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Rory McLeod tells emotional truths
relationships, often bringing up political issues through this prism. Many of his stories are the “emotional ... recent album, 2010’s Swings and Roundabouts. This album includes the songs elaborating the full gamut of ... is widely regarded as an uplifting album. Among other things, the album includes “I'm not ready ...
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Tabaran
apprehensive about Melbourne band Not Drowning, Waving's new album. Was this to be a repeat of the ... rhythms. That track sets the tone for the whole album. While NDW 's pleasant blend of mainstream pop ... blandness. The album combines the band's own songs (clearly influenced by their PNG experiences), songs ...
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Something missing
Lisa Macdonald This latest album from Judy Small is disappointing. A collection of 12 songs, most ... written by Small with music by Small in collaboration with Hugh McDonald (ex-Red Gum), the album combines ... collection. Musically, the album is monotonous, with song after song based on the same basic tones and rhythm. ...
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Revolutionary music from 'sleepy Scotland'
is found on Hulett's 1994 album, In the Back Streets of Paradise. John McLean was ... a revolutionary socialist leader in Red Clydeside, arrested for his political activities and then released by ... in 2000), an album that explores Scotland's traditional ballads, is a prelude to the Red ...
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Propagandhi rock Melbourne
album Today's Empires Tomorrow's Ashes contains political videos and essays on topics ... sabbat, Satan's there." While Propagandhi's new album Supporting Caste won't be ... album. The sold-out crowd was not disappointed. Five new tracks including "Dear Coach's ...
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Asian Dub Foundation gets five red stars
as former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher. This is just a taste of the political messages in the album ... those fighting for justice for the murdered Ricky Reel, and political activism. The praise given to ... greatest live band" — is well justified. Every song on their new album, Community Music, is a direct ...
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A jazz snapshot of the black struggle
reissue of the Pharoah Sander's classic 1971 album Black Unity documents another step in this ... celebrated for his 1965-67 collaborations with the Coltrane — documented on albums such as Meditations, ... the road that he had set out on with 'Trane. In the late '60s, the political optimism in the ...
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Beastie Boys Adam Yauch — maker of music that broke the rules
their first full-length album in 1986 that made them superstars. Paul's Boutique, released in 1989, ... Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Centre hated these albums, which to anyone who actually ... Bjork? Yauch's political enlightenment, so to speak, went much further than the Tibetan cause. ...
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Buffy Saite-Marie: 'Choke on your blue, white and scarlet hypocrisy!'
Sainte-Marie's best "best of" album, it was not her last word, musically or politically. Other ... movement against the political ebb-tide, we need look no further than her Native American heritage and her ... has now been released on CD for the first time. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks. ...
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Strummer- the gentle rebel of punk music
Twenty years on, I still play the albums, hear new sounds and learn more about them. Their third album ... , London Calling, was voted best album of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine. This album has a range of ... Brixton" and prophetic "Clampdown" are other titles on the album. After this album came the ...
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The definitive Springsteen collection
politically and artistically valuable popular culture underground. So it is remarkable that Bruce Springsteen ... at the age of 53, released a critically celebrated album and performed the most popular tour in music ... draws from all of Springsteen's 12 studio albums, as well as his most recent live album, Live in ...
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Urban guerillas confront injustice
insult the intelligence, but one of the few personal songs on this mostly political album, "Love ... louder political tunes. The album's final song, "Here Come the Americans", gets in a good ... Urban Guerillas, a band that plays original, politically left material, with a broad-ranging sound that ...
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Michael Franti: Modern day prophet
Spearhead album Everyone Deserves Music will be followed up by an Australian tour by the band in August. ... Green Left Weekly spoke to Franti about mixing music and politics. Independently produced through ... Franti's own Boo Boo Wax record label and distributed in Australia through Liberation Music, the album is ...
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'I won't take it any more'
environment. Metallica seem to have given up social/political comment with their latest album. Both bands could ... herald proclaiming the end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra ... and the same desolation and anger there. Musically the album sits somewhere near extreme thrash metal ...
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Sparking up the revolution
Emerging out of the Bristol rap scene, Marxman are cool in style and uncompromising in politics. Their ... debut album is called 33 Revolutions Per Minute, and by that they don't mean spins of the wheel. ... politics of young people. In the "Theme from Marxman", they state that they use the ...
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Not doing what she does best
Allen Myers I am told that someone recollects, they think, that Joan Baez has become quite a political ... no-one mistook her for a political guru â or if they did, their blunder doesn't matter. We ... non-political songs. That said, the political ballad is particularly suited to her voice, in a way that most of ...
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Sipho McHunu and Johnny Clegg: Universal men with a universal message
a room and see what came out." The gamble paid off spectacularly and the classic album Universal Men ... albums that will be there for life. It was an innocent album. We went into the studio with the aim of ... state would play the album. Rosenthal approached Capital Radio in the Transkei bantustan. It played the ...
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The three words that sum up Bruce Springsteen
of course. In reviewing the album, most Australian journalists have shied away from the political ... an audience request. As Springsteen's new album shows, Morello need not have worried. ... Springsteen has called the Rage guitarist his "muse" for High Hopes and recorded parts of the album ...
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Busting the music blockade
Cuba, which resulted in these three brilliant albums. Ry Cooder is well known for his talent for ... as the blues and Malian music on his famous Talking Timbuktu album with guitarist Ali Farke Touré, or ... contemporary stars produced three kicking, spontaneous albums. No overdubs, no studio tricks, no digital ...
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A chip on the shoulder for the downtrodden
This is the country star who, on his hit album, Copperhead Road, called Ronald Reagan a snake-oil ... no apologies. Earle enjoys alternating rock albums with more roots-based collections, but his albums ... Mountain. The Mountain is a classic bluegrass album. Earle's lyrical gift and gruff vocals combine with ...