Beastie Boy and devout buddhist Adam Yauch has sent an email out encouraging fans and friends to join him in meditating against cancer. The musician and producer explained:

A few friends and I are meditating at the same time twice a day. 9:30am and 6:30pm eastern standard time, for about an hour and half. We are picturing smashing apart all of the cancer cells in the world. We are visualizing taking the energy away from the cancer, and then sending it back at the cancer as lightening bolts that will break apart the DNA and RNA of the cells. If you have the time, please join us in whipping up this lightning storm. mind over matter.

If you prefer to sit then sit, but if you are not used to meditating, or sitting quietly doesn’t sound like fun, put on some music and dance while you do the visualization, and if you want to do it at some other time, or picture curing some other illness that’s fine too. Yoko [Ono] will be joining the meditation by visualizing all of us dancing with joy to celebrate the world without cancer. all variations are welcome. This is really just being done with a wish for all beings to be cured of all illnesses and to find true lasting happiness.

In December 2009, Yauch revealed a positive prognosis in his fight against cancer which was diagnosed in July of that year. Adam was found to have a cancerous tumor in his left parotid (salivary) gland. A thread has been launched on their official message board as well.
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Our stream today comes from Brooklyn, NY-based Night Birds, who features an ex-member or so of the Ergs!. We’ve got a stream of their new 7″, Night Birds.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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A new song from Hartford, CT’s Hostage Calm has been posted. “Ballots/Stones” will appear on Vol. 3 of the Enough is Enough compilation series, which aim to raise funds and awareness for equal marriage rights.

Check out the song here.
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Most Precious Blood and Indecision guitarist Justin Lee Brannan is considering a run of state senator in New York State representing southwest Brooklyn. Brannan, who also is a Wall Street veteran from Bear Stearns, commented on the run:

We need a new brand of invigorated leadership. I see great changes in the community. We need an advocate, not a politician with an insatiable ego. We need new leadership in the face of a dysfunctional state government in Albany. When I look at [incumbent] Marty Golden, I see a legislator resting on laurels. Yes, he has delivered for our community. But Marty Golden represents provincial Bay Ridge. I represent progressive Bay Ridge. have a background in business, media and international affairs. I can bring common-sense solutions that New York so desperately needs now. I am a music professor, a musician, a financier on Wall Street and [I] raise money for a charity.

Check out the report here.
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