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Two of our classic bangers, “Permanent Vacation” and “Apocalypse New” are getting retired at the end of this season and as a treat to you loyal fanz, we’re putting up a limited amount of each at only $15 a piece.
Very super-limited amount of pieces available. Get em while you can.
So I’ve been preoccupied with Budd Dwyer since 1993 or so, when an old friend ruined my night by showing me his suicide video (something COUNTLESS acquaintances have told me they somehow saw live because they were home sick from school– yeah, you were in the Philadelphia area at the age of nine watching some press conference on your sick day).
ANYWAY, looks like someone has made a movie about it with an un-Firefox-friendly site. I was able to check out, and hereby repost, the journal entry Budd wrote the night before he publicly shot himself through the brain on TV and it’s the saddest fuckin’ thing I ever read.
So, if you don’t have plans, or if you do and want to ruin them, you should read that and then I guess watch the suicide video and turn on “Disintegration” and call it a night.
(Obviously there will be a Budd Dwyer shirt in the near future…)
BIG UP GURU. Dude is gonna make it.
Chilled hard with IZM at the SLATE show in Vegas this past week. IZ is a weed therapist, ladies man and THE dude you want to roll out to a strip club in a stretch MACK truck with. He opened for Ghostface on the last tour, so why are you sleeping?? Who knew Colorado could be so hard?
Oh shit, dunny, FRANKENRASERHEAD is slaughtering it on Frank151.com. We are everlivin’ proud of this collab shirt masterminded jointly by the twisted heads at FRANK and BOLT CUTTER.
Just excavated this phenomenal Mercenaries video from 1999 on YT. Had a ton of insane conversations recently about the Inevitable Return of the Underground as evidenced in the rise of Kid Cudi, the reboot of Raekwon and the disappointing performance of the Obama Administration. I got chills watching this video. I’m remembering the day I first heard “The Fire in Which You Burn Slow” and sad, nostalgic and hyped all at the same time.
And hear I am blasting this out to thousands on FBook, Twitter, my site, a-yadda-yadda. Can anything even be underground anymore if it is overexposed the instant it is shared? The music object is dead; fuck a CD nevermind a TAPE. Kids wear pictures of cassette tapes on their shirts because it’s an artifact of a dead era.
Big up to Miss Wit for working out a pretty incredible deal on her site for the Zaire ‘74 shirt + SOUL POWER DVD! Read the movie description below and try telling me you don’t want to cop this instantly. The dudes at NO MAS are also bangin’ it.
SOUL POWER is a verite documentary, by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte chronicling the legendary festival Zaire 74, and made entirely using the original 1974 footage.
The dream child of musician/producer and life long friends Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine (Grazing In The Grass, Don’t Go Lose it Baby), this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
SOUL POWER highlights the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Miriam Makeba, The Spinners among a host of others. These artists were inspired by this return to their African roots, as well as the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, to give the performances of their lives. The concert has achieved mythological significance as the definitive Africa(n)-American musical event of the 20th Century.
More relevant than ever.
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