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Freedom鈥檚 song: Solidarity with the Grup Yorum musicians in Turkey鈥檚 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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Chumbawamba release anti-war song
a climate for war. "Jacob's Ladder" is featured on the band's latest album Readymades. ... to sacrifice innocent civilians for oil and power. Readymades, Chumbawamba's 10th studio album ... politics. Chumbawamba's songs are full of sweet harmonies and angry reflection, with a focus on ...
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Interview: New sun rises for Xavier Rudd
Rudd has long been known for his progressive politics and championing of Aboriginal and environmental ... tour for 鈥淔ollow The Sun鈥, the lead single off his forthcoming new album. * * * Tell us about the new ... album. Each song has its own flavour on this record. 鈥淔ollow The Sun鈥 was the last track I recorded and ...
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A fiercely independent woman
played thousands of shows worldwide, and has released over 20 albums under her independent record label. ... woman, she completed her entire 2004 album Educated Guess by herself at home. References to her ... it is also strongly political. Many of her songs tackle social justice issues such as racism, sexism, ...
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Groove to a new style
The latest studio release from Australia's most public political band lacks the aggressive punch ... they picked up over the years and have recorded an album with a powerful live sound. Forced long by Rob ... hopeful, a new style altogether. "Truganini", the first single from the album has been well ...
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Benin Bop
track on her latest album Logozo. Now I'm a fan! The album makes great listening. If you're ... listening to Kidjo's music, you can guess it will be good. She doesn't ignore politics either. ... forward to understanding." After listening to this album, I'm looking forward to hearing ...
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Madala Kunene: Durban's natural mystic
trance as a musical genre that only visits their city via foreign DJs or on hugely expensive albums ... Durban audiences are waking up to Madala's deep soul and his albums are selling well in ... captured on his live solo album King of Zulu Guitar Vol 1. This remarkable album was recorded in one take, ...
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Rage Against the Machine: Exploding like a sonic Molotov cocktail
Los Angeles with another sonic Molotov cocktail. Rage's first album ignited the streets in June ... Machine "the most original and virtuosic new rock band in the nation" and the album was ... Suddenly there was a huge-selling album hailing Malcolm X and the Soweto uprising, saying things like ...
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Return of the Last Poets
鈥 return with the same burning intensity and hardcore political comment as in their classic albums made ... Last Poets of the world" In their new album the Last Poets 鈥 Umar Bin Hassan and Adiodun Oyewole ... political needs of the black community and the movement at that time. Yet they were never confined to this ...
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Bloc Party's statement against inequality
has definitely made a huge mark on modern music. Their debut album Silent Alarm displayed an energy ... disappoint. But despite this comparison, Bloc Party noticeably shied away from political issues. They denied ... has let those experiences shape its new album, A Weekend in the City. In doing so, the band has ...
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Rage Against the Machine: 'Take today what tomorrow never brings'
Against the Machine has blasted back onto the political music scene with its third album, The Battle of ... Zapatista struggle in Mexico to political prisoners in the United States 鈥 with a left-wing perspective and ... a revolutionary combination of heavy rock and hip hop with punk and jazz influences. The barrage of political ...
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Raging better than ever
probably prefer to give this album a miss. Unlike many popular politically like-minded bands of the past, ... a public that otherwise receives garbage morning, noon and night. Like this album's predecessor, the ...
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The heart and soul of French America
of the North American continent should own these two fiery albums. And study them well. Ralph Zachary ... exile. Michael Doucet, an old musical comrade of "Zack" Richard, well knew the political ... little of Zack's trademark raucous accordion on these albums. Zack now lives mostly in Quebec, and ...
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Welcome return of War
a time when soul music provided some very political and socially aware music. Like today's hip hop, ... and confidence. Early '60s soul reflected the political and social optimism of a mobilised black ... improved. As the '60s rolled on, much soul music became explicitly political and militant. The early ...
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U2's songs of emptiness-- a cautionary tale
Innocence. The most immediate is that it ends with the tagline 鈥渇ree on iTunes now鈥. Given that the album was ... webpage with instructions on how to permanently delete the album. Meanwhile, lead singer Bono has been ... album's lead single while images of Patti, Joey and Johnny, Joe and Mick are projected onto them. It is ...
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Bruce Springsteen: A hymn to humanity not patriotism
Springsteen's new album, The Rising, has been marketed as vigorously as his 1984 Born in the USA album and, as ... with that album, has achieved massive commercial success. Born in the USA 's bitter attack on ... snobbery for an album that takes the ordinary struggles of ordinary people seriously, most of the ...
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Powerful and inspiring songs
movement. (More recent anti-war songs can be found on his website.) This album continues to profile ... supported the campaign against the School of the Americas (the polite-sounding name given to the US ... military's terrorist training camp for Latin American dictators and torturers). Political music by itself can ...
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Why the right hates Steve Earle
battle. In 聯John Walker's Blues聰, the lead song on his soon-to-be-released album, Jerusalem, Earle ... press and music business, who have condemned Earle's new album before it even hits the stores. The ... album I Feel Alright is as cautionary a first person vision of the dangers of drugs as has ever been ...
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The mellowing of Linton Kwesi Johnson
since the release of his last album, Tings and Times, and so it seems appropriate that the new album is ... the dub groove like a dragon fly. You can almost see the sun shimmering on its wings. The political ... in" has mellowed. He starts the album by asking for "More time to meditate and create" and ...
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Manic Street Preachers support Cuba
experimentation, and I think it is their best. Although politically clearer than their last two albums, much of the ... their sixth album, Know Your Enemy, the Manics realised they had a number of references to Cuba, ... the conversation, plays a song from each album. Singer/guitarist James Bradfield plays "If You ...