Mankind + McLane + Suprême Mycosaure (Monospace fest.) – Petit Bain 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 17. Teenage Fanclub – Trabendo 17. Soap&Skin – Le Trianon 17. Apparat – Gaîté lyrique 18. Kompromat – Trabendo 20. The Horrorist – Rex Club 20. Vincent Epplay + Black Zone Myth Chant & High Wolf + Domotic + Jean Benoît Dunckel + NSDOS + Erol Alkan + Tim Glass + Roscius + Sahalé + Golden Bug + Pouvoir magique + Cät Cät + RA+RE + Wael Alkak + Molecule (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 21. Plaid + NSDOS + Myako & Basses Terres + Jonathan Fitoussi + Danton Eprom + La Fraîcheur + Edouard Rostand + Prieur de la Marne + The Supermen Lovers + Panteros666 & Inès Alpha + Matt Black + Sara Zinger (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 22. Fontaines D.C. – Point FMR 23. Lambchop – La Maroquinerie 25. Lali Puna – Petit Bain 25. Kap Bambino – Trabendo 27. She Past Away – La Machine 27. Chloé : Lumières noires – Le 104 27. Cocaine Piss + Tôle froide + Avale – Petit Bain 27. Bérengère Maximin, Fred Firth & Heike Liss – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 30. The Undergound Youth + Dune Messiah – Petit Bain

Mai 04. Covenant – Petit Bain 07. dEUS – La Cigale 07. Le Prince Harry + UVB76 – Petit Bain 08. Sneaks – Supersonic (gratuit) 10/11. Dead Can Dance – Grand Rex ||COMPLET|| 11. Christina Vantzou + Eiko Ishibashi + Jan Jelinek + NPVR (Nik Void & Peter Rehberg) – Le 104 12. Massimo Toniutti + François Bayle – Le 104 13. Foals – Bataclan 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 18. Eliane Radigue : musique (diff.) pour "Continuum" de Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves – Centre Pompidou 22. Housewives – Supersonic (gratuit) 24. Beak> – Gaîté lyrique 24. Shonen Knife – Petit Bain 28. Alice in Chains + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Olympia 29. Flotation Toy Warning + Raoul Vignal – Petit Bain 31. François Bonnet + Knud Viktor + Jim O'Rourke + Florian Hecker (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio

Juin 01. Eryck Abecassis & Reinhold Friedl + Hilde Marie Holsen + Anthony Pateras + Lucy Railton (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 01/02. Metronomy + Laurent Garnier + Ricardo Villalobos + Mr Oizo + Bonobo (dj) + Yves Tumor + Marie Davidson + Pond... (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 02. Bernard Parmegiani + Jean Schwarz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 19. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – La Gaîté lyrique 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

Juillet 02. Interpol – Olympia 11. Masada + Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman + Mary Halvorson quartet + Craig Taborn + Trigger + Erik Friedlander & Mike Nicolas + John Medeski trio + Nova quartet + Gyan Riley & Julian Lage + Brian Marsella trio + Ikue Mori + Kris Davis + Peter Evans + Asmodeus : John Zorn's Marathon Bagatelles – Salle Pleyel 11>13. Kraftwerk – Philharmonie

Août 23>25. The Cure (fest. Rock en scène) – parc de Saint-Cloud

Septembre 13. Rammstein – La Défense Arena (Nanterre) ||COMPLET||

Octobre 19. Sisters of Mercy – Bataclan

Novembre 17. Nitzer Ebb – La Machine

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

[wetnwildzspace]

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[glasburg]

English Translation of The Tabaluga Novel: Chapter 44

My English translation of the 1994 Tabaluga novel by Helme Heine and Gisela von Radowitz. Master Post can be found here.

(Pages 97-101)

The tern brought bad news into Paradise. "Arktos is arming himself¹. There will be war!"

The doves broke branches off of the olive tree, in order to drop them above Metropolis. But their well-meaning act of peace failed before it had even started. Arktos' anti-aircraft had spotted them right behind the snow line², and drove them off with well-aimed snow balls.

The Grand Council called the inhabitants of Paradise together for a popular referendum. Nessaja chaired the meeting and put out the following questions for discussion:

"Do we want to defend ourserlves? Yes or no?"

All were in favor, except for the mosquitos, who made up 50.1% of the population. Since Paradise was democratic - one mosquito, one vote -, the decision was adjourned. They proceeded to the next topic.

