Ben Powling
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Saxophonist from Leeds, UK
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Stagger Lee
8 months ago
Lots to do. Grumpy AF. This calls for The Fall
youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?...
You have to pay for everything But some things are for free We live on blood We are Sparta FC
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The Fall - "Theme from Sparta F.C."
YouTube video by kogler
https://youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?si=vBjeVBiylSXasC3F
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Punk Rock History
8 months ago
46 years ago today GangstersĀ is the first single by theĀ Special A.K.A.Ā (The Specials), released on this day in 1979 as a double A-side along with 'The Selecter' by label mates The Selecter
#punkrock
#ska
#skalegends
#skabands
#2tone
#thespecials
#theselecter
#history
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Johnnie Johnstone
8 months ago
āTo the marketing manager at RCA: Letās call it āthe Sgt. Pepper of the 70sā, and put an attractive young couple in a pre-coital embrace on the advert. Then people will be blinded to just how exquisitely distressing the album is.ā Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape
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Dave Infante
8 months ago
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on
@bookshop.org
for not mincing words, though:
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The Fake History Hunter
8 months ago
They don't make adverts like they used to.
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Zarah Sultana MP
8 months ago
Trans women are routinely denied healthcare, safe housing and dignity. This isnāt an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power. Trans rights are human rights ā and I will always stand with the trans community.
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Postcard From The Past
8 months ago
The food is lousy and the apartment is deranged.
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Rick McLaughlin
8 months ago
Fascinating sides from the
#cdcollection
- a twofer of Bill Dixonās 7-tette, and Archie Sheppās New York Contemporary 5. Ken McIntyre, John Tchicai, Sonny Murray, Ronnie Boykins, Sonny Murray, Don Cherryā¦
#music
#musicsky
#jazzmusic
#jazzsky
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Owen Jones
8 months ago
The Israeli foreign minister arrived on an announced visit to the UK. Almost the entire media failed to report it. Why? New post š
www.owenjones.news/p/media-cove...
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Media covers up visit from Israeli foreign minister
You have to ask - why was this not reported, and what was discussed?
https://www.owenjones.news/p/media-covers-up-visit-from-israeli
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John Christmas
8 months ago
Now, then, forever
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Bethan M Jenkins
8 months ago
Hang on, I thought it was everyone eating lunch out which meant we were too poor to buy a house and we should just bring sandwiches... š
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The Guardian
8 months ago
Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show āgunshots to head and torsoā
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Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show āgunshots to head and torsoā
Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime * The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline The doctor who carried out the autopsies of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives. There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Rik Mason MDANT
8 months ago
Absolute Travesty.
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Tim Onion
8 months ago
The saddest looking person you know just made a goofy point.
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The Guardian
9 months ago
Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
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Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
Exclusive: 136 organisations call on PM to stop using ādemonising languageā, after his remarks before crime summit More than 130 refugee and human rights organisations have called on Keir Starmer to stop using language that demonises migrants, after he made controversial remarks before an international people-smuggling summit. The criticisms are contained in a letter to the UK prime minister, coordinated by the campaign coalition Together With Refugees. It has been sent to the prime minister in response to comments he made before the Organised Immigration Crime Summit on 31 March, where more than 40 countries came together in London to focus on tackling organised immigration crime including people-smuggling gangs. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/07/rights-groups-starmer-anti-migrant-rhetoric?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Ed Hodgson
9 months ago
Dave Allen brought the funk RIP
#NowPlaying
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Slimothy Pickins
9 months ago
RIP Dave Allen. Thanks for the music.
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Chris Packham
9 months ago
Like clockwork , as soon as you criticise the fossil fuel companies and executives ā out come the lobbyists and shady thinktanks based at and near the infamous SW1 55 Tufton Street .
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Jay Rayner
9 months ago
This, from actor-writer Katy Wix, filling the restaurant column spot back at my old manor, is a lovely bit of writing.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
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Giovanniās on The Hayes, Cardiff: āThe smell of wine and hot tomatoesā ā restaurant review
The actress and writer returns to a childhood favourite for a large slice of family nostalgia
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/06/giovannis-on-the-hayes-cardiff-the-smell-of-wine-and-hot-tomatoes-restaurant-review
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Bopflix Films
9 months ago
1st session now up with NYC rockers X-Ray Love band playing āDarlingā
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'Darling' X-RAY LOVE (Engine Rooms, London) BOPFLIX sessions
YouTube video by Bopflix
https://youtu.be/BQhR6JMGz1Y?si=iaPHn0hOyg0mRFME
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Stagger Lee
9 months ago
AdiƵs Dave Allen
youtu.be/_ibmNGpqU_Q?...
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Gang Of Four - I Found That Essence Rare
YouTube video by shagidra
https://youtu.be/_ibmNGpqU_Q?si=Y3Fvm-ttpTqpwP0M
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Stereogum
9 months ago
Dave Allen, the former Gang Of Four bassist who played on 'Entertainment!,' has died
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Former Gang Of Four Bassist Dave Allen Dead At 69
Dave Allen, the founding bassist of English post-punk greats Gang Of Four, died last Saturday at 69. His former bandmate Hugo Burnham confirmed the news in a post today on Gang Of Fourās Instagram acc...
