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End ‘pay to play’!
So you wanna be a rock ’n’ roll star… just take a guitar and learn how to play! Surely if you work hard enough …
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Rebel songs remembered: Jim Jones at Botany Bay
During Australia’s convict years numerous songs were written documenting the experience of those imprisoned at the penal colony. For the first few decades these …
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Successful gig against racism
The venue, Whole Lotta Love, in East Brunswick (Melbourne) was nearly full on Sunday June 7 for the #NoRoomForRacism campaign fundraiser. Attendees donated around …
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Melbourne bands support socialist campaign
In late October the Workers Club in Fitzroy played host to a live music benefit gig in support of the Socialist Party’s state election …
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Anti-tunnel fundraiser gig
The Tote Hotel in Collingwood was packed out on June 13 for a gig raising funds for the No East-West Tunnel campaign. Over 10 …
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Pete Seeger: Sound of US protest movement
The death of American folk singer Pete Seeger will be keenly felt by those who lived through the social and political convulsions of the …
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Review: Public Enemy @ The Espy
Thursday May 17, The Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne Reviewed by Dean Roberts, Socialist Party Public Enemy are not your usual hip hop outfit. …
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Review: Endgame by Rise Against
Reviewed by Hannah Bastow, Socialist Party In 2010, Rise Against’s lead singer Tim McIlrath said the band’s motivation to tour almost continuously for the …
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The musical legacy of Gil Scott-Heron
By Eljeer Hawkins and Dennis Prater “In this large sense of the word, art is a handmaiden. It is not a disembodied element feeding …
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Album Review: Enter Shikari ‘Common Dreads’
Post-hardcore band Enter Shikari’s latest album is fuelled with discontent about the current political situation in Britain and around the world. “Common Dreads” demands …
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Review: The People or the Gun, by Anti-Flag
The latest offering from Anti-Flag at first seems like a bit of a trip down memory lane for the band. Quite a few of …
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RATM: The music and the politics
Whether it was the songs of Pete Seeger in the 1930s, Bob Dylan in the 1960s or Public Enemy in the 1980s, the mix …
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Album review: Anti-Flag
The Bright Lights of America reviewed by Iain Dalton, Socialist Party To me Anti-Flag have always been the quintessential anti-war band. In September 2001 …
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Interview with hip hop artist Son of Nun
Son of Nun (SON) is a former Baltimore City School teacher and current MC, he performs class-conscious, revolutionary hip-hop. In addition to building for …
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Revolutionary rock band draws 40,000 fans
On Monday January 28 the annual Big Day Out music festival was held at Melbourne’s Flemington Race Course. Organisers report that over 40,000 fans …
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Foo Fighters agree to cross picket line
The Socialist Party recently received this letter from Anne Englehardt regarding the upcoming Grammy Awards. Anne talks about the fact that performers including the …
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Review: Bobby Sands Nothing but an Unfinished Song
Twenty five years ago in May, Bobby Sands, MP, died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Over the next few …
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Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions
This is Springsteen?s only album of recorded songs of other artist?s songs but honours 87 year old Pete Seeger, political activist, protest singer and …
