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2009-05-08T12:32:00.000-07:00

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May 13th

2009-05-08T12:26:00.001-07:00

Wale in SF

2009-02-08T16:45:00.000-08:00

Wale and band at Mezzanine, SF from Arlene Romana on Vimeo.

Wale at mezzanine part 2 from Arlene Romana on Vimeo.

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2009-02-08T16:44:00.000-08:00

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The Nodzzz

2009-01-29T14:26:00.000-08:00

My first cover shoot with SFBG, so exciting! The group was really fun too, I didn't even have to tell them how to pose.

Garage band is on the comeback.

on sunday

2008-12-03T16:06:00.001-08:00

Dec 5th

2008-12-01T16:42:00.000-08:00

San Francisco Bay Guardian

2008-11-19T10:56:00.000-08:00

Fun Laundry Day

2008-10-08T14:20:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Tamez - Photographer turned Model

http://jennifertamez.com/home.html

Stash Release Party

2008-07-25T12:23:00.000-07:00

I just randomly found this video from our last release party at Mighty with Hieroglypics. It was so much fun!!!

The next one is going to be at Mighty again on August 29th, so if you missed it last time, you know what to do.

Killer Mike's New Album

2008-07-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

I Can't wait!!!

I love the song "bang" from the album, that shit makes me wanna slap someone (in a good way).

New Website

2008-06-26T18:27:00.001-07:00

CHECK IT OUT!!

Sorry 50

2008-06-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

Damn, this is the type of shit that happens when one of your staff gets drunk on the job.

You should never have to come that close to someones face to take a picture of them, especially when they are live on air.

At least on the bright side, 50 is actually a chill ass dude. See the smile?

If one more person asks for a write up

2008-05-19T18:41:00.000-07:00

Buy an ad. We don't sell write-ups.

If you really want to get yourself in the magazine then do one of the two things below.

1. Make a buzz in the street and radio so hard that they, Music Editors, hear about you.

2. Make good music, the kind that comes from talent, not for the sole purpose of making money.

Lastly, if you don't have the money for an advertisement then don't get mad and say we are "hatin." There is no "homeboy hook up." This is business we're running here, not a charity.

If you want us to support you, then you got to work with us.

Remembering the earthquake of 1906 in SF

2008-04-19T00:19:00.000-07:00

At 5 a.m., over one hundred people gathered on Third St. to commemorate the biggest earthquake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906.

I went there to cover the event for my journalism class. Let me just say that knowing there was going to be Bloody Marys served after was my motivation to get up that early.

On the bright side, my roommate Jenny got to pose with The Mayor and she was so fucking excited about it.

I Shoot People

2008-04-13T12:16:00.000-07:00

Trevor Traynor is the name. He shoots people, animals, random objects, Hip-Hop artists and pretty much everything.

Don't get it wrong though, he's not shooting with a gun but with his camera instead. Check him out www.trevortraynor.com.

Memorial for 4000 Troops That Died in Iraq

2008-03-30T21:39:00.001-07:00

SFBG

Gladiator Challange

2008-03-17T15:14:00.000-07:00

No More Privacy

2008-02-15T10:37:00.000-08:00

Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush's Secret Spy Program
By Ryan Singel EmailFebruary 12, 2008 | 5:59:31 PMCategories: NSA

The Senate overwhelming voted Tuesday evening to legalize President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program and grant amnesty to the phone companies that helped out with the domestic spying..

The 68 to 29 vote is a major step in radically re-configuring 30 year-old limits on how the nation's spying services operate inside America's borders. The vote also deals a severe blow to civil liberties groups that are suing companies such as AT&T and Verizon for turning over millions of American's phone records to the government, and for helping the government wiretap American's phone and internet communications without a court order.

The bill, which expires in six years, allows the government to install permanent wiretapping outposts in telephone and internet facilities inside the United States without a warrant. However, if those wiretaps are used to target Americans inside or outside of the country, the government would have to get a court order. However, if the target is a foreigner or a foreign corporation, and they call an American or an American calls them, no warrant is required.

Prior to this summer, the intelligence community was forbidden by law from wiretapping phone and internet switches inside the United States, unless they had a particular target in mind and applied for a court order from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. That court largely rubber stamps such applications -- it approved 2,072 in 2005 and required modifications to only 61 of those.

