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1. Parents Lady Lash and Provocalz rap about new stolen generation

   Language loss, racism, politics and obfuscation have all eaten away at the reality, leaving few ... He wouldn't give me the CD, so I went out and bought my first album- Tupac's All Eyes On ... 1985 debut album Koonibba Rock. Thirteen years later, Crystal Mastrosavas was recording and touring as ...

2. John Trudell and the poetry of resistance

   albums Graffiti Man and his latest, Blue Indians), and a poet so respected that he was invited to read at ... political, Trudell boldly declared, "It is going to be a class war in America, no matter what they call ... are!" Trudell's prophetic and apocalyptic free verse and fiery talk, laced with political outrage ...

3. Weird title, great book, good music

   punk bands and styles, the author brings the living movement, the politics, the music and the dreams of ... other hand, lived this movement. More than this, his dialectical analysis of the politics and the music ... draws out the social and political issues these bands stood for, as well as the progressions that the ...

4. NSA leaks prove MIA right

   room ranting about the CIA inventing AIDS. It’s not the best idea to kick off your politically charged ... album with a song that demolishes the possibility of addressing a serious issue about privacy with any ... government' delusion." – Washington Square News (NYU student newspaper) "Album opener 'The ...

5. Boots Riley's rhyme and reason

   2007’s Pick a Bigger Weapon, and even more different from 2001’s Party Music-- the album that will be ... conservative right. Both previous albums utilized what might be called the more “traditional” electronic beats ... a holistic connection between hip-hop’s roots and the album’s more apparently left-field influences: “There ...

6. The missing piece in the Springsteen puzzle

   saying much more than, "My albums became a series of choices — what to include, what to leave out? ... unreleased." Taken individually, each song could have comfortably been slotted into other Springsteen albums ... obvious finger to the myth of the "American dream". Although it is politically just as important ...

7. Liberian rappers lament the 'struggle between brother and brother'

   to this exciting album do not provide much information about the Boyz from Butuburam — AKO, Deedee ... apparatus to enrich themselves through graft and corruption. Resentment at their privileges and political ... tribalism into Liberian politics. Doe's Krahn people and, to a lesser extent, the Mandingo people, ...

8. John Butler Trio backs refugee campaign

   trio's latest album, Sunrise Over Sea, is a diverse mix of blues, reggae, rock and more that showcases ... a variety of additional instruments all contribute to a great album. Butler says that songs such as ... environmental politics of his music, for him "the songs transcend environmental politics. They're ...

9. Songs of Struggle in Sydney

   of music — jazz, blues, classical, sole and funk. She attended a politically aware school which ... Thami, you are a voice of the people from wherever you come from. Not a political singer, Thami says he ... of seven. Today he is an internationally known didgeridoo player. He has produced two albums to date ...

10. Coltrane and the jazz revolution

    the urban black community. Today, in the midst of another radicalisation of African American politics ... American culture often reflects the political and ideological moods and aspirations of the community from ... which it springs. It sometimes anticipates them. Coltrane's music evolved during a political ...

11. Post-hardcore band: 'Our generation's got to fight to survive'

    Books & music Mat Ward Politically progressive post-hardcore band Enter Shikari say they only ... third studio album, A Flash Flood of Colour, shot straight to the top of Britain’s album charts on its ... are out doing their supermarket shopping and can throw a pop album into their basket, everything ...

12. Liberals or Labor is no choice, says Provocalz

    Australia's Liberal and Labor parties on his new album- but it won't be music to their ears. On his track ... two-metre frame is still imposing. Our interview is being filmed for a DVD to be released with the album ... Macquarie University politics lecturer Diana Perche says: "Historically, the similarities outweigh the ...

13. Josh White: The forgotten singer

    causes. White's second solo album, Southern Exposure, was explicitly political blues, attacking ... Wald's welcome biography does much to reassess White's musical and political stature. Born the son ... the left, influenced politically by the internationally famous black singer, actor and Communist Party ...

14. Lessons from Trump’s win — more democracy is needed

    album of the same name, Cohen sang: “I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.” “Things are ... a “visionary”, then consider another track on the same album with a different, far more optimistic vision. In ... control over politics via large-scale donations and unaccountable “super PACs”. World ...

15. Disposable Heroes: 'oppression is a universal language'

    politics. On Tuesday the 26th Michael Franti and Rono Tse attended the Invasion Day concert in La Perouse, ... Left Weekly about US politics, the group's political development and their musical influences. On ... the new US president, Rono said that Clinton's "whole political platform has been talking ...

16. Rovics' radical approach part of old tradition

    Rovics' work serves this political and communicative purpose. He is part of an old and well-established ... more than a political dimension or an aesthetic one, although both of these are present and remarkably ... present. Those live performances also, to his mind, have a distinct political and cultural purpose: “I ...

17. Strong message, strong grooves

    the Rock Against Racism movement in Britain which turned punk into a radical political form and led on ... away from a fascist direction, channelling it into progressive politics. Linton Kwesi Johnson followed ... De>Tri>Mental want to expand their political consciousness and draw links between struggles around the world, ...

18. Grit in the eye of the bourgeoisie

    the homogenised, plastic, formulaic, politically agnostic music industry "product". Zappa ... took his musical unconventionality into the realm of politics. He criticised the Vietnam War by having ... contradictory political interventions. It attacked the cultural fortresses of uniformity and orthodoxy within ...

19. Free Mzwakhe Mbuli!

    and protested against the political violence in kwaZulu/Natal. The Inkatha Freedom Party attempted to ... ban his 1996 album KwaZulu Natal. Later that year, someone fired nine bullets into his car in an ... attempt to assassinate him. In 1997, Mzwakhe released a gospel album, uMzwakhe Ubonga uJehovah, which ...

20. Singing the history of working people

    RORY McLEOD is currently on his fourth visit to Australia, promoting his new album, Travelling ... a political way. They're going more towards the right. They're not as bad or as right wing as the ... production of your latest album Travelling Home? I produced it myself. It's a kind of vision I've ...

21. Former Asian Dub Foundation frontman: From pop star, to activist and back again

    Passion and bassist Dennis Rootical from Iration Steppas. Six years later, Zaman’s debut solo album ... have shaped itself.” Now, Zaman has just released his second solo album, Pride Of The Underdog, which ... yearning for that human touch means he has also lost none of his passion for politics, as “Us and Us” ...

22. 'When the President talks to God'

    and drugs to cope with depression- features on Bright Eyes 2005 album I'm Wide Awake, It's ... Morning. You Tube features another live performance of a song from that album, "Road to joy", on ... this dissatisfaction in a political context, singing: "I read the body count out of the paper, and ...

23. Ska: the pulse that doesn't die

    "two-tone" movement grew. Black and white chequered patterns adorned album artwork. Black and white clothes ... many pop and punk bands, especially the Clash. Socially progressive and politically left-wing lyrics ... album Skaravan. Even the Specials have reformed. It seems ska's pulse isn't about to die. ...

24. No punches pulled

    cassette and CD Reviewed by Norm Dixon With the Uppity Blues Women's third album, Broadcasting, they ... spirit that pervades Broad Casting and Saffire's earlier albums. "The fact that we're ... Politics and social commentary are not ignored. Their songs are more often humorous than polemical. This ...

25. Remote rapper looks on the bright side of strife

    of the political bite that snarled from his award-winning first album, Full Stop, four years ago. The ... Solid / MGM April 5, 2013 www.brytemc.com Bryte's new album, The Bryte Side Of Life, may urge his ... Time", on stage with Bryte, or gliding over the Motown backbeats of her album "Better Place". ...

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