/glw-authors/mat-ward Mat Ward is a journalism postgraduate who has been working as a voluntary subeditor, writer and photographer for 91自拍论坛 since 2009. His writing has been published by US Socialist Worker, Truthout, Counterpunch, The New York Times eXaminer, Red Wedge and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. He also wrote the book 'Real Talk - Aboriginal Rappers Talk About Their Music And Country' www.realtalkthebook.com. en /content/if-youre-angry-about-world-listen-these-10-new-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at March鈥檚 political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:30:00 +1100 Mat Ward 78209 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2025 protest music 2025 protest albums 2025 MAJELEN - STUCK WITH YOU album review MUDDY SUMMERS & THE DIRTY FIELD WHORES - ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER album review ALIEN WEAPONRY - TE R膧 album review CHARLIE NEEDS BRACES - NYAA WA album review ICONYX - BLAK ON TRAK album review LAST QUOKKA - TAKE THE FIGHT TO THE BASTARDS album review DAVID ROVICS - MAKE THE PLANET EARTH GREAT AGAIN album review JESSE WELLES - UNDER THE POWERLINES (APRIL 24-SEPTEMBER 24) album review REG MEUROSS - FIRE & DUST: A WOODY GUTHRIE STORY album review MARIE DAVIDSON - CITY OF CLOWNS album review /content/if-youre-angry-about-world-listen-these-10-new-albums#comments /content/we-need-talk-about-these-10-new-protest-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at February's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:30:00 +1100 Mat Ward 78008 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2025 protest music 2025 protest albums 2025 R0RY - RESTORATION album review HOUR OF REPRISAL - ENDLESS WAR ENDLESS PEACE album review CONFESS - DESTINATION ADDICTION album review JESSE WELLES - MIDDLE album review THE WEATHER STATION - HUMANHOOD album review BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - THE PURPLE BIRD album review ROSA BORDALLO - ISIDRO album review SAM FENDER - PEOPLE WATCHING album review MANIC STREET PREACHERS - CRITICAL THINKING album review BE N!CE - WHERE AM I? album review /content/we-need-talk-about-these-10-new-protest-albums#comments /content/10-new-albums-spark-hope-world-burns <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at January鈥檚 political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 77811 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2025 protest music 2025 protest albums 2025 DAVID ROVICS - FROM THE ASHES album review RETRIBUTION - WAITING ON THE WORLD TO BURN album review CRAIG G - THE WORLD IS COOKED album review LAMBRINI GIRLS - WHO LET THE DOGS OUT album review BAD BUNNY - DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS album review LOUISE WISECHILD - THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE album review JOHN MCCUTCHEON - FIELD OF STARS album review RSD - MIXTAPES FOR GAZA album review XAVIER RUDD - LIVE IN BELGIUM album review STICK TO YOUR GUNS - KEEP PLANTING FLOWERS album review /content/10-new-albums-spark-hope-world-burns#comments /content/looking-2024s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +1100 Mat Ward 77552 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 CALM. - ONLY VAMPIRES WEAR CAPES album review THE TENEMENTALS - GLASGOW A HISTORY album review PRIMAL SCREAM - COME AHEAD album review CHRISTY MOORE - A TERRIBLE BEAUTY album review LOWKEY - SOUNDTRACK TO THE STRUGGLE 3 album review RED HOT ORG - TRANSA album review THE SEXY WILD EAST - UNFUCKINBELIEVABLE album review BODY COUNT - MERCILESS album review BAMBU - IF YOU SEE SOMEONE STEALING FOOD... NO YOU DIDN'T album review /content/looking-2024s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums#comments /content/10-new-albums-ridicule-world-leaders <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 77383 at Anti-racism Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 DAVID ROVICS - JABALIYA album review BLAK MADEEN - WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS album review PAUL HEATON - THE MIGHTY SEVERAL album review DAMIEN DEMPSEY - HOLD YOUR JOY alum review AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS - CARTOON DARKNESS album review KARDINAL BLOO - BIRDS RAP TOO album review DOWNUPRIGHT - MANIC EPISODE!! album review CARSIE BLANTON - THE RED ALBUM VOLUME 1 album review RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION 2000 album review