BBC The Rolling Stones have dropped Brown Sugar, one of their biggest hits, from their US tour. It follows unease…
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WORD Presents: Ian Brennan + Michelle Cruz Gonzales
About the Book Popular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating people’s homes and haunting…
Politics & