Sabina Chantouria is a Swedish/Georgian singer-songwriter who just released the timely song and music video “Blood On Your Hands”. The emotive tune portrays how ordinary people pay the highest price in war. The lyrics explore the open wounds experienced by survivors of conflict. It also expresses hope for refugees to return to the land that was once called home. In […]
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This blistering tune is off the Australian hardcore group’s recently released album Keep You Warm. The searing album rallies against issues such as colonialism, capitalism, and how these corrupt isms contribute to climate disaster. “‘Burn’ is an intense expression of the burnout that can happen when we don’t set boundaries or hold compassion for ourselves,” vocalist Jelena Goluza states. The […]
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In 2021, Mádé Kuti built upon the legacy of his father Femi and legendary grandfather Fela with the release of his debut album For(e)ward. The album was released alongside Femi’s eleventh full-length release Stop The Hate as part of the aptly named double album Legacy + (one of the best protest albums of 2021). After completion of a U.S. tour […]
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This is the 4th single off Cheat Codes, the collaborative album of Danger Mouse and the Roots emcee Black Thought, which will be released on August 12. It also features a couple of hip-hop heavy hitters with A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels. The potent tune does feature several social critiques ranging from climate change and racism (such as Killer […]
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The indie rock trio recently released their sophomore album Too Much to Ask, which blends catchy melodies with witty and scathing social critiques. Singer-guitarist Greg Katz comments on the motivation behind the album: “I think the last year or so has drawn a big circle around a lot of things we all already knew, but maybe didn’t know we knew. […]
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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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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 15 podcast interview with Karl Evangelista, one-half of the experimental music duo Grex (with Rei Scampavia). We discuss the duo’s then upcoming album Everything You Said Was Wrong which was released on September 5, 2020. Evangelista […]
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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 17 podcast interview with Stuart Markus, Hillary Foxsong, and Gerry McKeveny of the folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time who at the time just released a new album entitled Old Friends, which is a cover album that […]
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This hard-hitting tune is off Hostile Architecture, the sophomore album by the Scottish Red and Anarchist Black Metal (RABM) band. According to the Bandcamp description, the album “is a sonic exploration of the ways that subjects under late capitalism are constrained and set in motion via the various structures that uphold stratification and oppression in urban contexts.” Those themes are […]
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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 20 podcast interview with Kaston Guffey of the Americana duo My Politic. He discusses their then recently released political concept EP Short-Sighted People In Power. We discussed the motivation behind the tunes, the possibility of backlash, […]
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