Time gets one step closer to making up for putting Ann Coulter on their cover last year. (Only 800 steps left to go!)

The full article is only available to Time subscribers, but HuffPo has some excerpts. ( Click to read )

America Catches Up With the Dixie Chicks!

"Taking the Long Way," due out on Tuesday, is the first Dixie Chicks album on which group members collaborated in writing all the songs. The first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," declares, "I'm not ready to back down/I'm still mad as hell," and starts with a tolling guitar more suitable for a Metallica ( Read more... )

This is a joke, right?

Seriously, that can't be for real. It screams WhiteHouse.org and Landover Baptist Church.

++ Read: Keyboard Kommando Komix, Episode 13: Soldiers of Misfortune!

++ See: Pink singing Dear Mr President, Live. Download: the studio version of this song featuring The Indigo Girls. (Thanks to maggiesox for uploading that last week!)

++ Buy: The Dixie Chicks new cd, Taking the Long Way, for only $9.98 under the pre-order price. Hear: "Not Ready to ( Read more... )

From Gawker via Feministing: witness the evolution of Beyoncé :
Having Jay in her life has changed a few of her attitudes about how men and women relate to one another too, she said, which helped her transition from writing songs like “Independent Women” and “Survivor” to man-tending anthems such as “Cater 2 U,” in which she sings about bringing ( Read more... )

Stop whatever you're doing and download The Party Party CD from DJ RX. Some guy with waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on his hands took a bunch of sound bites/clips of Dubya, Dick Cheney and other politicians and synched it up with songs like "White Lines", "Imagine" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Now, I've heard a couple different versions of "Sunday" ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm watching the Vh1/MTV/CMT Relief Concert, and they're doing this little montage of celebrity reactions. I'm paraphrasing, but here's an idea of what they're saying:
++ (Black MTV VJ) - How can this be happening in America? What are we paying all these Federal organizations our taxes for ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to do a music post lately, and after a couple people mentioned they're interested in checking out Kanye West and OutKast, I figured they'd make a good theme. So here's just a couple of my favorite tracks, all with at least a vague political meaning behind them. Enjoy!

STANDARD DISCLAIMER: "The RIAA dictates that all music ( Read more... )

I think I like his commentary even better than Kanye's:
"George Bush hates midgets!" Chris Rock quipped last night during "Shelter From the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast ( Read more... )

Stuff to download right the hell now - "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People", The Legendary K.O. rapping over Kanye West's "Gold Digger ( Read more... )