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NewsMaps set for debut US tourMaps aka James Chapman has announced a short tour of the US, kicking off at Seattle's Crocodile Caf? on September 22. He will play three west coast dates before heading east for a further two shows in New York City and Brooklyn. Chapman will be joined on the jaunt by Philip Thurlby (synths, backing Vocals, percussion), Matthew Roberts (synths, guitar, backing vocals), Benjamin Gordelier (drums) and Andrew Lowther (bass guitar). The tour will support the release of 'We Can Create' which came out June 17 in the US and was recorded in Chapman's Northampton bedroom. The album was co-produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bonnie Prince Billy, Bjork) and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Hope Of The States). Def Jam founder calls for voluntary removal of racially offensive words Def Jam founder and Hip Hop Summit Action co-chairman Russell Simmons today called for offensive words regularly used in hip-hop to be categorised as "extreme curse words". The call comes in the wake of a recent controversy involving American radio host Don Imus, whose show was cancelled after he called a women's college basketball team 'nappy-headed ho's'. Despite a previous statement in which Simmons and HSAN co-chairman Benjamin Chavis said that hip-hop lyrics "may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but our job is not to silence or censor that expression", they today stated that with freedom of expression comes social responsibility saying: "HSAN is concerned about the growing public outrage concerning the use of the words "bitch," "ho," and "nigger." We recommend that the recording and broadcast industries voluntarily remove/bleep/delete the misogynistic words "bitch" and "ho" and the racially offensive word "nigger." The statement continues: "Going forward, these three words should be considered with the same objections to obscenity as "extreme curse words." The words "bitch" and "ho" are utterly derogatory and disrespectful of the painful, hurtful, misogyny that, in particular, African American women have experienced in the United States as part of the history of oppression, inequality, and suffering of women. The word "nigger" is a racially derogatory term that disrespects the pain, suffering, history of racial oppression, and multiple forms of racism against African Americans and other people of color. They emphasised that they are not advocating censorship in music and are instead keen to discuss the "corporate social responsibility of the industry to voluntarily show respect to African Americans and other people of color, African American women and to all women in lyrics and images." |
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