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  1. Lucky Dube: 'Bringing inspiration to life'

    Mandela and other political figures". Lucky Dube dedicates his album to those who have struggled for ... seat. Lucky Dube comes to Australia hot on the heels of the release of his latest album Victims. ... Speaking from South Africa, Dube says he is "totally happy with the album". Victims has been ...

  2. DJ rejects 'corporate overload'

    BY HUW ELLIS UK-based DJ Adam Freeland's debut album Now & Them, with its killer single ... has spread his wings well beyond the dance floor. The album's elements include Freeland's ... of making 12 breakbeat tunes and calling it an album was about as appealing to me as a hard kick in ...

  3. Fugazi goes post-punk

    BLACK Fugazi are pioneers of the US punk scene. Their origins lie in the political and ... the most melodic and accessible album they have produced since their eponymous 1988 debut. The ... harmony from this band. Lyrically, they are political but not didactic. Despite taking on subjects like ...

  4. Kev Carmody is back

    <http://www.thelastrecordstore.com/independents.html#kevcarmody>. REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Kev Carmody has been much missed since his last original album release, ... the 2000 release of his compilation album Messages. Like a retrospective exhibition, compilation ... albums usually herald an artist's passing into revered β€” but retired β€” status. Kev was especially ...

  5. South African musos emerge from apartheid's pall

    through each track giving the album a special beauty. Politics is never ignored in a Mabuse album ... of the United States and Western Europe. Four albums just released in Australia provide a glimpse of ... Earthworks' Indestructible Beat of Soweto series, presents the cream of modern mbaqanga. The album showcases ...

  6. Music across cultures

    popularly known through the soundtracks of Bandit Queen and Dead Man Walking, Nusrat died as this album was ... being completed. Nusrat not only brought Indian classical music to a broad audience, but this album ... other instruments and voices building to an exploding climax. The most striking thing about this album ...

  7. The 'People's Poet' strikes again

    politically, is the beautiful jazz-soaked "Stalwarts", which pays homage to the many leaders of South ... recorded his first album, Change Is Pain, in which his remarkable blend of freedom verse and township jive ... which is where he composed his second album, The Unbroken Spirit. "I have still not fully recovered ...

  8. Rory McLeod: 'unorthodox and brilliant'

    from working peoples point of view. Politics to me is people; it covers everything from the way you ... to Mouth is McLeod's sixth album and a generous offering at that. A double CD containing 28 ... even sandpaper. The album contains a lot of love songs. This isn't a criticism. Unlike the ...

  9. One of reggae's living greats

    is one of reggae's most underrated exponents. He is also one of its most politically conscious. ... injustice, and Rastafarianism, the black Caribbean's "liberation theology". In album after ... album for the past quarter century, Rodney has made it his mission to tell the real history of the ...

  10. Sydney choir take musical stand for ecology

    like political music, and appreciate the power of many voices singing and harmonising together, then ... bushland. It has a hymn-like quality, as do other tracks on the album, including ”Newell Highway” – written ... is an unnecessary cruelty, and the song is so beautiful it makes our altos cry”. The album includes ...

  11. Black music through the decades

    African American music on this album, the message comes across as a clear as a cymbal crash: modern ... creators. Just as African Americans have been disenfranchised politically, so they have culturally. ... Paradoxically, this lack of cultural and political power has been an incentive for the African American ...

  12. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ fighting fund needs your urgent help

    I was looking back through my political photo albums for this year and noticed I have 137 albums, three ... times as many as last year. That's a probably the number of demonstrations and other political ... revealing my happy-snappy nature, it does show that even in a rich and relatively politically passive ...

  13. Swedish rockers take a stand

    well known for its strong political stance on many progressive issues. The band will be touring ... tour, T(I)NC is supporting Rise Against, both bands being strong supporters of political causes. Rise ... Against is a "big fan of Fat Mike's [Michael Moore's] politics" and although not as ...

  14. 'Bring on your wrecking ball' β€” Springsteen back and angry as hell

    comfortably familiar, but an album uniquely relevant in a way that few other artists of his level can muster. ... famously told Ronald Reagan to shove it, and who has lent the content of countless songs and albums to ... say this is some kind of political retreat for the Boss. On the contrary, one of the common criticisms ...

  15. MC's keeping it real

    impact on the direction of hip hop with the release of the second album from his group, Boogie Down ... Productions, entitled By Any Means Necessary. In 1988, Public Enemy also released their second album, and the ... combined effect of Kris Parker and Chuck D's militant lyrics fuelled a surge in political hip hop that ...

  16. Urthboy gives slacktivists a bad rap

    "slacktivists"? It's just one of the questions posed on Smokey’s Haunt, the new album by the persistently ... reconcile lightness and darkness," he says. "And that manifests in politics, that manifests in ... the video for his album's lead single, "Naive Bravado". The monochrome mini-movie, ...

  17. Revolutionary music from Mexico

    university students who began playing at political events and parties because they were sick of the ... underdogs. As a political band of the street, they have generated an engaging style and intersperse political ... messages throughout the performances. Their current album, Cybertropic Chilango Power, has a wild and ...

  18. Mouse Eat Mouse: Scottish musos on independence and working class liberation

    satisfying to hear any new works. Last year’s Toxic Tails Β is an album of beauty, anger and passion, traits ... act’s support for Scottish independence, which was expressed eloquently on the album, Shade put it as ... politics. Anything that will help to break up the decaying post-imperialist UK state is fine by me. β€œAn ...

  19. Primal Scream are back hollering for the left

    most musically accomplished long-player, it is also their most politically potent. The album ... British indie rockers Primal Scream are best known for Screamadelica, the breakout dance-crossover album ... resurrected Screamadelica for its 20th anniversary in 2011, playing the album in its hedonistic whole on ...

  20. #GreenLeft30: Celebrating 30 years of ΒιΆΉΣ³»­

    political developments in Latin America and around the world, we in Malaysia look to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­. We have ... and international politics, but I want to single out one thing: Your coverage of the indigenous ... general public and hone your political skills. Happy birthday ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ and wishing our 30 more years of ...

  21. Speech's arrested development

    In the early 1990s, an unpretentious and very political hip hop band briefly achieved worldwide ... revolutionary funk poets of the 1960s and '70s, Arrested Development's two albums Ҁ” their 1992 hit ... was summed up in "Give a Man a Fish": "Got to get political/ Political I gotta get/ ...

  22. Jimmy Cliff: 'No peace without justice'

    bearer of politically conscious Jamaican reggae. He came to fame as part of the classic generation of ... themes." Cliff's latest album Breakout β€” and his more than 20 previous albums β€” demands justice for ... causing these wars in Bosnia, South Africa, Somalia and other places all over the world is the political ...

  23. Impossible Odds place a strong bet on sovereignty

    hear from a radical, politically-savvy Indigenous rapper. But Truth, of militant Murri hip-hop group ... album, Against All Odds, she raps: I no longer need my fists to fight I just write whenever those ... from its righteous roots that that Leone has rapped: "First release I went political and freaked ...

  24. Two decades of Rage

    the Machine's self-titled debut album. For two decades, the US band has helped activists all over ... the wrongly convicted Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier. The inside sleave of the ... band’s second album, Evil Empire, promotes books about Marx and Engels, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, the ...

  25. Freedom’s song: Solidarity with the Grup Yorum musicians in Turkey’s prisons

    members describe as the "dark period" following the military coup of 1980. Their politics are ... socialist politics, if not necessarily for their particular form of socialism. For their 25th anniversary ... joining such a band expects an easy life. Concerts have been banned, albums seized and group members have ...

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