"I suggest", the vulture said, "that we voluntarily give up a part of the land to Arktos. That would appease him, and peace would be secured."

"What a moron!" the mole hissed into the golden hamster's ear.

"Air can't be divided", the nightingale sung.

And yet, the Council generally agreed with the suggestion. Just the distribution proved to be difficult. Everyone was fine with giving up the meadows and woods of their neighbors. One's own territory was considered to be under conservation. An agreement, or even a forced agreement for the good of the people, would take years, the eagle-owl noted, and thus the idea was dropped.

The slug whispered:

"Let's collect money to purchase sheep's wool. It will get cold, my friends: the voters want sweaters and blankets!"

"Money", Nessaja sternly objected, "should play no part in a popular referendum."

And with that, the matter was settled.

The rat was the last one to speak up.

"The aunt of my cousin's sister heard from her mother - not gonna name anyone here - that Arktos is actually only interested in the dragon, or rather, his fire..."

It took a few seconds until everyone present had thought through that outrageousness completely. All eyes turned to Tabaluga. He had turned pale, and with quivering lips he said:

"But, I don't have any fire..."

"Not yet", the rat answered.

Protesting broke out in the conference, insulting, like Paraside had never seen before. They lashed out at the rat, most of all the ravens, who accused her of collaboravion³ and treason. Cunning, the rat waited for the height of the turmoil, and then, during a moment of distraction, made a bolt for it. She went undergound.

Tabaluga didn't say a word. He knew he was done playing with fire. Campfire romanticism was over. Now it was all about survival. Time had gotten precious, too precious to waste it like a child, or to not notice it at all. He wanted to burn like a flamethrower. He had grown up.

The Council expressed their faith in him, as the little dragon was their only hope. In times of need, a straw is a strong support.

The responsibility pressed down on Tabaluga's soul. He remembered the strange discovery he had made recently. Next to the entrance of his cave he had found rock drawings: a crescent moon, a bee, a burning moutain, a heart. He hadn't really throught about it, up until now. Now they appeared to him again. Were they secret symbols? Did Tyrion leave them there as a message for him? He knew of the moon and the bees, he had no idea about that heart, but the mountain, that one fascinated him.

If mountains could burn, he thought, their problem might be solved quite easily. He just had to find it, that mountain, and fast, too. Then Arktos wouldn't stand a chance.

He asked all his friends, but they only smiled, thinking his story was a fairy tale, a wishful dream. Even Nessaja just shook her old head in disbelief.

"I've never heard about this", she said. "Are you sure you're not mistaken? It's probably not meant to be the mountain burning, but the mountain forest at its base, catching fire through lightning or summer heat."

Tabaluga climbed up a palm tree and looked at the Drake's Mountains. Mountain after mountain lined up, as far as the eye could see, but all summits were covered in snow and lacked trees. How were they supposed to burn?

He nodded off and dreamt about Arktos, who slowly covered him with snow. His feet where frozen to the ground, he couldn't get away. Something strange happened: the higher the snow blanket grew, the warmer he felt. The heat garnered inside of his body, it accumulated. When the snow covered his head, his fire exploded, and the snow melted.

Tabaluga woke up drenched in sweat.

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Translator’s Notes:

1. In the German version this is “aufrüsten”, which notably often refers to a nation arming itself specifically to do war.

2. In the German version this is “Schneegrenze”, which does translate to “snow line”, but literally it can also mean “snow border”, and thus is a bit of a pun, as it’s also the literal border to Arktos’ empire.

3. In the German version this is “Kolkrabotation”, likely a pun on “Kolkrabe”, which means “raven”, and “Kollaboration”, which means “collaboration”, as in, working with the enemy.

[h3ngler]

A influência de Cobain no Hip Hop atual

Vagando pela internet nessa última semana fui fortemente bombardeado com sugestões de textos, músicas, entrevistas e até mesmo a biópsia de Kurt Cobain, por um momento joguei toda a culpa no Zuckerberg e seus algoritmos vendidos que ele não assume, mas depois de ver algumas das sugestões comecei a entender a ligação que estava sendo oferecida involuntariamente nos meus feeds.

Na maior parte do meu dia eu consumo Hip Hop, seja ele Rap ou Trap, mainstream ou underground, bom ou ruim e em alguns casos sutilmente existe a influência de Kurt e em outros essa influência é fortíssima.

