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Asian Dub Foundation still sending a strong signal amid all the noise
Asian Dub Foundation are celebrating their 20th year with the release of a typically topical new album ... leader Steve Chandra Savale, a one-man riff factory who always has his finger on the political pulse. ... * *Â * The album covers many burning issues, from financial crises and growing inequality to surveillance ...
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Rory McLeod tells emotional truths
He's passionate about exploring issues about personal relationships, often bringing up political issues ... the way. On this tour, McLeod is promoting his most recent album, 2010’s Swings and Roundabouts. This ... album includes the songs elaborating the full gamut of emotions and scenarios created by relationship ...
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Tabaran
Melbourne band Not Drowning, Waving's new album. Was this to be a repeat of the Graceland fiasco, when ... sets the tone for the whole album. While NDW 's pleasant blend of mainstream pop and ambience is ... album combines the band's own songs (clearly influenced by their PNG experiences), songs written ...
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Something missing
latest album from Judy Small is disappointing. A collection of 12 songs, most written by Small with music ... by Small in collaboration with Hugh McDonald (ex-Red Gum), the album combines voice, guitar and ... Musically, the album is monotonous, with song after song based on the same basic tones and rhythm. Devoid of ...
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Revolutionary music from 'sleepy Scotland'
Australia over the course of the last decade or more. That song is found on Hulett's 1994 album, In the ... for his political activities and then released by force of mass workers' protests even before the ... original songs. In Sleepy Scotland (released in 2000), an album that explores Scotland's traditional ...
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Asian Dub Foundation gets five red stars
as former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher. This is just a taste of the political messages in the album ... those fighting for justice for the murdered Ricky Reel, and political activism. The praise given to ... greatest live band" — is well justified. Every song on their new album, Community Music, is a direct ...
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Beastie Boys Adam Yauch — maker of music that broke the rules
full-length album in 1986 that made them superstars. Paul's Boutique, released in 1989, saw the ... Parents Music Resource Centre hated these albums, which to anyone who actually respected music meant they ... Rage Against the Machine to Sean Lennon to De La Soul to Bjork? Yauch's political enlightenment, ...
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Propagandhi rock Melbourne
there." While Propagandhi's new album Supporting Caste won't be released until March 10, many ... was with bated breath that the audience awaited the other new tracks from the album. The sold-out ... moved seamlessly between the punk-rock of "Anti-manifesto" from their first album How to Clean ...
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Buffy Saite-Marie: 'Choke on your blue, white and scarlet hypocrisy!'
Sainte-Marie's best "best of" album, it was not her last word, musically or politically. Other ... movement against the political ebb-tide, we need look no further than her Native American heritage and her ... has now been released on CD for the first time. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks. ...
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The definitive Springsteen collection
is a time when the relentless commodification of everything has largely driven politically and ... 53, released a critically celebrated album and performed the most popular tour in music history. ... draws from all of Springsteen's 12 studio albums, as well as his most recent live album, Live in ...
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A jazz snapshot of the black struggle
Sander's classic 1971 album Black Unity documents another step in this brilliant, underrated artist's ... the Coltrane — documented on albums such as Meditations, Ascension and Live in Seattle. Following ... 'Trane. In the late '60s, the political optimism in the African-American community that had been ...
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Grindcore pioneers Nausea condemn a sick system
www.facebook.com/nauseala Seminal grindcore band Nausea released a genre-defining album in 1989's World Downfall. ... spoke to Corredor about the tracks on the Los Angeles-based band's new album and his past in the ... years ago. Hardcore's a traditionally political genre- what's the scene like there? It is very ...
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Urban guerillas confront injustice
insult the intelligence, but one of the few personal songs on this mostly political album, "Love ... louder political tunes. The album's final song, "Here Come the Americans", gets in a good ... a band that plays original, politically left material, with a broad-ranging sound that is sometimes ...
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Strummer- the gentle rebel of punk music
Canaveral — smoke, atmosphere burning, thrust and power. Twenty years on, I still play the albums, hear new ... sounds and learn more about them. Their third album, London Calling, was voted best album of the decade ... by Rolling Stone magazine. This album has a range of musical styles like jazz, soul, funk, reggae and ...
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Michael Franti: Modern day prophet
Australia. REVIEW BY CRAIG BULLEY The recent Australian release of the Michael Franti and Spearhead album ... spoke to Franti about mixing music and politics. Independently produced through Franti's own Boo ... Boo Wax record label and distributed in Australia through Liberation Music, the album is a stunning ...
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UK Subs as subversive as ever
Oi February 2013 www.uksubs.co.uk Punk pioneers UK Subs released their 24th politically-charged album ... 26 albums whose titles begin with each letter of the alphabet, in order. Frontman Charlie Harper ... Against this, your barbies have no flavour. What about Australia's politics and history? As shameful ...
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'I won't take it any more'
seem to have given up social/political comment with their latest album. Both bands could hardly be ... end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of ... and anger there. Musically the album sits somewhere near extreme thrash metal and hardcore punk. It ...
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Sparking up the revolution
Bristol rap scene, Marxman are cool in style and uncompromising in politics. Their debut album is called ... one crisis to another...". Marxman identify very strongly with the politics of young people. In ... — generating a safety valve to avoid the real deal". The lyrics are extremely political, but their message ...
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Sipho McHunu and Johnny Clegg: Universal men with a universal message
and see what came out." The gamble paid off spectacularly and the classic album Universal Men was ... the result. Gumede enthuses: " Universal Men still sounds fresh. It's one of those albums ... that will be there for life. It was an innocent album. We went into the studio with the aim of making ...
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Not doing what she does best
told that someone recollects, they think, that Joan Baez has become quite a political conservative — ... her for a political guru — or if they did, their blunder doesn't matter. We listened to Joan ... Baez because she sang beautifully. We would have listened even if she'd been singing non-political ...