MC5 - HEAVY LIFTING album review /content/10-new-albums-ridicule-world-leaders#comments /content/10-new-albums-address-todays-corrupt-politics <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at September's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:15:00 +1000 Mat Ward 77201 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs protest music protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 SOUTH WEST SYNDICATE - PROMISED LAND album review BARKAA - BIG TIDDA EP review MISS KANINNA - KANINNA EP review GREATSOUTH - GREATSOUTH EP review SNOTTY NOSE REZ KIDS - RED FUTURE album review SERJ TANKIAN - FOUNDATIONS EP review DELILAH BON - EVIL HATE FILLED FEMALE album review SHEMEKIA COPELAND - BLAME IT ON EVE album review MARIA ISA - CAPITOLIO EP review THE THE - ENSOULMENT album review /content/10-new-albums-address-todays-corrupt-politics#comments /content/looking-brilliant-protest-music-try-these-10-new-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:15:00 +1000 Mat Ward 76994 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2024 protest songs 2024 protest albums 2024 DAVID ROVICS - I HEARD A RUMOUR album review CIME - THE CIME INTERDISCIPLINARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE album review ZIGGY RAMO - HUMAN? album review 3% - KILL THE DEAD album review LUKE O'SHEA - DIFFERENT DRUM album review FANNING DEMPSEY NATIONAL PARK - THE DELUGE album review KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - FLIGHT B741 album review MIKE AND THE MOLOTOVS - MONARCHY IN THE USA album review MILLIE MANDERS AND THE SHUTUP - WAKE UP SHUT UP WORK album review VARIOUS ARTISTS - LOUD WOMEN VOL. 6 album review /content/looking-brilliant-protest-music-try-these-10-new-albums#comments /content/check-out-power-these-10-new-protest-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at July's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:30:00 +1000 Mat Ward 76833 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 /content/check-out-power-these-10-new-protest-albums#comments /content/10-best-new-protest-albums-world-right-now <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:15:00 +1000 Mat Ward 76682 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 /content/10-best-new-protest-albums-world-right-now#comments /content/wait-till-you-hear-these-10-new-protest-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 27 May 2024 14:45:00 +1000 Mat Ward 76497 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2024 protest songs 2024 JOHN BUTLER - RUNNING RIVER album review TROY CASSAR-DALEY - BETWEEN THE FIRES album review MDOU MOCTAR - FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE album review RYAN CASSATA - THIS MACHINE KILLS TRANSPHOBIA album review GIRLI - MATRIARCHY album review ANI DIFRANCO - UNPRECEDENTED SH!T album review KIRAN AHLUWALIA - COMFORT FOOD album review FEROCIOUS DOG - KLEPTOCRACY album review THE TANGENT - TO FOLLOW POLARIS album review PAUL WELLER - 66 album review /content/wait-till-you-hear-these-10-new-protest-albums#comments /content/10-surprisingly-good-new-protest-albums-youve-got-hear <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at April's political news and the best new protest music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:45:00 +1000 Mat Ward 76332 at Books & music Australia Culture Stories from 91自拍论坛 News Podcast 39 protest songs 2024 protest albums 2024 protest music 2024 DOWNUPRIGHT - WE'RE DOOMED WE'RE DANCING: SIXTY APOCALYPSES album review EKKO ASTRAL - PINK BALLOONS album review PEARL JAM - DARK MATTER album review AOIFE O'DONOVAN - ALL MY FRIENDS album review EMMA DONOVAN - TIL MY SONG IS DONE album review MAMMAL - THE PENNY DROP album review SOLE - VAULT 1312 album review BOB VYLAN - HUMBLE AS THE SUN album review DAVID ROVICS - BEARING WITNESS album review BLACK ROOTS - ROOTS album review /content/10-surprisingly-good-new-protest-albums-youve-got-hear#comments /content/10-new-albums-resist-police-state <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at March's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +1100 Mat Ward 76166 at Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 political music 2024 Grace Petrie 鈥� Build Something Better album review Kid Kapichi 鈥� There Goes the Neighbourhood album review Moor Mother 鈥� The Great Bailout album review Kim Gordon 鈥� The Collective album review Ministry 鈥� Hopiumforthemasses album