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This machine still kills fascists
fascists" stuck to the side of his guitar. Throughout the 1980s, Bragg championed political causes like the ... Guthrie's work a new sound and context. The result is not a tribute album but a pan-generational, ... timeless and universal Guthrie's sentiments and beliefs were. The album contains visions of ...
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The lament of the exile
Oryema's beautifully crafted album. Lazy or ignorant record company publicists and even lazier music ... challenges the listener. Beat the Border, Oryema's follow-up to his debut album Exile, is a mellow blend ... (WOMAD) festivals throughout Europe. His first album, Exile, appeared on Peter Gabriel's ...
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Gil Scott-Heron: The revolution will be live
politics like Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27. In a series of early 1970s albums, Scott-Heron, ... exploded any idea that art and politics donβt mix, and has been hugely influential. Scott-Heron has become ... political. He wrote a lot of protest songs. βPieces of a Manβ explored the impact on a father of losing his ...
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Insight or insanity?
is sometimes compelling and the music has been skilfully woven into the 15 stories, but the album ... politics. Burroughs challenged the dominant ideas of the time. He was not shy about launching attacks on ... anything from accepted literature styles to the politics of Nixon and the existence of the CIA. He was ...
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Country Joe: No cobwebs on this radical
producing 31 albums, he hasn't let cobwebs form on his progressive political commitments either. Like ... from the '60s political counter-culture between his career peak in the early 1970s and now? This ... carved out a radical political space in the San Francisco "Summer of Love" hippie cultural ...
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Urthboy releases free song for refugees
a beat that originally appeared on the new album by bass-heavy Darwin duo Sietta, which was released on ... science that enlightens us on so many different levels. But then there are things that, politically ... Urthboy: "Politically speaking, it just makes you depressed." Culture ...
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'Which Side Are you On-- REMIX' Rebel Diaz release new video in light of Baltimore uprising
out on our [2013] Radical Dilemma album, but the time is NOW for the song and the message it ... various social ills within US society, including political conformism, the prison industrial complex and ... adviser] moved quickly to limit Ferguson-related demands to those that were politically palatable to the ...
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Schiller's liberationist Ode to Joy
Schiller's political radicalism, which was entirely missing from the celebration of the collapse of Stalinist ... socialist, Paul Robeson, on the Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic Concert album (Folk Era Records). ... his radical politics. In 1953, 1956 and 1957, miners in south Wales invited Robeson to their annual ...
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Old and new, both good
by Melanie Sjoberg Judy Small's latest album, produced as she turns 40, reflects a shift in ... introduction of a strong jazz influence enhances the appeal of several of the tracks. The politics include ... years of recording. Her best political and social comment includes the antiwar "Mother, Daughters, ...
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She will not lose
She will not lose More Ways Than One By Arramaieda An album of voice and percussion Natural ... "political" in the narrow sense. Most overtly political are the anthemic "Ella's Song" (We who ...
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Franti makes revolution 'irresistible'
put to rest the cynicism underlying the question that implied his political material was simply ... Australia promoting his third release with his band Spearhead. The epic 73-minute album Stay Human includes ... and confesses. Franti's work is always overtly political β in an earlier interview, he stated his ...
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Hymns for revolutionary combat
of cultural and political action, and solidarity between artists, revolutionaries and the public. It ... politicised albums won four national awards in France last year and it was rated the most popular band amongst ... French youth. Tactikollectif write in the Motives! liners notes: "We do not belong to any political ...
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Left and live
hard-hitting political comedy and music, the event opened with Elliot Western from the band Welter. ... Pauline Hanson by establishment media, set the tone for the evening. Western played songs from his album ... absurdity of modelling, dieting and Jenny Craig, and taking off Pauline Hanson. David Beniuk, a political ...
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Celebrity watch
Denies" Baby Rape Charges http://bit.ly/W8vUut Chinese Political Activist Ai Weiwei Is Making...A Metal ... Album? http://bit.ly/XEAn7U Village Voice Name Lars Ulrich As The "Douchiest Drummer Of All ...
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Rebel label gives radical rapper new lease of life
leading the way for Firebrand with the politically charged βItβs Like Thatβ β the labelβs first release. ... there, he went to the University of Maryland Baltimore County and encountered radical politics and music. ... on a song. The cross-section of music and politics became heightened during those years. James became ...
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Still our Bill?
Worker's Playtime (1988), to The Internationale, the tribute to his political and folk-music roots. The new ... album is a further step towards production values and pop sensibility, epitomised in the Johnny ... themes of politics, love, relationships and football. Live, at Sydney's State Theatre on May 15, the ...
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'And Still I See No Changes': Tupac's legacy 15 years on
veering contradictions that would turn up on his albums could be jarring. Even on his first album ... Head Upβ next to βI Get Aroundβ (also on the same album), βDear Mamaβ next to βCalifornia Love,β or ... hearing 2Pacβs words was to hear their own humanity confirmed. This continues in the eight-plus albums ...
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Revolutionary technique
β politically and musically β to the Kraft-cheese crap that these major music corporations try to shove down our ... during his time in prison for aggravated assault (he was paroled in 1999). From this album ... 's introduction β a track that features one of the most famous US political prisoners, radical African-American ...
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Phil Monsour at peak of his craft and at the service of freedom
immerses his art in political solidarity. He sees music as an extension of his political being, and his ... political being as the crucible for his music. No surprise then that his strongest work has coincided with ... oppressed masses of the Middle East. On Monsourβs previous two albums, The Empireβs New Clothes (2008) and ...
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Solidarity Choir celebrates 25 years
songs from various groups and artists with a political orientation, such as Ecopella, the Sydney Trade ... originally released on Hulett's album Saturday Johnny and Jimmy The Rat. The Solidarity Choir started in ...
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Who said what?
A selection of this week's politically-relevant entertainment news: Snoop Lion Defaces Defenceless Barack ... "Prisoner Of Conscious" Full Album Stream http://bit.ly/18RCJBU Ja Rule Released From Prison Early, ...
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Jarring comment on a fraught world
politics. To say that Buckberry is not impressed with the general direction Prime Minister John Howard has ... the album quite jarring and can only assume this is part of Buckberry's comment on the fraught ...
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Nourishing the brain and the soul
"folk" albums you are likely to hear. Like Dick Gaughan's great records, it takes some paying ... overly wordy or too self-conscious. He certainly bares his soul, and his admirable political ...
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Kev Carmody launches new single
singer/songwriters, launched the new single from his excellent Eulogy (For a Black Person) album at Sydney's ... Surfers Paradise working in the sex industry. As always, politics was at the fore in Carmody's Sydney ...
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Radio highlights
program reports on the major obstacle to democracy in the country β political violence. Woods asks how ... around and just how many albums has it released? Tune in and find out. Presented by Jo-Anne Killen. ...