Kurt foi sem sombra de dúvidas um dos maiores músicos dessa geração, letras problemáticas, depressivas e até suicidas foram colocadas por ele no topo do Rock e posteriormente no marco cultural que foi o Grunge, tá mas que caralhos ele tem em relação ao que eu escuto truta???

Assistindo entrevistas enquanto fazia alguma outra coisa mais importante comecei a notar como grandes nomes dessa geração atual que está possivelmente na base um novo movimento cultural como foi o Grunge, mas isso é outro assunto que eu preciso estudar mais, citam Kurt e todo o seu legado como uma das maiores influências artísticas e de vida deles, XXXTENTACION, Lil Peep, Lil Nas X, Post Malone e Denzel Curry, são apenas alguns dos vários que já comentaram sobre influências de Kurt.

Em uma das entrevistas quando perguntado XXXTENTACION disse que Cobain foi o cara que salvou a vida dele, mesmo que o espaço temporal entre o nascimento de X e o suicídio de Cobain exista, ele disse que quando ouvia o Kurt cantando se identificava e esquecia um pouco das merdas que ele passava em casa. Disse também que esse contato extremamente próximo com os fãs durante as performances insanas também foi uma influência de quando viu o Clipe de Smells Like a Teen Spirit e achou a proximidade dele com o público foda pra caralho.

Vale lembrar que a faixa Ugly do álbum póstumo que será lançado dia 7 de dezembro possui elementos bem próximos aos de Nirvana

Lil Peep se inspirava tanto em Kurt que chegou a ser citado numa matéria da revista Rolling Stone como o próximo Kurt Cobain blasfêmicamente falando, bases de Rock alternativo junto com unhas pintadas e roupas femininas, tendência popularizada por Cobain, eram a marca registrada de Peep durante performances em casas de show undergounds.

Peep também citava Cobain e sua rebeldia como a maior influência e idolatria dele, e em 2016 Peep lançou uma faixa nomeada como Cobain que vale dar uma conferida.

O hit mais recente de Lil Nas X, Panini, possui uma base sampleada de Nirvana que nem ele mesmo sabia, a influência do som foi tão involuntária que quando perguntado se foi proposital essa escolha, Lil Nas disse que ficou surpreso e disse que isso nem tinha passado pela cabeça dele, os produtores do hit sempre gostaram de Rock e acharam que combinaria com a música, e olha... 180 milhões de views confirmaram isso.

Post Malone sempre deixou claro a importância que Kurt teve em sua vida, a primeira tatuagem na mão foi o rosto de Cobain em seu dedo médio, nos shows Posty faz questão de performar ao menos três músicas do Nirvana, e fez referência a Kurt no primeiro verso do hit Goodbyes que já conta com 85 milhões de views e a tatuagem gigantesca acima da sobrancelha escrita Stay Away, canção do Nirvana e preferida de Posty que já se rotulou como "um fã histérico de Kurt"

Denzel Curry é um dos nomes mais subestimados da atual geração, letras pesadas e beats agressivos mereciam ter mais reconhecimento, porém curiosamente a música Clout Cobain estourou e caiu nos braços do público que somente entendeu a referência ao falecido XXXTENTACION, mas o clipe é uma referência clara ao icônico clipe de Smells Like Teen Spirit onde a plateia está insanamente agitada, Denzel complementa isso usando a icônica camiseta listrada de Kurt.

Pode-se dizer que o Rockstar que tirou a própria vida aos 27 anos, antes mesmo de alguns dos nomes citados nascerem, influenciou uma geração inteira que encontrou atualmente no Trap sua válvula de escape pra lidar com esse mundo fodidamente fodido e indiretamente fez parte do nascimento de um novo movimento cultural além do Grunge estourado no final da década de 80.

Levando ao pé da letra, se Kurt Cobain surgisse nos dias de hoje ele seria um Trapstar depressivo e coberto por tatuagens trashs combinando com suas roupas estranhas kkkkk

Já falei demais, fiquem com essa pic icônica;

[discographyofalifetime-blog]

