Today is also about Iron Age.

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I look forward to this, April 26th.

Thunderbird.

 

Last summer I went to a day festival with my mother and her boyfriend which had what looked like an already rigor mortised Bob Dylan headlining and some other absolutely forgettable bands/famous crackheads. However, what shone out like a pissed stained, whisky breathed beacon of hope was Seasick Steve, the only act of the day I was looking forward to seeing. He sings with a knowledge of the road, belonging to the 'other', basically being an absolute badass, and tells his stories with absolute sincerity and conviction. You know this man is real, and could probably beat you until you shit out your own face. 

After he played I walked around on my own, sat between the burrito van and the bar and spent all of my money between the two, got sunburnt, drunk and shouted 'play Ace of Spades' repeatedly whilst Bob Dylan played. Fuck your revolution.

Unreleased J-Dilla/Madlib collab.

Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme) by stonesthrow

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I want knowledge, not faith.

 

"thank me when you are dressed all in leather wanking for eternity in hell."

No Talk are a punk rock from Texas all about leather and shit like that. Throw up on yourself and pretend you ride a bike or something. 

Download here.

 

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MKULTRA

Project MKULTRA started in the early 1950's, which continued at least until the 1960's. A covert and illegal human research program that looked into the possibilities of mind control, a reaction to the alleged brain washing of American troops by Korean Communist soldiers. They used US and Canadian citizens as their guinea pigs.

The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse.

Focus was on the use of LSD due to it's ability to alter the subjects consciousness, and many experiments were undertaken on their the military and on general members of the public also. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions, almost always without their knowledge. 


Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, even though actual use of LSD was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966. In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, CA to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with two-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.