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too late, you already missed him: Jay Electronica's performance of "...because he broke the rules" at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards 2008 I realize that in some senses UK has overall better taste in music right now than we do, and I'm happy that Jay got out there to do his thing, but seriously, somebody back home needs to give this dude a chance. I mean, the Beeb is already up on this. You can hear this set to music on the first Jay Electronica podcast posted ...

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Yeah, so that's where I've been the last few days. I got my wisdom teeth pulled, and you know how they usually give you a choice between getting knocked out or just doing anaesthesia? ...

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Most of us here are far too young to remember this, but when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr died he was ...

Required reading and listening for this weekend: In an open letter to the record industry posted by Jack Davey of J*Davey on her blog: "the age old model is failing . as an industry based on faithful consumers you have lost your connection with the people who matter most : the PEOPLE . you have yet to show them that you are with the changing times & able to adapt to something new . you are proving that you are too afraid to promote good music . you would rather let the monotonous drone of what is today's music remain unbalanced ...