Category Archives: Politics

Dummy Up: a/k/a Tommy Chong

Tommy Chong appears on Alex Jones‘ nationally syndicated radio show to discuss the recent FBI raid of Spectrum Labs and the seizure of 10,000 DVDs of Chong’s documentary, a/k/a Tommy Chong. Also on the show is Kevin Booth, creator of … Continue reading

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Zappa — The Lost Interview

Barry, our most kind and benevolent webmaster, posted this seven part interview in July, 2008. However, when I sought it out both here at KUR and on the web, I came head-on to many dead links. Seems as though certain … Continue reading

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The Berlusconi Protest Song Project

Michel Delville of Belgian FZ tribute band The Wrong Object writes in to announce an interesting project: There is a new myspace page devoted to musical responses to the New Fascism in all its guises and disguises. Please come and … Continue reading

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Gil Scott-Heron at Wolfgang’s Vault

Activist poet and musician, Gil Scott-Heron’s musical career began in the late ’60s. He quickly emerged as a sharp, intelligent critic of contemporary culture, boasting terrific jazz-styled accompaniment. By the late ’70s, Scott-Heron’s sound had adopted a bit more of … Continue reading

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Goodbye Mr President!

… and may the door hit your ass on the way out. (cartoon © Robert Ariail)

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We don’t condone shoe throwing…

“…but we prefer it to war” — Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe. (See also)

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Excerpt from The Black Page, 1988

A tiny snipplet from an interview, and a bit of The Black page, possibly from the Milan show (not the best audio quality, though). “The bad businessmen may save the world, by accident!…” 🙂

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Obama!

Wow wow wow, this is fantastic news to wake up to. Also: I’ve been waiting for eight years to be able to say the following three words and now I finally can: NO MORE BUSH! Aaaaahhh… Thank you America!

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Jazz Piano Palin

Pardon yet another US election post, but this one’s rather funny…

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Deliverance

Cue dueling banjos! (via)

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