This pisses me off way more than it should. Seriously John McCain, you thought John Mellancamp would be okay with you using one of his songs? MORON. What is it with Republicans misapropriating songs by liberals for their campaigns? Ronald Reagan using "Born in the USA" is the classic example, but there's also Bush trying to use Democratic ( Read more... )

I just finished a really good book, Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music. It actually came out 2 years ago, but I never got around to reading it until now. It was really interesting - detailing not just the Dixie Chicks controversy, but the history of country music and politics, going all the way back to World War I & II. I learned a ( Read more... )

++ Preteens opting for sexier costumes. Which, I'm not a prude, but the oversexualization of little girls kind of freaks me out.

++ Ha, now there's a War on Halloween.

++ US promised Blackwater guards immunity, officials say. Oh, HELL NO.

++ In his wife's campaign, Bill Clinton is a free agent.

++ Candidates widely split on Iran.

++ Fred ( Read more... )

I seriously cannot wait to see this movie. [Direct Link in case embed doesn't work.]

Natalie Maines rocks my world. I really need some Dixie Chicks icons.

AP has a little blurb on Tim "Proud Democrat" McGraw today:

NEW YORK (AP) - Country music might seem like a pretty conservative medium, but Tim McGraw is bucking the trend. "It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore," McGraw tells Time magazine in its Oct. 23 issue ( Read more... )

Despite all the happy news about how much the country doesn't like Bush or the Republican Congress, how you vote may not matter if you vote on a Diebold voting machine. A Princton University study documents how ridiculously easy they are to untraceably hack, and they've got it on video:

*fumes* [direct link for when the embed doesn't work]

( Squirrel Nut Zippers campaign ads, Best War Ever promo, Iraq for Sale trailer, and 9-11 documentary link behind the cut. )

Bruce Springsteen Fucking Rules.

That is all.

Suck it, Country radio!
NEW YORK, May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week's sales of 525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record the Chicks established in 2002 when ( Read more... )

Sweet!


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Thanks to anne_jumps for pointing out the "50 top conservative rock songs".

I don't even know where to begin the ::headdesk::, for serious.

On a related note, I've been meaning to post this about "Rock the Casbah" for awhile but never had the chance:
It has been reported that "Rock the Casbah" was an unofficial anthem for the American army during the ( Read more... )