NEWS, REVIEWS AND ACTIVISM
Rebel Control Urge Listeners To Stand Up To The System
'Don't Let Them Fool Ya' is a sincere observation of an unequal world serving only to "make more money for the rich man" and urging the listener to open their ...
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It’s Official: Bandcamp Friday Will Continue In 2023
Here is the just released statement from the music service: "On most first Fridays of the month since March of 2020, we’ve waived our revenue share to provide additional support ...
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Indigenous Rappers And More Mexican Musicians Featured On Marvel’s Wakanda Forever Soundtrack
Oaxaca native, Mare Advertencia Lirika, who's been rapping for nearly two decades, along with fellow musician and activist Vivir Quintana, wrote the song 'Árboles bajo del mar' (Trees beneath the ...
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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Known For His Anti-Government Protest Songs Has Been Arrested
The dissident rapper, commonly known by his first name Toomaj, was arrested by Iranian authorities on the 30th of October, just over a week ago. This is not the first ...
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Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid Of This Song?
The crowdsourced protest anthem “Baraye” has become a thorn in the side of the theocratic government in Tehran. This article was written by Nahid Siamdoust and originally published by Foreign ...
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New Book Documents Pioneering Women Recording Artists In Early 20th Century India
As it so often happens, the stories of underrepresented people get lost or forcefully erased through time by those who wish to control the historical narrative. In early twentieth century ...
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Malian singer Oumou Sangaré set for Apollo Theater debut on 29 October
This article was written by Gabriel Myers Hansen and originally published by Music In Africa under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialCC BY-NC licence. Malian Wassoulou musician Oumou Sangaré will perform for the ...
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Iranian Protest Song Gains Thousands Of Submissions For New Grammy Award
As powerful and popular many protest songs have been throughout history they have not had their own category at one of the world's largest music awards ceremony - until now ...
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Retromania and resistance: Record label MaJazz Project reissues new dawn for unsung Palestinian pioneers
This article was written by Benjamin Ashraf and originally published by The New Arab. In what became a cult classic of musicology, Simon Reynolds’s Retromania describes a Western culture intent ...
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PROTEST MUSIC INTERVIEWS
A Protest Music Interview: Valerie Orth
In her latest music video, Valerie Orth shows imagery from Brazil, Hong Kong, USA. This is not surprising for those who know Valerie because she started out as an activist ...
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Exclusive Premiere: Debut Music Video From Jamie Holmes
Some musicians make a song or two, consciously in protest, and the rest of their catalog is often something else. Others perhaps get into using their voice responsibly at some ...
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A Protest Music Interview: The Black Creatures
According to this band's public description they are a "darkpop hip-hop musical duo from Kansas City, Missouri pulling elements from sci-fi to tell an interdimensional story." But these two musicians ...
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