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1. Luka Bloom

   built his reputation on two acclaimed albums, Riverside and Acoustic Motorbike and his appearance in the ... While his songs mainly reflect personal experiences and are not overtly political, he is not shy to ...

2. Roger Waters ― still bashing at the system's wall

   semi-autobiographical Pink Floyd album The Wall (almost entirely written by Waters). It consists of two discs and, like ... everything Waters has worked on since Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon, it is a concept album ... audiences. Finally, he faces his fears and himself and tears down the wall. The original content of the album ...

3. Beyond 'exotic' ambience

   The Journey Maryam Mursal Real World through Festival Review by Norm Dixon With this album, Maryam ... dance album, its story goes much deeper. It is the culmination of Mursal's remarkable escape from ... political arena. As the brutal Siad Barre dictatorship increased its repression, Mursal responded. ...

4. Welfare Poets: Power to the huerfanos!

   DIXON In the mid-1990s, Hector Luis Rivera and Ray Ramirez — musicians, poets and political activists ... just graduated from Cornell University in New York City — renamed their "political, poetic" ... in support of campaigns to release political prisoners in the US, in support of community struggles ...

5. AFL player Nathan Lovett-Murray seeks payback through hip hop

   release an album on Lovett-Murray’s own Indigenous hip hop label, Payback Records. “It’s an honour to be ... schoolfriend, Tjimba. “I asked him what he was doing and he said he’d just finished a rap album,” says ... to come down the studio and I was pretty impressed, so I said: ‘Let’s do an album.’ “Half way through ...

6. Rainforest roots rappers have nothing to lose

   stoner poetry for clear-eyed political consciousness. But whereas the Chilis have only one Australian ... mainstream, as illustrated by the title of Zennith's new album, Nothin' To Lose. “In this day and ... on one of the album's catchiest tracks, “Poison”. The song's lyrics declare: “You sail in ...

7. Jarvis Cocker versus Sir Bono

   rich in "I Spy", a song from Pulp's 1995 album Different Class, was: "Take your ... overtly political, Cocker's lyrics focus on the lives of ordinary people, drawing directly on his own ... a "secret track" at the end Cocker's first solo album, called Jarvis. Released in April, the album ...

8. 'Poet lorikeet' folds his wings

   Aborigines, Irish political prisoners, workers, environmental causes, republicanism and the anti-war movement. ... launched an album of Kevan's poems set to music entitled City of Green: Green Ban Songs and Beyond. ... nuclear incident in 1979) as the lead-in track on their Red Sails in the Sunset album. His most recent ...

9. Songs of solidarity for the new century

   Land” and “Union Maid”. The social movements of the '60s brought with them a plethora of political ... it's fitting that the competition winner (and album opener) comes from local MC Swarmy G, who comes ... electronica of the Eye's “Workers United (Will Overcome)”. The album ends with the Zoltan Brothers' ...

10. Black 47: Our day will come!

    rebellion: a "terrible beauty" was born. Trouble in the Land, the latest album by New York ... the rake, and other fictionalised souls wandering the night. Over successive albums, fans can follow ... a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He writes on Irish politics and cultural topics for a number of ...

11. Radical rhymer raps for revolution

    his latest album, I Believe In Revolution. "This whole album was largely inspired by Big Luke’s ... album Message From A Black Man," the Victorian emcee tells 91������̳. Just as Big Luke took ... a no-holds barred approach on that album, so Darah has come out with both guns blazing on his latest effort. ...

12. Deep in the forest, is it equa-table?

    put such doubts behind you, Equa is quite an engaging, if a little predictable, album. It weaves ... of the unacknowledged African performers give the album a lift it would not otherwise have. Zawose is ... people sing about politics, people sing about the environment, people sing about nature. The record was ...

13. 'Bury down apartheid!'

    enough to make you wilt. On top of that, his politically charged blend of the reggae beat, mbaqanga soul ... the world." This message permeates his shows and his excellent new album, his first to be ... released in this country, Prisoner. The album showcases Dube's soul/reggae and thoughtful lyrics. The ...

14. A jazz revolutionary: Celebrating John Coltrane's 80th birthday

    Song and album titles began to reflect a growing sense of Black pride and celebration of urban Black ... two albums that transformed jazz. With Davis, he recorded Kind of Blue, regarded as one of the great ... for jazz players. Beginning in 1960, Coltrane recorded seven albums over a year, including My Favorite ...

15. Tom Morello: "You start with a spark"

    Keith Rosenthal Kris Jenson Tom Morello is an outspoken musician and political activist who has ... Jenson and Keith Rosenthal about The Nightwatchman and his album One Man Revolution. You've ... described your album One Man Revolution as a "Bob Dylan in reverse" moment, and you can hear some ...

16. Radio highlights

    Wednesday: Christy Moore Live — The authentic voice of contemporary Ireland. On his 21 albums, Christy's ... featuring the renowned MIT professor of linguistics, and political activist, Noam Chomsky. In Middle East: ...

17. Joelistics makes Australian hip-hop more realistic

    www.joelistics.com The flawless music on Joelistics ' second solo album is more than matched by the depth of his ... album deals with this despair, "the frustration of an outcast bewildered by a deteriorating ... political and social landscape", as your website puts it. Tell us about it. The older I get, the more ...

18. LA explained in music

    Norm Dixon Rarely does a day go by lately that this album doesn't end up blasting out from my ... stereo. Musically, lyrically and politically, it is one of the most infectious records I've had the ... culture and politics of the Klan thrive and untold damage is done to people's lives. Buckwheat ...

19. Iron Sheik rapper

    Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam recently discussed the political and the personal with the ... Bush's administration. Did you develop your politics and then find music as an avenue of expressing them, ... or did you first get into rapping and then develop radical politics? My first musical influence, ...

20. This machine still kills fascists

    fascists" stuck to the side of his guitar. Throughout the 1980s, Bragg championed political causes like the ... Guthrie's work a new sound and context. The result is not a tribute album but a pan-generational, ... timeless and universal Guthrie's sentiments and beliefs were. The album contains visions of ...

21. The lament of the exile

    Oryema's beautifully crafted album. Lazy or ignorant record company publicists and even lazier music ... challenges the listener. Beat the Border, Oryema's follow-up to his debut album Exile, is a mellow blend ... (WOMAD) festivals throughout Europe. His first album, Exile, appeared on Peter Gabriel's ...

22. Gil Scott-Heron: The revolution will be live

    politics like Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27. In a series of early 1970s albums, Scott-Heron, ... exploded any idea that art and politics don’t mix, and has been hugely influential. Scott-Heron has become ... political. He wrote a lot of protest songs. “Pieces of a Man” explored the impact on a father of losing his ...

23. Insight or insanity?

    is sometimes compelling and the music has been skilfully woven into the 15 stories, but the album ... politics. Burroughs challenged the dominant ideas of the time. He was not shy about launching attacks on ... anything from accepted literature styles to the politics of Nixon and the existence of the CIA. He was ...

24. Day 1: What the #WaterForRivers bus tour was really like

    he's performing at the Corroboree. He's just finished his debut album, made in an Airbnb in Paris. ... book Real Talk: Aboriginal Rappers Talk About Their Music And Country and makes political music. ...

25. Country Joe: No cobwebs on this radical

    producing 31 albums, he hasn't let cobwebs form on his progressive political commitments either. Like ... from the '60s political counter-culture between his career peak in the early 1970s and now? This ... carved out a radical political space in the San Francisco "Summer of Love" hippie cultural ...

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