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Fugazi’s music is remembered as having a slant toward social activism
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From HuffPo 01/12/2012:
"WASHINGTON -- Legendary D.C. post-punk band Fugazi hasn't played a show since 2002, but languishing fans can now revisit their favorite performances online at the Fugazi Live Series, an ongoing archival project that when complete will feature up to 800 audio tapes recorded by the band.
Singer-guitarist Ian MacKaye now co-owns Dischord Records, which launched the series. On Wednesday, MacKaye dropped by WAMU-FM's "Kojo Nnamdi Show" to talk about how Fugazi wound up recording their shows in the first place and muse on the band's place in the annals of D.C. music history.
"I've always been a bit of a documentarian," MacKaye said on the program, adding there wasn't a whole lot of method to the madness when it came to recording. "At some point, a couple hundred tapes into the process, we kind of realized: Wow! We kind of have to keep going." Fugazi's music is remembered as having a slant toward social activism, which translated into many shows performed for charities and protests."
Read more here, and check out a video of "Waiting Room" by Fugazi below.
Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars to LA Schools
JAN 12, 2012 - Eddie Van Halen, through the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, has donated 75 of his own guitars to LA area schools, to help them with their mission of inspiring creativity and expression through playing music. Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation was founded in 1996, inspired the great movie, "Mr. Holland's Opus" starring Richard Dreyfuss. The film's composer, Michael Kamen, is the founder and they donate instruments to schools to help with their music programs.
Read more here, and check out the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation here.
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Libyan Activist Music: G-A-B – “Libya Bleeds Just Like Us”
Jan 12, 2012 - Libyan activist musicians, who go by the name GAB Crew, have been putting out activist music supporting the youth uprising and the Arab Spring in Libya from the start. They wrote a song called "Libya Bleeds Just Like Us" while Qaddfi was still in power, and months before Tripoli fell. The song was leaked, and when asked by a Qaddai loyalist to write a pro-Qaddafi song, they were horrified and went underground. When the rebel force took the capital, they returned home, and are happy now that they can be more free to be creative and express themselves with protest songs under the new transitional government.
Read more in a NY Times article here, and check out GAB Crew's "Libyan Bleeds Just Like Us" music video below.
