The police in the US have become so militarized that you can't win with guns.  Armed struggle is not a viable solution - even Ward Churchil says so.

I suffer from a mentall illness. It is hard when other people with mentall illness kill like on the news. Makes look like i am violent.

AHHHH SHIT! This is dope, with a FOR REAL message! Hit the nail on the head when talking about Government wanting gun control

keep hitting the rock of TRUTH revolution is cumming critical mass freedom at last Be THEMOSHI NOHOPENOFEAR

twisted reality of unfettered profit motive

What kind of name is Joeypresents and who the hell is this character anyway? Well…whoever he is and wherever he's from, Mr. Joeypresents is officially the WINNER of the "Don't Think" remix contest. CONGRATS, Sir Joeypresents!  You can check out all the remixes at http://tinyurl.com/DontThinkRemixContest

Choosing a winner was not easy for us. There were over 70 remix entries and many of them were strong contenders for the #1 spot. After much deliberation, No Bird Sing and Sage Francis decided that Joeypresents' overall composition, mix and musicality earned him the blue ribbon. There are many honorable mentions to be sure, but a special shout out goes to Dilly Dilly as she was the only producer who made it into everyone's "top 3" list. What ultimately kept Dilly away from the top slot may have been the sound/EQ of the mix, but what we most enjoy about it is the original vocals she added to the project. There were in fact a few people who probably could have probably won this contest with a better overall mix. We can't be too nit-picky as we understand there was a relatively short amount of time for people to bang this remix out, but having a better EQ and overall mix should be kept in mind for future contests.  

In addition to the official SFR winner, we had announced that the person who receives the most votes at www.tinyurl.com/DontThinkRemixContest would win the "popular vote" trophy. That honor goes to Moxe of Spain who not only put an electro/danceclub twist to the song but must have put on a hell of a campaign as he got more than double the votes of anyone else. Joeypresents didn't receive a single public vote, which I find interesting to note. Haha. Funny how that works out. Alas, big ups to Moxe for being able to rally so many fans. 

Lastly, we want to reiterate how agonizing this whole process. There's a ton of talent out there, people from many different states and countries who deserve recognition for their work, so we're going to leave these remixes up unless it is requested by the producer to take them down. Additionally, feel free to put the music up on your own youtube and soundcloud pages. Thank you all for helping us lose sleep this weekend.

Oh, wait, can't forget why we decided to do this remix contest in the first place…
No Bird Sing's "Definition Sickness" album drops on November 12th. Pre-sale deals are at www.tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness

Congrats once again to Joeypresents, Dilly Dilly, and Moxe.

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Joeypresents - winner of the "Don't Think" remix contest!

We've had requests for a recording of this version for years at shows, and finally got one worthy of the live energy it creates.  This "Hunter / Paid Dues / Organ Grinder" mashup began as a Buddy Peace & Dan Le Sac live arrangement, got reworked by the new live band and fitted w/ a hellfire outtro, and finally resulted in this recording, performed in front of Boston hardcoah crowd, no less!

Audio is from B. DOLAN's sold out show at the Middle East last November with CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE.  The musicians featured here are ADAM SCHNEIDER on guitar, DAN THE GERMAN on backing tracks & Voyager, and BRAD CAETANO on drums.  

B. DOLAN will be touring throughout 2014 in support of HOUSE OF BEES VOL. 3 (due out this summer) and an official LP slated for release in the fall.  All of this begins TOMORROW NIGHT in DENVER, followed by shows in ALBUQUERQUE, DENTON TX and a March 14th Showcase at SXSW alongside Sage Francis, Wheelchair Sports Camp and more.  For full show scheduling and event / ticket links, check here: 
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B. DOLAN w/ LIVE BAND - The Hunter / Paid Dues (Live at the Middle East)

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Before the tears that fell from the president’s face hit the podium and the US troops deployed to Turkish borders could learn to pronounce “Ahmadinejad”, everyone had an opinion on the Connecticut shooting. Celebrities and politicians all lined up, either to propose stricter gun laws or to say, “now is not the time to politicize”. Even as the details from the Aurora shooting continue to fill news pages and blogs months later, once again we are trapped in a 9600+ hour news cycle where we will be bludgeoned with every detail to emerge from the shooting as hack journalists pontificate back and forth on “how” but never look deeper then family/personal issues as to the “why”.

