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Ditch TV: Lee Fields, Tom Green More

Lee Fields

Lee Fields

Here’s another batch of video playlists I curated for Ditch TV:

14 Great Yo Gotti Videos

Brilliant Rap Songs From 2001

Remembering Lollapalooza 1996

Lee Fields: Ultimate Soul Man

Depeche Mode are the Greatest

Here Comes Your Dilly Dally

Gary Clark Jr.’s New School Blues

Remembering Lollapalooza 1995

The Ongoing Legacy of Tom Green

Marilyn Manson is Misunderstood

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Samaritan News 10 Pack: Sharon Van Etten, Twisted Sister, More

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl takes the Ice Bucket Challenge

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl takes the Ice Bucket Challenge

I’ve been doing a bunch of stuff  over at the music-ish charity ‘n’ good news website Samaritan Mag. Here’s a batch of recent news pieces:

Sharon Van Etten Releases Song Dedicated To Orlando Pulse Shooting Victims

Louisiana Flood CrowdFunding Page Raises More Than $37k For ‘Everyday’ Needs

Twisted Sister Singer Dee Snider Turns ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ Into Ballad To Help Criss Angel Fight Childhood Cancer

Today Is World Humanitarian Day

Fake Campaign To Get Trump Purple Heart Reaches $65k Fundraising Goal

Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie Honoured in Sunnybrook Staff Cover Of ‘Courage’

World’s Biggest Asshole Helps Promote Transplant Awareness, Donations

Give OUT Day To Support LGBTQ Community On Aug. 2

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Funds Gene Research Breakthrough

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Chance The Rapper Honours Ali

Chance The Rapper

Chance The Rapper

Chance The Rapper paid tribute to Muhammad Ali at the recent ESPYs, performing a song dedicated to the late heavyweight champion.

Sarah wrote about this special moment for Fightland.

To read the full story go here.

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Ditch TV: Caribou, Swearnet, Santigold And More

Swearnet

Swearnet

Here’s another batch of video playlists I curated for Ditch TV:

Get Chill With Chet Faker

13 Amazing Lips Sync Battles

Brilliant Rap Songs From 2000

Your New Favourite Twisted Brit Sitcom

Swearnet’s Messed Up Universe

16 Times Chvrches Were Pop Perfection

Caribou’s Psychedelic Techno Math

This Is Santigold

Sharon Jones Will Make You Move Your Ass

Blondie Were Cooler Than You

13 Great Foals Jams

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12 Things We Learned At Psycho Fest Las Vegas

Things got intergalactic when Oresund Space Collective performed.

Things got intergalactic when Oresund Space Collective performed.

Last week Team Risky Fuel went on an adventure to Las Vegas to attend the mindbending stoner rock festival Psycho Fest, being held at the Hard Rock Casino.

We watched four days of doom-y and psych-y rock, executed a few Vegas lifehacks and took in the following bands:

Thursday, August 25
Mothership @ Paradise Pool
Mac Sabbath @ Paradise Pool
Mudhoney @ Paradise Pool

Friday, August 26
Black Heart Procession @ The Joint
Yob @ The Joint
Wovenhand @ The Joint
Down @ The Joint
Beelzefuzz @ Vinyl
Drive Like Jehu @ The Joint
Brian Posehn @ The Joint
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown @ The Joint

Saturday, August 27
Has A Shadow @ Vinyl
The Budos Band @ The Joint
A Place To Bury Strangers @ The Joint
Beezlebong @ Vinyl
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @ The Joint
Blue Oyster Cult @ The Joint

Sunday, August 28
Oresund Space Collective @ Vinyl
Truth And Janey @ The Joint
Danava @ The Joint
Hornss @ Vinyl
Fu Manchu @ The Joint
Candlemass @ The Joint
Fireball Ministry @ Paradise Pool
Tales Of Murder & Dust @ Paradise Pool
Alice Cooper @ The Joint

I wrote about our travels for AUX TV. To read about all the best and/or weirdest bits (Mac Sabbath, the Black Sabbath McDonald’s-themed parody band!) in handy itemized list form, click here.

Because AUX.TV is RIP this feature can now be found HERE.

Arthur Brown performs “Fire”

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