You know Britta Phillips from the bands Luna and Dean & Britta, but now she has a debut solo album, Luck Or Magic. The record features five Phillips originals alongside covers of songs by the Cars, Evie Sands, Fleetwood Mac, Dennis Wilson and ABBA’s Agnatha Fältskog. Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Phillips: This is one of the most important books I’ve read in a while. Mind-blowing anthropology and social studies. Stop yawning! It was actually an exciting read, at least the beginning of the book. I don’t agree with the author on everything (the McBrearty/Brooks article disputes his idea of a “cognitive revolution”), but I still found it fascinating that long ago, the world held half a dozen species of human … what we gained and lost with the agricultural revolution … why we are wired to love sugar and fat (its not our fault!). Also, the evolution of money, the spread of empires and the rise of capitalism … and how the two are now entwined.
Video after the jump.
