links for 12/20/22

Rockabilly Pioneer Charlie Gracie Passes Away

The search for an AC that doesn’t destroy the planet

Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Cartoonist Kayfabe talks paintings by Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine and ZAP comix artist

The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The Game Is Rigged: Rethinking The Creator Economy | What Works with Tara McMullin

John’s Beachcombing Museum is an eco-friendly attraction made from objects found on the beach

The Chimbu, a tribe in Papua New Guinea paints skeletons on themselves to strike fear in their enemies

Minimal Maintenance

Melodians Steel Band – Für Elise (1972) Rare UK Funky Instrumental Reggae

Links for 12/18/22

Today’s Conservative Movement Has Roots in the Capitalist Backlash Against the New Deal

Ebb Tide

Archaeologists reveal the white supremacist nonsense behind Netflix’s “Ancient Apocalypse”

Robert Gordon, Rockabilly-Revivalist Singer, Dies at 75

Interview – The Williams Longboarding Company

The ancient mounds of Louisiana

The Decolonial Atlas

Greener records are here: Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolf featured on first bioplastic vinyl

A Day in the surf – one peeler with Carolyn Day

Depression Era Beach Hangs With Dick Metz And Shirley Temple

Links for 6/3/18

The Methane Time Bomb and the Future of the Biosphere


 

How The Queen Of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, Stole The Crown With ‘There’s A Party Goin’ On’


 

Welcome to LA


 

‘Sea, ice, snow, it’s all changing’: Inuit culture struggles with warming world


 

Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work


 

Waste Free Oceans Is Dedicated to Transforming Ocean Plastic


 

The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary.

Rockabilly Rebels

The Guardian has an article about photographer Philippe Chancel documenting French street gangs of the early 80s.

Rockabilly Rebels: The Stylish French Gangs

Here’s a set of photos he took. One features Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, in about 1981. Another one is showing Brian Setzer.

Also this.

Here’s a video about the Pittsburgh Doo Wop scene which produced The Del Vikings, who 24 years later inspired the name of a Paris rockabilly street gang.

Sound of Pittsburgh on YouTube

p.s.: speaking of France
p.p.s.: speaking of Doo Wop

Links for 1/31/18

Within The Context Of All Contexts: The Rewiring Of Our Relationship To Music


 

After The Vinyl Revival, The Vinyl-Playing Jukebox Is Back


 

These 11 innovations will tackle the causes of ocean plastic pollution, not just the symptoms


 

Pacific Beach locals – another day in San Diego


 

The story behind Cecilia Ann


 

Scotty Moore’s Royal Legacy: Bearing Witness at the Birth of Rock and Roll


 

‘Soul-crushing’ video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis, experts say


 

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Links for 6/17/16

Guitarist, record producer and songwriter who co-wrote The Dark End of the Street and worked with Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Tammy Wynette

Source: Chips Moman obituary | Music | The Guardian


 

Working On a Dream: the Long Reef Old Mal & Vee Bottom Surf Fest


 

‘I am a Sunflower’: Amazing Chinese children’s propaganda record


 

When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific team to investigate. Though a fishery failure would once have seemed inconceivable, Baird wrote in his report, “an alarming decrease of the shore-fisheries has been thoroughly established by my own investigations, as well as by evidence of those whose testimony was taken.” Continue reading

Source: The Number One Thing We Can Do to Protect Earth’s Oceans – BillMoyers.com

Skip Heller 78 RPM Release Party

Dionysus Records inaugural 78 RPM release does the label proud. Roots/exotica/rockabilly master Skip Heller returns to the imprint with Heller’s Hot 5

Source: 4/24: Skip Heller 78 RPM Release Party at La Luz de Jesus! –

Links for 2/1/16

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Source: We have Pat Boone to thank for the most psychotic and deranged rockabilly record of all time! | Dangerous Minds


 

Hackney Brewery and food waste charity Feedback link up to launch quality pale ale that’s made from surplus loaves of bread

Source: Raise a Toast and help tackle the problem of food waste


 

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Brant from Climate Truth writes, “A fishing boat captain, a restaurateur, and a Cuban refugee being displaced by rising seas in South Florida are setting off for New Hampshire next week to ha…

Source: Watch: Florida climate survivors travel to New Hampshire to confront Marco Rubio / Boing Boing


 

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Tiki cocktails are making a comeback, but where and when did the trend take root? We take a brief look at the history of tiki cocktails and bars in the U.S.

Source: Tiki Cocktails: Then and Now – KegWorks Blog