BAND: ANTI-FLAG

COUNTRY: USA

EN: I clearly remember when I first listened to them. It was during my early college years, like 14 /15 years ago and I went to my friend Luca's house. We were playing together at that time in our very first punk band. I was there during a sunny afternoon and then he brought out this cd and there were to many things that a 14 years old punk kid is almost obliged to fall in love with: 1) The name of the band: what could sound more punk than call a band “anti-flag”? 2) the artwork:  Policemen with weapons in their hands 3) they were on fat wreck chords 4) there was a song named: “this machine kills fascists...at that point I was in love even before my first listening. Then he put the cd in the stereo, I was enjoying the sound but that voice was not convincing me very much but at least they were playing songs that I could cover in my bedroom and I was loving the bass lines. Years after, when Luca stopped listening to punk sold me that cd and obviously I still have it. The album after “Underground network”was “The terror state” and that is my favorite album of them; more aggressive, more fast and some more songs where the Chris 2 (the bass player) sings and I really like his voice. I really loved that album and it remained in my cd players for weeks every morning on the bus going to school. In that period I started focusing on lyrics and understanding them better and I was always liking their messages: Anger, rebellion, hope and resistance were my daily bread (well, at least they still are). After that, my musical taste was going in direction of hardcore, faster and angrier sound as they become more melodic so when “for blood and empire” came out, they started to came down in my personal band toplist (anyway way, that album is very good). In the last 10 years, in my opinion they have become the modern version of The Clash, because of the sound and the kind of message that they spread and even if I don't listen to them very often, is a great compliment eh, the clash you know, they have been milestones of a revolution for thousands kids. The very first time I saw them it was at Groezrock 2012, I always saw that they were cool on live videos but seing them live is another thing. They are a really great live band, constantly running jumping around and dealing with the crowd. Then I saw them opening for Bad Religion in Bologna...is never easy to open for them because they are gods and I never saw them playing bad live but anti-flag did their job well, the crowd was excited and for the last song they came playing in the middle of the pit, a thing that you don't see often from well-known bands but they've always stayed on the same ground with their fans and I really admire this attitude. Last time I saw them was at punk rock holiday and there they are like idols, the show was really wild and they will play there this year too so probably it would be cool as well. A big thumb up for them that always stand for the people and play many benefit shows around to promote people rights and spread a message of strength and hope, last of those were the anti-Trump manifestation in DC, they brought hope to people in a very dark day. Is not very much, but at least is a really good contribute

IT: Mi ricordo chiaramente quando ho ascoltato per la prima volta loro. E 'stato durante i miei primi anni di liceo, 14/15 anni fa... sono andato a casa del mio amico Luca. suonavamo insieme a quel tempo nel nostro primo gruppo punk. Ero lì durante un pomeriggio di sole e poi ha tirato fuori questo cd e c'erano molte cose delle quali un punk di 14 anni è quasi obbligato a innamorarsi: 1) Il nome della band: cosa potrebbe sembrare più punk di chiamare una band "anti-flag"? 2) La copertina: Poliziotti con le armi in mano 3) erano sotto Fat Wreck Chords 4) c'era una canzone di nome: "questa macchina uccide i fascisti” ... a quel punto ero innamorato anche prima del mio primo ascolto. Poi ha messo il cd nello stereo, mi stavo godendo il suono, ma quella voce non era convincente, ma almeno loro stavano suonando canzoni che potevo suonare nella mia camera da letto e mi piacevano una sacco le linee di basso. Anni dopo, quando Luca smesso di ascoltare punk, mi ha venduto quel CD ed ovviamente l'ho ancora. L'album dopo "undergound network" era "the terror state", che è il mio album preferito loro; più aggressivo, più veloce e alcune altre canzoni in cui il Chris 2 (il bassista) canta e mi piace molto la sua voce. Ho amato molto quell'album ed è rimasto nella mio lettore cd per settimane ogni mattina sul bus andare a scuola. In quel periodo ho iniziato a concentrarmi su testi e la loro comprensione migliore e mi e i loro messaggi mi prendevano molto: rabbia, la ribellione, la speranza e la resistenza erano il mio pane quotidiano (beh, almeno lo sono ancora).Dopo di che, il mio gusto musicale stava andando in direzione verso hardcore, più veloce e il suono più arrabbiato man mano che loro diventarono più melodici così quando "for blood and empire" è venuto fuori, hanno cominciato a scendere nella mia toplist delle band  (comunque, l'album è bello). Negli ultimi 10 anni, a mio parere, sono diventati la versione moderna di The Clash, a causa del suono e il tipo di messaggio che diffondono ed anche se io non li ascolto molto spesso, è un grande complimento eh, THE CLASH, sono stati pietre miliari di una rivoluzione per tantissimi ragazzi. La prima volta che ho visto loro dal vivo era al Groezrock 2012, ho sempre visto che erano fighi su video live, ma vederli dal vivo è un'altra cosa. Sono davvero una grande band dal vivo, costantemente correre, saltare in giro e coinvolgere la folla. Poi ho visto aprire per Bad Religion a Bologna ... non è mai facile da aprire per loro, perché sono degli dei e non li ho mai visto suonare male dal vivo ma Anti-Flag hanno fatto il loro lavoro bene, la folla era eccitata e per l'ultima canzone vennero a suonare in mezzo alla gente, una cosa che non si vede spesso da band ben note, sono sempre rimasto sullo stesso terreno con i loro fan e ammiro molto questo atteggiamento. L'ultima volta che li ho visti era al punk rock holiday 2015 e la sono come idoli, lo spettacolo è stato davvero selvaggio e suoneranno di nuovo lì anche quest'anno quindi probabilmente sarà una figata. Un grande pollice in su per loro che si distinguono sempre per le persone e suonano a molti show di beneficenza in giro per promuovere i diritti delle persone e diffondere un messaggio di forza e speranza, ultimo di questi erano la manifestazione anti-Trump in DC, hanno portato speranza alle persone in un giorno scuro. Non sarà molto, ma almeno è davvero un buon contributo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLUEGn6BMMQ

