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Latest: Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
If we are going to avoid a world where elites rule, then the Occupy movement must be nurtured and sustained. It's going to be a long haul says Noam Chomsky.
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There's never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead - because victory won't come quickly - it could prove a significant moment in American history. The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it's an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning point in American history. For centuries, since the country began, it had been a developing society, and not always in very pretty ways.
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The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record
Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking US$200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage. By Ernesto of TorrentFreak.
A week before its premiere in US movie theaters, a camcorded version of The Avengers appeared online. Immediately thousands of fans jumped on the release and, according to figures collated by TorrentFreak, in the days that followed it was downloaded half a million times. While this may very well be a record for a "CAM" movie, it failed to exceed the download numbers of several other movies that were available in higher quality. Record or not, the movie's distributer Disney must have been terrified by this early release. However, last weekend the suits at the studio were able to breathe a sign of relief, or rather, start popping open the Champagne.
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Phil Ochs Lives!
If there was a cause or an event, Phil Ochs was there in a heartbeat. Michael Simmons on the new movie of the folk singer with a conscience, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.
The late Phil Ochs, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the 1960s on a rarified perch with Dylan, Joni and Cohen, wasn't a household name but he was big enough to have affected a lot of people. Director/writer Kenneth Bowser's powerful documentary of his life is called Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune and it'll tweak your empathy gland while breaking your heart. Hopefully it'll also wire and inspire the viewer to go out and demand that America live up to its self-image as a nation of people who care about others.
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The Rapper Headphone Conspiracy
Instead of the ear plugs that many music listeners grew up with and consider as standard earphones, the new rage is the over-exemplified use of cans, or headphone with the over-compensating design, or what Jason England of New Rising Media calls, The Rapper Headphone Conspiracy.
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5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion
Record labels and Hollywood have described The Pirate Bay as one of the biggest threats to their business, but thousands of artists clearly disagree with this view. In recent weeks more than 5,000 independent artists have signed up to be promoted by the world’s largest torrent site. Those who were lucky enough to be featured are overwhelmed by the career boost and the positive responses from the public. By Ernesto of TorrentFreak.
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The 10 Best Albums Of 2011
Out Of Bounds magazine calls CounterPunch "America's Best Political Newsletter". Here, CounterPunch's co-editor Jeffrey St Clair surveys the past year's music releases.
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Sex And Zen: The Virgin Years
Before Michael Mak's Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the '90s, there was Ho Fan's Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But without sex bomb Amy Yip, coarse humour or lesbian love affairs, Yu Pui Tsuen had to rely on the nudity and sex from his cast of relative unknowns to save the day. Stephen Tan reviews.
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The Mirror Never Lies: Plunging the Depths of Multi-Culturalism
At the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival in April, the FIPRESCI or film critics prize went to Kamila Andini's The Mirror Never Lies, a precocious debut feature that studies the Bajo tribe, sea gypsies, who live in the oceans of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Philip Cheah reports.
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The Pain Of Being Human
Despite some heavy self-mutilation, a young man feels no pain and cannot die. A look at some of the cases of a doctor who specialises in off-beat diseases. The Guinea Pig videos in the '80s are noted for their extreme violence though time hasn't been kind to Vol #3 and #4. Stephen Tan reviews.