review Frank Waln 鈥� Songs Against Colonialism album review Mokotron 鈥� United Tribes of Bass album review Amirtha Kidambi鈥檚 Elder Ones 鈥� New Monuments album review Mr Irish Bastard 鈥� Battle Songs of the Damned album review Joe Solo 鈥� Sledgehammer Songs album review /content/10-new-albums-resist-police-state#comments /content/10-new-albums-stand-downtrodden <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at February's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 75981 at Australia Culture protest songs 2024 protest music 2024 protest albums 2024 Toadstool Records - Valentines For Palestine album review Yirinda - Yirinda album review Sordid Ordeal - When I Left Town album review Aziza Brahim - Mawja album review Les Amazones D'afrique - Musow Danse album review Jaguar Jonze - Victim Impact Statement album review Lambrini Girls - You're Welcome album review Maddie Morris - Skin album review Modern English - 1 2 3 4 album review Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head album review /content/10-new-albums-stand-downtrodden#comments /content/10-new-protest-albums-kick-2024 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at January's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:15:00 +1100 Mat Ward 75794 at Australia Culture Father Fury - Smash Your Idols album review Radical Kitten - Uppercat album review Beans on Toast - The Toothpaste and the Tube album review New Model Army - Unbroken album review Ana Tijoux - Vida album review David Rovics - Notes From a Holocaust album review Scott Free - Songs to Fight Oppression album review Chuck D - Summer of Hamn The Official Booktrack album review Green Day - Saviours album review Small Island Big Song - Small Island Big Song album review /content/10-new-protest-albums-kick-2024#comments /content/looking-2023s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 75326 at Australia Culture protest music 2023 protest songs 2023 protest albums 2023 AMPLIFY PALESTINE BDS MIXTAPE - RISE UP: BDS MIXTAPE VOL.2 album review SAM DRAISEY - THE REVOLUTION WILL BE LIVE (AT CODSALL BEER FESTIVAL) album review TIME - DEPRESSED JOY album review JK-47 - REVISION FOR REGROWTH album review EMPTY COUNTRY - EMPTY COUNTRY II album review OLADIPS - SUPERHERO ADUGBO (THE MEMOIR) album review THE RESISTANCE COMPANY - ACTIVIST THERAPY SESSION album review ESCABROSO - VIOL鈥嬅娾�婲CIA REVOLUCION鈥嬅佲�婻IA album review NO TURNING BACK - CONQUER EP review DOLLY PARTON - ROCKSTAR album review /content/looking-2023s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums#comments /content/10-new-albums-heal-world-war <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:15:00 +1100 Mat Ward 75100 at Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 COLLECTIVE ACTION - DON'T GO IT ALONE ALBUM REVIEW DREAM NAILS - DOOM LOOP ALBUM REVIEW PROBLEM PATTERNS - BLOUSE CLUB ALBUM REVIEW THE BOY OF MANY COLORS - THE BOY OF MANY COLORS ALBUM REVIEW PHREX SAWRA! CUTKACHI - HURRYIA FOR GAZA ALBUM REVIEW CHECKPOINT 303 - GAZA MIXTAPE EP ALBUM REVIEW NITIN SAWHNEY - IDENTITY ALBUM REVIEW THE MARY WALLOPERS - IRISH ROCK N ROLL ALBUM REVIEW FALSE FED - LET THEM EAT FAKE ALBUM REVIEW VARIOUS ARTISTS - STRAIGHT EDGE AND PROUD ALBUM REVIEW /content/10-new-albums-heal-world-war#comments /content/why-elon-musk-became-so-right-wing <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> slogged his way through Walter Isaacson's new 600-page biography of Elon Musk, so you don't have to.<br /> 聽</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +1100 Mat Ward 74908 at Australia Culture /content/why-elon-musk-became-so-right-wing#comments /content/10-new-albums-will-inspire-you-fight <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at September's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:30:00 +1000 Mat Ward 74854 at Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 KILL THE ICON! - YOUR ANGER IS RATIONAL album review DAN ROSE - THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE album review RAHUL RAJKHOWA - TUNES FOR THE JUNGLE album review DARAH - BLACKFELLA REVOLUTIONARY album review HIRST MOGINIE & STUART - RED CONTINENT album review IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS - PROTECT YOUR LIGHT album review VUSI MAHLASELA - UMOYA - EMBRACING THE HUMAN SPIRIT album review CHRIS PIERCE - LET ALL WHO WILL album review OTEP - THE GOD SLAYER album review JOAN OSBORNE - NOBODY OWNS YOU album