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Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 2/4/2018

TW LW ARTIST – SONG

1 1 H.E.R. – FACTS (2 weeks @ #1) 2 2 Tom Misch – SOUTH OF THE RIVER(3 weeks @#1) 3 3 Miguel/Travis Scott - SKYWALKER 4 4 Jhene Aiko – WHILE WE’RE YOUNG 5 6 SZA - WEEKEND 6 6 Roy Davis Jr./Preven Everett – GABRIEL (LIVE GARACE MIX) 7 7 Ne-Yo – ANOTHER LOVE SONG 8 13 Kelly Clarkson – LOVE SO SOFT 9 8 Stefflon Don/French Montana – HURTIN’ ME 10 9 Syd – ON THE ROAD 11 10 Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated, & Valleyz – PINE & GINGER 12 16 Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign – SOMETHING NEW 13 12 Jessie Ware - MIDNIGHT 14 20 Sam Smith – TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES 15 11 Jax Jones/MNEK – HOUSE WORK (3 weeks @ #1) 16 14 SZA/Travis Scott – LOVE GALORE (3 week @ #1) 17 25 Bonobo/Innov Gnawa – BAMBRO KOYO GANDA 18 15 Major Lazer/Travis Scott/Camila Cabello/Quavo – KNOW NO BETTER (4 week @ #1) 19 23 Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - LOYALTY 20 26 Bryson Tiller – SOMETHIN TELLS ME 21 24 Kanye West – REAL FRIENDS 22 17 The Weekend – ROCKIN’ 23 29 Lil Uzi Ver/Oh Wonder – THE WAY LIFE GOES 24 18 GoldLink/Brent Faiyaz/Shy Gizzy – CREW 25 31 Empire of the Sun – ON OUR WAY HOME 26 19 Selena Gomez – BAD LIAR 27 21 KDA/Tinashe – JUST SAY 28 28 Chip/Ghetts – GETS LIKE THAT 29 35 Kendrick Lamar/Zacari – LOVE. 30 22 Calvin Harris/Pharrell Williams/Katy Perry/Big Sean - FEELS 31 38 MGMT – HAND IT OVER 32 32 Dan Auerbach – MALIBU MAN 33 27 Thundercat/Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins – SHOW YOU THE WAY 34 33 French Montana/Pharrell – BRING DEM THINGS 35 41 St. Vincent – LOS AGELESS 36 36 The Killers – THE MAN 37 49 N.E.R.D./Rihanna - LEMON 38 30 DJ Khaled/Jay-Z/Beyonce – THE SHINING (4 weeks @ #1) 39 50 Bruno Mars/Cardi B – FINESSE (REMIX) 40 34 Russ – LOSIN CONTROL 41 37 Ten City – THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS (UNDERGOUND MIX) (1 week @ #1) 42 --- The Weeknd - SECRETS 43 39 Kraak/Smaak/Cleopold – ALONE WITH YOU 44 44 Rihanna – LOVE ON THE BRAIN 45 --- Duke Dumont/Gorgon City/Naations – REAL LIFE (SOLARDO REMIX) 46 40 Zedd/Troye Sivan - PAPERCUT 47 42 Spoon – CAN I SIT NEXT TO YOU 48 43 The Arcade Fire – EVERYTHING NOW 49 45 Grizzly Bear – MOURNING SOUND 50 --- Dan Auerbach – STAND BY MY GIRL

