NEWS, REVIEWS AND ACTIVISM

Forced To Seek Asylum Because Of Her Music: Video Of The Day
In Iran the Islamic government restricts women from performing their music alone on stage. For one musician, Farzane Zamen, this drove her out of her home country and eventually forced ...
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Video Of The Day Resulted In Artists Being Imprisoned
When in 2018 Egyptian musician Ramy Essam published the music video to his single "Balaha", Egyptian authorities arrested the poet behind the lyrics, the music video director and Essam's former ...
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Video Of The Day: The Kids Are Having None Of It by Frazey Ford
Canadian singer-songwriter Frazey Ford has released a new protest song titled The Kids Are Having None Of It. The song comes as a response to Greta Thunberg's activism as well ...
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Video Of The Day: Politician Man by Adrian Sutherland
Politician Man is the debut single from Adrian Sutherland as a solo artist. Adrian has been around the scene making music with his group, Midnight Shine, and they've released three ...
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Video Of The Day: The Enemy Of Earth Is You By VOB
VOB or Voice of Baceprot is a young metal band from Indonesia. The country has the largest Muslim population of any country on the planet and the Islamic faith, as ...
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Give Me Democracy Or Give Me Death: 5 Metal Bands Unite In Support Of Hong Kong Activists
Five heavy music bands will come together for a show on the 24th of November in Hong Kong. Proceeds from the event will go to Spark Alliance, an organisation that ...
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Paul McCartney Teams Up With PETA For An Animated Video Of ‘Looking For Changes’ (video)
Veteran soldier of animal rights and general common kindness, Mr. Paul McCartney, has teamed up with PETA in releasing a new animated music video. We will not pretend we can ...
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Nueva Canción Protest Music Sung During Chile Protests (Videos)
We have covered before the long awaited justice brought forth for the family and memory of legendary Chilean protest singer Victor Jara who was murdered at the hands of the ...
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New Song From Palenque HipHop Group Kombilesa Mí Premiering Today (Video)
There are more than 60 indigenous languages in Colombia. Some have already died out and many are in danger of extinction. There are some culture defenders out there though, including ...
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PROTEST MUSIC INTERVIEWS

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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