The Indypendent
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Offerings from local working-class heroes and global superstars make our music critics’ list of the year’s best records.
Marc Ribot’s New and Vintage ‘Songs of Resistance’
The labor movement had “Solidarity Forever.” Civil Rights had “Mississippi Goddam,” “Strange Fruit” and the spirituals activists sang with…
In 2009, the singer-songwriter Shea Diamond was released after serving a 10-year sentence at a series of men’s prisons…
Hearing Jimi Hendrix sing “I’m a man,” feels somehow inauthentic. Sure, we know he was a man like any one…
Alsarah: The Sounds We Smuggle Inside Us
The lead singer of Alsarah & The Nubatones discusses her roots, music and her favorite childhood mixtape.
We’re in the middle of a cultural awakening (and reckoning) and this Melbourne-based band has its finger on the…
Khruangbin: An Audio World Tour
Rotten as they are, imperialism and our globalized mass culture can sometimes produce unique and beautiful, if unintended, hybrids.…
As the old Confucian adage has it, it is a curse to be born into interesting times. But it…
The Gospel and R&B legend once again plants her flag in the resistance.