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Revolutionary music from Mexico
university students who began playing at political events and parties because they were sick of the ... underdogs. As a political band of the street, they have generated an engaging style and intersperse political ... messages throughout the performances. Their current album, Cybertropic Chilango Power, has a wild and ...
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Speech's arrested development
Review by Norm Dixon In the early 1990s, an unpretentious and very political hip hop band briefly ... albums — their 1992 hit 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of... and the far less popular 1994 ... community). This idea was summed up in "Give a Man a Fish": "Got to get political/ Political ...
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Jimmy Cliff: 'No peace without justice'
today the standard bearer of politically conscious Jamaican reggae. He came to fame as part of the ... are my themes." Cliff's latest album Breakout — and his more than 20 previous albums ... world is the political injustices of governments... "In 'War A Africa' I'm saying ...
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Primal Scream are back hollering for the left
most musically accomplished long-player, it is also their most politically potent. The album ... British indie rockers Primal Scream are best known for Screamadelica, the breakout dance-crossover album ... resurrected Screamadelica for its 20th anniversary in 2011, playing the album in its hedonistic whole on ...
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Two decades of Rage
release of Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut album. For two decades, the US band has ... Abu-Jamal, and the wrongly convicted Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier. The inside sleave of ... the band’s second album, Evil Empire, promotes books about Marx and Engels, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, ...
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Johnny Cash: a 'musical outlaw'
with an edge — and maybe even a little politics. His collaborations with Bob Dylan, U2 and Strummer, ... starkly brilliant albums. When people wondered why a country singer was on his label, Rubin said, "A ... not known as an expressly political artist, Cash waded into the controversies of his times with ...
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Larry Kirwan: Not all happy riots and righteous parties
underscore the cheerfully tub-thumping bravado of this most political, yet most thoughtful, of all ... streets of US cities for that matter — have gravitated to Black 47's stirring albums and jammed their ... the tough reality that Kirwan chews on in Kilroy Was Here, his first solo album, just released on ...
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Melanie Shanahan: Talented 'world citizen'
greatly by political singer/songwriters, but especially by Sweet Honey in the Rock, so she decided to form ... storyteller. Arramaieda's first album, More Ways Than One, went on to become the highest selling a capella ... album in Australia's history. It was a groundbreaking album and one that influenced many singers. ...
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Fela finally silenced
courageous and politically outspoken musicians, has finally been silenced, much to the relief of ... Nigeria's corrupt political and military elite. Despite having suffered decades of persecution and several ... and big business. Fela's political views, his enormous popularity among Nigeria's poor and ...
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Ozomatli: activism with a Latin groove
CHUCK STEMKE Ozomatli's new album, Embrace the Chaos, has a different feel to the Los Angeles-based ... band's self-titled debut album. But it is still full of the joy of life and continues to utilise music as ... we also have different levels of political commitment and activity." Tachero said that in the US ...
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Delivered like a letter bomb
204 September 27, 1995 Political Prisoners iNsuRge Through Warners Music Reviewed by Jen Crothers ... iNsuRge. Political Prisoners is a five-track EP with a radical message — something very rare in music that ... larceny, and all other crimes involving property" aren't criminals but political prisoners. ...
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Poetry of a detained asylum seeker
his spirit refuses to desert him. Mohsen has dedicated this album to the children in detention". ... All proceeds from the sale of this album go to Chilout. The following poem is an expression of thanks, ... have kissed the noose of Australian democracy. We were the fan to the political fire, who now find ...
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Wild Pumpkins At Midnight
country that's taken in the political refugees. They take in more immigrants than most other ... rich, Nazis. Over the years Wild Pumpkins At Midnight have written many political songs, including ... band" though, believing there is more to their music than can be categorised. Their new album ...
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Set down at the bottom of the system
of its own and a diverse lyrical content. For a 35-minute album with a mere 10 tracks, it is amazing ... how powerful and thorough this album really is. The intensity is retained throughout each song, ... out" attacks war, the use of murder as a means to reach political ends. For the evil to take place, ...
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Ozomatli grooves
alternative album for Embrace the Chaos, Los Angeles-based Ozomatli's music is still firmly rooted in the ... streets. The band's commitment to political activism is strong. The Ozomatli web site features ... activist news and links to such campaigns as the fight for freedom by US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal ...
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Bob Dylan: The degeneration of a '60s figurehead
political roots. As Clinton Heylin's biography of Dylan shows, this episode was no aberration. ... anti-militarist songs and songs which became anthems for the flourishing movement for political change ... A-Gonna Fall"). The successful combination of political commitment and art in these protest songs ...
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The Eye has vision
396 March 8, 2000 The Eye has vision Review by James Vassilopoulos Politics Can Be Fun Eye Send ... see a recent poster advertising a new CD called Politics Can Be Fun by Eye. The poster had a graphic ... radio's Triple J, the station deemed it too political" for airplay. Triple J explained that ...
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Kicking cousins teach history through hip hop
again and went on to record a whole album in the same vein. This included another radical video clip ... favourite song on the album," he says. "It was really important for me to do this song because the ... released a storming album by one who does just that. Message From A Black Man by Big Luke sets biting, ...
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Bruce Springsteen: The 'Boss' bounces back
resulted in 11 studio albums, two live collections, a greatest hits package and numerous side projects ... in the back of a beauty salon, battling to get gigs, Springsteen finally released his first album ... to bum space in a garage, he was able to bring out his second album, The Wild, the Innocent and the ...
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Ozi Batla to headline social justice gigs
refused to play a coal industry gig. Ozi Batla's debut solo album Wild Colonial, released last year, ... will be sorely missed. 3. The Herd, untitled new album ― Because no one else is doing it in Australia ... Batla's album Wild Colonial. June 18, 2011 Ozi Batla. ...