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06/24/2026

Many Indigenous teachings speak of a relationship with the Earth that goes beyond ownership or resource use. Rivers, mountains, forests, and wildlife are viewed as relatives within a larger living system. These connections remind us that human well-being is inseparable from the health of the natural world around us.

When forests are cleared, rivers polluted, or ecosystems damaged, the consequences eventually return to people as well. Clean water becomes scarce, wildlife populations decline, and communities face increasing environmental challenges. The health of nature and the health of humanity have always been connected, even when modern society forgets that relationship.

Protecting the Earth is not simply an environmental responsibility. It is an act of caring for future generations and preserving the systems that sustain all life. The more we understand our connection to the natural world, the more clearly we see that caring for the planet is ultimately caring for ourselves. 🌿🦅💙

06/24/2026

SHOWTIME 🚨

06.24.26
The Zoo Bar | Lincoln, NE

06.25.26
The Waiting Room Lounge | Omaha, NE

06.27.26
Venue Shrine | Tulsa, OK

Hope to see you there! For ticket information check out our website: www.indigenousmusic.band

06/24/2026

06/24/2026

Lemmy & Angus Young

06/24/2026

She Paid $3500 for That Porsche — Fifty Years Later It Sold for $1.76 Million

In September 1968, Janice Joplain paid $3,500 for a used Porsche. She commissioned a roadie named Dave Richards to paint it for $500. He called the mural the history of the universe. On December 10th, 2015, that car sold at auction for $1,760,000, a record for any Porsche 356 ever sold at public auction.

This is everything that happened in between. Janice Joplain grew up in Port Arthur, Texas, where cars meant freedom when she got her driver's license in 1958. She was 16 years old, and she commemorated the moment in her teenage scrapbook. She wrote home to her mother about the cars she drove in San Francisco, a beatup Sunbeam that she had to hotwire because she lost the key, a starter motor that burned out, a breakdown in Berkeley that left her needing to raise $75 for repairs.

She wrote, "It was a nice, clean, healthy little car, and now it's an outand-out beatnick car, and it knows it. She loved cars. She always had. They represented the thing she had been chasing since Port Arthur. The ability to go somewhere else, to be somewhere other than where you were." In September 1968, Cheap Thrills was at number one.

She had the money. She went to Beverly Hills and paid $3,500 for a 1964 Porsche 356C cab Cabriolet Dolphin Gray, the top of the range model. The final year the 356 was made. The car that was about to become the most recognizable vehicle in California. The gray didn't last long. She brought in Dave Richards, a roadie for Big Brother and the Holding Company, who was also a painter, and gave him the car and $500, and told him to do what he wanted.

06/24/2026

Elvira & Johnny Ramone at Video Shack where Elvira was doing a signing to promote the “Thriller Video Line” on VHS June 19, 1985

Photo by Gary Gershoff.

06/24/2026

From the Dakota to the Hit Factory: The Daily Transit Behind John’s Final Masterpiece

When John decided to break his five-year musical silence in the summer of 1980, his creative process looked entirely different than it had during the frenzied days of London or the chaotic "Lost Weekend" in Los Angeles. The blueprint for his comeback was born out of pure domestic peace.

John would regularly walk out of the Dakota gates, hop into a yellow cab heading down to the Hit Factory studios in Midtown, and lay down tracks that directly reflected his newly grounded life inside the apartment building. The entire project was shaped as his creative love letter to the peace he had finally found on the Upper West Side.

Inside the studio, Double Fantasy came together as a direct mirror of his Dakota sanctuary. Tracks like "Watching the Wheels" were written as a direct defiance to old music industry critics who thought he had lost his edge by staying home to bake bread.

Instead of chasing the aggressive punk or sleek disco trends dominating New York clubs in 1980, John anchored his new tracks with the warm, rolling piano lines of "(Just Like) Starting Over." He was consciously crafting a love letter not just to Yoko, but to the serene, ordinary life they had carved out together overlooking Central Park.

What makes these final sessions so poignant is the complete lack of cynical rock-star posturing. Working late into the night at the Hit Factory, John was clean, focused, and deeply collaborative with session players.

The record became a masterclass in mature, mid-life optimism—a testament proving that a man who had conquered the world with the Beatles could find his ultimate artistic fulfillment in the quiet corners of his own home.

Where do you stand on John's final musical chapter?

Double Fantasy famously split its tracklist down the middle between John’s commercial pop-rock comebacks and Yoko’s avant-garde New Wave tracks.

When you spin that record today, do you think John’s songs—like "Watching the Wheels" and "Beautiful Boy"—stand as his absolute finest, most mature solo work, or do you prefer the raw, political edge of his early 1970s Plastic Ono Band era? Let’s hear your album rankings below!

06/24/2026

The American rock band ZZ Top, including bassist Dusty Hill, drummer Frank Beard, and guitarist Billy Gibbons.

📷 ZZ Top at the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Prom in Orange, Texas in 1970.

06/24/2026

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