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3/12
La Luz, helmed by Shana Cleveland, won the Music Moves Europe (MME) Award at the Eurosonic festival in 2021
Enjoy a taste of surf noir
La Luz - Strange World
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😕🇺🇸
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3/11
Maria de Barros, truly a child of the diaspora: born in Dakar, Senegal to Cabo Verdean parents, grew up in Mauritania and the U.S.
Cabindo a Cunene is her take on a song by Bana celebrating Angola.
Awards in linked post.
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Oh, that’s nice. And what else should we expect when we give puerile man-lets control of the killing machine? It’s only a question of when and where the retaliation will hit.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
“No Stupid Rules of Engagement”: Ahead of Iran War, Hegseth Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/11/akbar_shahid_ahmed_iran_israel_huffpost
Having read “We Are The Land”, I can tell you it’s captivating history. Even as someone who has tried to engage with indigenous histories for years, I kept being struck by how much most of us don’t know (and have no idea how much we don’t know).
The best recommendation:
Among the books are “We Are the Land” by Damon B. Atkins and William J. Bauer, “California Through Native Eyes” by William J. Bauer Jr., “Adopted by Indians” by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, and “We Are Dancing for You” by Cutcha Risling Baldy.
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
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11 March
Hercules & Love Affair - "Blind" (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
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Unmistakable voice of Anohni. ❤️
“Martínez said: ‘It’s crazy, because when you look around, you realise that in this very place we’re dancing, singing and enjoying ourselves with some of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who were denouncing us from inside the walls.’”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Interview with Bill Moyers on the role of singing in organized action.
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From Wiki, list of awards:
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3/10
Singer, composer, professor of American history, Smithsonian curator, founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Awards in linked post.
Bernice Johnson Reagon - Give Your Hands to Struggle
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"They’re putting us in jeopardy in a real substantive sense, because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum and rule this war is."
I was lucky enough to see her take this show on the road at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. She owned every moment. Genuine and majestic at the same time.
Random Early Swing Records.
Performing in this super-fun vintage film clip, here’s Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - Five Guys Named Moe (1943). Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!!
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Her take on Gil Scott-Heron’s “Home Is Where The Hatred Is” rips me apart every time.
This morning, a glimpse of two feathered babies.
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3/9
Alisa Weilerstein, cellist, MacArthur fellow, winner of Leonard Bernstein and Grammy awards, and more. Best recognition comes from the composers who create works specifically for her. See linked post.
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Pat Place, Kiki Smith, Adele - black and white photo on the NYC subway.
'Bertei writes about No Wave’s music with acuity, its sexist shortcomings with clarity, and its women with care. There is no mud slung at Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, or Lizzy Mercier Descloux, only tenderness.'
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
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Correction: Mogolu
From Apple credits, the personnel on this song, From A Whisper To A Scream, written by Allen Toussaint. The musicians entrusted to work with her is validation aplenty.
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3/8
Sunday rant:
Esther Phillips has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The Grammy awards however are famously safe and behind the curve: she was nominated but never won. Her voice should come with a warning:
I may destroy you.
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The details are damning. The only standard for ICE employment now: a willingness to break the law to snatch and indefinitely detain as many (mostly) brown people as possible, then treat them horribly so they’ll take the piddly cash to “self-deport.” www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-littl...
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Amadou & Mariam - Mogulu
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