I recently changed the name of my YouTube channel from Ongoing History of Protest Music to My Epic Soundtrack to A Mundane Existence. Although it will still periodically focus on socially conscious music, the YouTube channel will be broader in scope and focus on music I connect to personally. The website will still mostly focus on protest music but occasionally […]
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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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Yaeji, from artist Bandcamp Another month has passed and here is a small sampling of socially conscious music released throughout the month. Songs/Videos: Cast Iron Skillet – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit This is the third single from the respected singer-songwriter’s upcoming albums Weathervanes, which drops on June 9. Like many of Isbell’s tunes, it explores his Southern heritage […]
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The Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alt-country band who released their first album back in 1986. They are most known for their 1988 album The Trinity Session, which notably featured their cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.” The lo-fi classic was recorded in a church for under $250 and it ended up selling over a million copies. Not necessarily […]
Learn more →“Fear is not so far from hate So if you get the folks to fear It only takes one small twist To kick it up a gear” The following lyrics are from “The Things We Do To Each Other”, a track off of Cowboy Junkies new album, All That Reckoning. That line is the perfect synopsis of the prevailing xenophobia […]
Learn more →Back in July 24, 2017, NPR posted a list of the 150 greatest albums by women. Like any list of this magnitude it was a generator of debate. Recently NPR decided to keep the discussion going by inviting music fans to submit their list of ten albums. I decided I would make my voice heard by submitting my list of […]
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