https://www.stereogum.com/2303262/former-gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dead-at-69/news/
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The Guardian
9 months ago
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics
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Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics
Israel says soldiers fired on āterroristsā in āsuspicious vehiclesā but footage shows clearly marked ambulances using flashing emergency lights Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The five-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle, and shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-paramedics?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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JohnM
9 months ago
āI love the Carrier Bag Man Carrier bags strewn all around the room The Carrier Bag Man - I am him Coz I am the Carrier Bag Man I've no time to sit comfortable down But I still need armchairs round my home To put carrier bags on. I am the Carrier Bag Manā
#FallFriday
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Carry Bag Man
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
https://youtu.be/Qfu-jB7Kxoc?si=C8EWaaxdqfWjb4Yr
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Train Songs Central
9 months ago
"We went up to Leeds once on the train to do a show at Leeds University and the whole thing was just 'Ahhhh' compared to doing it by road. You could just sit back, snooze, work on a new song, chat up a girl in the old restaurant car." - Francis Rossi of Status Quo š· Trevor Ermel
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BeardedGenius
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rax ālevon honkersā king
9 months ago
the first Clash record really is nothing but bangers huh i havenāt listened to it in years but we nabbed one at the record fair today and itās just one banger after another
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The Guardian
9 months ago
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workersā jobs with children: āItās insane, right?ā
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Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workersā jobs with children: āItās insane, right?ā
Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation. The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the stateās schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break ā even on school nights. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Stereogum
9 months ago
Last nightās Patti Smith tribute at Carnegie Hall had Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Matt Berninger, Karen O, Kim Gordon, Courtney Barnett, Alison Mosshart, Jesse Malin, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Maggie Rogers, Susanna Hoffs, Paul Banks, and more. Watch:
www.stereogum.com/2302029/watc...
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Patton Oswalt
9 months ago
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The James Bond chord! š«
YouTube video by Juicy Guitars
https://youtube.com/shorts/v-g9wLM4EPg?si=_G63CKnII902qjVr
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Better Things Are Possible
9 months ago
(seeing FBI agents sprinting in my direction as I'm being stabbed) Oh thank god I'm--(they run past me and tackle a guy who's flipping off a tesla)
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Steamdust š
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Zarah Sultana MP
9 months ago
The government has played a direct role in the genocide in Gaza through its arms sales to Israel. Today, my bill to end arms sales to Israel & any country at risk of violating international law, was blocked from being heard. But I wonāt back down. Iāll keep bringing it back.
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rax ālevon honkersā king
9 months ago
instead of the four humours we should judge people by which addiction/s theyāre most vulnerable to: booze, uppers, downers, weed
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Zarah Sultana MP
10 months ago
Israel's siege on Gaza, the blocking of essential aid and the cutting off of electricity are textbook acts of genocide, designed to systematically starve 2 million people. It's shameful the Labour government continues to refuse to recognise this for what it truly is: genocide.
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soul nate
10 months ago
must rock being a cybertruck guy. every time you pull up itās like beep beep make way for the Ambassador of Divorce
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Stereogum
10 months ago
R.I.P. Brian James. The founding guitarist of the Damned has died at 70.
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Founding The Damned Guitarist Brian James Dead At 70
Brian James, founding guitarist of the Damned, has died. No cause of death has been shared, though he passed peacefully with his family by his side. He was 70.
https://www.stereogum.com/2299515/founding-the-damned-guitarist-brian-james-dead-at-70/news/
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Pitchfork
10 months ago
Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk composer, producer, and vibraphonist, has died
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Roy Ayers, Influential Vibraphonist and Jazz-Funk Composer, Dies at 84
The songwriter behind much-sampled classic āEverybody Loves the Sunshineā died after a long illness
https://pitchfork.com/news/roy-ayers-influential-vibraphonist-and-jazz-funk-composer-dies-at-84/
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pixelatedboat aka āmr blueskyā
10 months ago
Thereās something unusual about Al Yankovic. Heās odd in some way. Strange. Thereās only one word to describe him: abnormal
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Pitchfork
10 months ago
David Johansen, who fronted the legendary 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls and who also recorded under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, has died
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David Johansen, Famed New York Dolls Singer, Dies at 75
The musician also made a name for himself as Buster Poindexter and was the subject of a Martin Scorsese documentary
https://pitchfork.com/news/david-johansen-famed-new-york-dolls-singer-dies-at-75/
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Stagger Lee
10 months ago
Just read a description of Lee Brilleaux as 'a demented caravan park owner', which has made my day
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TheBlindboyPodcast
10 months ago
Bob Dylan running his own Instagram and downloading 2014 Machine gun Kelly freestyles from YouTube is absolutely gas š
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New album from Howlin Ric & The Rocketeers out now on all your favourite streaming services. Rhythm and blues, pub rock and rockānāroll for the good lads.
howlinricandtherocketeers.bandcamp.com
#howlinric
#howlinricandtherocketeers
#rocknroll
#newmusic
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Getting weird with it on the
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tour a few weeks back. Good craic at the Jenny Lind in Hastings courtesy of
#PropertyOfTheLost
#ukjazz
#saxophone
#jazz
#punk
#dub
#newmusic
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Tim Onion
10 months ago
Reading pope power rankings. Absolutely losing it that the word for eligible popes is "popeable."
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Kumail Nanjiani
10 months ago
The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.
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Stagger Lee
10 months ago
Still one of the most alarming / relatable 3 minutes ever
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Dads Best Friend
YouTube video by Rubberbandits
https://youtu.be/iYgPznBrjiA?si=rYEflyTE3-5DDjMi
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LANKUM
10 months ago
We are so proud of Radie, who has managed to work so hard while dealing with the practical and psychological difficulties of navigating this criminally broken system. All of our love and support to her and Dan. ā¤ļø
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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'I have begged' - Lankum's Radie Peat on fight for child's autism supports
Lankum's Radie Peat and her partner Dan Lambert, COO of Boh's and Kneecap manager, told Oliver about having to fight for services for their autistic daughter. They highlighted the struggle facing thou...
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22490323/
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Kara Swisher
10 months ago
What? Truly and profoundly unsmart.
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