For the first time since March 2020, no area or even household in any of Metro Manila’s 16 cities and one municipality was considered on lockdown, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) has confirmed.
(Denis Balibouse/Reuters) A pop genius’s political poetry sets the record straight.
Van Morrison’s new three-LP album
Latest Record Project, Volume 1 is so radical so out of fashion, it’s ahead of fashion that it also recalls the most widely celebrated album from exactly 40 years ago: The Clash’s punk-reggae-rap lollapalooza, their triple LP
Sandinista!
The Clash’s overt political pop was dedicated to peer-pressure attitudes that define rock-music hipness. Morrison, at age 75, is no longer considered “hip,” but
Latest Record Project, Volume 1 proves bolder than
Sandinista! because Morrison’s emotional-political drive dares oppose genuine political conformity, the COVID lockdowns of the past year.