Google, Verizon & The End Of Fair Internet?

[Email] Google goes evil Steven Biel, MoveOn.org Political Action Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:47 AM To: rob reviewer Dear MoveOn member, Yesterday, Google and Verizon announced a horrifying proposal that would literally kill the Internet as we know it. Their plan? To create two separate, unequal sections of the Internet—one for big business that would be high-speed and exclusive, […]

Brand New of Montreal CD – just out!!!

Of Montreal False Priest Polyvinyl Records, 2010 Reviewed by Kent Manthie What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re Kevin Barnes. False Priest is his tenth blissful CD, released under the moniker of Montreal. Unfortunately, I was a Johnny-Come-Lately when it came to discovering this project, but then again, they hardly ever come out to So-Cal – I first reviewed them […]

Net Neutrality: will the future really be brighter?

[Email] Google, Verizon and Net Nuetrality Dear MoveOn member, Big news: according to reports, Google is about to cut a terrible deal with Verizon that would end the fair, open Internet as we know it.1 The reported Google-Verizon deal would allow giant corporations to control which websites load quickly and easily on the Internet and dump everyone else onto an […]

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travel: a quick trip to Miami

Miami – where the impossible is possible. by Berenice Diaz I must say I fell in love with everything in Miami. The sun, the sand, the ocean, checking people out [even the women with tons of plastic surgery with planet of the apes noses]. Everyone in Miami is beautiful. It came to a point in that I did not know […]

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Moodring shines on debut CD for Silber Media!

Moodring Scared of Ferret Silber Records www.silbermedia.com Review by Kent Manthie On their Silber Records debut CD, Scared of Ferret, Moodring is set free to do anything (and everything) they want. And they certainly go to town on this disc. It’s so rich and bountiful in its layers of sounds – mostly “effects”, a “kaos pad” as well as “hand […]

book review: Neil Young, Long May You Run

[Book Review] Neil Young, Long May You Run: An Illustrated History By Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff Voyageur Press Minneapolis, 2010, hardcover book review by Kent Manthie Into his fifth decade as an uncompromising, unpredictable and awe-inspiring songwriter Neil Young has touched the hearts and minds of many types of people: in other words, there’s no particular demographic for who […]