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Upbeat social justice and love
since the first album, Fighting Back " is the undeniably correct proclamation on the sleeve of the ... latest album from Sydney pub band Born Again Pagans. The Pagans are known for their ability to get across ... social justice messages through music, but this new album has a much greater range. Born Again Pagans ...
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Public Enemy returns at last
for a lot of negative attention. In 1992, Public Enemy (after the album Apocalypse '91: The enemy ... strikes Black) released Greatest Misses, an album containing mostly remixes of old songs. Even dedicated ... Sick-n-hour Mess Age" (music and our message) proves that PE is far from over. The album peeks into the ...
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In defence of Bob Dylan
Dylan's work by its political content, Shannon fits this album somewhere along the line of betrayals that ... Shannon attacks Dylan on the basis that he sold out on his politics. Shannon fails to grasp that Dylan was ... never a political activist. His music took up political themes when they impacted on his life. In the ...
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Manic Street Preachers: ‘One last shot at mass communication’
Tell Me Yours, and the darker, more political and introspective music of the 1994 album The Holy Bible ... strains, the Manic Street Preachers’ 10th and latest album, Postcards From a Young Man, is clearly the ... largely from that lighter cloth — it is the Dr Jekyll to Journal ’s Mr Hyde. The album opens with the ...
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Rage Against the Machine: Renegades of funk
Molotov cocktail at musical mediocrity and political injustice. Rage Against the Machine, by far the most ... politically radical rock band to achieve major and sustained commercial success since the Clash, split up at ... form of a 12-track Rick Rubin produced album called Renegades. The album is made up of Rage ...
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Censorship and heavy metal
legislation against "offensive" albums and bands, and "voluntary" parental advisory ... expletives. The second level may be a different coloured sticker warning that the album is suitable only for ... people 18 years and older. These albums include repeated use of expletives and gratuitous violence. The ...
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Rapper Mau Power has the power to make change
soon www.maupower.com Mau Power's new album takes listeners through the big changes in his life- ... come together in powerful union". Mau Power has also formed a powerful union with album producer ... "It's all mathematics," says Mau Power. "But for this particular album I stepped away from ...
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Feeling good about struggle
politics however. These latest two albums contain a variety of McCutcheon styles. Sprout Wings and Fly is ... recuperate for another round of struggle. These albums are perhaps not as political as some of his previous ... German and Allied soldiers during World War One. McCutcheon's political songs are often very simple. ...
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Kurt Cobain
claim that Nirvana was politically progressive (one of their albums has a song called "Rape ... initial plan was to call Nirvana's latest, third, album (eventually called In Utero) "I hate ... album and provided the impetus to the "Seattle sound" (or "grunge") that has led to ...
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U2 works in mysterious ways
is a step away from their previous albums, which contained more directly political songs, like ... Bavaro U2's latest album indicates a frame of mind that is not part of the old U2 caricature ... album and "Silver and Gold" from Rattle and Hum. U2 songs have always tried to reconcile the ...
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Buzzcocks doing their thing, again
Transmitions is their first album of new material written since they re-formed. Very little has changed since ... 1976. Their latest album is thrashy guitar chords with unusually melodic vocals, lyrics largely of the ... Buzzcocks have reached much more sophisticated levels of social-political comment and musical creativity. ...
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Refugees rights musical scoops Tony Awards
excellence in live Broadway theatre. The stage adaption is of the 2010 concept album by American singer Anais ... political and musical piece in the show is The Wall, which demonstrates the hypocrisy and shallowness of US ...
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Crust-punk pioneers Doom blast corrupt system
www.doomcrustpunk.com Outspoken British crust-punk pioneers Doom have a stonking new album out and are heading to ... Ward. * * * Tell us about the female spoken word vocalist on the seething title track of your new album ... album features the song "Thatchercide". What were your feelings when she died? Yeah. I was ...
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All weapons are chemical weapons, says rapper Sole
album, which reflects on his country's chemical weapons attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Green ... Left 's Mat Ward spoke to the prolific political emcee, who started releasing records in 1994, ... when he was just 16. * * * Your song "Fallujah" on your new album Whitenoise is, in your ...
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The Man in Black goes to jail – 50 years on
Out of those two shows, the album At Folsom Prison  would emerge. Fifty years later, it stands as one ... of the great live albums in music history, one of the most enduring works of Cash's storied ... let him record one of his prison shows, always to be shot down. He believed such an album would be ...
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Magic rock'n'roll
BEN COURTICE GEELONG — Local band Magic Dirt have produced a brilliant album of dreamy but catchy ... album, I have to disagree. The songs back then were quite beautiful — longer, with more instrumental ... parts, and a more anxious or angry mood. The latest album clearly builds on the earlier material. Plenty ...
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Jess Hawk Oakenstar features at Sydney CD
political struggle of her birth country, South Africa, in the song "Angry Nation". The feature act ... many from her latest album, Your heart will show you. Oakenstar is a feminist singer/songwriter who was ... born in Zimbabwe and now lives in Arizona after spending 10 years in New Zealand. The album is ...
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Ice T's gangster style
released a new rap album with which to upset the pigs, the Gores and Charlton Heston. The album has ... astute humour, cynicism, pragmatic street knowledge, introspection and relentless political opinion. ... you're at / Ya betta watch your back." This song alone makes Home Invasion a notable album. The song ...
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Steve Towson demands 'Stand down Howard'
Howard" tour, Steve Towson has released his powerful second album One Shot at Freedom. Towson casually ... on this must-have album. "Corner of Blues and Jubilees" is the album's opening number. ... logic. Fans will notice Towson's growth as a performer since his first album In a Shattered State, ...
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Rapper L-FRESH The LION puts his words into action
to the Sydney-raised Sikh about his newly released debut album, One. * * * Hip-hop pioneer KRS-One ... opens your debut album, One. He places a great emphasis on rappers putting their words into action ... album's title track, "One", you rap that you're "watching politicians speak but ...