review /content/10-new-albums-will-inspire-you-fight#comments /content/10-new-albums-make-you-raise-your-fist <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at this month's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:15:00 +1000 Mat Ward 74612 at Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest albums 2023 protest music 2023 MR GREG - MR GREG & CASS MCCOMBS SING AND PLAY NEW FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN album review RAYE ZARAGOZA - HOLD THAT SPIRIT album review SKINDRED - SMILE album review GEOFF BERNER - 7 PLAGUE SONGS album review THE DECLINE - MAGICAL MISERY TOUR album review DIDIRRI - CAUGHT IN THE ACT album review NUCLEAR POWER TRIO - WET ASS PLUTONIUM album review PINK WILLIAMS - SUN STUDIO SESSION album review ALVA NOTO - THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE album review VARIOUS ARTISTS - INTENDED CONSEQUENCE album review /content/10-new-albums-make-you-raise-your-fist#comments /content/10-new-albums-kicking-protest-goals <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at July's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:30:00 +1000 Mat Ward 74375 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 ZION TRAIN - DISSIDENT SOUND album review POWER ALONE - NOTHINGNESS album review LAUREN BOUSFIELD - SALESFORCE album review ANOHNI - MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS album review FED CONTI - NOAMORPHA (THE NOAM CHOMSKY MUSIC PROJECT) album review SPINIFEX GUM - GANALILI album review GLITORIS - GLITORIS album review VOICE OF BACEPROT - RETAS album review WITCH - ZANGO album review PINK WILLIAMS - COMMIE COWBOY album review /content/10-new-albums-kicking-protest-goals#comments /content/10-new-albums-burning-world <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at聽June's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:45:00 +1000 Mat Ward 74197 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2023 protest songs 2023 protest albums 2023 JACK RIVER - ENDLESS SUMMER album review BOOGEY THE BEAT - COUSINS album review MELODY ANGEL - INDIE BLUES GIRL album review JOHN MELLENCAMP - ORPHEUS DESCENDING album review AJA MONET - WHEN THE POEMS DO WHAT THEY DO album review BANTU - WHAT IS YOUR BREAKING POINT? album review RANCID - TOMORROW NEVER COMES album review DAVID BRIDIE - IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE OUR LAST CORRESPONDENCE album review DREAM WIFE - SOCIAL LUBRICATION album review STEVE WHITE & THE PROTEST FAMILY - TRICKLE DOWN TOWN album review /content/10-new-albums-burning-world#comments /content/10-new-albums-fuel-your-fire <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 29 May 2023 16:15:00 +1000 Mat Ward 74067 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 political albums 2023 JUANES - VIDA COTIDIANA album review RED DIRT - LAST QUOKKA album review XAVIER RUDD - FIRE album review REGICIDE - IMMORTELS album review THE DAMNED - DARKADELIC album review INGRID AND THE MINISTERS - BOOFHEAD album review DEATH PILL - DEATH PILL album review GRAHAM NASH - NOW album review DROPKICK MURPHYS - OKEMAH RISING album review NYOKABI KARIUKI - FEELING BODY album review /content/10-new-albums-fuel-your-fire#comments /content/10-new-albums-get-you-streets <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong>聽looks back at April's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:45:00 +1000 Mat Ward 73892 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2023 VARIOUS ARTISTS - MANIF HITS album review RACHEL BAIMAN - COMMON NATION OF SORROW album review CARSIE BLANTON - BODY OF WORK album review THE UNDERCOVER HIPPY - POOR LITTLE ENGLAND album review DAVID ROVICS - KILLING THE MESSENGER album review YAEJI - WITH A HAMMER album review REG MEUROSS - STOLEN FROM GOD album review NAKHANE - BASTARD JARGON album review TERRY - CALL ME TERRY album review SCARLETT COOK - REQUIEM FOR THE EARTH album review /content/10-new-albums-get-you-streets#comments /content/10-new-albums-fight-your-rights <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Do you think there's no good protest music these days? So did <strong>Mat Ward</strong>, until they started looking for it.