Alice Bag is an influential punk musician and feminist activist who is most known for being a founding member of the Bags who were featured in Penelope Spheeris seminal 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization. Her latest solo album Blueprint is due out March 23rd and it is currently streaming on NPR. One of the highlights of the album is “77” […]
Learn more →Recently within the music industry there has been increased scrutiny over whether women are being granted equal opportunity. This was highlighted with the Grammy Awards where over the past five years women only made up 9.3 % of the nominees. The lack of recognition has nothing to do with lack of talent or resolve. For example a number of the […]
Learn more →On March 5, 2018, Superchunk released a video for “Cloud of Hate”, a track off of their latest album What a Time To Be Alive. The album is the influential indie band most political. It is also an early candidate for best protest album of 2018 (the title track as also previously been featured as a daily dose of protest). […]
Learn more →One of the Best Original Song nominees at the 90th Academy Awards was “Stand Up For Something” from the 2017 film Marshall. The song was composed by Diane Warren and Common. The movie Marshall is a biopic dealing with the early legal career of Thurgood Marshall, who ended up becoming the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Prior to that […]
Learn more →“Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience” is from Parquet Courts upcoming album Wide Awake which is due out on May 18. The song is a split track and both parts of the tune poignantly address the current state of political turmoil. Concerning the upcoming album, band member Austin Brown made the following statement: “In such […]
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