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Music & Sound
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The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’
Read more: The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’Rage Against the Machine have always been rabble rousers, but the political statement that got them banned from Saturday Night Live sounds positively prosaic compared to other acts of protest they committed in their heyday, like shutting down the New…
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2020 Was the Year of Protest Music
Read more: 2020 Was the Year of Protest Music2020 was the year of when protest music blared everywhere. For a long period, Black people struggled against police brutality and in the uproar of George Floyd’s murder, BLM protests instantly swept over the country. Of the many protest music…
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A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty Bird
Read more: A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty BirdIn 1996, filmmaker John Akomfrah created the character of the Data Thief as a narrative device to offer an insightful study of Afrofuturism in his film The Last Angel of History, which links Black musicians including George Clinton, Derrick May,…
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Demonstealer Fights For a Better India Through Death Metal
Read more: Demonstealer Fights For a Better India Through Death MetalThe Propaganda Machine is a battle cry delivered in the language of extreme metal. On Sahil Makhija’s fourth solo album as Demonstealer, he takes aim at the right-wing politicians, racist nationalists, disinformation artists, and religious extremists who manipulate and exploit…
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The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
Read more: The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th’s Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and the room went…
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‘Time to rebel’: Greta Thunberg adds voice to new song by the 1975
Read more: ‘Time to rebel’: Greta Thunberg adds voice to new song by the 1975Greta Thunberg has made her musical debut on a single by the 1975. On a track called The 1975, a version of which traditionally opens each of the British band’s albums, the 16-year-old environmental activist restates her position on the…
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1-800-273-8255
Read more: 1-800-273-8255Rapper Logic’s song “1-800-273-8255” may have helped prevent a significant number of suicides around the time of its release, according to a study published Monday. The song’s title is the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The study,…
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‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words
Read more: ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own WordsIn Louis Armstrong’s study in the Queens home he shared with his fourth wife, Lucille, bookshelves were filled with reel-to-reel recordings he made as a sort of audio diary. Those tapes and his letters — read by the rapper Nas…
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Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’
Read more: Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’Jameela Jamil has opened up about how she’s “not here to be liked” in a frank new interview with Meghan Markle. In the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan’s Spotify podcast, the Duchess speaks with both Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo about…
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William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic waste
Read more: William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic wasteHewlett-Packard pledged to stop using dangerous plastics in its computers by 2009. It broke that promise. Will a company-wide voicemail from William Shatner make it change its mind? When the employees of Hewlett-Packard checked their messages yesterday, they got a…