Their name is Unlocking the Truth. The Brooklyn-based band consists of three 11-year-old kids who write and create their own heavy metal music.
Rock on, little dudes!
Here’s their Facebook page.
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Hole - “Doll Parts”
Music video by Hole performing Doll Parts. (C) 1994 Geffen Records
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I still cannot listen to this song without falling to pieces.
Nirvana made an album called “Nevermind” but it turns out they only wanted some people to ignore it. (via I Hate When Rock Stars Complain About Their Fans. But Not When They Do It Like This.)
… At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us — leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.
Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song “Polly”. I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that’s the way I feel.
Love,
Kurdt (the blonde one)
“Fuck you” Sign language performance
My name is Anna and this is my final for a college level sign language class. I am not deaf and still learning sign language and encourage others to learn sign language as well! Thank you so much for all the love
smack the pony - “i just can’t find my friend”
this is actually from the hilarious sketch comedy show “smack the pony,” starring the 3 women here. nonetheless, i love this video and think it’s genuinely a really good piece of music/choreography/art.
Isley Brothers - “Twist and Shout”
Before there was the Beatles, there was the Isley Brothers. I love the Beatles, but they took the exact same sound that many such black musicians were putting out and made millions off of it. The music industry and the public at the time (i.e., the “Jim Crow” era in the U.S.) simply would not abide the same level of fame and fortune going to Black musicians as to White musicians.
The incomparable Louis Armstrong doing a classic rendition of “The Racism Blues.”
“How would it end…ain’t got a friend/
My only sin…is in my skin/
What did i do…to be so black and blue”
Way Down Hadestown, California Sings Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
Title song from the amazing rock opera/musical, “Hadestown”
Three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a prison colony on August 17. They were convicted of hooliganism and religious discrimination, but their real crime was to protest Russia’s iron-fisted ruler President Vladimir Putin. Belfast Telegraph columnist wrote this article on the eve of the sentencing.
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PUSSY RIOT have been accused of blasphemy, but may have saved the soul of music and even rediscovered revolution for Russia.
Feminist punks Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will tomorrow show a defiant face to the might of church and state in Moscow, and in the process, reclaim the ethic that once made punk a force for freedom.
The trial of the three women arises from the wave of protests earlier this year against the dubious re-election of Vladimir Putin as Russian president.
Pussy Riot’s distinctive intervention came on February 21 when they stepped onto the altar of the Orthodox Cathedral of Christ Savior, bowed, blessed themselves and offered a “punk prayer” in the form of a song begging the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin out” and denouncing Patriarch Kirill as someone who believed more in preferment under Putin than in the grace of God.
They have been charged with “premeditated hooliganism…motivated by religious hatred.”
Pussy Riot have widely been presented as madcap activists out to provoke, which is true enough, but far from the full story. Maria (24) is a student and a member of Greenpeace, with a young son. Yekaterina (30) is a computer programmer and gay rights campaigner. Nadezhda (22) is a student at Moscow University, married with a four-year-old daughter.
It is not certain these are the three who pranced across the altar. There’s around a dozen women in Pussy Riot. They wear balaclavas and give interviews under interchangeable interesting nicknames—“Seraphim,” “The Cat,” “Terminator,” “Blondie,” “Dagwood,” “Schumacher,” etc.
The band was involved last year in painting a huge male organ on a drawbridge across the Neva in St. Petersburg so that when the bridge was lifted, the nearby offices of the political police saw a five-meter member majestically rise.
WADE MICHAEL Page was, among other things, a musician. The man who, on August 5, stormed into a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee, Wis., and opened fire, killing six worshippers and wounding several others, was the singer of a hardcore band called End Apathy.
… ABOUT 10 days prior to Page’s act of racist terror, all the way across the Atlantic and halfway across the Mediterranean, another musician was getting his day in the sun. Artemios Matthaiopoulos, the bassist for a Greek punk band called Pogrom, was being sworn in as a deputy in the parliament.
As one might guess from the name, Pogrom are far from subtle. One song, entitled “Auschwitz,” features the lyrics: “Fuck Anne Frank! / Fuck the whole tribe of Abraham! / The Star of David makes me vomit!”
Oddly enough, Matthaiopoulos isn’t the only musician with such views sitting in Greek parliament. In May, during the first round of Greece’s elections, George Germenis, also a bass player for a black metal band called Naer Mataron, was elected. Both Germenis and Matthaiopoulos are members of Golden Dawn, a party who polled around 7 percent in both rounds of elections and whose neo-Nazi stances are covered by only the thinnest of veils.
Golden Dawn’s rise to Greece’s parliament is truly horrifying. The ongoing economic crisis and rapid decline in Greek living standards has caused a tremendous polarization in public opinion. While this has certainly opened the door to magnificent developments in resistance (17 general strikes, the rise of the Coalition of the Radical Left, or SYRIZA), it’s also allowed for the most toxic flotsam in Greek society to rise to the top. Golden Dawn are that flotsam.
In the May elections, their campaign slogan was “So we can rid this land of filth.” Not only have deputies representing the party been involved in recent public assaults on left-wing candidates (one of whom Mathaiopoulos is now replacing), but the group has a long history of terror against immigrants, leftists and religious minorities.
The party’s swastika-like symbol has been found at vandalisms of synagogues and mosques. Albanian and Turkish immigrants have been assaulted by individuals connected to the group. Making matters worse, after the June elections, it was found that around half of Greek police officers voted for Golden Dawn. That this kind of party now has 18 seats in the nation’s parliament represents a very dark cloud.
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