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The Doors - Live: The Music's Over - Dallas 1968
Bad Company - Mr Midnight 2010
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Cotati Cabaret 1987
Julie Felix - Bremen 1976
Matthew Shipp - with Marian McPartland 2006 [
John Coltrane - Sun Ship Sessions: UPGRADE The RCA-Victor Studios 1965
Marc Ribot - In France 2012
Paul Simon - Paul Simon aka Jerry Landis: Work In Progress
Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois - Ontario, Canada 2011
Whitney Houston - Don't Cry For Me: Live 1985-1996
Elvis Presley - That's The Way It Is: The Complete Works Stereo Edition: August 11, 1970 Evening Show
Santana - Santa Cruz 1981
Robin Trower - Live In Concert 1980
The Beatles - "Steveo": Get Back with Billy Preston 2012
Elvis Costello and Flip City - The Flip City Demos 2012
Roger Daltrey - Tommy 2012: UNEDITED
Roger Daltrey - Tommy 2012: EDITED
Bob Dylan and The Tom Petty Band - True Confessions Tour: Westwood One 1986
Ennio Morricone - Torino, Italy 2012
Joni Mitchell - The Fez, NYC 1995
Kate Bush - Manchester, Apollo 1979: SOUNDBOARD
Jefferson Starship - The Return Of Baron Von Tollbooth Vol 3
Lowell George/ Linda Ronstadt - Bethesda 1974: Long version, with GOODY Pitch-fix on source 2
The Magnetic Fields - Live At KEXP 2012
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band - Austin City Limits 2012
Elvis Presley - Operation Big Apple
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DVD Archive Of Rare Films
Joni Mitchell & Co - Jools Holland Presents A Compilation from BBC
Joni Mitchell - BBC In Concert 1974: UPGRADE
VARIOUS - The 47th Country Music Awards: HDTV 720p
Emmylou Harris and Spyboy - Ohne Filter 2000
Joe Cocker - Berlin 1988
Cyndi Lauper - Tokyo 2012
Annie Lennox with strings from BBC Concert Orchestra - BBC4 LSO St Luke's 2009: HDTV UPGRADE
Amos Lee & Calexico - Live From The Artists Den S04E05 2012
The Kinks - Paris April, 1965: UPGRADE
VARIOUS - The Great American Songbook 2010: HDTV VERSION
VARIOUS - Exotic Pop At The BBC
VARIOUS - Kings Of '70s Romance
VARIOUS - NRJ Music Awards, Cannes, France 2012
Tony Bennett - 85th Birthday Concert 2011: Smiler40 VERSION
Bruce Springsteen - Bruce By Southwest 2012
VARIOUS - Duets At The BBC
VARIOUS - Best Of Na Sowas! Pt 2
VARIOUS - Africa Festival 2011
VARIOUS - Best Of Na Sowas! Pt 1
VARIOUS - Jukebox London Live: Guitar Heroes
VARIOUS - Songwriters Circle 2012: Series 3 Part 1
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Munich 1972: UPGRADE
Devadip Orchestra (Santana) - Paris 1978
Bruce Springsteen - Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Springsteen Week 2012
Sonny Rollins - '74 Rescued!
ROIO Of The Week
Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette - 'Tis A Gift [Bucky Beaver, 1CD] Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, 1972. Ex- SBD? very narrow stereo. Not yet a sweet little rock 'n' roller.
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A Potent Symbol of Worker Discontent
On May Day, $ingapore workers were once again reminded they have to bear the burden of low, low wages if investors are to be attracted to set up shop in $heep City. Higher wages would drive corporations elsewhere. But May Day is the symbol of workers rights. The right to a fair wage. A wage that must be equal to the high cost of living. Professor Lawrence S Wittner explains its history and relevance.
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Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
As the government rots, so does the United States of America. That's what happens when the US uses secret evidence to lock up detainees and where no one is held accountable anymore. By Paul Craig Roberts.
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Deformed In The USA
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution from the 2010 oilrig explosion believed to be the likely cause. By Dahr Jamail of Al Jazeera.
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LOU REED/METALLICA
Lulu [Warner Bros/Vertigo]
On Lulu, Lou Reed's new team-up with Metallica, the former VU man appears to have lost his sense of cinema and one of the album's tracks, Frustration, pretty much sums up the listening experience. Philip Cheah reviews.
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AKRON/FAMILY
S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT [Dead Oceans]
Last year, Akron/Family performed with jazz legends bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake in the Vision Festival. Now a trio (after a founding member left to become a Buddhist), Akron/Family is just one of the most interesting bands left of centre in the indie mainstream. In short, they float above the rest and their new fifth album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, proves it. Philip Cheah reviews.
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Shame
Dir: Steve McQueen
Imagine a sex addict as a pilgrim on a personal Calvary, an impossible quest that can only lead to disaster, one pelvic thrust at a time. That's Steve McQueen's Shame for you, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera, about a film that ran afoul of the $ingapore censors.
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A Dangerous Method
Dir: David Cronenberg
And David Cronenberg continues his wayward, at times misguided, but always fascinating attempt to evolve away from standard-issue horror prosthesis to something simpler, more challenging, far more abstract, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera of A Dangerous Method.
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