Month: January 2017

Anti-Flag – “Death of a Nation (Live)” Video

Anti-Flag
Jason Tate

Anti-Flag have released a new video for the live version of “Death of a Nation.”

We chose ‘Death Of A Nation’ as the lead track off of Live Vol. 1 for a number of reasons. The foremost being the parallels of emotions to the elections of George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The anxiety, fear and compassion we have for our brothers and sisters of marginalized and non-binary communities,” he says. “The song was written as a call to arms to rebuild. The work needs done, we must come together to not allow sexism, racism, trans and homophobic bigotry to become normalized.

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Brand New Recording More in February?

Brand New
Jason Tate

An intern at a studio bragged to his friend that Brand New has six weeks of studio time booked in Nashville this February, and of course said friend published it on Reddit.

For what it’s worth: I haven’t even heard a “no comment” in response to asking about this, but I read it on the internet, so it’s gotta be true.

Cool Kickstarter: Indie Microblogging

Kickstarter
Jason Tate

Manton Reece has started a new Kickstarter for a book and service dedicated to a new platform for microblogs:

Do you remember how the web used to work? How the web was supposed to work?

In the earlier days of the web, we always published to our own web site. If you weren’t happy with your web host, or they went out of business, you could move your files and your domain name, and nothing would break.

Today, most writing instead goes into a small number of centralized social networking sites, where you can’t move your content, advertisements and fake news are everywhere, and if one of these sites fails, your content disappears from the internet. Too many sites have gone away and taken our posts and photos with them.

Amen. This is something I’ve thought about a lot, and it’s one of the reasons I continue to run Chorus (and our forums) on domains I own powered mostly by software I can easy move to other servers if I need to.