Eastern Music Festival to host world-renowned banjo player Béla Fleck Eastern Music Festival is proud to announce a collaboration between legendary banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and the Eastern Festival Orchestra. As the opening Saturday of the festival’s 2024 ... 05/21/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
What to expect for Movement weekend 2024 Movement, Detroit's annual electronic music festival, is days away and organizers are gearing up for techno music's biggest weekend. Driving the news: More than 115 acts will perform across six stages ... 05/20/2024 - 11:21 pm | View Link
House Music 40, ARC Music Festival to host pop-up event House Music 40 and ARC Music Festival are partnering to hold a pop-up event later this month at Daley Plaza to celebrate the 40th anniversary of House Music. The special pop-up event ... 05/20/2024 - 11:42 am | View Link
The Metro: Legendary Detroit DJ John Collins talks techno history ahead of Movement John 'Jammin' Collins, a pivotal figure in Detroit’s techno scene, joined "The Metro" to share the history of the genre. 05/20/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
Why is Norman Cook known as Fatboy Slim? Fatboy Slim was at the forefront of 1990s big beat, flying the flag for British music globally after the demise of Britpop. But how did he get his name? 05/19/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Jon Stewart just called out hypocritical complaints of so-called “cancel culture” from the right, saying the only real way a conservative can be “canceled” is if they dare to criticize a certain Mango Man. Via HuffPost:
“This is their identity now, constant victimization,” said Stewart. “They say what they want and if you get upset about it, you don’t believe in freedom.”
Stewart aired a video of Fox News’ Sean Hannity claiming he “just believes in freedom” and isn’t easily outraged.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in a rare television interview with Rachel Maddow, expressed her determination not to let threats and pressure from Republicans at the local, state and federal level prevent her from doing her job. Via the Daily Beast:
With that Georgia criminal case having ground to a halt amid a Trump appeal, Willis explained the effect of having personal security measures in place for an extended period of time.
“It’s been happening since about a month after I took office—I began to get threats,” said Willis, whose term began in January 2021.
Rep. Andy Ogles is touting a new bill that he says would prohibit judges from issuing gag orders on defendants in most civil and criminal cases. Called the “Let Trump Speak Act,” it comes as Mango Man continues to stamp his tiny feet against the gag order in his New York criminal trial.
Trump posted a video to his social media site this Monday, talking about "what's next for America" if this fascist is allowed back into the Oval Office again, and if you look at the fine print, more than once it calls for a "unified reich."
A video posted to Donald Trump's account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.
The headline appears among messages flashing across the screen such as “Trump wins!!” and “Economy booms!” Other headlines appear to be references to World War I.
The word “Reich” is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871.
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The Republican Party of Wisconsin had their state convention this weekend and what a shitshow it was! About the only thing they managed to do was showcase how deep their disarray really is.
During the entire thing, party leaders repeatedly called for unity on all the different areas where there are internal riffs.