Idolator

Rather than forcing the students involved to get jobs, "the Hip-Hop Congress, a non-profit organization, plans to release a new CD to raise money to reimburse the Thurston County Sheriff's office for damages caused during a riot at a recent dead prez show" at Olympia, Washington's Evergreen State College where a police cruiser was destroyed and rioting kids made off with laptops and radar guns. The CD will be coming soon to a store near you, but in the meantime, the Hip-Hop Congress has also produced this looooooong (but at least admirably thorough) video attempting to debunk local news coverage of the event and to pinpoint po-po accountability, though I mostly found it notable for reminding me of Evergreen's vaguely depressing, Soviet bloc architectural choices. [XXL]

Students at Olympia, Wash.'s hippie-tastic Evergreen State College—famed in song and zine lore as the crucible for Pacific Northwest indie-pop/rock—would usually rather hug out their differences than start lobbing bricks and breaking windows. But earlier today a scuffle took place at a Dead Prez show being held on campus, and when one concertgoer was arrested for misdemeanor assault, the audience decided to take it upon themselves to liberate him from the pigs' clutches. Thus finally answering the question "how many scrawny indie kids does it take to overturn a cop car?" More »