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Noticias de series de la semana: Triunfa el nuevo póster de 'Orphan Black'

Renovaciones de series

FOX ha renovado New Girl por una séptima y última temporada

CBS ha renovado Code Black por una tercera temporada

ABC ha renovado Quantico por una tercera temporada

Netflix ha renovado Arrested Development por una quinta temporada

HBO ha renovado Animals por una tercera temporada

NBC ha renovado Trial & Error por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones de series

CBS ha cancelado Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders tras su segunda temporada

FOX ha cancelado Scream Queens tras su segunda temporada

CBS ha cancelado The Odd Couple tras su tercera temporada

Hulu ha cancelado East Los High tras su cuarta temporada

Incorporaciones y fichajes de series

Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow, Frequency) interpretará a George W. Bush en la segunda temporada de American Crime Story, sobre el huracán Katrina.

Leslie Grossman (Popular, Whay I Like About You) se une a la séptima temporada de American Horror Story.

Kevin Costner protagonizará Yellowstone. Será John Dutton, patriarca de la familia dueña del rancho más grande de Estados Unidos bajo constantes ataques de los vecinos.

Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Cinderella) será un detective en "The Hood Maker", un episodio de Electric Dreams sobre un mundo en el que no existe la tecnología avanzada y mutantes telépatas facilitan las comunicaciones de larga distancia. Le acompañan Holliday Grainger (The Borgias) y Anneika Rose (Line of Duty). Además, Lara Pulver (Da Vinci's Demons) participará en el episodio protagonizado por Anna Paquin y Terrence Howard.

Diego Boneta (Scream Queens, Pretty Little Liars) será el cantante Luis Miguel en la serie autorizada sobre su vida que emitirán Telemundo en USA y Netflix en España y Latinoamérica.

Paul Schneider (Channel Zero, Parks and Recreation) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Chance. Será Ryan Winter, multimillonario que el detective Hynes (Brian Goodman) cree que es un asesino en serie.

Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie) se une como recurrente a la segunda temporada de The Lodge.

Leonie Elliott (Black Mirror, Wondrous Oblivion) se une a la séptima temporada de Call the Midwife. Será la enfermera Lucille Anderson, natural de La India.

Harry Hamlin (Mad Men, L.A. Law) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Shooter como Addison Hayes, un misterioso y poderoso líder con intereses contrarios a los de Swagger.

Jennifer Westfeldt será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Younger como Pauline, escritora que Liza quiere hacer llegar a Empirical.

Diandra Lyle será recurrente en American Woman, la nueva serie de Paramount, como Louise, compañera de trabajo de Bonnie (Alicia Silverstone).

Chelsea Talmadge (Stranger Things, Still the King) será recurrente en Halt and Catch Fire como Vera, graduada de Cal Tech que trabaja para Donna (Kerry Bishé).

Odessa Adlon se une como recurrente a Nashville. Será Liv, una adolescente que vive en la calle tras huir de casa.

William Forsythe (Boardwalk Empire, John Doe) será J. Edgar Hoover, antiguo director del FBI, en la tercera temporada de The Man in the High Castle.

Alan Tudyk (Suburgatory, Powerless), John Hannah (Damages, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Amanda Walsh (Lost Girl) y Aleks Paunovic (iZombie, Continuum) participarán en la segunda temporada de Dirk Gently.

Candyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica, Hemlock Grove) es el primer fichaje de Ghost Wars, la nueva serie de Syfy sobre un pueblo de Alaska invadido por fuerzas paranormales.

Jessica Meraz (Chasing Life) se une como regular a la sexta temporada de Major Crimes. Será la detective Camila Paige. Lourdes Benedicto (V) se une como recurrente.

Harris Dickinson (Clique, Silent Witness) será John Paul Getty III en Trust, la serie sobre su secuestro.

Adam Goldberg (The Jim Gaffigan Show, Fargo) y Spencer Grammer (Greek) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Graves.

Pósters de series

   Nuevas series

Bravo encarga All That Glitters, event series de seis episodios, basada en el libro 'Newhouse' de Thomas Maier, sobre la amistad y rivalidad de las editoras Anna Wintour (Vogue) y Tina Brown (Vanity Fair y The New Yorker). Producen Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) y Judith Verno (Masters of Sex) y escriben Lawrence Konner y Mark Rosenthal.

