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Women's Solidarity March

[DEMONSTRATION] Are you #StillResisting, one year after the largest worldwide protest in history? Last January, the Women’s March turned out millions in Washington, DC, New York City, Los Angeles—in cities and towns of all sizes, actually—to demonstrate for all manner of causes, from gender equality to police reform, from basic human rights for all to an end to militarism.

Rita Bo Brown: The Gentleman Bank Robber

[DOCUMENTARY]  Rita Bo Brown grew up white and working class in rural Oregon in the 1950s. She participated in the queer liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, eventually joining in militant actions that included bank robberies and bombings of institutions that her underground group, the George Jackson Brigade, deemed enemies of the revolution it hoped was coming. She served eight years in federal prison, was released, and became active in prisoners rights and prison reform campaigns.

Ashley McBryde

[COUNTRY] What a voice Ashley McBryde has—not just her singing but her songwriting. The Arkansas native’s “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” was named one of the 54 best songs of 2017 by Jon Pareles of the New York Times, and for good reason.

Marigold

[INDIE] Marigold is the recently minted solo project of Head North’s Benjamin Lieber; he played his first show under the Marigold moniker just last February. His album, Counterfeit Art, is an impressive watershed of multi-instrumental creativity.

SYML

Barcelona front man Brian Fennell’s solo project, SYML, allows him to explore more pared-down, singer-songwriter fare that he’s recorded at his basement studio just outside Seattle in Issaquah, Washington.

Byron Stripling and the BPO: Ella, Duke, Cab and More

[JAZZ] Trumpeter Byron Stripling’s CV reads like the index of a jazz history textbook: He has toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Paquito D’Rivera, and Lionel Hampton, to pull just a half dozen names from the list. On Saturday, January 20 at Kleinhans Music Hall, Stripling takes a soloist turn in the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s pop series, in a program featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, and other from the American jazz canon.

Keys n Krates

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Canadian trio Keys n Krates do well what many artists struggle to do—combine electronic dance music with live instrumentation. They really combine everything that’s good about both styles. A talented turntablest in Jr. Flo, is joined by drummer Adam Tune, and keyboardist David Matisse to create a sound that flows like a DJ set while wowing audience by their live collaboration. The three-piece band from Toronto has released records on Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak record label as well as the Diplo run Mad Decent label.

Shithole President

Nominal President Donald Trump reached around the empty Fiji water bottles and McDonald’s wrappers to lurch for his phone to send this Tweet: 

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