The Complicatist : Lee Moses, and Friends
More obscure soul music gems from the vaults
Columns
From The Hood : Texts From My PM
Lyndon Hood wonders why these people haven’t run out of credit
Go To China
The best (and worst) films of 2012
From The Hood : This Movie Sucks
Shouldn’t reality have a better script?
The Complicatist : Serengeti, Del Shannon, Lana Del Rey
Learning survival tactics from Brian Dennehy
From The Hood : Qui, Jean, Ou Est La Growth?
If Planet Key did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Punishment Park
Five attractive teenagers, a remote cabin in the woods … What could possibly go wrong?
The Complicatist : The Spirit of Rockabilly
The sound of white trash contenders, from over 50 years ago…
Woody Guthrie at 100
From revolutionary poet, to icon of American virtue…
London Calling: After The Gold, Hush
In the wake of the London Olympics, the legacy is a good deal less than bright and glittering
From the Hood : Poor Show
Please, sir, can I have the implementation of a number of already-identified measures that have been shown internationally to mitigate poverty and benefit the wider economy?
The Complicatist : Music Gonna Shock You Like Electric
Celebrating Jamaica, and 50 years of independence
From The Hood: WINZ of Omission
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on a subsistence wage provided by the State.
London Calling: A Society in Lockdown
Forget the Queen’s diamond jubilee – the riots anniversary tells a different story about the state of Britain
From The Hood: Eurorecovery Made Easy
The Spanish Economy, by a New Zealand Observer
The Complicatist: El-P, Killer Mike
Philip K. Dick Meets the Rappers, Downtown
Milestone Movies: Out of the Past (1947) and Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
The past may be a far country, but we still live in it
From The Hood : The Adventures of Tom, Tagger
Getting by, with help from your friends
From The Hood : Man Over Board
Where abouts is the nowhere man?
The Complicatist : Songs About Money
The economics of rhythm and melody…..
From The Hood : Moonbeam Dreams of Murder
Feline fantasies of fame fortune and bloody vengence
Left Coasting : Undaunted Oakland
Attempting to dream, amid gunfire
From the Hood: Howdy Neighbour!
From a past life as a Muppet
Left Coasting : Hunger for Justice
California’s prison inmates go on hunger strike for better conditions
From The Hood: Dining With The Baron
An extraordinary tale of marine vicissitude
Left Coasting : Barricading the Information Superplaza
BART starts a free speech firestorm
From the Hood: The Inspector Protector
Inspection is my life
Left Coasting: Robbin’ the Hood
California’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket
From the Hood: Sestina SIStina Barcelona
The art of spying, dying and versifying
Letter from America : Sarah, Forever
Outrage at Sarah Palin is gasoline to a forest fire….