Obviously musical taste is subjective but for me this group of young kids, who have done…

I most certainly do not – but, in full context, I hope it was clear that I was being extremely sarcastic about the idea that the Hero Parade and associate events (in which which trans-gendered and transvestite people were…

Can you please not use slurs to refer to transgender people?
Thanks.

It reminds me of when eugenics was effectively pioneered by well-meaning liberal movements like Planned Parenthood, only to perfected in a very twisted way by decidedly illiberal movements such as…

Possibly – Metallica certainly moved tickets in 2004, but it must also have been a hellishly expensive crap shoot to take. In 2011, you don't have to look far or hard to see arts orgs laying…

Now, the fun really begins...

Given that she was strongly opposed to prostitution reform, she quite likely approves.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/5933894/Kanye-axed-from-BDO

‘It was confirmed last week that controversial hip hop group Odd Future had been pulled from the festival after complaints were received about their homophobic lyrics.

’Can you add that refunds on tickets only avaliabel until Novermber 30.…

You're more of a Cliff fan than Craig is, then?

You can no doubt see how words like "unlawful" and "legal" entering the conversation might appear to be heading in that direction.

The open invite to Coney and Brockies…

approached the CEO of Regional Facilities Auckland John Brockies with Calum's concerns and my own having watched Youtube,” she says.

“After a discussion with BDO organisers this group…

Am I right in thinking we don't have any evidence yet of Councillor Coney actually *doing* anything. Only a claim of influence over a commercial organisation's decision to not contract another party as a performer.

Why would it have to be Big Day Out? After all, it isn't just Big Day Out who've…

A legal solution would require someone with standing to take…

And hey, given my strong…

And to some extent, it worked in this case. I think it's getting harder and harder to provoke an outrage, so the lyrics get more and more OTT. Once it was enough to have long hair to be deemed a menace to…

MUSE cares about the environment, and has just released its #EvilRobyn Eradication Policy. The penalty for non-compliance will be Loretta West burning your house down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoaYDy5A5Mg

Pull your damn head in, Cameron Brewer!

Outrageous Fortune star Robyn Malcolm, who made an outspoken attack on John Key's record, is to front an Auckland Council campaign to encourage recycling...

Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer wants Malcolm axed, saying she is "too partisan" to front the…

He's out too, because of 'Devil Woman'. :)

I've argued about Tyler the Creator with a friend before. He was all 'this has no value!' and I wasn't happy with that assertion. I have a long history of loving songs…

‘She watch channel zero’ has some…interesting….lyrics.

The woman makes the men all pause
And if you got a woman
She might…

Sick of It: First, welcome to PAS and hope you’ll hang around. You’re really preaching to the choir on the point R. picked out, but as I said the simple reality is that Auckland City, one way or another, has its fingers in a hell of a lot…

I think plenty of people reading and commenting here grasp that issue. I realise you're pissed off, but…

(I am kind of curious as to the legal position. It would seem to me that Beggs is pretty on point here. ( Baigent too I guess.) And that would appear to suggest that there…

Cos it is not enough to not go near it themselves. That's not zealotry. Zealots need to ensure that no-one can. Their way of winning arguments is underhanded.…

Legally, no. But when I get the OIA requests out of the way, I'll be posting links to this to Len Brown and the members of the Parks, Recreation and Heritage Forum asking if 1)…

Ditto. And that's why we have the BORA. Which clearly applies to the Auckland Council in this instance. But somehow, I suspect they…

Someone might like to point out to him that it's not the country that has 'banned' him.

Meanwhile, I'm late to this debate. I would post a video of his to make the point, but since I really don't like the idea of triggering a rape victim, I certainly won't.

It has venom.

I totally agree. Love all the answers to Keir's question as to what can be done.

Prediction: "That'll be $76 an hour". To which you should respond by saying "Ombudsman! Ombudsman! Ombudsman!"

Since we're trading Public Enemy anecdotes, even a hippy-hoppity loathing beige guy like me can see why Yo! Bum Rush The Show, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and Fear of a Black Planet are often cited as…

Folk music, on the other hand..

And I'm checkin' my privilege

Righto … in May, 1988, I went to see Public Enemy play the Electric Ballroom in London, with my friends.

It’s a small basement club and they were only playing there because the Hammersmith Odeon had responded to a media panic by…

I got 99 problems.....out of 100 correct on my final Sociology exam.

Can we get Tiki's name correct? I believe it's a double-a in Taane, but I may be mistaken.

I have sent an OIA request off to the Council asking for the reasons for the decision, and for the correspondence --- I am…

And probably because it qualifies as an old-skool party jam. He was MCing a club night. not necessarily…

Fair enough. I also…

Well, strictly speaking, that was NWA...

No, but it's a big issue to deal with (a bit like 'positive discrimination' – does it work/does the end justify the means, or not?).

And, as other commentators have pointed out, possibly a distraction…

However, there's a particular subgenre of such music that does have objectionable lyrics that condone violence against women, homophobic violence and intra-community gang violence. While I don't condone or endorse its censorship, I do have the…

I think the pro-censorship argument would be that ‘hate media’ (however it is defined), such as punks wearing Nazi symbols or hip hop songs about killing people, regardless of intention, gives succour and…

Fucking hate media, how does it work?

And there would have been input. There are smart, media aware young people in the local…

I'm not real comfortable with Odd Future being described as "hate media". The music's misanthropic and often offensive in its themes and language, but it's not the same thing as Beenieman's "coming to Jamaica to execute all the gays".

Even Kraftwerk dropped screaming electronic bombs on their fans. Before they…

Is this your characterisation of all hip hop?

I really hope not, because that would be a patronising, ignorant and racist thing to say.

Quite – I suspect there's a few punk scenesters out there who, back in the day, didn't have a neo-Nazi micron in the bodies but made some epically unfortunate accessorizing choices. Juvenile shock and awful tactics seldom end well, but I think you'd have…

Surely the hugely creepy thing is Coney's ability to engage in censorship without any process being followed, any natural justice, any ability for…

Same reason the (mainly male) kidz have been listening to music since ages ago: because it angries up the blood and gets you all ready to rumble and/or fuck and shit. Plus providing…

I wonder whether that is why so many people find this musical genre so positive and empowering. Like punk before it and rock and roll before that. Back to the music the slaves would make round their fires of an evening. That came from somewhere…

I have, but I really really want to have missed a lot of something – and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that I have. If Coney went rogue, to coin a phrase, that's a whole…

Yeah, well, I'm kinda playing devil's advocate here.

The decision appears to have been made as a consequence of her statements __as a…

As soon as I heard about this, I thought 'Ye gods, someone's as foolish as those fanatics who took Judas Priest to court…

Wouldn't you want to find out the answer to this before describing Coney as a "self-appointed censor", because if there…