Antony & The Johnsons are back…

ajthecryinglightI see they are sticking with the black and white motif. This is the album cover to The Crying Light and the person featured on the cover is Kazuo Ohno.

From Wikipedia:

 Kazuo Ohno (or Ohno Kazuo, 大野一雄) (born October 271906) is a Japanese dancer who has become a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. It has been written of him that his very presence is an “artistic fact.”

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Gaza death toll about to reach 1000

buscahamcol_hamas363It’s at 947 now. Two-thirds are civilians. The West is not doing anything and the East is quiet. This has got to stop. Israel knows very well that this culture of aggression will breed more violence, but they like crying “terrorist” whenever half a missile is dropped on them to get sympathy for their horrid cause. Treat humans humanely and then you might have good negotiations. What an atrocity!

Beyonce, U2, Shakira to inaugurate Barack Obama…

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 U2, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Garth Brooks, Shakira, John Mellencamp, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Usher, James Taylor, will.i.am, Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Heather Headley and Jennifer Nettles.

In addition, Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington will read historical passages, with the Rev. Gene Robinson delivering the invocation.

LOFT965 Exclusive: Albums to look forward to in 2009

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1. TBA – Kate Nash

2. Black Summer’s Night – Maxwell

3. New Amerykah, Part 2 (The Return Of The Ankh) - Erykah Badu

4. Undefeated – Whitney Houston

5. Testimony, Vol. 2: Love & Politics – India Arie

6. TBA – Tori Amos

7. A Beginning, A Detour, An Open Ending – Tina Dico

8. TBA – Zero 7

9.  It’s Not Me, It’s You – Lily Allen

10. The Crying Light – Antony & The Johnsons

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India Arie unveils new album cover…

untitled-41This is the cover for the long awaited Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics. The album was supposed to come out earlier but it has been pushed back a couple of times and is slated, now, for a February release. I don’t know why all the neosoul artists are doing this album-series thing. Jill scott did it first and now India Arie, Erykah Badu and Maxwell are all following suit. 

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