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M.I.A.: Representing the World Town
Action/Acton) new album Kala, named after her mother (the first album Arular named after her father) has brought ... and FunDaMental, especially on the amazing There Shall Be Love album have tried to do this and ... artist who is as lucid in her political beliefs as she is confident in her talents in music and art. She ...
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Chumbawamba release anti-war song
"Jacob's Ladder" is featured on the band's latest album Readymades. Chumbawamba lambastes US ... civilians for oil and power. Readymades, Chumbawamba's 10th studio album, offers some new fare, using ... breakbeats and folk samples in an ambient mix of melody and ferocious politics. Chumbawamba's songs are ...
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Interview: New sun rises for Xavier Rudd
Rudd has long been known for his progressive politics and championing of Aboriginal and environmental ... tour for βFollow The Sunβ, the lead single off his forthcoming new album. * * * Tell us about the new ... album. Each song has its own flavour on this record. βFollow The Sunβ was the last track I recorded and ...
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A fiercely independent woman
worldwide, and has released over 20 albums under her independent record label. She had been performing for ... entire 2004 album Educated Guess by herself at home. References to her independence from major labels ... strongly political. Many of her songs tackle social justice issues such as racism, sexism, abuse, ...
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Groove to a new style
studio release from Australia's most public political band lacks the aggressive punch between the ... picked up over the years and have recorded an album with a powerful live sound. Forced long by Rob ... hopeful, a new style altogether. "Truganini", the first single from the album has been well ...
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Benin Bop
latest album Logozo. Now I'm a fan! The album makes great listening. If you're into ... music, you can guess it will be good. She doesn't ignore politics either. Kidjo's lyrics ... forward to understanding." After listening to this album, I'm looking forward to hearing ...
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Madala Kunene: Durban's natural mystic
that only visits their city via foreign DJs or on hugely expensive albums marked "import". ... up to Madala's deep soul and his albums are selling well in Jo'burg, Paris, London and ... a particular character. An especially brilliant performance has been captured on his live solo album King of ...
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Rage Against the Machine: Exploding like a sonic Molotov cocktail
Molotov cocktail. Rage's first album ignited the streets in June 1992 and a few weeks later teenagers ... new rock band in the nation" and the album was certified platinum across Europe, Australasia and ... like Emile Zapata, Frantz Fanon and Che Guevara. Suddenly there was a huge-selling album hailing ...
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Return of the Last Poets
the same burning intensity and hardcore political comment as in their classic albums made over ... the world" In their new album the Last Poets β Umar Bin Hassan and Adiodun Oyewole β return with ... political needs of the black community and the movement at that time. Yet they were never confined to this ...
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Bloc Party's statement against inequality
made a huge mark on modern music. Their debut album Silent Alarm displayed an energy and emotional ... But despite this comparison, Bloc Party noticeably shied away from political issues. They denied that ... experiences shape its new album, A Weekend in the City. In doing so, the band has released a shockingly deep ...
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Raging better than ever
to give this album a miss. Unlike many popular politically like-minded bands of the past, Rage ... otherwise receives garbage morning, noon and night. Like this album's predecessor, the lyrics all point ...
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Rage Against the Machine: 'Take today what tomorrow never brings'
blasted back onto the political music scene with its third album, The Battle of Los Angeles. With Zack de ... Mexico to political prisoners in the United States β with a left-wing perspective and a revolutionary ... combination of heavy rock and hip hop with punk and jazz influences. The barrage of political protest begins ...
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The heart and soul of French America
own these two fiery albums. And study them well. Ralph Zachary Richard has built a dramatically dual ... comrade of "Zack" Richard, well knew the political connotations when he named his now-famous ... accordion on these albums. Zack now lives mostly in Quebec, and has quipped that it is too cold there to ...
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Welcome return of War
provided some very political and socially aware music. Like today's hip hop, and like most earlier ... Early '60s soul reflected the political and social optimism of a mobilised black community that had ... '60s rolled on, much soul music became explicitly political and militant. The early naivete fell away, ...
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Bruce Springsteen: A hymn to humanity not patriotism
album, The Rising, has been marketed as vigorously as his 1984 Born in the USA album and, as with that ... album, has achieved massive commercial success. Born in the USA 's bitter attack on Reaganite ... snobbery for an album that takes the ordinary struggles of ordinary people seriously, most of the ...
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U2's songs of emptiness-- a cautionary tale
that it ends with the tagline βfree on iTunes nowβ. Given that the album was delivered β without ... instructions on how to permanently delete the album. Meanwhile, lead singer Bono has been lashing out at ... what about U2? They are relegated to empty blue-violet avatars, singing and performing the album ...
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Powerful and inspiring songs
website.) This album continues to profile Rovics' support for Palestinian liberation with songs such as ... polite-sounding name given to the US military's terrorist training camp for Latin American dictators and ... torturers). Political music by itself can never change the world, but can be a very powerful motivator. Aside ...
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Why the right hates Steve Earle
BluesΒ, the lead song on his soon-to-be-released album, Jerusalem, Earle examines the origins and motives ... condemned Earle's new album before it even hits the stores. The media dust-up about Jerusalem and ΒJohn ... recovery is the central fact of his life. His album I Feel Alright is as cautionary a first person vision ...
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The mellowing of Linton Kwesi Johnson
album, Tings and Times, and so it seems appropriate that the new album is called More Time. The rhythms ... a dragon fly. You can almost see the sun shimmering on its wings. The political suss is still there though. ... starts the album by asking for "More time to meditate and create" and goes onto introspect ...
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Manic Street Preachers support Cuba
I think it is their best. Although politically clearer than their last two albums, much of the politics is ... album, Know Your Enemy, the Manics realised they had a number of references to Cuba, including the song ... conversation, plays a song from each album. Singer/guitarist James Bradfield plays "If You Tolerate ...
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Cruising the Chocolate Supa Highway
Highway may not live up to the funkiness of Spearhead's last album Home, and it may lack the ... confrontational political appeal of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, but it is definitely Michael ... Franti's most musically diverse album. It draws on the influences of reggae music, with a rendition of ...
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'And if I could have chosen': Trans singer confronts bigotry
politics (or, for that matter, art) would certainly be insulting. Coming out in any form is a personal ... choice way before it even gets close to the political realm. On that same tip, itβs hard to ignore the ...
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COVID-19: one more reason to free the refugees (and defend the right to protest)
would be used to stifle political protestΒ when the group in general, and I in particular, were not doing ... not as a way to exerciseΒ the democratic freedom of political communication, makes no sense at all from ... elsewhere, we should resist efforts to close down free speech and freedom of political assembly that are not ...
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Sounds sampled
Available on CD Reviewed by Peter Hicks This is an album of ambient guitar pieces which Peter Crowe ... Texas. Like that album, it has a mystical, dreamy air about it. Crowe claims to have been inspired by the ... Painters and Dockers' concern with social and political issues. The title is a reflection on the ...
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Peter Hicks: Songs of protest, humour, justice and love
sorts of songs that Peter Hicks has included on his latest album. Hicks' The Times We've Been ... Through is a wonderful collection of contemporary political music β songs of passion, protest, humour, ... boosts the Tasmanian flavour of the album. It's a moving song with a catchy tune and a social ...