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AIM… American Indian Movement website

Source: CENSORED NEWS: American Indian Movement at UN: The Right to Speak.

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Buy Thievery Corporation with Federico Aubele concert tickets for the show at House of Blues Boston

Monday 10/26/2009 Doors: 07:00 PM Show: 08:00 PM Prices: $39.50 – General Admission Standing Room ? $49.50 – Reserved Seating – Advance Ages: all House of Blues Boston 15 Lansdowne St. Boston, MA 02215 (888) 693-BLUE (2583) Driving Directions

Rob Garza & Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation were interviewed by NPR – to check out the video, click here.

This summer, Thievery Corporation will hit many of the biggest music festivals in the US. After a successful trip to Indio CA for Coachella in April, Thievery will gear up to head back to CA for the Electric Daisy Carnival on June 26th. After that, they will hit Lollapalooza in Chicago, the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, and Austin City Limts Festival in Austin. Keep an eye on the tour page for more shows popping up throughout the summer!

New Thievery merchandise is available in our webshop now! There are 3 new designs with more to come! These are going fast, be sure to get yours today!

Ticket info and further information for all shows available at our tour page or http://www.thieverycorporation.com/

Pixies

Black Francis, Kim Deal and the rest of the Pixies will be hanging around Denver for a second show, it was announced today. The Pixies will now play the Fillmore Auditorium on both Monday, Nov. 16, and Tuesday, Nov. 17. Doors @ 7 p.m.; shows at 8 p.m.

From the press release:

The tour is is celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album “Doolittle.” The U.S. tour will hit a total of nine cities, including three dates in New York.

On this tour, the Pixies will perform all of the songs from “Doolittle” and its related B-sides, “Weird at My School,” “Dancing the Manta Ray” and “Bailey’s Walk,” among them. Doolittle, the band’s third album and the first to chart on Billboard’s album charts, includes classics such as “Debaser,” “Wave of Mutilation,” “Here Comes Your Man,” “Hey” and “Gouge Away.”

“We wanted to do something special for “Doolittle’s” 20th anniversary,” said Black Francis, “and we thought his was a good opportunity to play all of the songs from that album, something we don’t normally do at a regular gig.”

The international tour kicks off on Sept. 30 in Dublin. A four-night stand at London’s 20,000-seat Brixton Academy is already sold out.

News: Pixies add second Denver show | Reverb.

Paul and his Mom

I Covered My Eyes (2008)

Paul Turano

I Covered My Eyes investigates childhood notions of threat and safety by juxtaposing TV news broadcasts of tragic world events with home movie footage. The project was first conceived after seeing the televised images broadcast live on September 11 2001, and wondering what children must be feeling upon witnessing this horrific act within our own borders.

Soon after, director Paul Turano wrote a list of the tragic events he distinctly remembered witnessing on TV as a child in the 1970s and early 1980s. By adopting a child’s perspective, the film evokes his experience of learning about the outside world through news broadcasts, and the accompanying realization of threatened safety from forces outside his immediate family and community. As the sense of vulnerability grows throughout the film from abstract threats to more immediate and actual ones, the seemingly innocent and idyllic world of his childhood becomes overshadowed by an increasing awareness of its fragility and precariousness.

Basim Usmani is bassist for The Kominas, a group that blends traditional sounds with punk rock beats.

They’re young. They’re punk. And they’re rocking both their Muslim and American worlds with their music, lyrics and style.

“A lot of times people say, ‘Oh wow, look, brown people playing music’ [but] it’s more than that,” said 25-year-old Pakistani-American Shahjehan Khan, the lead singer for a Muslim punk band, The Kominas.

The Boston-based band is one of a handful of Muslim punk bands that emerged in the United States in the past few years.

The members of this four-person rock group with South Asian roots hold varying views on religion. One says he’s an atheist; three others identify as Muslims — both practicing and non-practicing. For them, punk music is a way to rebel against their conservative cultural upbringing and the frustrations of growing up a young Muslim in America.

“We aren’t [just] some alternative to a stereotypical Muslim. We actually might be offering some sort of insights for people at large about religion, about the world,” said 26-year-old bassist Basim Usmani.

Blending traditional South Asian rhythms with punk rock beats, they sing in both English and Punjabi. (Kominas means “scum-bag” in Punjabi, according to the band.) Their songs can be at once political, serious, satirical and insinuating.

