THE WORLD CAFE
Yoko Ono visits host David Dye on the World Café.  The avant-garde pioneer’s new album, Yes, I’m A Witch, is a collection of Ono’s works as interpreted by notable alternative bands.  With contributors ranging from The Flaming Lips, to The Polyphonic Spree, to Cat Power, Yes, I’m A Witch showcases the extent of Ono’s influence on today’s popular music.  The material selected for the CD spans her career, including some early work with John Lennon.  While most of the remixes retain only Ono’s vocals, her art-rock sensibilities shine through with each new rendition.

RADIO TIMES
A look at a new PBS documentary on hip-hop music’s obsession with violence and sex. We talk with BYRON HURT, who directed Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. It airs Tuesday night 2/20/07 on WHYY 12 as part of the PBS series Independent Lens. Hurt is one of the original members of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, and is the former associate director of the first gender violence prevention program for the United States Marine Corps.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 4:10 pm and is filed under News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.