My sister Heidi runs the Development Department at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (Americaís flagship environmental organization). Clearwater’s mission is to preserve and protect the Hudson River. Clearwater believes its innovative environmental programs, advocacy and celebrations will continue to inspire and energize the next generation of environmental leaders.

A recent project of theirs, Power of Song, involved students writing new lyrics to ‘This Land is Your Land’ and they created this video using clips from the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative Listening Session which was organized by the Department of the Interior and was held in August. It’s modern and powerful. The students are really inspiring and have some pretty evolved ideas about environmental impacts and how to mitigate them.

Much more can be found HERE.

Portishead, Chase The Tear, Amnesty International.

Portishead – Chase The Tear from Mintonfilm on Vimeo.

According to my iTunes, I’ve listened to this song 20 times since I got the album in February of this year. I’ve easily listened to it another 200 times on my iPod. Great tune, AWESOME album, refreshingly innovative concept (watch the making of the Blakroc album here). I know I don’t get out much, but, to me, this is the best album to have come out in a long time. Came across the video. Lovely.

Blakroc: Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) Ft. Mos Def and Jim Jones from Jonah Schwartz on Vimeo.

Long considered one of the best reggae mix tapes of all time, the NYC Reggae Party Mega-Mix continues to be in heavy rotation on my personal playlist after first getting it over 8 years ago. The track listing is after the jump and you can buy it here. NEW LINK – GO HERE.

1.       New York Intro
2.       Freaks – Little Vicious/Doug E. Fresh
3.       No Diggity (Smooth  Remix) – Blackstreet
4.       Murder She Wrote – Chacka Demus/Pliers
5.       Bam Bam – Pliers
6.       Them A Bleach – Nardo Ranks
7.       Who She Me Done – Cutty Ranks
8.       Rich Girl – Louchie Lou/Michie One
9.       Limb By Limb – Cutty Ranks
10.   Hot This Year – Dirtsman
11.   Pose Off – Red Fox/Screechie Dan
12.   Twice My Age – Shabba Ranks/Kristal
13.   Real Love – Makeda
14.   I Like It (Smooth Remix) – El Debarge
15.   Big Up – Shaggy/Ravon
16.   Skin Out – Screechy Dan
17.   Big Bills – Baja Jedd/Screechy Dan
18.   Dem Bow – Shabba
19.   Donna – Singing Sweet
20.   Ghetto Red Hot – Super Cat
21.   Big Tings A Gwan – Daddy Screw/Donovan Steel
22.   Number Two – Terror Fabulous
23.   Things A Gwan – Spragga Benz
24.   Action – Nadine Sutherland/Terror Fabulous
25.   Wicked Dickie – Nadine Sutherland
26.   Burrup – Nardo Ranks
27.   Teves Buena – El General
28.   Pu Tun Tun – El General
29.   Tour – Capleton
30.   One Blood – Junior Reid
31.   Sorry (Baby Can I Hold You) – Foxy Brown
32.   Cassandra – Frankie Paul
33.   Saddest Day – Wayne Wonder

This album is awesome. Has to be one of the best hip hop releases since the 90′s. THis tune is my fave.

Catchy tune from  Kenyan group Just a Band.

Cute…

Check it out at Codeorgan

Never was I a Joe Cocker fan…until I ran across this.