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This is the 9th mixtape from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania emcee, producer & political activist  Ghais Guevara . Beginning in 2019 under the original moniker Jaja00, he put out a total of 8 mixtapes & 3 EPs in that span of time until signing to Fat Possum Records last fall. His full-length studio debut   Goyard Ibn Said   left me highly impressed & was proud “The Old Guard’s Dead” got synced at the very start of Kendrick Lamar’s historic Super Bowl LIX halftime show. I’m pretty sure Ghais himself has beef with me since I got dragged into  a tweet  he made a month ago regarding  xQc using AI  to review  Playboi Carti ’s new album   MUSIC   when I’ve repeatedly said that’s not the case &  RJ Payne ’s manager Coach Kandaka  backing me up on it , yet I’m still covering  The Other 2/5ths or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby simply   because I was so impressed by hi...

Iran Launches 9th Wave of Op. True Promise 3, Destroys IOF Air Defense By Al Mayadeen English Source: Agencies Iran’s IRGC launches the ninth wave of Operation True Promise 3, targeting Israeli sites in occupied territories with missiles and drones amid ongoing Israeli aggression. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced late Monday night the launch of the ninth wave of Operation True Promise 3, affirming that the attacks would continue uninterrupted until dawn on Tuesday. According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, a new wave of Iranian missile strikes was launched toward the occupied Palestinian territories in response to Israeli aggression. The agency released a video showing the moment Iranian missiles crossed the skies over the occupied West Bank en route to targets in the occupied territories. Simultaneously, Israeli media reported that sirens were sounding in southern Golan amid fears of drone infiltration. Later, the IRGC announced that they targeted the base...

This is the 7th studio LP from Washington, D.C. emcee/producer  Ankhlejohn . Breaking out off his  Big Ghost Ltd. -produced sophomore effort  Van Ghost , he’s given the underground his last 6 full-lengths as well as 8 EPs & 7 tapes in almost a decade. Other favorites of mine in his discography include the  Navy Blue -produced  As Above, So Below , the  Rome Streetz  collaborative effort  Genesis 1:27 & more recently the  Cookin’ Soul -produced  The Michelin Man  earlier this year.  August Fanon  had produced  Blu ’s widely praised 13th solo album  40  back in April & hearing him produce  Live! at the Disco  had raised my expectations for it going in. “Electric Funk Daddy” sets up some woodwinds & keys to get the party going assuring that you best believe he’s got some personal shit poppin’ off in his life right now whereas “Lexus GS300” embraces a funkier direction instrumentally...

Israel Asks Iran, Through Intermediaries, to Stop Attacks, Return to Nuclear Talks: US Media Monday, 16 June 2025 12:57 PM The image shows extensive damage in occupied ity of Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv that was hit by Iranian missile on Monday 16, 2025. Israel has asked Iran, through western mediators, to stop its retaliatory attacks and return to nuclear negotiations with the United States, American media report. The Israeli regime is openly threatening Tehran, while secretly reaches out to the Islamic Republic to stop the war, according to the American broadcast television network NBC that quoted a senior Iranian source in Tehran as saying on Monday that Tel Aviv has made the demand through Western countries as intermediaries. A representative for Israel's prime minister refused to immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. Using his social media platform Truth Social, US President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that Iran and Israel will end their viole...

Tehran: Israel Targets Iranian Civilians With US-supplied Weapons; Negotiations ‘Meaningless’ Monday, 16 June 2025 1:00 PM Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei shows the image of Ehsan Eshraghi and his daughter, two Iranian civilians martyred by the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression in Tehran, at a weekly press conference in Tehran, on June 16, 2025. The Israeli regime attacked Iran using US-supplied weapons, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei, reiterating that Tehran holds Washington responsible for the aggression. “On Friday, when my compatriots were sleeping and our people were preparing for the great Eid, the Zionist regime attacked our land using all kinds of weapons donated by the US,” Baghaei said at his weekly press conference on Monday. “A number of our prominent figures and a large number of our compatriots were martyred in this cruel aggression,” he added. In a massive airstrike early on Friday, the Israeli regime assassinated several Iran...

Info on this dude here .  Note he had a follow up album in 1980, described as new wave. It was recommended by a commenter and I finally got a chance to listen, definitely I would recommend hearing it.  Most of it is straightforward late 1970s singer songwriter stuff very emotional, piano based, along the lines of David Bowie circa. Young Americans, but without the guitar and funk, or Lou Reed as on the Berlin album , some of it quite ordinary. A lovely instrumental called La Bambola Rota : Some lovely Gentle Giant style dissonance in the Tastiere Isteriche : source https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2025/06/leo-neros-vero-from-1977-flac-limited.html

Here's another from a long series of episodes of the TV show "PBS Soundstage." This time, it's an extra long episode, featuring Peter Frampton. I believe this actually was two hour-long episodes that made up a single concert. Peter Frampton will always be associated with one album, and a double live album at that: "Frampton Comes Alive." Released in 1976, it was the best selling album of the year, and went on to have sales of more than eight million albums in the U.S. alone. But weirdly, he didn't have much commercial success before or after that. His second best selling album was "I'm in You," released in 1977, which sold a million in the U.S. I think Frampton got kind of a raw deal out of this, with most people reducing his career to that one album. He actually put out a lot of good music in a career that's lasted over 50 years and is still going as I write this in 2025. This concert recording includes the big songs from "Framp...