Giveaway: Antibalas – Who Is This America?
Last week Ropeadope Records reissued Antibalas’ landmark 2004 release Who Is This America? complete with a bonus track, Money Talks, produced by Scott Harding. The afrobeat collective’s LP was released just as public opinion towards the Iraq War was turning and the music tackles that issue and others facing the country in the wake of 9/11 under George W.’s rule.
As part of our long-standing Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away program we’ve got a copy of the album as well as a limited edition Ropeadope Running Man t-shirt for one of our readers. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about your favorite t-shirt of all-time. You can only enter once and all entries must be received by Sunday, August 29 at 11:59AM. We’ll pick one entry at random early next week to win the package. Good luck!
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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The favorite t-shirt of all-time is a t-shirt with an african child talking i phone and there is a speech balloon saying Fela Kuti above the child. I’ve got it from my sister and i don’t know were she found it but i love it.
A Fela Kalakuta Republic T-shirt made by a local artist in da hood back in the day. It was da bomb…
The greatest t-shirt I have ever laid eyes on is a Brooklyn Industries t-shirt. It had a mouse and a pigeon hugging.
my favorite t is my brown olmeca shirt that has a corn/grenade on it
My favorite T-shirt is my PUROPEDO in black that I purchase from some Latino surfers in Cali.
My favorite t shirt is my Antibalas gasmask t shirt i purchased when they toured Sydney, Australia this year. What a great band!
I have a t shirt covered in wombats, which has to be my favorite. I’ve been wearing it since i was about 12, it seems to have been sculpted for my body. Every year it just seems to fit, it makes little sense. It once prompted an older lady on the street to tell me a story about how she accidentally killed a couple of wombats while driving, it was very sad.
My favorite t-shirt is one my friend designed for me. We lived next door to each other in Red Hook, Brooklyn for a year before he moved West. We used to sit on the roof at night, have a few drinks and talk. He made a t-shirt of the view from the roof, which is basically a car repair shop that looks like a junk yard with rusty corrugated tin everywhere, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and the street below. It has a lot of sentimental value.
Fave of all time? Impossible!
Fave at moment & for many years is an Australian Lambchop tour tshirt w a poodle being cradled by one hand & having its hair shorn by clippers w the other hand.
My fav tee is a black one i picked up in Prague. It’s got a keyboard across the chest, with a Prague cityscape dropped into the centre. Underneath it says in tiny letters “Praha – City Of Music”. dope.
hmmm, i have several favorite tees, dificult to choose one. i would say right now my favorite is a boards of canada shirt, a beautiful tone of green, a nice slim fit that doesn´t allow for a potbelly (no beer for me, thanks lol).
Another great tee is a black tortoise tee i picked up at their concert last year in amsterdam, it has an analogue synth at the center of yellow rays.
I also got a few from ropeadope, i love most of their designs, though i wish they wouldn´t sell out so fast.
My favorite t-shirt? its one with a sentence from Gil Scott-Heron “the revolution will not be Televised” offered by a friend of mine. its already very old but still i like to wear it.
favorite tee right now is probably my boards of canada logo tee. green, slim fit, it looks great. close runner up would be a black tortoise tee i picked up at their concert last year in amsterdam.
Don’t get me on the brownose, but my favorite t-shirt is still…
I believe it was the 2004-5 tour, the multicolor 70s brown tee with the Orwelle quote on the back-
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
I think I had well over a hundred thumbs-ups from that one. I still have it even though the cotton has turned to silk and the collar has all but disintegrated.
Rock on Antibalas! And good work consulting on the FELA! broadway release. Everyone should buy a copy!
Fave t shirt of all time? Probably my grade 9 high school gym shirt which I still wear on occasion.
my favorite t shirt is my 8th grade ninja turtle t shirt
My favorite Shirt is my Motörhead 1916 Shirt – no idea where it’s at!! I also miss my Bad Religion and my PRINCE Purple rain Shirt, what’s wrong with me??