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New soundtrack/website rocks the coalfield justice movement 0
Posted 4 days, 3 hours ago
This just might be the most powerful soundtrack and organizing tool for the coalfield justice and climate change movements today.
Tuning in

Rothbury Music Festival rocks sustainability mission 1
Posted 5 days, 20 hours ago
Organizers of the Rothbury Music Festival being held this weekend in Michigan consider it to be "a party with a purpose." And that purpose -- as evidenced by their greening initiatives and educational events -- is sustainability.
A celebration

Friday music blogging: Little Boots 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Waxman-Markey passed the House! Here's a celebratory song from a rising British electro-pop star Little Boots, from her debut album Hands:

Wo0t!
He was a lover, not a fighter

A reading from the book of Jackson 3
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
The "King of Pop" is dead, and with him the sort of global influence only a very few can muster. Take a look at the green messages underlying some of his classic songs.
Ragged rock

Friday music blogging: Deer Tick 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
One of my happiest musical discoveries of the past year has been Deer Tick, a band originally out of Providence, Rhode Island.
Bonnaroo's Green Footprint

An interview with cellist Ben Sollee, who will bike to Bonnaroo 0
Posted 1 month ago
Tennessee's blockbuster Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will roll out an impressive set of sustainability green goals as a backdrop for its amazing slate of shows next weekend, June 11-14. The great lineup notwithstanding—from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Wilco—acclaimed cellist and crooner Ben Sollee may stand out as a singular act in reducing the festival’s carbon footprint.
Next big thing alert

Friday music blogging: Grizzly Bear 1
Posted 1 month ago
A track from the heavily hyped Grizzly Bear.
Cloud rock

Friday music blogging: Jason Lytle 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Dreamy new tunes from the leader of the now-defunct band Grandaddy.
The Album leaks

Friday music blogging: Wilco again 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sweet new song from every 30-something white guy's favorite band.
Flamingo music

Friday music blogging: The Cinematic Orchestra 3
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Music from a movie about flamingos.
Bootleg Tapes for WV Coal Association Ringtone Department

Sierra Club parodies the worst song ever recorded about coal 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
After the West Virginia Coal Association released a series of the worst cell-phone ringtone songs about coal ever recorded, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign went beyond the call of duty to provide real video images of the horrific reality of mountaintop removal in West Virginia for the coal songs.
Welcome back, me

Friday music blogging: Avishai Cohen 1
Posted 2 months ago
Some sweet jazz to celebrate being back in Seattle.
RUSSELL CROWS

Russell Simmons on harnessing the power of hip-hop to change the world 5
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The mogul and entrepreneur has come around to the climate cause, thanks in part to veganism. Can he get more artists on board?
Auto-Tune the News: Katie Couric on arctic sea ice 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Guitar Hero?

Taking Neil Young’s latest album out for a spin 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Neil Young's "Fork in the Road" is an eco-themed tribute to America's budding green-car culture. Oh, and a few of the songs are good.
Paying it forward

The band Lady Antebellum adopts green habits to last beyond Earth Day 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
My band -- Lady Antebellum -- is doing something different this year. We want to practice realistic green habits that we know we can do year-round, not just on Earth Day.
Recycle & Flow

Canadian eco-rap and other youth offerings in Vancouver 0
Posted 3 months ago
Climate activist Thomas Kineshanko’s musing on jet travel was one of several back-to-earth moments provided by the youngest speakers at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment.
A video about energy efficiency set to M.I.A.‘s ‘Paper Planes’ 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Friday music blogging: K’naan 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A haunting voice with (at last!) a song relevant to this site 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago