By James Lane Over 3,000 people gathered at Liberty Plaza in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning to defend the peaceful Occupation near Wall Street. The crowd cheered at the news that multinational real estate firm Brookfield Properties will postpone its so-called “cleanup” of the park and that Mayor Bloomberg has told the NYPD to...
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By James Lane What/Who is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing they all have in common is that they share the mantra “We Are The 99%” that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the...
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By James Lane California based alt/hard rock band Park Lane officially released its first full-length album “Letters from the Fire” yesterday. The release has unearthed new vocalist Carley Coma, who sings on the pulse-pounding, sticks-in-your-head-for-days Letters From the Fire. Carley Coma made quite a name for himself in the late ’90s and early ’00s...
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By James Lane Do not let the headline scare you too much. This article is not about the infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus, but instead it’s about the six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. Dengue Fever has been on tour in the...
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By Yvonne Gougelet Swedish-Argentinian musician Jose Gonzalez gained notoriety in America and around the world with his two breathtaking solo albums Veneer and In Our Nature. Jose had the opportunity to leave his studies of receiving his PhD in Biochemistry to tour the World over. Post-World tour, lifelong friend drummer Elias Araya and...
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By James Lane On April 20, 2010 an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect killed 11 men working on the platform, injured 17 others and ruptured a wellhead which would create the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. On July 15, 2010...
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Hot Indie News reporter Yvonne Gougelet is reporting from Washington D.C. this weekend from Power Shift, the largest grassroots Clean Energy training ever held. Over 10,000 concerned Americans have come to D.C. this weekend to urge Congress to end their ties with Big Polluters who are destroying our precious eco-system and causing wide spread...
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By Kye Lee Health care is an issue that will personally affect every American (employed or unemployed, legal or illegal) in the country. The apprehensions, frustrations, and deep-seated problems experienced thus far with a plan that has not been working for millions, are all on the table for the Obama administration to consider as...
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By Kye Lee Musicians come and go, but the good ones make music that stays. Some go from underground to megastar, some from mainstream to indie, and vice versa. Such was the case with the band Nine Days who came out of nowhere in 2000 with the hit single Absolutely (Story Of A Girl),...
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By Kye Lee Donning a vibrant blue suit and a white preacher’s collar, Reverend Billy Talen shared his green vision for the future of NYC and high hopes that New Yorkers will soon “wake up” and hear what he has been preaching in his Church of Stop Shopping and the city streets for more...
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