The situation in our country is a lot deeper then just to propose less guns. First of all, you’re not gonna un-invent the gun; it’s part of our DNA. So those proposing that our violent police force and army should be the only ones with guns are not only fighting a losing battle, but they are wrong. If this was about guns, you’d be able to come up with a mathematic equation that one could apply to predict massacres in every nation, but this only really happens here. Switzerland actually has a higher rate of gun ownership then the US per household, but far less murders by guns. So whether or not people want to ban or restrict guns, it’s not going to address what is at the root of these attacks.

So we must ask ourselves: What is unique in our country compared to the rest of the world? What is unique about America, compared to other western countries? The most obvious thing would be to point out that we don’t have medical/mental care for anyone other than the middle and upper class. The people who are most in need of mental health care can not get it, and if they do get it, they are just fed Prozac and sent home. The mental health industry in our country has long been little more then a fast food drive through for big Pharma. Europe has a a welfare state, a safety net, free universities and free health care. People have upward mobility and live a much higher quality of life than we do, and that is an empirical fact.

We have been in a recession for almost a decade and young people are growing up with less and less prospects for the future. Their parents are overworked and there is no end in sight. There is no hope. The American dream has proven to be a mirage for everyone but the baby boomers. People with no hope for the future do crazy, destructive shit.

We live in the society of the spectacle, a world that is mediated by images and technology and we humans are lost in it. We are in a progress trap, where our technological progress has surpassed our emotional ability to deal with the ramifications of it. Simply said, we have lost all sense of community and emotional support. This in itself is one thing, but combined with the sheer amount of stress that people are under in this new economy it should come as no surprise that alienated people on the fringes with no support lash out like this. Instead of just killing themselves quietly, they do it in a way that will ensure a kind of fame for themselves, picking places which are the most shocking to strike and knowing full well that they will go down in history.

Mass murders are big business for the mainstream news. With all this attention that they devote to covering these events, you would think that they would dig a little deeper than stories that tear at our heart strings about the victims and their families, grieving communities and gun control. I was hard pressed to even find mention of the economy, the mental health system, or alienation in any of the mainstream press. I was able to find a story on bullying on CNN. Yeah, bullying, if that helps the mainstream media and the Obama administration sleep at night, I’m sure there is some concerned parent out there willing to buy that.

If the mainstream media wants to stop this cycle of violence, they could begin by NOT promoting it and profiting from it. They could follow the lead of Sweden, not mention the killer’s name and move on.

There are a million factors that contributed to this, but I’d be remised if I didn’t point out the hypocrisy and jingoistic nature of most of these responses. This is the shit we fund in Gaza; this is what our drones do daily throughout the Islamic world. Tens of thousands of people have been killed by the American Empire in the past 10 years, and you’d be hard pressed to find as many American tears for our victims overseas. That is not to take anything away from this tragedy or equivocate; this was an utterly horrific act. If we really want to put an end to the mass shootings, we must begin to heal the society and culture that spawns them.

GUN CONTROL

"This is a song about how art is our master and we are subservient to it. While feeling like we master it, It is truly making us it’s servant. It will make you feel like a king some days, a peasant the next, followed by feeling like nothing. In the end we always go back to the thing a that abuse us because it’s more comfortable than being alone. 
Find what you love. Let it kill you. But surf in the eye of the storm for as long as you can." - Cas

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released April 17, 2020 
Produced by Dizzy Wolfe 
Featuring Bitter Stephens 
Mixed & mastered by Eric Hunter 
Artwork by Ben Barnhart

GUN CONTROL

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