Tag: Coca-Cola

• Inka Cola / Holiday Shows

  One of my favorite lyrics on our new record uses a nugget I got from a passage in Mark Pendergrast’s great history of the Coca-Cola corporation: in perhaps the perfect symbol of neo-colonialism, the Coca-Cola corporation actually bought out Inka Cola of Peru.  The line in the song goes,   “Mao’s Little Red Book slandered you…

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  November 21, 2017

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, History, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events, Wisecracks

  Coca-Cola, dA Center for the Arts, El Pulpo, Inka Cola, Mark Pendergrast, Peter Hughes, The Hemlock Tavern

• The Residents and the Arctic

  I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio.  A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity.  I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…

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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• Coca-Cola loses one in India

  One of the songs on my forthcoming record is called simply “Coca-Cola.”  Mark Pendergrast’s book For God, For Country and For Coca-Cola reveals that this is the most widely recognized group of syllables on the planet, except for OK, which holds onto the top spot for now, but perhaps not for long.  Back in 1971,…

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  September 7, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, Music, Politics, Work In Progress

  Coca-Cola, diabetes, El Pulpo, India, India Resource Center, KillerCoke.org, obesity, Soy Aqui, Upcoming Releases, water