But government spies say the paperwork is too onerous and that the process is ill-fitted to the wider surveillance the president launched in October 2001.

Before the changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act becomes law, however, the Senate must reconcile it with a corresponding bill from the House.

Currently the House bill, known as the Restore Act, more sharply limits the government's authority to spy inside the United States without a warrant. It also does not include a telecom amnesty provision. The House now faces the option of adopting the Senate's version, or horse-trading immunity for more limits on the nation's spooks.

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut), one of the bill's most outspoken opponents, had vowed to filibuster the bill, but that opportunity was lost Tuesday with a cloture vote that limited debate on the final bill to just four hours. Dodd's filibuster threat worked to delay passage in December, but on Tuesday, he told reporters it was time for the debate to move to the House.

"You run out of string on these things," Dodd said.

"I'd just as soon have this go to the House floor. I'm going to move this thing along. We are not getting anywhere here," Dodd said, referring to the Democrat-controlled Senate where his amendment to remove immunity needed 20 more votes to pass.

This summer the Congress reacted to extreme statements from the Administration and gave the government wide powers to spy inside America with the passage of the Protect America Act in August.

But that bill was set to expire on Feb.1., and through a short term extension early this month, now expires on Feb. 16.

Republicans and the White House oppose another extension and hope the time crunch will force the House to abandon its bill and simply adopt the Senate version as its own.

Immunity opponents, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston, hope the House will stand firm.

"It's time for Speaker Pelosi to draw a line the sand, and make clear to the president that this House of Representatives is never going to pass any bill that includes immunity for lawbreaking telecoms," Bankston said.

The administration says that its surveillance program that targeted Americans and foreigners using facilities and services based in the United States was legal. Administration lawyers cite as justification, both the Authorization to Use Military Force to attack Al Qaeda and the president's war-making powers under the Consitution.

Opponents and even former Justice Department lawyer Jack Goldsmith says those arguments are flimsy, and that the president's wartime powers to wiretap inside the United States are curtailed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Though the administration initially admitted that the existence of the wiretapping program after a December 2005 story in the New York Times, it has refused to disclose the extent of the operation. Officials have repeatedly denied the program is a "dragnet" that searches communications for keywords.

But statements from administration figures over the past year suggest the program is closer to a vacuum cleaner that sucks in communications and stores them in bulk. Those statements suggest many of the sucked-in communications aren't ever looked at but are available for data-mining and social networking analysis -- and inspection by NSA analysts based on that analysis or other evidence.

Under the bill passed by the Senate today, the government could order companies such as AT&T or Google to turn over all phone calls and emails where one party is reasonably believed to be outside the United States.

The Senate also shot down a proposal from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to include strong language affirming that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was the only way that the government could spy on Americans. That amendment got 57 votes, but due to an agreement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) that amendment had to get 60 votes to pass.

If the immunity provision is passed into law, the Attorney General can write a letter to the judges overseeing the anti-warrantless wiretapping suit and have them dismissed. Once that happens, expect that the plaintiffs, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will challenge the immunity provision as unconstitutional.

Full vote tally.

Democrats voting for the bill:
Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Carper (D-DE), Robert Casey (D-PA), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Jim Webb (D-VA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

All Republican senators voted for the bill, except for Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) who did not vote.

Democrats voting against the bill:
Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Joe Biden (D-DE), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Robert Byrd (D-WV), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Carl Levin (D-MI), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Harry Reid (D-NV), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), John Tester (D-MT), Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Neither Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) nor Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) voted on the bill, though Obama did vote earlier in the day to support removing telecom immunity.

Comment

More people need to know about this.

Are we really ok with what the Government is doing? Where is privacy?

Keak at a sweet 16

2008-01-18T00:59:00.000-08:00

Another party

2008-01-16T15:19:00.000-08:00

We did it again

2008-01-07T12:48:00.000-08:00

lol

2008-01-04T18:16:00.000-08:00

Killer Mike leak :)