HBO y Sky Atlantic anuncian The New Pope, nueva miniserie de Paolo Sorrentino con otro reparto y probablemente sobre otro pontífice distinto a The Young Pope.

Luz verde directa en HBO a la adaptación de Lovecraft Country, novela de terror de Matt Ruff (2016), sobre tres afroamericanos viajando por Estados Unidos en los años 50 enfrentándose al racismo y a espíritus malvados. Escribe Misha Green (Undergound) y producen Jordan Peele (Get Out) y J.J. Abrams.

Luz verde directa en TBS a siete episodios de Miracle Workers, comedia sobre un ángel de bajo rango (Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter) que escucha las oraciones de los humanos y hace milagros y un Dios (Owen Wilson) que ocupa su tiempo con nuevos hobbies.

Netflix adaptará The Witcher, la saga de novelas de Andrzej Sapkowski en la que se basan los videojuegos.

Freeform ha encargado trece episodios de College-ish, título elegido para el spin-off de Black-ish (ABC) con Zoey en la universidad.

ITV2 ha dado luz verde a seis episodios de Action Time, comedia escrita por James De Frond y Tom Davis, director y protagonista de Murder in Successville, que parodia las películas de espías centrándose en un grupo disfuncional de espías secretos que trabajan para el gobierno británico y deben salvar el mundo. Estará protagonizada por Davis, Jim Howick, Kayode Wumi y Laura Checkley. De Frond dirigirá.

Netflix ha encargado diez episodios de The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, serie precuela de la película de 1982.

Fechas de series

Paula llega a BBC Two el 25 de mayo

La segunda temporada de Cleverman se estrena en SundanceTV el 28 de junio

Get Shorty llega a Epix el 13 de agosto

La vigesimoprimera temporada de South Park se estrena en Comedy Central el 23 de agosto

La cuarta temporada de Broad City llega a Comedy Central el 23 de agosto

Loudermilk se estrena en Audience Network el 17 de octubre

Tráilers de series

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Paula

GLOW

Casual - Temporada 3

The Alienist

Star Trek: Discovery

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Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 1/28/2018

TW LW ARTIST – SONG

1 2 H.E.R. – FACTS (1 week @ #1) 2 1 Tom Misch – SOUTH OF THE RIVER(3 weeks @#1) 3 5 Miguel/Travis Scott - SKYWALKER 4 4 Jhene Aiko – WHILE WE’RE YOUNG 5 6 SZA - WEEKEND 6 3 Roy Davis Jr./Preven Everett – GABRIEL (LIVE GARACE MIX) 7 7 Ne-Yo – ANOTHER LOVE SONG 8 8 Stefflon Don/French Montana – HURTIN’ ME 9 10 Syd – ON THE ROAD 10 11 Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated, & Valleyz – PINE & GINGER 11 9 Jax Jones/MNEK – HOUSE WORK (3 weeks @ #1) 12 12 Jessie Ware - MIDNIGHT 13 21 Kelly Clarkson – LOVE SO SOFT 14 13 SZA/Travis Scott – LOVE GALORE (3 week @ #1) 15 14 Major Lazer/Travis Scott/Camila Cabello/Quavo – KNOW NO BETTER (4 week @ #1) 16 26 Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign – SOMETHING NEW 17 15 The Weekend – ROCKIN’ 18 16 GoldLink/Brent Faiyaz/Shy Gizzy – CREW 19 19 Selena Gomez – BAD LIAR 20 34 Sam Smith – TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES 21 17 KDA/Tinashe – JUST SAY 22 18 Calvin Harris/Pharrell Williams/Katy Perry/Big Sean - FEELS 23 23 Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - LOYALTY 24 24 Kanye West – REAL FRIENDS 25 35 Bonobo/Innov Gnawa – BAMBRO KOYO GANDA 26 38 Bryson Tiller – SOMETHIN TELLS ME 27 20 Thundercat/Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins – SHOW YOU THE WAY 28 31 Chip/Ghetts – GETS LIKE THAT 29 39 Lil Uzi Ver/Oh Wonder – THE WAY LIFE GOES 30 22 DJ Khaled/Jay-Z/Beyonce – THE SHINING (4 weeks @ #1) 31 41 Empire of the Sun – ON OUR WAY HOME 32 33 Dan Auerbach – MALIBU MAN 33 25 French Montana/Pharrell – BRING DEM THINGS 34 27 Russ – LOSIN CONTROL 35 42 Kendrick Lamar/Zacari – LOVE. 36 28 The Killers – THE MAN 37 29 Ten City – THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS (UNDERGOUND MIX) (1 week @ #1) 38 46 MGMT – HAND IT OVER 39 30 Kraak/Smaak/Cleopold – ALONE WITH YOU 40 32 Zedd/Troye Sivan - PAPERCUT 41 50 St. Vincent – LOS AGELESS 42 36 Spoon – CAN I SIT NEXT TO YOU 43 37 The Arcade Fire – EVERYTHING NOW 44 44 Rihanna – LOVE ON THE BRAIN 45 40 Grizzly Bear – MOURNING SOUND 46 43 Foster the People – DOING IT FOR THE MONEY 47 45 Solange/Lil Wayne – MAD 48 47 Dan Auerbach – SHINE ON ME‘ 49 --- N.E.R.D./Rihanna - LEMON 50 --- Bruno Mars/Cardi B – FINESSE (REMIX)

