Metalsucks — There’s a powerfully bittersweet scene in the Iron Maiden documentary Flight 666 in which a Costa Rican metalhead spends a few post-entry/pre-show moments lamenting the misfortune of Third World metalheads. He states: When I was like 14 or 15, I h... more info

ContactMusic — JUSTIN BIEBER donates $1 (66 pence) from every concert ticket sale to a charity helping to build schools in the Third World.The pop sensation who went from being a poor kid to an international superstar in just a year insists he knows what it's like ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Fusion 45 said... Sal's Boutique Danny O’Keefe – So Long, Harry Truman http://www.fusion45.com themusicologist said... musicology #587 Flow #6 (Bunny Clarke – Move Out Of My Way) So…following on from the inspirational Terry Callier it has to... more info

Sky News — Thursday's papers look at comments from an aide of the Pope comparing the UK to a Third World country. more info

Sky News — A key member of Pope Benedict XVI's Vatican entourage has pulled out of the visit to Britain just days after he slammed the country as "Third World". more info

Sky News — A key member of Pope Benedict XVI's Vatican entourage has pulled out of the visit to Britain just days after he slammed the country as "Third World". more info

Totally Fuzzy — G O D said... LCXME-the lee county experimental music ensemble-fact,hope,and conviction-2 lengthy pieces of experimental ,free-form,art-noise! THE 6TH STREET MUNTUS-flingin' zingers-more free-jazz,experiments from the ever-changing line-up that alway... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Looting Main Street by MATT TAIBBI How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrativ... more info

All About Jazz — Herbie Nichols was a pianist, composer and intellectual who grew up in the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, an overlooked figure in his lifetime whose music has been celebrated and recorded frequently in the past 25 years, and subject of a new biogra... more info

Guardian Music — This mysterious crew appear to be some kind of strange Manc cult, full of quasi-spiritual fervour and revolutionary intentHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Jeau, Lung, Elle Jaie and Evanse.The background: Oh, to be baffled in this digital day and age,... more info