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Matt Wells: Tom Green vs Fox News

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Leave it to Tom Green to fire back at “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” on Fox News for their remarks about the Canadian Military, with more intelligence than everybody at Fox News put together.

(*warning, some offensive language*)

Matt Wells: Protest Music

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Once upon a time music and politics were mixed in a way that didn’t seem fake, it wasn’t the trendy thing to do and protest songs were written truly to create conversation and rally people to make a change. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not absent from music today - everyone from Kanye West to U2 to Coldplay are using their music and celebrity as a platform to address the issues of the day; even the Dixie Chicks famously took one for the team when they spoke out against the war in Iraq.

But when people like Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger wrote songs, they didn’t rely on metaphor or simply attaching themselves to issues, they wrote about them, they sang about them and often times they were also the activists who helped make change.
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Matt Wells: Music Threat Assessment

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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Rolling Stone magazine has a section called “Threat Assessment: The Good, The Bad, And The Scary”. It’s always in the National Affairs part of the mag and basically shows a diagram of things and people the magazine defines as good for America or bad for America. Simply put, The War in Iraq is considered “Against Us” and Barack Obama promising to bring troops home would be “With Us”.

Have a look so you see what I mean: (here)

So, based on that model I’d like to suggest my own “Music Threat Assessment” where in my own humble opinion I will list the events and or people who I feel are “Against Us” or “With Us” over the past little while, on the topic of music or the music biz.
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