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  On 30 July 2001, The Strokes released their debut album, 'Is This It'. Rather than looking to the future, they turned to the crunchy rock of The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, and Sonic Youth, spearheading a newly founded wave of young bands refusing to be labelled irrelevant amidst the dominance of hip hop and electronica releases at the start of the new millennium. "All obsessed with fame, says we're all the same Oh, I don't see it that way" 08. Hard To Explain...

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  In protest of the upcoming Olympics in Nazi Germany, the newly elected left-wing government of the Second Spanish Republic celebrated the opening of the "Olimpíada Popular" on 18 July 1936 in Barcelona. 6,000 athletes across 22 nations were set to "exalt the peace and brotherhood between peoples and be a denunciation of Nazism". The same day, the fascist military coup expanded to the mainland, starting the "Spanish Civil War" and ending the event. 200 athletes jo...

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  On 12 July 1985, Nico's final studio album, Camera Obscura, was released. The avant-garde artist, an enigmatic and tragic figure whose talent transcended genres not yet invented, passed away three years later. "Some say she is the originator of Goth, but this is just silly, a misunderstanding, a pastiche. Nico has no heirs. She is a discrete entity." 07. My Heart Is Empty #Nico

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  "A heatwave can no longer be treated as an exceptional emergency followed by a return to normal." "The infrastructure weaknesses it reveals will remain. [...]The test now is whether its public systems are redesigned quickly enough to prevent extreme heat from becoming a recurring failure of transport, health and everyday life." - "Delaying adaptation does not avoid expenditure. It converts planned investment into repeated disruption and emergency response." __ E...

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  Installed in the spring of 2016 at the children's hospital of the Leiden University Medical Center, with "Homunculus Loxodontus", sculptor Margriet van Breevoort did not want to depict "the grim side of medicine or disease, and instead focuse on the patients, ordinary people waiting to see a doctor for a diagnosis." "There’s something endearing about him, and as the viewer, you hope it all turns out OK." Surging in worldwide fame, fans have nicknamed him &quot...

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  Ernst-August Bremicker, Enkel des ABUS-Gründers, Mitbesitzer und ehem. Geschäftsführer sowie Autor, schreibt: „Gott [verurteilt] gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe und damit auch gleichgeschlechtliche Partnerschaften. Sie sind gegen Gottes Wort.“ - "Wenn sich diese Dinge - Unreinigkeit, böse Lust, Gier, Lustbefriedigung - bei uns breitmachen wollen, dann müssen wir sie töten. Töten heißt radikal ausreißen, ihnen den Garaus machen. TÖTET diese Glieder, sagt uns Gottes Wort." 2/3

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  "Can the first ‘New York band’ to record survive? Should we expect [them] to ‘grow musically’; to do their first sensitive ballad backed by the London Festival Orch on Album # Five, or collaborate with Ken Russell on their 10th anniversary? Who cares? The rambunctious speed & noise equation outlined will do just fine for right now. If their successors are one third as good as the Ramones, we'll be fixed for life. Right fucking on." __ Gene Sculatti, Creem, August 1976 https...

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  On 9 May 1966, Katty Line's "Ne fais pas la tête" was released. An irresistible punchy cover of Nancy Sinatra's "How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?". "The square adult world thought that the [Yé-Yé] movement was a facile imitation of music from abroad. Many were happy to dismiss them without bothering to listen to the originality and sophistication of the music itself." - "Yé-Yé was cool then, and it’s just a...

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  "That was the first song we recorded for The Score." "At one point, the group had disbanded. [Lauryn] had left at this point" and she recorded the hook as a reference with permission to be used, but didn't want to be part of the group anymore. "Then she goes into the bridge and she's crying. She stops and says, 'I can't do this anymore,' and leaves." A couple months later she re-joins the group and tries again, but they "end up keeping th...

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  Nachdem die rechtsextremen Ligen zwei Jahre zuvor 300.000 Demonstranten für den Sturm auf den Sitz der bürgerlich-liberalen Nationalversammlung in Paris mobilisiert hatten und es zu den schwersten Straßenkämpfen seit der Kommune von 1871 mit insgesamt 19 Toten gekommen war, riefen die Gewerkschaften zum Generalstreik auf. Ein antifaschistisches Bündnis zwischen Kommunisten und Sozialisten führte schließlich zur Bildung der für das Verbot verantwortlichen Front Populaire. 2/2

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  :blobcataww: "I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals. Join me as I share my process of building and photographing. Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com." https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/ #birds #wildlife #critters

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  On 6 March 2006, Mogwai released their fifth album, Mr Beast. Though restrained for some in regards to their former years, the Scottish quintet's distillation undoubtedly enriched their musical canvas and drew in new listeners to a genre often set on excess. - "Pair it with timelapses of flowers blossoming or lava cooling or Yellowstone bubbling; it doesn’t matter, “Auto Rock” will make whatever it touches bleak, inevitable, entropic and just plain awesome." 01. Auto...