“Colonizer” is the latest single off the Canadian indigenous throat forthcoming album, Tongues, out on March 11th, 2022. The tune is about accountability. “Oh, you’re guilty” she sings. “It’s not a question” a press release goes on to state. These are themes that will be explored further on the upcoming album. “Tongues “speaks not to horrors and crisis, as previous Tanya Tagaq […]
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No strangers to socially conscious music, veteran Australian rock band Midnight Oil speaks out against climate change on their latest single and video “Rising Seas.” This timely tune was released just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). Doing what the band does best, the song is an urgent plea for real change. Politicians can’t just offer […]
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As both a member of Boogie Down Productions and a solo artist, KRS-One has established himself as one of the pioneers of socially conscious hip-hop. He released his 23rd album Between Da Protests towards the end of 2020. “This is revolution music! I was going to wait until sometime in 2021 to begin the releasing of singles, but I think […]
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The Canadian Indigenous hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids have just recently released “No Jesus Piece,” the fourth single off their upcoming album Life After which will drop on October 22. It is the follow-up to their excellent 2019 album Trapline (one of the best protest albums of 2019). In a press statement, the duo said of the track: “No Jesus Piece” […]
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Back on November 20, 2019, Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis first performed ‘Un Violador en Tu Camino (A Rapist in Your Path).” to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The song may have been directed at the police and government agents who sexually tortured women in Chile, but state and police sexual violence is not […]
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David Strickland is a successful Grammy-winning producer and engineer, who over a two-decade career worked with several hip-hop luminaries including Redman, EPMD, Drake, and a wide range of notable Canadian rappers. In 2020 he stepped out of the background and released the excellent album Sprit of Hip-Hop. On the album, he taps into his Mi’kmaq heritage, a lineage that can […]
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Georgia English is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who recently released the poignant album Pain and Album. This collection of tunes could be considered a musical journal that chronicles English’s experiences of overcoming trauma. It also includes a companion illustrative book that is meant to complement the tunes’ weighty messages. This collection of songs is a prime example of how the personal […]
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This hard-hitting collaboration between two politically minded hip-hop artists was released on July 24 to correspond with the M4A Marches that took place on that day across 50 cities. The tune powerfully highlights the failures of US healthcare and the need for reforms with lyrics such as “It’s CEOs and politicians poors are coming for. ‘Cause more than 30 million […]
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Punk rock has a long history of ‘fuck Nazi/Fascists” type songs. The latest release by The Muslims, a queer, Black, and Brown Muslim punk band hailing from North Carolina is the latest in that long-standing tradition. The Muslims formed in 2017, during the aftermath of the 2016 election. During that period, they have since released three albums and one EP. […]
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For some the Fourth of July is a patriotic day to celebrate the independence of the United States. For others, it is a mournful reminder of a nation built on colonialism and systemic racism. Folk duo Dan + Claudia Zanes addresses the more somber side of American history with “Reparations is a Must (4th of July Love Song),” the first […]
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