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1. Sydney city blues

   Coen's addictive good-time music is matched with some astute political and social observations, as well ... a stalwart of the renowned Mudsteppers jug band (with Davies) and politically outspoken classic blues duo Red ... Ride This Train album back in 1995, and O'Connor's 2003 release. Coen spent time in the USA ...

2. Noises from the new Durban

   sounds, smells and excitement came flooding back as I listened to this challenging album. Black South ... the sound of gunfire, a reminder that political violence still bedevils kwaZulu-Natal. Perhaps this CD ... obscure side, with overt political sentiments hard to find. Yet, with each listen you discover something ...

3. The mellowing of 'Miss Shell Shocked'

   from", says Michelle Shocked about her latest album The Arkansas Traveler. This sense of heritage is an ... important theme that flows through Shocked's music. While listening to her albums you can almost smell ... crickets chirruping in the background of her first album as it was strummed beside a Texan campfire. ...

4. Jimmy to the rescue

   latest albums from the French Musidisc label to be released in this country by Festival Records is ... and liberation. The album is typically light and melodic, perhaps a little too much so for dedicated ... roots reggae-heads. The album opens with "Turning Point", a typically Cliff-esque, ...

5. Rapper Eskatology makes a name for himself

   personal as it is political. His album tells of three deaths in his family in three years as well as his ... time in my life." Eskatology's new album, Eskape Reality, tells how he has made a new start ... his album's artwork. "In the middle it is the 'all-seeing eye', which is a symbol ...

6. Social decay and musical violence

   a terrible war against the people of Vietnam. Rock music had already become popular, and the political ... not the first punk band, the Sex Pistols became the most successful. Their first album went to number ... UK" and the Clash even called an album Sandinista in tribute to the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, punk ...

7. Hip-Hop: life and death in Amerikkka

   into film and politics as well. The Hip-Hop nation has freed itself from the shackles of post-Ronald ... political power. The Nation of Islam, rappers like Ice Cube, Public Enemy, the Poor Righteous Teachers, and ... independent labels. Hip-Hop is a development of that early scene, and differs vastly in its style, politics ...

8. The search for Rodriguez, the enigmatic singer who found South African fame

   cut his first album-- Cold Fact, co-produced by Coffey and Mike Theodore. When the album was released ... album. Various bootleg copies were made. Record store owner Stephen “Sugar” Sergman remembers that in the ... ’70s, if you went into the home of a liberal white family, you were bound to find three albums: The ...

9. Tom Waits takes aim at the gorilla

   album, released in early October. With a career that has lasted more than 30 years, Waits has established ... and Rod Stewart. While his music has rarely been explicitly political, he has specialised in telling ... blood. A great example is "Hoist that Rag", easily the best song on the album. The song is ...

10. Lucky Dube: reggae with a message

    Areas Act" from Lucky's latest album, House of Exile, spoke optimistically of unity between ... Left Weekly' s Norm Dixon about music and politics. Lucky was remarkably coy about being compared ... honour." Asked about politics, Lucky was similarly modest: "I don't know much about politics. All ...

11. Steve Earle Hits Hard

    conservative talk-radio flak for the razor-edged progressive politics of his last studio album, Jerusalem, ... rocker" from way back, Steve Earle has always had his politics clear. He taunted then US president Ronald ... Reagan as a "snake oil" salesman on his 1980s breakthrough album Copperhead Road, and he was on ...

12. John Hammond: "Life is no secret" — living the American blues

    John Hammond's long career — 31 albums, a Grammy, and countless hundreds of performances — ranges ... I interviewed Hammond late in May 2007 in New Mexico during his tour in support of his latest album, Push Comes ... (Hammond's album of Robert Johnson songs, At the Cross Roads, has just been released by Vanguard Records.) ...

13. Radio highlights

    a range of South Africans living in Australia. Why did they come, how many of them are of the political ... Angeles. This program examines the musical, social and political aspects of jazz. ABC Radio National, ... Thursday, April 28, 11.05am. Back Catalogue — 1978: The Year in Music — The hard-to-find album releases of ...

14. The soundtrack to a revolution: interview with Asian Dub Foundation

    the new album, its apps and his unease with ADF's "political" tag- can be read at  ... A History of Now, the new album from Asian Dub Foundation (ADF), is a set of iPhone apps. But instead of ... album was released just as the protests began to build against Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak, someone ...

15. Immortal Technique: Radical rapper rocks Sydney

    across New York. If they lost, they were obliged to buy a copy of his album. In this way, he built up ... it don’t make sense”. If you thought that political hip hop was in some separate category, removed ... from hip hops roots, and that seeing a political act was some kind of dry and serious affair — think ...

16. Ezekiel Ox preparing for Full Scale Revolution

    — and a self-titled album in 2005. Full Scale toured heavily with songs like "Party Political ... Scale are an intense live experience. As Full Scale Deflection, the band released their debut album ... political message. *** Have you been able to gauge the impact of Full Scale? Can music change the world? ...

17. Worth shouting about

    stand-up-with-a-guitar-and-sing-about-politics-and-social-change-folksinger — and proudly so!" This album will appeal to a folk music audience. Perhaps it could have ...

18. Jimmy Cliff fills some big shoes

    Ronstadt. Every Jimmy Cliff album has its share of philosophy, politics and smoochy love songs. Breakout is ... doubt the best loved, most sincere and most political Jamaican reggae artist around. Being the best ... and Peter Tosh, Cliff has big shoes to fill with every album. With Breakout, he wears those shoes with ...

19. On the box

    left-wing and are involved in many political campaigns. Features a live performance of songs from his ... Tiempos (1999) album and an interview with Blades about his life and music, including his campaign for the ...

20. Flawless rhythms but lacking soul

    His new album, Arturo Sandoval and the Latin Train, is a very nice listen. Technically it is ... robust and spectacular. The album features homages to legendary Cuban trumpeter Felix Chappotin, mambo ... where this music was born. The stated purpose of this album is sharply at odds with Sandoval's ...

21. The militant and the mystic

    allied streams of black radicalism in jazz in the late '60s — the political and the spiritual. As US ... 'no confidence' in Western civilisation and the American Dream". Politically, black youth ... turbulence, impatience, excitement and determination to create a better society. Shepp embraced political ...

22. Ice-T, Public Enemy on tour

    By Zanny Begg SYDNEY — Ice-T and Public Enemy are both known for their uncompromising political ... "nigger" music. Approximately 60% of Ice-T's albums sell to white young people, which illustrates the ... Ice-T's politics were revealed when 91������̳ of the audience began chanting "faggot" at a young ...

23. Who said what?

    this week's politically-relevant celebrity news... Rebel Diaz Arts Collective finds new home ... early release from prison: http://gu.com/p/3fedq/tf Hear the new Neon Neon concept album about Italian ... Ekberg Speaks Out About Alleged Past Nazi Ties http://eonli.ne/11FcDB2 Brand new vid about political ...

24. New Blue King Brown track highlights West Papua's struggle

    talents to expose the political fraud and brutal genocide that the Indonesian government has committed ... second single off the band's new highly anticipated third album, Born Free, to be released on ...

25. Tinariwen — resistance of the Sahara

    pain of exile, the longing for lost homes and families, and the struggle for political and cultural ... through its albums, Radio Tisdas, Amassakoul and Aman Iman: Water is Life, we now have the chance to hear ...

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