Sunny War, from the artist’s Bandcamp Back when I started the website in 2017 I included a list of the 50 Best Protest Songs (back when I was still presenting lists in numerical order. Since that time I opted not to make a list since I was creating a Spotify protest song playlist featuring music that appeared on the site. […]
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Home Is Where, from the artist’s Bandcamp Another month and another recap. Check out a sampling of the socially conscious music released during June. Songs/Videos: John Wayne Was a Nazi – Fucked Up & The Halluci Nation This collaboration between Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up and Indigenous EDM act Halluci Nation is a reworking of a tune by hardcore pioneers […]
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From artist’s Bandcamp “John Wayne slaughtered our Indian brothersBurned their villages and raped their mothersNow he has given them a white man’s lord‘Live by this, or die by my sword!’” These are lyrics from “John Wayne Was A Nazi” a scathing tune by hardcore pioneers MDC. The single was originally released a year after Wayne’s death in 1980 when they […]
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The veteran Canadian hardcore band recently released their 6th full-length album One Day. As the title suggests each band member committed to a self-imposed time frame of 24 hours to write and record their contributions. Compared to their previous ambitious standards the album is more straightforward, but it still carries considerable weight. It also features a couple of poignant social […]
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January tends to be a relatively slow month in terms of new releases, but it still managed to produce plenty of socially conscious music. Here is a sampling. Songs/Videos: I Can’t Stand It! (featuring Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews) – Algiers This poignant tune about loss leans more towards the personal than the political, but the band often addresses […]
Learn more →“Raise Your Voice Joyce” is the lead single from the soon to be released album Dose Your Dreams, from Toronto hardcore veterans Fucked Up. The album is scheduled to be released October 5, 2018. It is a concept album built around the protagonist David, a character who frequents the band’s cannon, most notably their 2011 groundbreaking magnum opus David Comes to […]
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