Within a few months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, every major label either unilaterally removed their entire catalogue from Russia or closed operations entirely, implicitly or explicitly condemning Putin’s actions while donating to Ukraine. No such measures have been taken against Israel, or in support of Palestine, after decades of illegal occupation and 23 months into Israel’s accelerated genocide.… Read More No Music For Genocide
The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies. Laura Snapes Massive Attack have become the latest act – and first major-label one – to pull their catalogue from Spotify in protest at founder Daniel Ek investing €600m (£520m) in the military AI company… Read More Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military
Elizabeth Alker It is a sunny October afternoon and I am sitting in a long wood-panelled hallway in an old converted townhouse in London waiting to be called into the office of Paul McCartney. I am dressed in my best clothes and trying not to let nerves get the better of me. I am here to… Read More ‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers
They’re really sweet, they don’t look Palestinian.’ First posted January 22, 2013 When Barbara sings “Dis” to an absent lover, she is not just asking when he’ll return. She is showing she can get by without him. Alone is not that bad. There are other consolations. There is always music, that deathless hope. Barbara was… Read More “But children are the same, In Paris or in Goettingen.” The song that made history. Will someone sing for us?
Simon & Garfunkel – America “Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes togetherI’ve got some real estate here in my bag”So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner piesAnd walked off to look for America “Kathy”, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh“Michigan seems like a dream to me now”It… Read More America
Running On Empty Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheelsLookin’ back at the years gone by like so many summer fieldsIn ’65 I was seventeen and runnin’ up 101I don’t know where I’m runnin’ now, I’m just runnin’ on runnin’ on empty(Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind(Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sunBut I’m runnin’ behind… Read More Jackson Browne: Running On Empty (1977)
NB: May 15 is the eighteenth anniversary of my father’s passage into eternity. He died in the Research and Referral Military Hospital in Delhi on this day in 2007; and was given a military funeral at the Army cremation grounds. Scores of his old students, many of them senior military and service officers were present… Read More Street Cafe
Castles in the Sky: by A Flock of Seagulls I used to want to touch the sunBut it can’t be done, you can’t touch the sunI used to want to walk on the moonWhat a fool, I can not walk on the moon WhoaJust building castles in the skyWhoaYou never know until you try You… Read More Castles in the Sky
Nicest, happiest song I’ve heard in months. Even though I don’t much care for whiskey Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Official Visualizer] My baby want a Birkin,she’s been tellin’ me all night longGasoline and groceries, the list goes on and onThis 9 to 5 ain’t workin’, why the hell do I work so hard?I… Read More Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Trent Dalton On 10 January 2000 I started my first job in journalism at the Brisbane News. I was 20 years old, a starry-eyed rube from suburban Bracken Ridge who didn’t even know what a flat white was. On my first day my editor had the rest of the journos join us at a cafe to welcome… Read More I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better
After the truth-shower 