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New Rovics compilation welcome for radical fans
CD, If I had a Hammer, a compilation of three albums recorded last year and released in December. And ... why, scanning the contents of this newest album. In the best tradition of a people’s bard, Rovics helps ... Reading My Blog” recounts Rovics’ own experience of being denied entry to New Zealand on political ...
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Ngaratya: Sister act aims for big things
relationships in "I Saw You" to the struggles of Indigenous politics in ... Ngaratya take their education so seriously that it has put their debut album on hold. "We have have ... remember that most of their writings are outdated." Hopefully, their album will be bringing such ...
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Hardcore punks AC4 tackle burning issues
hardcore punks AC4 blast nuclear policy on their new album, Burn the World. 鶹ӳ 's Mat Ward ... a financial decision as a political one. Outsourcing danger to the poor neighbours to keep our own middle ... capitalism and the structures that we lived under. After 20 years of personal politics, it felt like a good ...
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A weapon called the song
Holliday Bob Marley I often hear that music and politics should remain separate. I snigger at such ... invented Afro Beat as a way to protest Nigeria’s corrupt, oil company-run regime. His febrile 1976 album ... brought the leaders of Jamaica’s two main political parties on to the stage and corralled them into ...
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Campbell’s cuts make for razor-sharp rap
in Australian hip-hop- and they were inspired by some of the whackest cuts in Australian politics ... It is one of those political paradoxes- like promises to tax less and spend more- that make little ... progression. Dontez says it's a phrase he and Culprit took as the inspiration for their album Corrupted ...
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When Ol' Blue Eyes was pink
a stunning comeback, one that sadly involved a gradual slide from the left-liberal side of the political ... spectrum to the hard right of Republican politics. Sinatra was relatively close to the Communist Party of ... Party politics, the Communist Party attracted many performers and artists. Sinatra blasted the fascist ...
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Jeremy Corbyn offers hope for the arts
ourselves as political beings. How many people do you know were partially radicalised by an album like The ... excitement and mobilised thousands of young people new to politics and seasoned Labour members alike. And as ... a different vision of the role that art and arts education play in society, and to take a decidedly political ...
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Capturing the feel of a new movement
political content and flavour also — and manage to capture the wide spread of views from the more moderate ... explicitly political ("The struggle must continue and the resistance will survive" runs the ... chorus). Since it first came together three years ago, Kinetic has sought to give its music political ...
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Action updates
the compilation CD performed to help launch the album, and money raised through donations, CD sales ... detention of Dita Sari and other political prisoners. A meeting of AMWU women has endorsed the campaign to ... committee endorsed a motion calling on the Indonesian government to free all the political prisoners which ...
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NOFX: fun-loving hedonists to radicals
radicals. Before The War on Errorism, as they explain in the album's liner notes, NOFX were not known ... for expressing political views, but "maybe it's time that we are". The band says it is ... NOFX and made them interested in the world and politics. The first was the stealing of the US ...
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Redefining the protest song
recorded two albums on the outskirts of Harare and then fled to Britain, gaining political asylum in 2006. ... politically, and many protest singers very much associated with maligned communism, such as Cubans Carlos ... — environmental, political, social — we might be in need of protest singers more than ever. But music’s infatuation ...
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Carlo’s Corner: Where can we get whatever drugs Clive Palmer is on?
without a doubt, one big question in Australian politics in 2014. And that is: What drugs is Clive Palmer ... formed a political party and ran for prime minister.” “Really? What on Earth did I do that for?” “Well ... got this new boat. Also, how do you feel about dinosaurs?” This is what politics in this country has ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
communal violence, political repression, etc. Surely these issues have as great a political imperative for ... support for immigrant refugees it appears politically defeatist to see emigration as a solution to ... is an album of memories that needs to be saved lest we forget the injustices foisted on members of ...
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Raise up Anti-flag
Religion. One of the punk bands at the forefront of this rebellious, musical-political movement is the band ... interview' with ex-Rage Against the Machine guitarist, Tom Morello. Morello states that politics is about ... support from, but who know little about politics. He is angry and articulate. In April 2004 he wrote an ...
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Stand-up comic of the revolution
Riley Over 20 years ago in our shared, boldly political household, we took our icons seriously. To live ... I am.'" — is pure Brucean wit on target. His approach to politics and his humanism transcended the usual ... reissue four of the Fantasy albums recorded between 1958 and 1959. Volume II contains recordings that ...
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The funky voice of Maori pride
politics. She began singing to help pay her way through law school, but "half way through I began to ... demystifying the law or showing people the real history of colonisation in New Zealand". This political ... number two on the NZ charts, also carried a strong political theme. "It's all about how black ...
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Scream against the Armenian genocide
For the uninitiated, System of a Down are notable for their political commitment. In 2003, they ... front, System of a Down plays songs across the range of their albums, with all manner of styles — heavy, ... slow with Armenian melodies and politically-charged. The weaving in of their live performance with the ...
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Occupied Western Sahara: A rare look inside Africa's last colony
her album “El Aaiun on Fire” (“El Aaiun Egdat”). This is a Democracy Now! special, “Four Days in ... Moroccan authorities during his years spent as a political prisoner. HMAD HAMMAD: [translated] They linked ... Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony.” [break] AMY GOODMAN: That is Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan from her album ...
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Live Blog: Week of frontline action to #StopAdani
鶹ӳ Facebook Page and the Front Line Against Coal Flickr album. Monday 18 September, 6:40pm Meet ... to ensure Adani and its political backers don't get away with plans to build Australia's ... political channels to stop this mine, but it is clear that those things alone are unlikely to succeed in ...
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Sir Bono: the knight who fled his own debate
Hotel. He asked what I'd been working on. I said "the premise that celebrity politics has been ... asking only that it be delayed until U2 finished recording its next album. I kept it public via RRC and ... busy preparing the banalities he'd blare on the new album. In the wake of the new depression ...
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Native Ryme bring heritage to hip-hop
human spirit means the album veers from dark, heavy subjects and radical politics to party tracks and ... 60,000 years, it doesn't matter that your debut album has taken a mere 18. "We've always ... know," says C-Roc, whose rap group, Native Ryme, are only just releasing an album a generation after he ...
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The moral case against downloading music for free
somebody rips a couple of mp3s off our album and listens to them on their computer speakers and then says ... they don’t like our album, guess what? They haven’t fucking listened to our album and fuck 'em! ... "Torchbearers of anti-corporate punk, Sonic Youth, signed on to release an album through the Starbucks’ record ...
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Musicians band together to release CD for refugees
choked by what appeared to be the weight of public opinion against, and political commitment to stop, ... contributed brilliant, moving, heart-rending and powerful songs. Some were taken off existing albums, some ... happening in "our name". Changes must be made to both popular opinion and political intent. There ...
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John Pilger: Why we must prosecute war criminals
Dr Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of the children she was trying to save. ... business. The WHO is not an organisation that likes to get involved in politics.” Recently, Hans von ... the kabuki theatre of Westminster politics, the faraway violence of “our values” is of no interest. Do ...
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Fuck the flag
In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...