[Video] The Black Lips: "Boys in the Wood" (NSFW)
The Black Lips today released their latest video viz Vice/Noisey, and it's one you'll probably remember for awhile. The group, which last graced listeners with an album on 2011's Arabia Mountain, commissioned fellow Atlantans The ATL Twins and Matt Swinsky to direct this hell-raising romp through the forest that includes everything from fire dancing and sponge bath in a coffin to "murder and face-pissing". It's a hell of a way to climb back into the public eye after a elongated time away and the song isn't half bad either. "Boys in the Wood" is the first single off The Black Lips' forthcoming studio project, Underneath The Rainbow, due out March 18 on Vice Records, with pre-orders now available on iTunes. The band also announced a Spring tour, for which the dates can be found below.
Sudan Blacks Out Internet To Hide Brutal Suppression Of Protests
There's a revolt going on the streets of Sudan spanning many parts of the country. These type of events are daily, and we constantly hear that there is some type of social unrest going on in some part of the world. Primarily, it revolves around the injustices that have greatly affected a population, mostly the poor. People, as you can understand, get frustrated and the built-up resentment and anger eventually surfaces many times in mass protest, whether if it's peaceful or violent.
With the increase in gas prices causing the rise in cost of basic necessities, the people of Sudan have had enough of living in a dwindling economy where they're struggling to survive. Peaceful protesters have been met with violence, and many have been killed by the government for displaying their frustration for being let down again and again. On Wednesday, September 26th, The Sudan’s National Congress Party, in order to limit the out flow of information about what is happening, blacked out internet service and censored newspaper publications
"In a country, still entrapped in civil wars, where 75 percent of the budget goes to military forces and less than 5 percent of the budget goes to education, they've reached a breaking point with political, economic, and security failures. The government knows this, and they're clamping down more brutally than usual." The protest began as an outcry to the economic crisis that has been happening, but with blood being shed on the streets, that outcry is now more about freedom and hopes for a new regimen to take control.
[Photos by Girifna Media] [Via Vice]
Scott Hocking Photographs Detroit's Worst Graffiti
Its not often that you see graffiti like this documented and I don't mean graffiti in general because many have documented the art of graffiti in various ways. But when we typically see photographs of graffiti that someone took the time to document its usually huge murals, lots of color, and crazy style, you know a work of art. Photographer Scott Hocking chose to go a different route and decided to document the worst graffiti in Detroit. What he shot was pretty interesting and honestly quite amusing making you think who would write these things, but in the end the project captures someone who wanted their voice heard. Check out the photos and head on over to Vice for the rest of the set here.
[Photos by Scott Hocking] [Via Vice]
