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1. Five new albums worth a listen

   album. The Black In Man blends his baritone tones with heavy metal riffage and super-heavy funk. ... Enigmatic electronic act Vatican Shadow has released the album Fireball plus a set of dark, brooding ... future. 3. Manic Street Preachers ' 12th studio album, Futurology, drips with the usual intelligence ...

2. Neil Murray's third album

   truly worth the wait. Nearly three years after the release of his second album, These Hands, Murray has ... a brand of folk that would defy such a label. Dust travels over a diverse emotional and political terrain. ... songs for this album. "Menindee" is a cheeky mockery of Burke and Wills, supposed heroes who ...

3. New Rovics album tells stories of struggle

   Rovics Released July 4 www.davidrovics.bandcamp.com So here it is, the latest album from prolific radical ... preview Rovics gave on his Spreaker online radio show, “June in History and Song”. The album brings these ... influence that has become more pronounced over the years. Several of the songs on this album set a mellow ...

4. Ten new albums worth a listen

   politically-potent new releases worth a listen. What album, or albums, would you suggest? Comment below, on Twitter ... political rap". It's the highlight of a "pay what the fuck you want" EP that accompanied ... his recent full-priced album, Death Drive. http://bit.ly/1uBDb4u sole_dj_pain_1_fuck_google 2. ...

5. Songs of the political underground

   collection of Australian music artists with a progressive political bent. The liberating mood of the album is ... electronica to techno-acid-house, the album's contributors comment on issues such as media and government ... Today?" is always a favourite. The album's entire 76 minutes is high quality underground music. ...

6. Reggae album to celebrate democracy

   is the speeches record company executives make at album launches. There they stand amongst the music ... short-back-and-sides haircuts, and predicting that the new album will be a "smash". The man from RPM records ... exile in Britain, produced the album and wrote many of the lyrics. The album's other producer is MK ...

7. Bard of the underdog's timely new album

   Listen to the album here Tom Waits, the 61-year-old veteran musical maverick, released his first album of ... entirely new music in seven years on October 25. The 17th studio album by famously rough-voiced ... continues his obsession with telling tales from the wrong side of the tracks. The album's songs feature ...

8. Potential Wedding Album confronts homophobic law

   LGBTIQ Tanya Smith The Potential Wedding Album www.thepotentialweddingalbum.org In the excellent ... a hurdle for political change — to get people to care, an issue needs to be humanised. This is the thinking ... Potential Wedding Album. The Potential Wedding Album website is a collection of photos and stories from (so ...

9. Penelope Swales to launch new album

   Penelope Swales' album Songs from the Borderline clearly shows that she is a performer in motion. ... the end of you. I don't consider myself to be in too much risk at the moment." The album ... been writing a lot of political stuff. I find that a bit more difficult to write than about personal ...

10. Video: British Comedian Kate Smurthwaite on Humanity's Last Hope

    interview at greenleft.org.au.] Video: 'We need a radical sea change' — music and politics with ... Grace Petrie Why was Tim Blair even at 91������̳’s comedy night? 10 new albums that aim to change the ...

11. Cutting through the fog of ‘Forever War’

    fighters. This personal and political growth is deftly and clearly explained in this book, which often reads ... albums to resist a world at war Read more by Bill Nevins Culture ...

12. A healthy dose of political punk

    Anti-Flag's seventh album. Although not to everyone's taste, the band injects a healthy dose of politics ... depleted uranium in Iraq. I especially like the activist focus of the album. It comes with a booklet of ...

13. David Rovics: politically sharp and beautiful poetry

    Rosenblatt Self released, 2002 Rovics' albums can be ordered from <http://www.davidrovics.com> and ... BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE David Rovics is one of the best political songwriters in the English-speaking ... they are both politically sharp and contain beautiful poetry. Rovics is a musical tribune for the ...

14. Beat boys get political

    and their latest album, To the 5 Borroughs, adds a new, progressive political edge to their work. Adam ... Beasties considerable independence. Their second, 1989, album, Paul's Boutique, released on their own ... staples of sampling, turntable mixing and scratching and witty word-play. Their fourth album, Ill ...

15. Strong political message

    '70s flute and brass sounds and strong political message. Addressing those who control women's ... head/ make your bread/ raise your kids in the ghetto?" All proceeds from the album are to be ... and victims of domestic violence. The album does make the attempt to raise women's issues. ...

16. A true believer in the power of music

    percussion hits a bit harder than in the previous outings. The album was made at Elliott Smith’s studio. ... short-term politics. All that is a lot more fun than it sounds, especially if you love this sound, which ...

17. Political punks blast racist rednecks

    and have just dropped a motherlode of a debut album. But the analogies with Australia's mining ... much of the album tackles racism. "I figure when you're surrounded by negativity, you ... moments on the album, including an ode to the Coogee Bay Hotel and the media shitstorm it whipped up when ...

18. From political passion to pop

    truly inspirational. Still political but not quite as inspirational was their 1988 album Confessions of ... album Cafe Bleu from Jean Paul Marat, "an 18th century visionary", gave an inkling of where ... explorations in music, with no lyrics at all, their politics was particularly notable in such songs as ...

19. Joe Strummer and political punk

    of the Clash, Joe Strummer and his band were soon counterposing support for left-wing political ... other punk bands. The Clash released a string of albums, starting with the hard hitting self-titled ... album in 1977, which contained tracks such as "London's Burning", which reflected the ...

20. BDO’s best kept secret: ‘Life is politics’

    Kelly Ryan “People say to me, ‘You’re still talking about politics?’ and I say, ‘C’mon, life is ... politics’”, Afro-fusion singer-songwriter Wunmi told 91������̳ Weekly while she was in Sydney as part of the ... commercialism, cultural identity, political corruption and the role of women in society. “I was a dancer ...

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