Hope Night feat. Wye Oak & Caleb Stine (w/ Andy Stack)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this interview are highly political and solely my own, which is why I have identified the interviewer as myself and not the whole of Aural States. Aural States as an entity is politically neutral…like Sweden.
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MP3: Wye Oak – Remember, Above from Daytrotter Sessions
As I walked into El Rancho Grande, that lovely community-invoking coffee-house on Falls Road in Hampden, I see strewn across the table lots of construction paper. Surrounded by people cutting furiously and laughing. The cutting is for hand-crafted posters advertising Hope Night, an Obama benefit night of music, community and activism. It is an immediate realization of the ideas inspiring the night.
And they’re just getting started…
I took some time out last night to chat with Andy about this Sunday’s event, how it developed, and more specific reflections on the nature of politics and music…
Greg Szeto- So…what happened exactly? Read the rest…