Audio slide show: On tour with Muslim punk rockers »

Their risqué lyrics and provocative song titles such as “Sharia Law in the USA,” “Suicide Bomb the GAP” and “Rumi was a Homo” — a protest song against homophobia in the American Muslim community — have drawn the attention of Muslims, non-Muslims, fans and critics alike.

“You sort of have to throw it in peoples’ faces and be shocking in order to give people a different way to think about stuff,” said Usmani.

“[Punk] allows them to rebel against society and their own culture at the same time,” he said. iReport: Is Islam at odds with American values?

Before the Islamic punk movement in North America had a voice, it had a story. The Muslim punk scene began to gel in 2003 when novelist and convert to Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight self-published his book, “The Taqwacores” about a fictional Muslim punk scene in Buffalo, New York.

The book opens with a poem called “Muhammed was a Punk Rocker” and describes both conventional and unconventional characters including a Shi’ite skinhead, a conservative Sunni Muslim, a burka-wearing feminist punk and a Sufi who sports a Mohawk and drinks alcohol.

“The punk rock kids I would hang out with weren’t even Muslim,” 31-year old Knight recalls. “They were so fiercely individualistic — I wish that I could be a Muslim in that way: not be ashamed of my confusion, not be ashamed of my doubts. Just be myself and be proud of who I am.”

The novel’s title, “Taqwacore,” is a hybrid word stemming from the Arabic “taqwa,” meaning “god consciousness,” and “core” referring to “hardcore” — a genre of punk music. It’s now a general term for Muslim punk rock.

The popularity of the book, which Knight said was born out of a search to find his identity as a Muslim-American, grew in underground youth circles and online.

It didn’t take long before real-life “taqwacore” bands like The Kominas began blooming across the country.

“It makes sense why punk has been the music of choice for young, politically active Muslims who are musical,” said LeVine. “The straight edge movement in punk which was about no drugs, no alcohol, was clean yet very intense and political. It’s a way for them to rebel against their families in some extreme ways yet still be ritualistically, ‘good Muslims.’ ”

“Taqwacore” gave voice to many young Muslim-Americans who felt muted by circumstances and created an opening for bands like Al-Thawra, Vote Hezbollah, and Secret Trial Five — an all-girl punk band out of Vancouver, Canada.

In the summer of 2007, five of the taqwacore bands organized a “taqwa-tour” of the northeastern United States. They played in city after city, traveling in a green school bus with TAQWA painted on the front bought by Knight for $2,000 on eBay.

This summer, The Kominas continue to strike a chord with audiences around the country, hitting cities from San Francisco to New York on a multi-city tour.

The taqwacore movement has also inspired two upcoming films – a dramatic feature film based on the book and a documentary.

Many conservative Muslims may peg young taqwacores as heretic for their suggestive and irreverent lyrics. But the musicians say they are just trying to show both cultures how broad the spectrum of belief can be.

Like many young adults balancing their religious beliefs with American culture, some young Muslims in the United States say it’s a constant struggle to be accepted in both worlds.

“I had a lot of conflicted feelings growing up a Muslim in America,” said 25-year-old Kominas drummer Imran Malik. “It was hard not being able to do the same things that everyone else around you is doing without feeling guilty about them.”

Knight, who grew up with a Catholic mother and white supremacist father, converted to Islam when he was 16. He said his message is not one of blasphemy but rather an extension of his discontent with the rigid etiquette that dictates certain practices within Islam and the stereotypes of Muslims in American.

“Muslims haven’t been fully accepted as Americans but the American experience hasn’t been accepted as something that can contribute to the Muslim world,” said Knight.

Knight said writing the book helped him and others connect through shared experiences.

“When I first wrote it, I felt like there would never be a place for me in the Muslim community and that has really turned around a lot,” he said. “The book gave me the community I needed, it connected me to all these kids that were also confused and who also went through the things that I went through.”

That connection is vital to taqwacore music, bassist Usmani said.

“The music is great, but the conversation is the key to all of this. The dialogue that we have inspired is really invaluable.”

“I don’t think Islam is ever going to go away, I’m just trying to see how it best fits in my life.”

Punk meets Islam for new generation in U.S. – CNN.com.