NEWS, REVIEWS AND ACTIVISM

New Release: Ow by Pom Pom Squad

Album of the day here at Shouts HQ's is Ow by riot grrrl act Pom Pom Squad out of New York City. This sophomore piece is noisy, beautiful and real ...
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The Who Release A New Protest Song Off Upcoming Album (Lyric Video)

Guantanamo, Brexit and the Grenfell fire are some of the topics The Who tackle on their new album, titled WHO, set to be released on the November 22nd through Polydor ...
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Esthero Breaks The Fourth Wall On Spotify In A Unique Protest

On a recent single Canadian singer Esthero finds a rather unique way to protest the oppressive and frankly cowardly business model that is Spotify. According to this article Spotify management ...
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This Is Illegal Music – Let’s All Share It

Mehdi Rajabian once served two years, of a larger sentence, in prison in Tehran, Iran, for making music. The oppression the government shows artists in the country is immense but ...
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New Video: Taiwanese Rapper Dwagie Supporting Hong Kong Protesters

Since the beginning of June this year, millions of people have been active on the streets of Hong Kong protesting proposed laws that would change extradition laws between Hong Kong ...
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Free West Papua: 5 Songs Supporting The People

For many of us, West Papua is at the other side of the world, isolated and unknown. For others, the place is a well known human rights violation pit. Throughout ...
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93 PUNX And Vic Mensa Announce Protest Show At ICE HQ’s

Vic Mensa recently announced on his Instagram page that his new band, 93 PUNX, will perform a protest show outside the I.C.E. headquarters this Sunday, September 1. The event poster ...
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Program: Human Rights & The Political Power Of Music In Colombia

We got tipped off about this interesting program happening in Colombia in January 2020. For anyone interested in Colombian music history, human rights and the power music can have in ...
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30 Years Since The Singing Revolution

30 years ago, on the 23rd of August, 2 million people from three neighboring nations, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, locked their arms together and formed a human chain that stretched ...
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PROTEST MUSIC INTERVIEWS

War On Women (interview)

They play fast, conscious hardcore punk music. They sing and shout about equality, street harassment, the gender wage gap to mention only a few issues and they have a new ...
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The Cornel West Theory (interview)

Out of the wake of Trumpapocalypse comes a group that specifically intends to fill the void left by commercial musical groups who don't take their voices seriously. According to their ...
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Formidable Vegetable Sound System (interview)

From Western Australia comes the fantastic Formidable Vegetable Sound System. This collective uses ukuleles, horns and the idea of permaculture to funk some awareness into all of our lives. Halldór ...
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