Godfuckingdammit

Shake my damn head.

Boo.

Where the River Narrows: Vlooper

Quebec has given birth to steezo as diverse as Celine Dion and William Shatner. In the indigenous Algonquin language Quebec means“where the river narrows”.  Out of this land of coalescing waters and styles emerges Vlooper.

Hailing from the francophone Montreal city , Vlooper identifies himself and his art with the struggle/re-definition of Quebecois sovereignity, so don’t call a brother Canadian. When not grinding on the 40-hour a week hustle and or making dope music alongside comrades Kenlo and his stateside westcoast clique Homeless Royalty, Vlooper and his wife engage in community based projects such as running Ociel “ A sovereign teashop/refuge for artists of all disciplines”.

Vlooper’s  music sounds like a house party wafting of sweet tobacco full of head nodding, funky, sexy revolutionary cyborgs – full of love and posted up – sharing pastiche nodes of human joy through music.  Peep the mixtapes here.

http://www.divshare.com/download/9003327-978

http://www.divshare.com/download/8198578-5f9

trick or vote

Because i’m not on facebook, i’ll get the word out here. Trick or Vote 2009. Vote smart seattle, don’t act like the south! I hear the dj is filthy. details here.

Since we’re talking racism and homophobia anyway…

Might as well put up some stuff by the dude Jay Smooth, whose Ill Doctrine video blogs have been a favorite since comedian/social justicite Hari Kondabolu brought them to our attention some while back. Jay Smooth is one of the co-founders of Underground Railroad on WBAI radio out of  the Big Apple, and started his foray into the world of the interwebs a little while back. Ill Doctrine is basically his stream of consciousness thoughts on issues both personal and political (as if you could separate the two of them). Sounds like it could be crap, right? Well, Jay pulls it off without being preachy. Take a look and listen, and you’ll see why.

spanish goths

that’s the spanish prime minister and his family. this is what happens to kids of socialists, i guess.