CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festiva

The Carps Perform Live in New York City for CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival


Toronto, Ontario -- The Carps are happy to announce five live performances in New York City during the upcoming CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival. The Toronto-based duo will be performing on:

October 21st at The Blender Theatre

October 22nd at 205 Christie

October 23rd at The Studio at Webster Hall

October 24th at Le Royale

October 25th at Brooklyn Vegan party

These exciting dates will see The Carps sharing stages with the Cool Kids, Shout Out Out Out, and other internationally-renowned acts.

Comprised of drummer/vocalist Jahmal Tonge and keyboardist/bassist Neil White, The Carps are known for their mash-up of different genres, artfully fusing elements of punk rock, soul, hip hop, and soca. The duo's repertoire includes two releases, The Young & Passionate Days of Carpedia (2007) and Waves & Shambles (2008), and a recent European tour with acclaimed hip hop group the Cool Kids.

The Carps' energetic live show is not to be missed! According to RCRD LBL's Faith-Ann Young,

"The Carps have a rush of rigorous, infectious urgency to their music, led by brash electro beats and raw punk guitar and rhythm cycles. Singer Jahmal Tonge's R & B-esque vocals fluctuate from wails, punk screams to speak-rap rants. In "All the Damn Kids", he channels Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, screeching "RAISE YOUR FLAG" on repeat. No matter what country, what flag- he and Neil White are quite convincing at getting us to partake in their battle cry, especially if it's on a dancefloor."



-For more information about The Carps, please visit www.thecarps.ca.

-To obtain interviews or photos, please contact The Carps at thecarps@gmail.com.

-For more information about the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival please visit www.cmj.com.

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The New Yorker Obama Cover

Written By Kevin Robinson, Jr.

I woke up this morning to see the brand new cover of the "New Yorker" that was extremely disturbing. There's a satirical cartoon of Barack and Michele Obama in the Oval Office dressed extremely offensively. Michele Obama is cloaked with machine gun shells around her neck as a terrorist and Barack is dressed in a turban and Muslim clothing. The sick twisted satire of this cartoon is completely and utterly disrespectful to this man and his wife. The ironic thing is that they never made a satirical cartoon in the New Yorker of Dick Cheney and Haliburton as vampires sucking the blood out of America. They never would have made a satirical cartoon of Bush as a puppet being pulled with strings by Cheney, now would they? So why is it okay for the New Yorker, a worldwide distributed newsletter that is published weekly to make a disrespectful satirical cartoon of an extremely charismatic black man and his wife in the Oval Office of the White House as its cover? It is not. The symbols of the burning American flag in the fireplace, and Barack and Michele dressed as terrorists showing how they must be a part of the already known pseudo "Axis of Evil" to overtake the American public are ridiculous. Whatever tasteless moron that drew this cartoon is a complete and utter idiot, but the person that deserves the blame for this shit even making the cover is the editor of the New Yorker. This is just another scare tactic thrown the way at Barack Obama to scare him off from the Presidental race. I can just hear all of the white conservatives cheering and laughing at this cover; it is sheer ignorance. I was not at all interested in the Presidental Race and could have cared less about any of the propaganda around it before seeing this cover this morning. I'm not saying that I am interested in politics that are already skewed anyway, but I am seeing exactly what is happening around me. The propaganda of showing how Barack can change America, and it is truly alarming to me that a hundred years ago, black men in this country were seen as scapegoats (and still are). But now, it is fine for a black man to be given the green light to be president of this country. All I am saying is that America at this point in time is in a state of extreme recession and at the brink of crumbling beyond most people's perception, and the propaganda is putting this "Big Change" moniker above the head of Barack Obama. If Obama does not have the capacity to change the already destroyed American economy, then he will be scapegoated by the people around this country that now "love" him.