Have you noticed that TMT can be pretty political? That's because we're not just esoteric music aficionados -- we're also hard-hitting, investigatory journalists with an obligation to report on the music industry at large. It is in this spirit that we yet again report news coming from Waxploitation.
Waxploitation, the longtime artist management company known most notably for working with the prodigious Danger Mouse and his numerous incarnations, has reached out and united a variety of artists for a compilation whose proceeds will be split between three nonprofits working in Darfur: Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam America. As reported earlier (TMT News), Causes 1: Darfur is, as has been made explicitly clear by the number "1," the first of an anticipated many in the Causes series, created to benefit the victims of what has been called "one of the worst crisis in the world today," a "massive violation of human rights," and "a humanitarian tragedy," but what everyone knows to be a straight up, capital g, Genocide.
The new news? Waxploitation recently announced that even more money will be raised from the soon-to-occur, fourth annual Waxploitation rock star's stuff auction through MissionFish.org. Items to be launched through the normal individual's price ceiling include guitars and covet-worthy merchandise signed by acts such as Avril Lavigne, Norah Jones, The Flaming Lips, The Deftones, Common, Gnarls Barkley, Kanye West, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Wilco, TV on the Radio, The Decemberists, Bloc Party, Macy Gray, Nickelback (as good as donations to charitable causes are, I strongly discourage involving yourself in a bidding war over anything signed by Nickleback, ever), and Thievery Corporation.
Now, show some support!