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Trinidad Jame$ - Females Welcomed feat. Reija Lee

Trinidad James showing the love for T&T!!!

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Loving this groovy soca.

Kes feat. David Rudder - Live Yuh Life (Like Yuh Playing Mas) (by kes the band)

So true!!

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difference-is-happy:

Amazing a cappella flashmob in Heathrow airport!

This is awesome.

If you want a big smile watch this now

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jus-trini-tings: Genre of Christmas music influenced by Venezuelan presence in Trinidad Usually are about the Nativity Most trinis can sing entire parang songs but do not know any Spanish at all. There is also a sub-genre called Soca Parang; here songs are in English and not necessarily about The Nativity of Christ

jus-trini-tings:

Genre of Christmas music influenced by Venezuelan presence in Trinidad

Usually are about the Nativity

Most trinis can sing entire parang songs but do not know any Spanish at all.

There is also a sub-genre called Soca Parang; here songs are in English and not necessarily about The Nativity of Christ

(via jus-trini-tings)

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South Africa: sbujwa on the streets

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The Harder they Come, The Harder they Fall

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picturesofmusic: Apparently in the 1950s, a popular nightclub, Mocambo would not book Ella Fitzgerald because she was black. Fortunately for Ella, she had a powerful and unlikely benefactor Marilyn Monroe. “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she promised she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - and ahead of her time and she didn’t know it.” - Ella Fitzgerald

picturesofmusic:

Apparently in the 1950s, a popular nightclub, Mocambo would not book Ella Fitzgerald because she was black. Fortunately for Ella, she had a powerful and unlikely benefactor Marilyn Monroe.

“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she promised she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - and ahead of her time and she didn’t know it.” - Ella Fitzgerald

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Tonite in the Savannah from 7pm. Graffiti and dance music. Should be fun. Im going acoopdetat: If you are in Trinidad right now, you’ve got to make it! http://www.abovegroupogilvy.com/news/show_tell_16_urban_heartbeat

Tonite in the Savannah from 7pm. Graffiti and dance music. Should be fun. Im going

acoopdetat:

If you are in Trinidad right now, you’ve got to make it!

http://www.abovegroupogilvy.com/news/show_tell_16_urban_heartbeat

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There is no right way, no pure way of doing it. There is just doing it…We live in a post-authentic world. Today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It’s all just what you are bringing when the lights go down, its your teachers, your influences, your personal history. At the end of the day it’s the power and the purpose of your music that still matters.
Bruce Springsteen
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M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video) (by noisey)

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These letters were syndicated round the world and were described by Richard Neville, the editor of the hippy magazine Oz, as “a classic New Left/psychedelic left dialogue”. They summed up a tension between two tendencies in the counterculture - the hippy strand that had come to the fore in the mid-60s and embraced self-expression, spirituality and “love”, and the leftwing radicalism that was sweeping the world in 1968 and was concerned with changing structures. These weren’t necessarily exclusive positions; they were more a question of emphasis and a lot of people had a foot in both camps. But there was still a tension between them, and the “Dear John” letters epitomised that tension.
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babylonfalling: Helix (1969) The following exchange of letters between Beatle John Lennon and John Hoyland, a young British radical, should help settle a lot of questions about the Beatles’ relationship to the cultural revolution and the movement. The dialogue appeared originally in the Black Dwarf, a revolutionary socialist biweekly published in England, shortly after the Beatles’ “Revolution” came out. Full size here and continues here Raises some great points.

babylonfalling:

Helix (1969)

The following exchange of letters between Beatle John Lennon and John Hoyland, a young British radical, should help settle a lot of questions about the Beatles’ relationship to the cultural revolution and the movement. The dialogue appeared originally in the Black Dwarf, a revolutionary socialist biweekly published in England, shortly after the Beatles’ “Revolution” came out.

Full size here and continues here

Raises some great points.

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tamarasylvester: ‘D man wit’ d hammer’  Walkin through St. James with my camera in tow I happened upon a man whose name I did not know he sat with a hammer in front of an old oil drum turning a melody-less clamour into a sweet bee-dum-bee-dum-bum. (the making of a steel pan) St. James, Trinidad 2011 (Nikon f606- film)

tamarasylvester:

‘D man wit’ d hammer’ 

Walkin through St. James with my camera in tow

I happened upon a man whose name I did not know

he sat with a hammer in front of an old oil drum

turning a melody-less clamour into a sweet bee-dum-bee-dum-bum.

(the making of a steel pan)

St. James, Trinidad 2011 (Nikon f606- film)

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How Music Travels – The Evolution of Western Dance Music

To make it easier to trace the threads of music history, we’ve created an interactive map detailing the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years. The map shows the time and place where each of the music styles were born and which blend of genres influenced the next.

Click image to open interactive version (via Thomson Holidays).

http://www.thomson.co.uk/blog/2011/10/how-music-travels-infographic/#.TskN4vE-GYA

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Primal Scream are totally disgusted that The Home Secretary Theresa May ended her speech at the Tory party conference with our song Rocks.

How inappropriate. Didn’t they research the political history of our band?

Hasn’t she listened to the words? Does she even know what getting your rocks off means? No. She is a Tory; how could she?

Primal Scream are totally opposed to the coalition government, Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Howard, Clegg etc. They are legalised bullies passing new laws to ensure the wealthy stay wealthy, taking the side of big business while eradicating workers rights and continuing their attacks on young people, single parents and OAP’s by slashing education and social security budgets, and persecuting the poor for being poor.

We would like to distance ourselves from this sick association.

The Tories are waging a war on the disenfranchised, They are the enemy.

Primal Scream
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