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 73748 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2023 protest songs 2023 political music 2023 political albums 2023 FORMIDABLE VEGETABLE - MICRO BIOME album review SAINT LEVANT - FROM GAZA WITH LOVE album review SLEAFORD MODS - UK GRIM album review DAWN RAY'D - TO KNOW THE LIGHT album review LOS FASTIDIOS - REVOLT album review VARIOUS ARTISTS - WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM album review JEN CLOHER - I AM THE RIVER THE RIVER IS ME album review FEVER RAY - RADICAL ROMANTICS album review OL SING BLONG PLANTESEN album review LONNIE HOLLEY - OH ME OH MY album review /content/10-new-albums-fight-your-rights#comments /content/10-new-albums-put-world-rights <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at February's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +1100 Mat Ward 73585 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 political albums 2023 ORBITAL - OPTICAL DELUSION album review PARAMORE - THIS IS WHY album review MHAOL - ATTACHMENT STYLES album review IRIS DE MENT - WORKIN' ON A WORLD album review KELELA - RAVEN album review MACY GRAY - THE RESET album review MAELSTROM & LOUISAHHH - SUSTAINED RESISTANCE album review BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT - THE LAND THE WATER THE SKY album review THE FREEDOM COLLECTIVE - SONGS FOR FREEDOM album review MARY OCHER - POWER AND EXCLUSION FROM POWER album review /content/10-new-albums-put-world-rights#comments /content/10-new-albums-aim-change-world-2023 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at January's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:15:00 +1100 Mat Ward 73462 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2023 protest music 2023 protest albums 2023 political albums 2023 WINKY D - EUREKA EUREKA album review RASHA NAHAS - AMRAT album review ANTI-FLAG - LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN album review MARGO PRICE - STRAYS album review DISPLEASURE - VORTEX OF SHIT album review SERJ TANKIAN - MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET album review IGGY POP - EVERY LOSER album review ZIGGY RAMO - SUGAR COATED LIES album review /content/10-new-albums-aim-change-world-2023#comments /content/looking-2022s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:30:00 +1100 Mat Ward 73274 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2022 protest music 2022 protest albums 2022 The Resistance Company In Memory Of album review Special Interest Endure album review Finsta Cuntygrrrl album review Big Joanie Back Home album review Cosmo Cop This album review Gordon Koang Community album review Ibrahim Maalouf Capacity To Love album review Jesse Jett The Co-Opt album review Neil Young World Record album review Cognitive Dissidents Newtown Neurotics album review /content/looking-2022s-best-protest-music-here-are-10-albums#comments /content/10-new-albums-help-fix-broken-world <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:45:00 +1100 Mat Ward 73117 at Books & music Australia Culture protest songs 2022 protest albums 2022 political albums 2022 DROPKICK MURPHYS - THIS MACHINE STILL KILLS FASCISTS album review DARREN HAYES - HOMOSEXUAL album review M.I.A. - MATA album review VIKRAM SAMPATH - WOMEN OF THE RECORDS album review BRIAN ENO - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE album review /content/10-new-albums-help-fix-broken-world#comments /content/10-new-albums-give-you-strength-troubled-times <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward </strong>looks back at September's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:00:00 +1000 Mat Ward 72958 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2022 protest songs 2022 political albums 2022 protest albums 2022 Gogol Bordello Solidaritine album review Stray From The Path Euthanasia album review The Proclaimers Dentures Out album review The Hu Rumble Of Thunder album review Jake Blount The New Faith album review Cosey Fanni Tutti Delia Derbyshire album review /content/10-new-albums-give-you-strength-troubled-times#comments /content/10-new-albums-express-anger-world <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Mat Ward</strong> looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:30:00 +1000 Mat Ward 72807 at Books & music Australia Culture protest music 2022 protest albums 2022 protest songs 2022 King Stingray album review Pussy Riot Matriarchy Now album review In Hearts Wake Green Is The New Black album review Muse Will Of The People album review Shemekia Copeland Done Come Too Far album review The Chats Get Fucked album review /content/10-new-albums-express-anger-world#comments