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She was maybe the most famous entertainer of her era. A Jazz Age icon.
The first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, 1927âs Siren of the Tropics.
A stone cold gorgeous KNOCKOUT.
Civil rights pioneer. She refused to sing for segregated audiences.
She renounced her U.S. citizenship (born in St Louis, MO) and moved to France, đ«đ· where she became an incredibly successful spy for the Allies during WWII and was eventually a key figure in the Resistance movement against Franceâs Nazi occupiers.
She holds the Resistance Medal, Croix de Guerre, was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and eventually inducted into the Pantheon, the first Black woman so named.
Beautiful.
Brave.
Badass.
Why arenât we all wearing her t-shirt or putting her stamp on our letters or watching one of 50 biopics about her?
Give this legend her flowers FFS.đ
Mar 13, 2024
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Sheâs like my Keith Richards of acting. When I watched possession for the first time her beauty and talent really blew me away. The choices she makes are superior and I can never get enough of her.
Feb 22, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â€ïž
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ€
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
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I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ€
Mar 23, 2024