regime change

About 12 hours from now, we're going to be closing the book on one of the scariest chapters in American history. Nobody's expecting things to get better over night and blah blah blah, but it's hard not to feel at least a little hopeful now that we have a genuinely intelligent and open-minded president for the first time in... well, a long time.

So in honor of this momentous occasion, the good folks at Vosotros put together a compilation called ¡Yes We Puede! Posted last week on the (really quite awesome) Creative Commons blog, this CC-licensed comp features a bunch of LA bands and artists covering patriotic tunes in the public domain, and contains by far the trippiest version of "Swanee River" that I've ever heard (courtesy of Mooey Moobau).

On a related note, at the bequest of Moveon.org, DJ Z-Trip just put out his second Obama-themed, CC-licensed mixtape, Victory Lap: The Obama Mix Part 2. Seems only fitting, since we know the O Man is down with the cause.

Here's to patriotism being cool again!