Beautiful Struggles and Gangsta Blues. Music review/essay – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ urban music review of the year 2004.
Pick A Bigger Weapon, The Coup, Epitaph Records, 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings reviews a new album from the radical Cali rap duo.
Dead Prez: three new albums in 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings. A slew of new Dead Prez releases deepen and diversify revolutionary US hip-hop, according to Tom Jennings.
Hip Hop Is Dead - review Tom Jennings interprets Nas’ provocation that ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ in terms of the limited liberal horizons of civil rights.
Rebelution - review Tanya Stephens’ new album Rebelution is subtitled ‘a movement without denial or regret’ – making class-conscious ethics central to reggae’s message. Tom Jennings rides its rhythms.
1942-1944: US musicians recording ban The musicians’ union called a ban on all commercial recordings, as part of a struggle to get royalties from record sales for a union fund for out…
15. Waterloo, Blood and Honour gig, London, 1992 A personal account of the battle of Waterloo, when Anti Fascist Action trashed a gig by neo-nazi label Blood and Honour by disrupting their…
Death in June: a Nazi band? - Midwest Unrest Article by the Midwest Unrest group about band Death in June, who use fascist symbolism, and their relation to Nazism, racism and the far right.
The Zazous, 1940-1945 An account of the French anti-Nazi cultural youth movement who opposed the Vichy regime in occupied France. Influenced by jazz and swing they met…