Tag: REM

• Top 40 Over 40.16: Holding It Down

  One possible answer to the question I posed in my post on Reckoning with REM – How come their early portraits of Southern life never said anything about the history of racist violence and forced labor in their native Georgia, even on their album Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables? – is that…

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  March 2, 2014

  Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  Afghanistan, american empire, Blowback, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, chalmers johnson, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Holding It Down, Imperialism, In What Language?, Iraq, Lynn Hill, Maurice Decaul, Mike Ladd, Minutemen, Music, Politics, Race, Record Reviews, REM, Still Life With Commentator, Top 40 Over 40, Vijay Iyer

• Reckoning with early REM

  Recently I’ve been working on two projects at the same time, Gnawing on the Bone and Soy Aqui.  I usually don’t do this but have found that there is an upside to it that reminds me of the story behind the REM song Life and How to Live It.  The song is about a resident…

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  February 16, 2014

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  Byron Coley, Douglas Blackmon, E.H. Harriman, Elizabeth Sturger Llerena, Eric Lott, Gnawing on the Bone, Life and How to Live It, Love and Theft, Michael Stipe, Neil Young, Race, Reconstruction, REM, Slavery By Another Name, Southern Man, Southern Pacific, Soy Aqui, the South, The Wild Bunch, Traces of the Trade, Upcoming Projects