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Introducing… Leila Arab

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by Beats, Brit Brit Brit, Intro • Tags: , , , , , , ,

Leila has already released three albums, a trilogy if you will. In 2009 she started to write a body of work that felt different. Maybe it was being sober, but this one seemed to be about being more direct. Leila first met Mt. Sims at a fancy dress party way back in 2006. Leila went as Leila. Mt. Sims dressed as a Computer Processing Unit fashioned from a cardboard box with strategically placed slits. She had admired his music since his work on Gigolo Records, she was most happy when he introduced himself and said he was a fan.

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Introducing… Alexa Wilding

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by Beats, Intro • Tags: , , , , , , ,

Alexa Wilding is a New York City-based singer-songwriter. Upon the record’s self-release, Wilding was named “one of music’s hippest chicks” in the NY Post, alongside Juliette Lewis and Au Revoir Simone. She was featured as Nylon’s “Band Crush,” Page Six Magazine’s “Who’s That Girl,” and as one to watch in Dossier, Time Out NY, NY Press, and the UK’s Wears the Trousers. Her song “Black Diamond Day” was licensed to Morgans Hotel Group, to be included on a compilation with Kings of Leon and Florence and the Machine. Wilding also lends her music to the films and runway shows of Finnish design house, IVANAhelsinki, often appearing in designer Paola Suhonen’s films. The pair recently collaborated on a performance at Art Basel-Miami, in conjunction with the upcoming fashion and art publication, Love Contemporary.

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Aung San Suu Kyi gets re-trials, new trumped-up charges

by Hum-an-ity, Meanies, Politik • Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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Aung San Suu Kyi was towards the end of her unfair detention time, but it seems like she’ll be staying in longer. After an American jumped in a lake and swam to here, the military regime found it to be reason enough to re-assess the victim’s sentence for a couple more years. This is the woman that won the election in Burma but was put in jail for something she didn’t do just to shut her up. In any case, here’s the entire article. 

I am not surprised. She is a formidable power in a dictatorship. I swear, when I visited a border town in Myanmar I thought it was a slice of hell. I had never seen such oppression, corruption and poverty.