Pussy Riot: “Pong” / “Nightmares” (track review)
Just as tyrant and resistance – Putin and Pussy Riot – are locked in a seemingly endless game of Pong against each other, with acts of courageous defiance deflected by acts of brute tyranny.
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Eddie Cochran’s Working Class “Summertime Blues” Asks, This Is Living?
Ever get the feeling that the struggle to get by makes it impossible to have the energy or the time to storm the barricades? That's what American capitalism has achieved in 2018: maximum depression. And that's why Cochran's 1958 song of angst plays on to this day.
Phil Ochs: ‘There But for Fortune’
The re-issue of Michael Schumacher's biography There But For Fortune is the tale of an insatiable obsessive stumbling down a legendary path but not coming out okay at the other end.
Pussy Riot Advances Message of Resistance in Brooklyn
Through catchy punk and dance songs, Pussy Riot espouses pro-gender equality and an anti-Putin/Trump agenda.
Ruby Rose Fox Raises Voice With “American Daddy” (premiere)
Boston vocalist and former stage actress Ruby Rose Fox delivers her first single "American Daddy" from new LP, Salt.
Free Radicals Argue There’s “No State Solution” on New Single (premiere)
Tirelessly political Houston outfit Free Radicals blend soul, jazz and world influences on new cut from forthcoming remix album.
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Bring the Funk and Activism to ‘Black Times’
Like father, like son. On Black Times, Afrobeat bandleader Seun Kuti inherits his father's passionate combination of fiery activism and intoxicating funk.
Soul Inscribed Preaches a Message of Love and Inclusion on “Let Them In” (premiere)
Soul Inscribed share a new single and video that pays tribute to America's immigrants and migrants and pleads for open borders and continued diversity.
Algiers and the Political Structures of Noise
How can there be a political movement if we're unwilling to move? Algiers connects past and present for the sake of the future.