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...those in the know, the release of underground rapper Mr Lif’s debut I Phantom is a momentous occasion. Having spent years building up a following in his native Boston releasing raw singles and playing awe-inspiring live shows, Lif was becoming increasingly hot property and was snatched up by the powerhouse underground label Definitive Jux. He released an EP on Def Jux this summer entitled Emergency Rations, an angry firestorm of an album that included on its lead single the lyrics “Headlines: Bush steals the presidency” and “Planes...
...Deitch, though he has worked in underground comix since the mid-1960s, has unfortunately achieved little of the mainstream recognition afforded such peers as Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman. Considered by the comixcenti to be a master of the form, he may finally get his due with the commercial, retail bookstore release of his masterpiece, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," (Pantheon Books; 192pp...
...dancehall reggae all the way to avant-classical—and recreates them into a singular body that is at once memorable and immensely addictive. Gold Teeth Thief is the sort of boundless organized noise that hasn’t been heard since the heyday of hip-hop and underground rave...
This is American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...DIED. FELIX SVETOV, 74, former Soviet dissident known both for his writings and his political activism; in Moscow. Although Svetov suffered imprisonment and internal exile under communism, his books were printed by the Soviet underground press and also published in the West. After the Soviet Union's collapse, Svetov remained active as a human-rights advocate and a scholar of Russian Orthodoxy...