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Top Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 1/21/2018

TW LW ARTIST – SONG

1 1 Tom Misch – SOUTH OF THE RIVER(3 weeks @#1) 2 3 H.E.R. - FACTS 3 2 Roy Davis Jr./Preven Everett – GABRIEL (LIVE GARACE MIX) 4 5 Jhene Aiko – WHILE WE’RE YOUNG 5 8 Miguel/Travis Scott - SKYWALKER 6 9 SZA - WEEKEND 7 5 Ne-Yo – ANOTHER LOVE SONG 8 6 Stefflon Don/French Montana – HURTIN’ ME 9 7 Jax Jones/MNEK – HOUSE WORK (3 weeks @ #1) 10 10 Syd – ON THE ROAD 11 11 Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated, & Valleyz – PINE & GINGER 12 12 Jessie Ware - MIDNIGHT 13 13 SZA/Travis Scott – LOVE GALORE (3 week @ #1) 14 14 Major Lazer/Travis Scott/Camila Cabello/Quavo – KNOW NO BETTER (4 week @ #1) 15 15 The Weekend – ROCKIN’ 16 16 GoldLink/Brent Faiyaz/Shy Gizzy – CREW 17 17 KDA/Tinashe – JUST SAY 18 18 Calvin Harris/Pharrell Williams/Katy Perry/Big Sean - FEELS 19 19 Selena Gomez – BAD LIAR 20 20 Thundercat/Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins – SHOW YOU THE WAY 21 42 Kelly Clarkson – LOVE SO SOFT 22 21 DJ Khaled/Jay-Z/Beyonce – THE SHINING (4 weeks @ #1) 23 23 Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - LOYALTY 24 24 Kanye West – REAL FRIENDS 25 25 French Montana/Pharrell – BRING DEM THINGS 26 43 Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign – SOMETHING NEW 27 22 Russ – LOSIN CONTROL 28 26 The Killers – THE MAN 29 27 Ten City – THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS (UNDERGOUND MIX) (1 week @ #1) 30 28 Kraak/Smaak/Cleopold – ALONE WITH YOU 31 32 Chip/Ghetts – GETS LIKE THAT 32 29 Zedd/Troye Sivan - PAPERCUT 33 34 Dan Auerbach – MALIBU MAN 34 --- Sam Smith – TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES 35 44 Bonobo/Innov Gnawa – BAMBRO KOYO GANDA 36 31 Spoon – CAN I SIT NEXT TO YOU 37 30 The Arcade Fire – EVERYTHING NOW 38 --- Bryson Tiller – SOMETHIN TELLS ME 39 --- Lil Uzi Ver/Oh Wonder – THE WAY LIFE GOES 40 33 Grizzly Bear – MOURNING SOUND 41 --- Empire of the Sun – ON OUR WAY HOME 42 49 Kendrick Lamar/Zacari – LOVE. 43 35 Foster the People – DOING IT FOR THE MONEY 44 41 Rihanna – LOVE ON THE BRAIN 45 36 Solange/Lil Wayne – MAD 46 --- MGMT – HAND IT OVER 47 37 Dan Auerbach – SHINE ON ME‘ 48 38 Croquet Club – SUMMER 49 39 Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. (4 weeks @ #1) 50 --- St. Vincent – LOS AGELESS