Just another nerd on the internet. I write music, free downloads at smawj.bandcamp.com. I like politics, music, poetry, science fiction and art.

 

Bernays Propaganda - 2013 - Zabraneta planeta

Bernays Propaganda is a dance punk band from Macedonia. Zabraneta Planeta is their third LP, released byMoonlee Records. This album reminds me of a more guitar based, early era Metric, the guitars do all the heavy lifting aside from the vocals. The moving baselines make sure everything has a danceable energy that never stops moving.




 When the songs are firing on all cylinders the guitars are firing off angular riffs that are melodic, danceable and just a little punk in the most rhythmic and pulsing sense. I would normally get tired of punk that focuses so much on melody and movement but the guitar also consistently has a fuzz or distortion around it that muddies everything for flavour. If you like punk rock that puts a danceable rhythmic sensibility on top off distortion laden but still melodic guitars thenZabraneta Planeta is for you.

socialismartnature:

Shameful. SF Pride turns it back on Bradley Manning in order to appease pro-war bigots.
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I’m a veteran SF Pride Grand Marshal. I was elated when I heard when Bradley Manning had been nominated. “I was shocked and sick to my stomach to hear this statement that his place had been “revoked.” “Are you kidding? All kinds of controversial and cutting edge activists have been Grand Marshals— it’s not the Pentagon’s choice. It’s not about picking some namby-pamby whom everyone agrees is irrelevant and bland. “SF Pride recognizes people who’ve MADE A SACRIFICE for social justice— and if Bradley Manning isn’t that kind of hero, I don’t know who is.
— Susie Bright

socialismartnature:

Shameful. SF Pride turns it back on Bradley Manning in order to appease pro-war bigots.

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I’m a veteran SF Pride Grand Marshal. I was elated when I heard when Bradley Manning had been nominated.

“I was shocked and sick to my stomach to hear this statement that his place had been “revoked.”

“Are you kidding? All kinds of controversial and cutting edge activists have been Grand Marshals— it’s not the Pentagon’s choice. It’s not about picking some namby-pamby whom everyone agrees is irrelevant and bland.

“SF Pride recognizes people who’ve MADE A SACRIFICE for social justice— and if Bradley Manning isn’t that kind of hero, I don’t know who is.

— Susie Bright

The Flaming Lips are an psychadelic experimental rock band Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Bon Iver is  a band founded and fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. You might remember The Flaming Lips as the weirdo rock band who’s singer likes to wear all white and walk on audiences in a hamster ball.


Most of the time they are a little too progressive and weird for my taste but I admire them from afar for having a distinct style and staking out their territory. The Flaming Lips have a new album out and what a better idea for promoting that album than making a video for a song from last years album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, specifically their collaboration with indie folk rock band Bon Iver.

I actually quite enjoy Ashes In The Air as a song more than I expected considering I don’t really listen to either of these bands regularly but right from the get go the video is weird that it just overwhelms you. That screencap above probably explains more than I am able to. If you have any idea what this video is about please enlighten us all.

fishingboatproceeds:

effyeahnerdfighters:

THE BROTHERHOOD 2.0 DVD BOX SET KICKSTARTER

Hello, Nerdfighters!

We over here at FYNF HQ have been sitting on this idea for a while - producing and distributing Brotherhood 2.0 on DVD, through DFTBA Records!

TWO brothers

ONE video blog

365 days of textless communcation

John and Hank have decided not to communicate except through video blogs for an entire year…. AND THEY DON’T MIND IF YOU WATCH THEM DO IT!

Brotherhood 2.0 was the original project of the vlogbrothers, when John and Hank uploaded videos every weekday for the entire year of 2007. This DVD set will contain 720+ minutes of video, covering everything from the heartbreaking tale of John’s eye surgery to Hank’s song about Helen Hunt that shocked the community. Witness the birth of the Nerdfighter community in this six-disc set!

There was a time before crashcourse and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; before DFTBA Records and Final Cut Pro and high-definition camcorders. Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine and experience Brotherhood 2.0 the way it was never meant to be seen: on HD televisions!

This is something we’ve been trying to put into action for a long time now, and so, based on previous success, we’re trying out kickstarter to get this idea into action. Hopefully you all will be generous enough to support our venture, as well!

This is so awesome!

Obama: Israel and America share a common story

pax-arabica:

Lolol, of course they do. Both of them decimated the native populations to build their countries.

Gee, isn’t colonialism swell?