Tag: Music

‘Zubeen was for all’: Singer’s death unites India’s religiously torn Assam

Amid soaring Hindu-Muslim tensions in the BJP-ruled northeastern state, Zubeen Garg’s music served as a rare unifier. In Garg’s music, the idea of an Assam for Hindus and Muslims, Assamese speakers and Bengali speakers alike, was not an illusion. “Zubeen’s songs did not merely entertain, they also addressed the depths of what it means to… Read More ‘Zubeen was for all’: Singer’s death unites India’s religiously torn Assam

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No Music For Genocide

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

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Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military

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

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‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

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

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“But children are the same, In Paris or in Goettingen.” The song that made history. Will someone sing for us?

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?

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America

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

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