Banksy continues to make blatant, meaningful statements in his work about injustices worldwide, and there is perhaps no other artist today that does it so effectively and momentously.

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here’s another example why A-Trak is my favorite party dj on this planet

Co-produced by Danny Glover, with powerful footage shot by a group of Swedish filmakers in the late 60′s and early 70′s reporting from a global perspective with a combination of commitment and naiveté. They traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the U.S. media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. I saw this on Swiss National TV late last night and found it on youtube to share it with you…

For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. When filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson discovered the footage, he decided he had a responsibility to shepherd this glimpse of history into the world.

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Remember last December when Jay Z told MTV that there will be a WTT2? Well it’s gonna happen. According to Mike Dean, a veteran producer who pionnered the “Dirty South” sound in the 90′s, became Kanye’s personnal engineer, who worked on the Watch the Throne album and is also on stage during the WTT concerts overseeing the sound, confirmed that rap’s royalty will go back into the studio together for a sequel…

“I’m working on the G.O.O.D. Music album, of course,” Dean told Quiet Lunch. “And Watch The Throne 2 — it’s not started yet, but it’s coming.”

Heat beat the Pacers in 6, just as I predicted… Kobe got beat in 5 ( I predicted in 6 ). Looks like there’s alot of smog in the gold and purple Lakers land these days, not looking good for Bynum and Gasol… This pretty much sums up the general feeling in LA

Rémi is back with a new bag of tricks…

Kanye West‘s music has more depth than your typical hip-hop artist. His productions are like compositions, and he’s one of the few hip-hop acts that gets covered by indie artists and actually taken seriously. Sure, we’ve seen indie covers of Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Eminem, but they’re tongue-in-cheek versions that come off as borderline ironic or downright laughable. But an acoustic take on “Heartless” or a dramatic rock version of “Runaway” is a different story. Checkout Best Indie Covers Of Kanye West Songs by Pigeonsandplanes.

BBC Four documentary about a New York City vastly different from the one today. Beginning in the late ’60s, this 60-minute film focuses on the three musical genres that greatly impacted music as a whole: punk rock, disco and hip-hop. From Warhol’s Factory to CBGB, from disco haven The Gallery to Studio 54, and from park jams in the South Bronx to worldwide domination, the doc traces the humble origins and interconnecting elements of the musical styles that were born out of necessity and contains interviews with various key players in the development of the art forms. Musicians like Richard Hell of Television, Chris Stein of Blondie, David Johansen and Syl Sylvain of the New York Dolls, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, Tommy Ramone of the Ramones, and John Cale of Velvet Underground discuss the punk scene while Nile Rodgers and David Mancuso take on disco’s popularity and how it went from a subculture to a phenomenon. The last part is dedicated to hip-hop, featuring commentary from Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy, who explains how Blondie came to record their smash hit, “Rapture.” Check out the doc after the break…

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British graffiti artist Aroe had the License to do this ill piece of work in Brighton. 12ft by 64 ft. Heavy Artillery, dope!