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Sara sent me this last night. It's a track from Erin McKeown's new record, We Will Become Like Birds. McKeown is a girl singer-songwriter of the type I used to despise. Coming of musical age in the Lilith Fair era, I assumed that most ladies with acoustic guitars were just riding the same media hype that a few years earlier had done Seattle in, and Massachusetts before that.
Then Sara gave me a CD about five years ago, with the probable intention of changing my mind. On some counts (Kris Delmhorst) it didn't, but on others (Dar Williams, Erin McKeown) it did. I was converted. I listen to McKeown's penultimate CD, Grand, fairly often now, and had a very nice time indeed at one of her concerts. I'm looking forward to having some money and buying a copy of Birds. In the meantime, you should buy it.
So after seeing Antibalas open for Soulive at Celebrate Brooklyn last Friday, and after hearing Bush's "can't stop/won't stop" nonsense speech last night, I've decided that y'all need to hear something.
It's called "Indictment". Those guys in Antibalas really know how to get a message across: loud, danceable music topped with a guy screaming about indicting most of the Republican leadership. The only thing that's missing is a real list of crimes. Here's what I can come up with:
Re-jiggering electoral districts to forceably gain a majority in a legislature (DeLay)
Consorting with known sleazeballs who seek to bilk Native American tribes (DeLay)
Lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc)
Duping the American people into believing that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks (ibid)
Continuing to prance about with the Saudis (ibid)
Threatening sexual assault with a tasty Middle Eastern snack (O'Reilly)
General jackass behavior/failing to listen to reason (O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Murdoch)
You know the drill. If you like the song, buy all their albums. Seriously. Antibalas rules.