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Friday, 9 July 2021

Rupert Murdoch is coming for your weather

July 9, 2021

Bad bosses. We've all had them!

Some are egregiously terrible. The sexual harassers and unapologetic racists. Then there are higher-ups who'll micro-manage every square inch of your life, or perhaps worse, barely show up while making tens of thousands more than you. All while you clock in. Do the grunt work. And wait for the next paycheck to hit the bank account.

But one mark that unites all bad bosses, no matter where they sit on the bad boss spectrum, is the sheer misery they create for everyone below—and we want to hear about it. Here at Mother Jones, we've officially opened up a Bad Bosses Hotline where all are invited to call and tell us about your experiences with horrible managers. If it's a scoop about a public figure, we can investigate. If it's a quick anecdote, we want to hear it. Just need to rant after a particularly crappy day with the big man? Ring us up. We're here to listen.

You can either call us directly at (510) 519-6656 or shoot us an email at talk@motherjones.com.

—Inae Oh

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SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE

Los Lobos Celebrates Its LA Roots With a Tribute to Jackson Browne

Los Lobos is one of the great American rock 'n' roll bands. Hailing from East LA, the group got its start in the early 1970s playing Mexican folk music for restaurants and parties. The guys went on to merge those roots with a wide range of other musical traditions—rock, soul, country—to forge a truly American sound. A song that captures this American essence of Los Lobos is "One Time, One Night" from their third album. They are a national treasure.

Now, after half a century of work, Los Lobos is about to release an album covering songs from the members’ favorite LA artists. Native Sons opens with "Love Special Delivery" by Thee Midniters, an East LA garage band and one of the first Chicano rock groups to achieve a hit record in the United States. Other tracks come from the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and Jackson Browne. One knock-down track is its take on War's "The World Is a Ghetto." (War, another pioneer in multicultural rock, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.)

To honor Browne, the band chose “Jamaica Say You Will.” This was the first song on Browne’s 1972 self-titled debut album. It’s a piano-driven love-song ballad with a true California feel—perhaps because, as Browne has said, the tune was written for a woman who worked in an organic orchard in Zuma Beach across from the Pacific Ocean. It doesn’t get much more California-in-the-’70s than that.

Here’s the premiere of Los Lobos’ version of “Jamaica Say You Will.”

You can find the band’s renditions of "Love Special Delivery" and the Beach Boys’ “Sail On, Sailor” here. Los Lobos is touring this summer and fall.

—David Corn