Chris Guiton discusses Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam Every now and then a song comes along that defines an epoch. “Mississippi Goddam” by jazz and blues singer-songwriter Nina... Continue reading
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On the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, Philip Bounds pays tribute to ‘four cultural subversives’ through the prism of an alternative Top Ten of their songs The Beatles... Continue reading
Michael Jarvie discusses the life and work of Béla Bartók If you’ve ever seen Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining you will have heard some of Bartók’s characteristic... Continue reading
Chris Guiton reviews Calum Baird’s latest release Calum Baird’s new single Modern Man is a potent take on male identity. The Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and political activist writes... Continue reading
Mollie Brown introduces the Bread & Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020, and ‘the instinctive joy of taking control of cultural production’ The Communication Workers’ Union... Continue reading
Chris Guiton discusses the Attica prison riot of September 1971, and Archie Shepp’s creative response to it In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot that the United States... Continue reading
Tom Hubbard writes about Fife’s folk culture, past and present There are books which, discovered when you are young, remain a moral and artistic compass for you... Continue reading
Daniel Rosenberg reviews Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne. Capitalism turns art into product, which is put on the shelf... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell honours Pete Seeger as we near what would have been his 100th birthday There are few people more famous in the political song movement than... Continue reading
40 years on, Mark Perryman celebrates the release of the debut single from The Specials On the 3rd May 1979, Margaret Thatcher leads the Tories to a crushing... Continue reading
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