2008-01-03T23:05:00.000-08:00

1 GET "EM SHAWTY FEAT. THREE 6 MAFIA
PROD BY Three 6 Mafia

2 GORILLA PIMPIN (GHETTO EXTRAORDINARY) FEAT. 8BALL & MJG
PROD BY MELLO

3 BAD DAY/ WORSE DAY
PROD BEAT BULLIES

4 MAMA SAID
PROD. ORGANZIED NOIZE

5 GONNA GO TO GHANA
PROD. ANDRE 3000

6 NIGGAZ DOWN SOUTH
PROD Beat Bullies

7 Shot Down
PROD. Organized Noize

8 Chose Me feat. SL Jones & Scar
PROD Ron Browz

9 My Chrome feat. Bog Boi
PROD Mr. DJ of Dungeon Family

10 Leave This Hood
PROD. Jagged Edge

11 AYE-O
PROD. David Banner

12 SPEAK Lord
PROD. Organized Noize

Bonus Songs

13 Push Back Featuring M.O.P

14 Bad Day Worst Day (Clean) feat. Ice Cube

http://sharebee.com/85d17556

Happy New Years!

Amplive got "dangermoused"

2008-01-03T13:07:00.000-08:00

Amplive Hit With Cease & Desist, Radiohead Remix Album's Future Unclear

Fresh on the heels of a story in the New York Times, Cali producer and In Rainbows remixer Amplive has received a cease & desist letter from Radiohead's publisher Warner/Chappell, demanding that the Bay Area DJ put a halt to his Rainydayz Remixes project, an 8-track remix album of re-envisioned In Rainbows songs featuring guest spots from the legendary Too Short, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Del the Funkee Homosapien of Gorillaz, Chali2na of Jurrasic 5, and a host of others. What this means for the future of the project is currently unclear, but the originally proposed release date of January 10th has now been postponed indefinitely. A link to a copy of the Warner/Chappell letter, and a video and letter response from Amplive himself are below.

LETTER FROM WARNER:
http://onesevensevensix.com/amplive/blckdoutcandd.jpg

VIDEO RESPONSE FROM AMPLIVE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktqLa5HQWk

A LETTER FROM AMPLIVE:
First and foremost I would like to thank everyone who has been digging my remixes. I put a lot of time and hard work into them and I am glad people are appreciating them. I was especially excited about the exclusive verses I was able to get from Del the Funky Homosapien, Chali2na from Jurassic 5, the soul singer Codany Holiday, and K.Flay, who were all also super excited about contributing to the project. I really feel if Radiohead's team was able to hear these remaining remixed songs, they would feel differently. So I am writing this letter to ask that if you have any post/streams/mp3s of the songs from Rainydayz Remixes that you remove them immediately. Complying with the cease and desist, these remixes can't be publicly distributed or made commercially available. Even though I was offering them for free in conjunction with the In Rainbows download and had good intentions because of my appreciation for their music, the powers that may be are not seeing it the same way. Hopefully I can find a way for Radiohead to support this FREE release made available only to those who purchased their album. For now I am cooperating with the "C & D" only because it has come from Radiohead's team and I will respect that. BUT if that changes I am happy to resume my release plans. Again, I appreciate your support in posting them, but because of the situation at this time, it is illegal. Thanks for you help. - Amp Live

Amplive planned to release a free zip file of the remix record on January 10th to all those who forwarded an email receipt of In Rainbows purchase to amplive@onesevensevensix.com. In addition to unveiling the tracklist (which can be found below), Amp had planned on expanding the release model to allow those who had deleted their W.A.S.T.E. emails to reserve a copy of the album by forwarding receipt of a donation – in any amount – to Friends of the Earth, a charity Thom Yorke has officially backed on the band's Dead Air Space blog. If and when the release is allowed to move forward, all those who have forwarded receipts from W.A.S.T.E. or Friends of the Earth will receive a copy of the album. Tracklist, and more info on the charity below.

Rainydayz Remixes Tracklist

01 Rainydayz
02 Video Tapez (ft. Del the Funkee Homosapien)
03 Nudez (ft. MC Zumbi of Zion I and Too Short)
04 Weird Fishez
05 All I Need
06 15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday)
07 Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na)
08 Faustz

FOE
Friends of the Earth US was founded in 1969 in San Francisco, and was one of the founding organizations of Friends of the Earth International in 1970. Friends of the Earth US has for decades been at the forefront of high profile efforts to create a more healthy and just world.
http://www.foe.org

FOE INTERNATIONAL
The world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 70 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With over 2 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
http://www.foei.org

PAY PAL DONATION LINK
http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/donate/donate

For More Information:
www.myspace.com/amplive