Global Garage #164: Black Lives Matter (6/7/2020)
In which the gang dedicates the show to those who lost their lives because of state-sanctioned violence, colonialism, and white supremacy.
In the grand scheme of everything, this episode is a small gesture that amounts to nothing more than a microcosm of the work that has been done and remains to be done to dismantle these systems of oppression. We hope that you’ll take away from this episode some comfort, some anger, some hope, some questions, and maybe a new favorite band/musician. The work doesn’t stop here.
Rock’n’roll was built by Black and Indigenous voices, stolen by white people, and spread around the world (colonized, if you will). Listening to Nuggets & Pebbles compilations spotlighting that early rock’n’roll era will reveal a sound that is, while performed by bands from around the world, very analogous. As decades passed, different scenes adapted the co-opted music of cultural colonization, evolved it, used it as a form of expression and rebellion. This musical movement, built by Black & Indigenous voices, is why we’re able to feature so much rock and rock-tangential music on Global Garage from all around the world.
While we have not been silent on the issues of fascism, white supremacy, and capitalism (and the familial relationship of all three) during the life of this show, we can be MUCH louder and turn that shit up to 11. We also know that while we are white dudes who work to build playlists showcasing diverse backgrounds and experiences, we can certainly do a much better job. While we are committed to actively learning, listening, and working to be anti-racist, work that will continue through the rest of our lives, we also acknowledge that we will never truly understand what it is like to be without white privilege and therefore we can only take you, our listeners, so far. To that end, if you are a BIPOC interested in putting together a playlist and co-hosting a future episode(s), please reach out. We are happy to step to the side and amplify your voice and the music you love.
Fellow white people. Please don’t just listen to this show and move on. Our work is far from over and it’s on all of us to use our white privilege to dismantle white supremacy. We cannot let our fellow BIPOC folx fight this alone. We need to be the solution. We’ve included lists of resources for donation, education, and entertainment (because it’s important to listen to music, read novels, and watch films made by BIPOC) as well as links to other lists of resources that have already been compiled.
Together we can work together to build bridges across borders (both physical and metaphorical) through music and community. Fuck white supremacy. Fuck fascists. Fuck colonialism. Rock’n’roll is dead. Long live rock’n’roll!
Listen to the Show
Playlist below the sources section
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Funds, Organizations, & Media
By no means a comprehensive list, hopefully this serves as a place to start.
Bail Funds
North Carolina:
Emancipate NC
NC Bail Fund
Take Action NC
Other:
Minnesota Freedom Fund
The Bail Project
Organizations
Reclaim the Block
BlackLivesMatter
Equal Justice Initiative
The Marshall Project
Black Women’s Blueprint
BlackVisionsCollective
Campaign Zero
Durham Beyond Policing
Sources to Read
Recommendations from the Season of the Bitch podcast:
Racecraft by Barbara and Karen Fields
A History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Beyond Survival edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Possessive Investment In Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz
Global Garage Novel Recommendations:
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Sources to Watch
Black-directed genre films available for streaming
Sources to Listen
We sourced a decent amount of tracks for this playlist from AfroPunk.
Sources for more sources
Pitchfork’s list of resources in the fight against police brutality and systemic racism
She Shreds’ compilation of anti-racism resources
Global Garage Show Playlist: 6/7/2020
| Track Band – Album (Label) – Location – Year |
|---|
| Angela Davis Statement Angela Davis – Angela Davis Speaks (Folkway Records) – United States [Alabama] – 1971 |
| Call the Cops The Muslims – Gentrifried Chicken – United States [North Carolina] – 2020 |
| After Images Moor Mother – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (Don Giovanni Records) – United States [Pennsylvania] – 2019 |
| We Live Here Bob Vylan – We Live Here (Venn Records) – United Kingdom – 2020 |
| I Can’t Find My Black Lipstick Pleasure Venom – S/T – United States [Texas] – 2018 |
| American Police Haram – When You Have Won, You Have Lost (Toxic State Records) – United States [New York] – 2019 |
| Cross Fire Upchuck – S/T – United States [Georgia] – 2020 |
| My Life Matters Blacker Face – Distinctive Juju (Sooper Records) – United States [Illinois] – 2019 |
| Children of the World King Khan – Children of the World (Merge Records) – Canada – 2016 |
| Alla Wakbarr Ofo & The Black Company – World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love’s a Real Thing (Luaka Bop) – Nigeria – 2007 |
| Too Punk Shakur Obnox – Boogalou Reed (12XU) – United States [Ohio] – 2015 |
| White Man Skinny Girl Diet – Ideal Woman (Fiasco Recordings) – United Kingdom – 2018 |
| International News National Wake – Walk in Africa 1979-81 (Light in the Attic) – South Africa – 2013 |
| Angela & Huey Las Panteras Negras – Angela & Huey – Argentina – 2020 |
| A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke Cover) The Gits – Enter: The Conquering Chicken (Broken Rekids) – United States [Ohio] – 2013 |
| The Guillotine The Coup – Sorry To Bother You (Anti) – United States [California] – 2012 |
| ameriKKKa, try no pork. Pink Siifu – NEGRO (Field-Left) – United States [Alabama] – 2020 |
| Who Will Survive America Amiri Baraka – It’s Nation Time – African Visionary Music (Black Forum, Motown) – United States [New Jersey] – 1972 |
| I Can’t Breathe Pussy Riot – I Can’t Breathe – Russian Federation – 2015 |
| Things Ain’t Changed L.A. Salami – Things Ain’t Changed Single (Sunday Best Recordings) – United Kingdom – 2020 |
| The Key Of Black (They Want Us Dead) The Black Tones – Cobain & Cornbread (Reptar Records) – United States [Washington] – 2019 |
| Subliminal Fascism Fishbone – Truth and Soul (Sony Music Entertainment) – United States [California] – 1988 |
| Walk Like a Panther Algiers – The Underside of Power (Matador) – United States [Georgia] – 2017 |
| Stranger Fruit Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit (Mvka, Radicalis Music GmbH) – Switzerland – 2019 |
| The Island The Skints – Swimming Lessons (Easy Star Records) – United kingdom – 2019 |
| Don’t Shoot Steel Pulse – Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Coopertive, Wiseman Doctrine) – United Kingdom – 2019 |
| I’m a Suspect Lonnie Holley – MITH (Jagjaguwar) – United States [Alabama] – 2018 |
| Libation for Mr. Brown: Bid Em In… Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres – United States [Illinois] – 2011 |
| Freight train Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) – United States [North Carolina] – 1989 |
| A Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke – Ain’t That Good News (ABKCO Music & Records) – United States [Mississippi] – 1964 |
