Radio Free California Episode 2535, a bonus track, lies and the lying liars who tell them and much worse crimes, and some joy in video form

Yeah, I took Labor Day off. I'm allowed to. Great crop of new music from Rebecca Sugar, Vistas, The Beaches, Divorce, The Beths, The Grip Weeds, Drink The Sea, Daisychain, Jane Varga, BBBL, Belinda Carlisle, and much more. Enjoy!

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So did you know that the creator of Steven Universe is also a musician and performing artist? I didn't. And then this week I stumbled across the video for "Ice Water", done by a small animation studio in her style, and I was hooked. Her new EP is worth it's weight in gold and I highly recommend it. The video is at the bottom of this post.

I was actually going to pass on The Beths. Their new single didn't impress me and I got a couple of tracks into the full album wondering why I bothered. The reason I bother is for the deep cuts, which are often better than the singles. Such is the case here, and it also forced me to go back and listen to the tracks I initially dismissed, and taken in context they are much improved. They're work checking out.

Vista's new album "Cut the Cord" is a stunningly good album, start to finish. I had already loaded several of the songs from that album to my various playlists and to the radio station, and I've added a couple more today. The whole album is relentless and is one of the best albums of the year so far.

The Ndlovu Youth Choir is one I stumbled across by accident because I'm a fan of a cappella music. The song I've added is with a full band, but there's another track on this same EP that is a daring reinterpretation of "Bohemian Rhapsody". I will put a link to the video at the end of this post.

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I've added an extra song to the radio station this week, "Big Crime" by Neil Young. It's a live recording from a soundcheck before a Chicago show and it's not on Spotify due to his ongoing fight with the streaming service over podcasts by fascists they host.

Here's a link to the song directly, which you can download.

Lyrics:

No more great again
No – no more great again
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
Don’t need no fascist rules
Don’t want no fascist schools
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
Got to get the fascists out got to
Clean the white house out
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
No more great again
No – no more great again
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
No more money to the fascists
the billionaire fascists
TIME TO BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM
no more great again
No – no more great again
TIME TO BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
NO MORE GREAT AGAIN
No NO MORE GREAT AGAIN
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
NO MORE GREAT AGAIN
NO NO MORE GREAT AGAIN

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In my entire adult life I've never used a non-chain pharmacy. That might have to change as the two major chains where I live have decided to not offer COVID-19 Vaccinations in 16 states - coincidentally the 16 states with the highest increase in infection rates this year. I'm getting vaccinated myself, this Saturday.

So I guess that the new/old guy is still alive, sort of. I have to wonder if he's got some sort of Dorian Gray situation with all of the tacky gold shit they've strung up all over the White House. It's looking more and more like a Saddam House than the White House at this point.

Um, wow. Even "Walking Tall" might be a lie?

I want this guy to narrate every Democratic Party political ad from now until the end of time.

Hours after being told by a Judge that the military invasion of Los Angeles is illegal the administration says that they will now invade Chicago. This isn't going to stop until these judges start throwing people in jail. Maybe start with the doddering old fool who thinks Baltimore is in Illinois.

Oh by the way, the lawyer that the current administration is using to sue Harvard on the basis of antisemitism is himself a Harvard Graduate and huge motherfucking antisemite.

I know that Kristy Noem is all upset that her CBS interview edited out her lies, but I'm more upset that they weren't called lies in the actual broadcast. Look folks, it's real easy: "We have edited the interview for length and to eliminate all the lies". See? Easy.

If you look, you can find video from a couple of days ago where the dumber of the new/old guy's sons has a sumo match in a practice ring. Because I follow Sumo I can let you in on a couple of facts: First, that was a lower-ranking wrestler he "fought" - you can tell by the color of the mawashi. 2nd, the real sumo wrestler hardly had to try. He toys with him for a moment and then carried him out like a rag doll. 3rd, Eric had an illegal start.

Meanwhile, while I was writing that Paragraph, the new/old guy posted on his own social medial site bragging that he had just killed 11 people. There's video, and no I'm not going to link to it or show it. I'm not going to spoil the joy of the videos that follow.

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And because I love you, here is the video to the Rebecca Sugar song "Ice Water", which was added to the rotation this week. The video is amazing, and yes, this is the same Woman who created Steven Universe".

And because I promised above, here is Ndlovu Youth Choir's interpretation of a Queen masterpiece: