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May 19th, 2004 1:18pm


Good Natured Fun

Castro “I’m Related To U” – As far as I know, Castro have not yet officially released anything, but this furious punk number was slated to appear (along with a few other songs being posted this week) on the Under The Beach, A Heart Attack compilation put together by Nikon and K of Brighton’s premier club night, It Came From The Sea. I’m not exactly sure why, but this song sounds a lot like a more visceral, intense version of early Afghan Whigs to me. Feel free to tell me that I’ve lost my mind if you disagree.

Excerpt from “The Right Perspective”, May 7th 2004 – This was recorded from shortwave radio by WFMU’s The Professor. If you think that Fox News and conservative talk radio is extreme, hateful, and totally unreasonable, then your mind will be blown by what gets out over shortwave. The on-air style is not that different from their AM and FM dial counterparts, but right wing hosts on shortwave always go a few steps beyond the pale and launch into the kind of white supremacist rants and hysterical conspiracy theorizing that could never make it out over the more strictly regulated and advertiser-dependent commercial airwaves. In the case of this excerpt, the host suggests that the torture and humiliation of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib was nothing more than “a college hazing, good natured fun to help build the morale of our soldiers.”

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