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1. Stand-up comic of the revolution

   FCD-60-023/4 Reviewed by Dave Riley Over 20 years ago in our shared, boldly political household, we took our ... I am.'" — is pure Brucean wit on target. His approach to politics and his humanism transcended the usual ... reissue four of the Fantasy albums recorded between 1958 and 1959. Volume II contains recordings that ...

2. The funky voice of Maori pride

   create an unusual mix of pop and politics. She began singing to help pay her way through law school, but ... New Zealand". This political commitment is expressed in her music: "We are always trying to ... Moahunters hit, which reached number two on the NZ charts, also carried a strong political theme. ...

3. Scream against the Armenian genocide

   their 2005 tour. For the uninitiated, System of a Down are notable for their political commitment. In ... front, System of a Down plays songs across the range of their albums, with all manner of styles — heavy, ... slow with Armenian melodies and politically-charged. The weaving in of their live performance with the ...

4. Sir Bono: the knight who fled his own debate

   politics has been pretty much a complete failure". Bono replied that he wanted to debate the topic in ... the plan, asking only that it be delayed until U2 finished recording its next album. I kept it public ... busy preparing the banalities he'd blare on the new album. In the wake of the new depression ...

5. The moral case against downloading music for free

   somebody rips a couple of mp3s off our album and listens to them on their computer speakers and then says ... they don’t like our album, guess what? They haven’t fucking listened to our album and fuck 'em! ... "Torchbearers of anti-corporate punk, Sonic Youth, signed on to release an album through the Starbucks’ record ...

6. Musicians band together to release CD for refugees

   choked by what appeared to be the weight of public opinion against, and political commitment to stop, ... contributed brilliant, moving, heart-rending and powerful songs. Some were taken off existing albums, some ... happening in "our name". Changes must be made to both popular opinion and political intent. There ...

7. John Pilger: Why we must prosecute war criminals

   eaten.” Along the corridor, Dr Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of the children ... politics.” Recently, Hans von Sponeck, the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations and ... prosecution. But who will demand it? In the kabuki theatre of Westminster politics, the faraway violence of ...

8. Fuck the flag

   dude." In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...

9. Fuck the flag

   dude." In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...

10. The Petrograd of the West

    Rattler The extraordinary industrial and political militancy in the west of Scotland in the second decade ... as elsewhere on the album, Hulett masterfully combines music and verse to profound effect. Such was ... the art of political song at its very finest, and, together with the accompanying booklet, an ...

11. 8 Mile: It's all about class

    latest album. It seems strange that an artist so willing to attack Washington's War on Terror would ... political statement. 8 Mile is a competent and entertaining look at the life of the urban poor in Detroit. ... some sharp political analysis. [For a different perspective on the film, check out Kathy Newnam's ...

12. In defence of reggae's 'overworked themes and topics'

    expatriate Jamaicans — Ken Ferguson, Garvin McLean and Garnett (Bobby) Pottinger. On the album they are ... dream that 91������̳ Weekly is being read — that reveals musically talented and politically progressive ... political ideas or criticising social ills. This view is summed up well in an otherwise positive review of ...

13. Music, business and righteous bards

    success story because she's sold almost a million albums and continues to refuse offers to sign with ... business — as political singer- songwriter, blues reissue producer and skeptic — many people have asked me ... an "in-store" promotion for his uncompromisingly political CD, The Bottom Line. Other ...

14. Billy Bragg — this machine bombs Belgrade

    moderate. Bragg's current tour is to promote his new album Mermaid Avenue, made up of previously ... a political songwriter", he said ad nauseam on Triple J, "I'm an honest songwriter". ... That's not quite true. Bragg still has politics; they've just changed. From an early 1980s alignment ...

15. Jello Biafra: the 'cultural terrorist'

    perform at the Livid Festival where BRENDAN GREENHILL asked him about music, US politics and his ... spoken-word performances as a tool of dissent. Biafra's political message is unity against the ... I came out with a bunch of stuff which ended up on the No More Cocoons album and I realised quickly that ...

16. Music, revolution and the '60s

    revolt, those who spurned a union of song and politics, and those who were ambivalent or merely dabbled in ... the political turmoil. The Beatles' John Lennon and George Harrison were both concerned about the ... street fighting than political insurrection as Jagger was more moved by the violence (it "gives me ...

17. The wanderings of a Zen Marxist

    the (sometimes wayward) attempt of Lennon to mix rock and roll with radical politics. Born in ... school and work. None of this was inherently political, but Lennon wanted to be "more than ... a Beatle" and explored the world of politics. In 1966, he publicly defied the Beatles' manager, Brian ...

18. Anti-drunk laws noticeably hypocritical

    revolution and the political economy of Lily Allen's new album were noticeably increasing in volume and ...

19. Billy Bragg: Time for the voiceless to use music again

    for the black community. Punk was galvanised into action by The Clash, whose debut album featured ... so later, the first political activism that I ever took part in was the first Rock Against Racism ... post-modernism that has warped the music scene to such an extent that musicians who write ostensibly political ...

20. Subhuman punks tour Australia

    Australasian tour and features the 1981 line-up that recorded their debut EP Demolition War and classic albums ... do about it. The main process this engenders is a re-evaluation of social, personal and political ...

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