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Gil Scott-Heron – “Your Daddy Loves You” (mp3)

Each week (or so) I rip a song from vinyl and post it up here. This week’s song is “Your Daddy Loves You” by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson off of a Winter In America repress.

Featuring The Mapping of Countries Yet To Come
Center For the Arts – Eagle Rock, CA
11/4/11

All proceeds benefit this collaborative project between Steven Ellison (Flying Lotus) and Miwa Matreyek. Center for the Arts Eagle Rock received a matching grant for this project from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission for $10,000 through the Cultivate Create Initiative. We must raise $10,000 on our own in order to receive the matching $10,000. Your donation will be doubled through this matching grant to help us reach our goal. →

A Machine Project Benefit: DMV Party / Desert Reading
Elysian – Atwater Village / Joshua Tree, CA
11/5/11 & 11/6/11

We’d like to invite you to one of our most exciting and potentially disasterous events of the year. On Saturday, November 5th from 8 – 11pm we’ll be holding our Machine Project Benefit, which will be based around that unbeloved place known as the Department of Motor Vehicles. Please join us for an evening of unbridled confusion as we transform an event space in Atwater Village into the DMV of Machine Project’s imagination. →

ARTISSIMA 18 Exhibition Featuring the late Jeremy Blake
Honor Fraser Gallery – LA, CA
11/4 thru 11/6/11

Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in ARTISSIMA 18. Anchored by the late Jeremy Blake’s groundbreaking digital video, The Winchester Trilogy (2002-2005), Honor Fraser’s thematic presentation will also encompass paintings by David Ratcliff and Gardar Eide Einarsson. →

The Compelling Documentary of musical pioneers, Fishbone
When Fishbone first emerged from California, no other band sounded or looked like them, and the weight of their innovative and iconic presence is still being felt decades later.  Coinciding with the group’s 25^th anniversary, filmmakers Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler have directed a compelling new documentary, narrated by Laurence Fishburne.  Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is both a fascinating and brutally honest look at the band’s history for longtime fans, as well as a perfect entry point for newcomers. →

Raising Awareness About Prostate Health
The Spare Room – LA, CA
11/3/11

The Spare Room is throwing a fun and philanthropic event on November 3rd to kick off Movember.  In honor of the organization that raises funds and awareness about prostate health, actress & mo-sista Malin Akerman will be hosting the event, Warpaint will be performing, and Tim Nordwin of OK Go and Pyyramids is DJing.  →

Our talented friend and EM contributor, Michael Okum wrote, directed and produced a chilling and psychedelic horror film entitled, Expressway to your Skull.  His macabre labor of love was created with a small, but dedicated crew and his fierce determination to realize this film into a feature-length. They currently shot only segments of the film and are currently working on a grassroots funding effort to set the entire film for production. →