As Punk Bands go, the Clash were for the thinking revolutionary. Not as pretentious as the Sex Pistols, much more pointed politically than the Ramones, the Clash went about their business with a devastating combination of wit and anger that separated them from the rest of new Angry Young Men that were tearing their clothes and piercing themselves with safety pins. Here, Joe Strummer and the boys roar through an Angry Young Man song of an earlier generation, taking a stab at the Bobby Fuller Classic “I Fought The Law”! Fight the Power at KillMtv!
The Daytona 500 kicked some serious butt this year, but nothing can top what happens when Speed Racer and Ghostface Killah step on the throttle with WU Tang Clan working the pits! Slip on your helmet and put on the fire-retardant suit, cuz with Ghostface droppin rhymes and the bad guys tossin bombs, you know sh*t’s GONNA explode! Get ready to Feed your Need for Hip Hop Speed at KillMtv!!
Louis Armstrong may be best known for his impeccable trumpet playing, but he was also possibly the most influential singer in American History. Before Louis came along in the 1930s, singers were belters, giving as much vaudeville-tinged drama (and volume) to a song as was possible.
Louis Armstrong changed all that. His voice wasn’t particularly strong or beautiful, but the emotional timbre, the way in which he expressed the importance of each word, was something entirely new in American musical entertainment. Louis’ voice was an extension of his trumpet, and he played his voice with grace, dignity and charm. Here is Satchmo, the Great Louis Armstrong, performing his theme song, “Sleepy Time Down South”.
Cabbagetown, a neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta, originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers. While Cotton had always been King in the South, that generally referred to the agricultural production of the plant. The actual milling of cotton, the process of turning plant fiber into cloth, was done in the Northern states and even overseas. Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill was one of the first industrial manufacturing centers in the South, and it depended on cheap labor to survive. Cabbagetown sprung up as a Company Town for that labor, with the Fulton Mill providing schooling, security, medical, dental, library and nursery services for its employees. Cabbagetown is an award-winning documentary about this unique neighborhood directed by Frederick Taylor.
As Punk Bands go, the Clash were for the thinking revolutionary. Not as pretentious as the Sex Pistols, much more pointed politically than the Ramones, the Clash went about their business with a devastating combination of wit and anger that separated them from the rest of new Angry Young Men that were tearing their clothes and piercing themselves with safety pins. Here, Joe Strummer and the boys roar through an Angry Young Man song of an earlier generation, taking a stab at the Bobby Fuller Classic “I Fought The Law”! Fight the Power at KillMtv!
