The iconic two-tone ska band recently released their latest album Encore. It is their first album of original material in two decades. The band was never one to shy away from the political and the 2019 incarnation of the group is as relevant as ever. The album cover issues faced in both the UK and the USA, such as Brexit, […]
Learn more →“You Hate The Title” is off of Speedy Ortiz’s 2018 album Twerp Verse. The album’s Bandcamp page describes the tune as “a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy – in which survivors are given the mic, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies.” This is highlighted with the lyric “You hate the title, but […]
Learn more →“Boys Will Be Boys” is a cliché which has long been used to excuse negative male behavior. Sadly it goes beyond just justifying a minor passing phase that will eventually be grown out of. At times it becomes a justification for sexual harassment and rape. “Boys Will Be Boys” is a tune off of Australian indie singer Stella Donnelly 2017 debut […]
Learn more →“Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now” is a poignant collaboration between Amanda Palmer and UK indie artist Jasmine Power. On Palmer’s YouTube page for the video it made the following statement about the tune: “this song is dedicated to every woman everywhere around the world who has been trapped in a room with a man who used his power to rip […]
Learn more →On May 4th, 2012 Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys lost his battle to cancer, at the age of 47 years old. He was more than just a founding member of one of the most influential groups in hip hop history. Yauch was also a political activist, a devout Buddhist and was heavily involved in the Tibetan independence movement, […]
Learn more →According to the YouTube page for the video for “You Don’t Own Me”, The Resistance Revival Chorus “is a collective of more than 50 women who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center women’s voices”. The collective got some mainstream attention on January 28th, 2018 when they backed Kesha at the Grammy […]
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