NEWS, REVIEWS AND ACTIVISM

HipHop vs Capitalism: Fresh Mixtape Out From Rhymethink

The crew behind Rhymethink music collective, based out of "the stolen lands of occupied Turtle Island", just released a mix tape featuring artists such as Tachichi, Lee Reed, Ghettosocks, Mother ...
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Young Director Of A Protest Music Video Dies In Prison

Shady Habash, the young Egyptian director of the video for the protest song Balaha has died inside the walls of Cairo's Tora Prison. Habash was only 24 years old. He ...
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Bandcamp Continues Their Support For Independent Artists Around The World

On March 20th, 2020, which was a Friday, Bandcamp decided to waive their revenue share from all sold music in order to support independent musicians that are being tremendously affected ...
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Legendary Protest Song ‘Zombie’ Crosses 1 Billion Views On Youtube

The legendary protest song, written by Dolores O'Riordan and performed by her Irish band The Cranberries, has long reigned as one of the more powerful political music pieces of the ...
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Moby’s Activism Tattoos And New Protest Song

Moby has not only been a vegan for more than 30 years but he is also a fierce animal rights activist. This is most obviously portrayed by some of his ...
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Freemuse Releases The 2020 Report On The State Of Artistic Freedom

Today, April 15th, we all celebrate World Art Day and as part of this, now UNESCO recognized, event we witness the release of The State Of Artistic Freedom 2020, a ...
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A Feel Good, Vegan, Quarantine HipHop Party

How does this sound for a Saturday night whilst in quarantine: Free music, free e-book on healthy living, free workout videos and vegan recipes? We here at Shouts think that ...
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A Fantastic Protest Against The Faulted Copyright System

Damien Riehl, a musician, a lawyer, a coder, along with his colleague Noah Rubin have a project called All The Music which is based on the creation of an "application ...
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Bandcamp Waives Their Revenue Share This Friday To Support Independent Musicians

Many people around the world are being affected by the so called Covid-19 virus these days. Many people are experiencing curfews which limits them from doing their normal work. Independent ...
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PROTEST MUSIC INTERVIEWS

A Protest music Interview: Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys

Cars, tractors and other vehicles are important to the writing process for Adelaide's feminist, punk rock quartet Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys as bassist and vocalist Eb tells me via ...
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A Protest Music Interview: Ryan Harvey

Ryan Harvey has been writing and performing protest music since the turn of the century. But as he explains in this interview he considers himself an activist and an organizer ...
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Josh Gray (interview)

dOut of one of the meccas of music, Nashville, comes one Josh Gray. While working hard on his second album he was kind enough to answer a few questions about ...
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