SuperPop Venezuela by Amigos Invisibles available online for listening!

This big fan posted the still-unavailable-anywhere-but-in-Caracas Amigos Invisibles masterpiece, SuperPop Venezuela. The album, after two straight listenings, is growing on me :) Enjoy it: http://www.beyersupreme.com/lokura/superpop.htm

Beatles Suing EMI

This can be the beginning of the end. EMI is being sued by the Beatles for not paying them circa 52 million dollars in royalties. Good news for Beatles fans, this can mean one thing: Beatles albums going to another record label which might lower the prices and increase the quality of their albums. Come on, fellas, Beatles' CDs have been out in the market since 1987 without any improvement in the album covers or remastering. Go pay 18 bucks for Rubber Soul now and it's gonna be the same copy released almost twenty years ago.

Time for Capitol/EMI to either pay them back and reach another deal or let the Beatles work with another major record label. I would love to see Beatles' albums being remastered, remixed, and released with monaural sonic power. One sweet dream...

What time is it?

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Lennon, 25 years later

Rolling Stone Magazine's article about the great and unique John Lennon is a very good piece of journalism full of important information about the late Beatle. However, it shows a negative side by affirming that the dream was over after his death. Without him, U.S. entered the Reagan Era and England was ruled by Tatcher's iron fist. His death didn't put those people in power, they were elected before that sad day. John was murdered the same way people die in wars: senseless and absurdly. His life stopped and he became more than immortal. He's everywhere and his music is present in every aspect of everyday life. It's hard to miss Lennon, just in the physical plane. John is still pretty much alive when people protest against the war in Iraq, against violence, racism, intolerance, bigotry, social injustice, and specially when people feel pain. He's pretty much there and the sound of his music, from the very "Love Me Do" to "Woman" is soothing, powerful, in-your-face, romantic, introspective and good, very very good.

It's impossible to imagine a world without the Beatles, and the Beatles without him. Enjoy the article!