Comments on: Summer Jams

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:35:35 +0000

Dept. of Futile Enforcement of Obsolete Business Model: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/144766-muxtape-shut-down-for-now

By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:52:12 +0000

That’s what I’m talking about! Nice work, Michael “Double B” Robbins! Lucky Darryl, you got next?

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:13:00 +0000

In defiance of Plato, Mann, Heller, & Fehér, I offer this politically suspect muxtape to Harriet: http://murkplectrum.muxtape.com/

By: bill knott

bill knott — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:41:14 +0000

. . . from
The Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism, by Agnes Heller and Ferenc Fehér, p. 364:
Both Plato and Thomas Mann were right in regarding music as politically suspect. While under its spell, we are more indeterminate and unspecific in our hates and sympathies than politics would like us to be. There is no doubt that we communicate while we are listening to music and hugging millions. But this is a special kind of communication. Its message is meager yet redundant. It conveys to those millions in my embrace only the truism that they are like me and I am like them. It is a discourse that knows no argument; indeed it is one that draws its strength from the absence of argument . . . .

By: Don Share

Don Share — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:26:06 +0000

Kimbo, the only thing I can think of is On a Mission: Selected Poems and a History of the Last Poets by Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, and Kim Green, but you may have seen this already.

By: Kimbo Slice

Kimbo Slice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:25:46 +0000

oh, and only slightly more earnestly… does anyone out there know if there’s any good critical writing on the Last Poets? i’ve looked to no avail…

By: Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:23:25 +0000

That Crystal Castles “song” is tearing my brain apart one spongiform unit at a time. Merci, Kimbo!

By: Kimbo Slice

Kimbo Slice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:58:33 +0000

Here’s a link to my muxtape:
http://flizzo.muxtape.com/
Dylan fans will be pleased. Also notice how the Baden version of Berimbau approaches an Aram Aroyan understatedness.
One might considered how the remix, sampling, and bootlegs contribute to the peripheral field of music production, and what that might look like as equivalents in terms of poetry… or you can just tap your foot along…

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:24:45 +0000

No Harrieteer has a Mux to share? Official verse kulchur!

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:01:44 +0000

Ha! I’d not read that — thanks, Emily. (Nor did I know Brandon Stosuy had written for PF — how did that come about? I’m familiar with his metal reviews.)