This was previously exclusive to my now defunct Patreon and was private. I’ve decided to make this public. This is the video footage of my Episode 14 podcast interview with Elise Okusami who performs under the name Oceanator. We discuss her full-length debut album Things I Never Said (she has since released the follow-up album (Nothing’s Ever Fine) which was released on […]
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When I was compiling the list of the 40 best protest albums of 2020, there were several excellent releases I was considering that were technically EPs, so I decided to make a separate list instead. The following is presented in alphabetic order by the artist. Backxwash – STIGMATA EP STIGMATA EP by Backxwash This could be considered a companion piece […]
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This episode discusses the Protest Music Hall of Fame, an online archival project which chronicles the artists, albums, and songs which have contributed to the historical development of protest music. We also review the current inductees and discuss the recently posted nomination poll for 2020. On the podcast, we play Bartees Strange’s cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Tear These Fascists Down”, and […]
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We continue to live in crazy times. The issues of police brutality and ongoing Black Lives Matter protests were magnified with Jacob Blake being shot seven times by police on August 23. Since then there has been increased violence and deaths with right-wing counter-protest groups traveling to Portland and Kenosha to stir up further divisiveness. On top of that, Corona […]
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This episode features Elise Okusami who performs under the name Oceanator. We discuss her full-length debut album Things I Never Said which is out August 28. We also discuss the three-song EP Tear The Fascists Down which she released through Bandcamp to raise funds for the New York affiliate of Survived and Punished, “a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots […]
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Since I started this website in December 2017, there hasn’t been a month where there has been this much protest music released. As much as I’m into socially conscious music, I really wish we lived at a time where political music was no longer relevant. But in the meantime music does provide us with a needed outlet to help us […]
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Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19th, 1865, which marks the official end of slavery in former Confederacy. In support of this occasion, Bandcamp has decided that every June 19 they will donate their revenue share to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Bandcamp has no shortage of black artists to support. According to a crowd-sourced spreadsheet, there are over 2000 […]
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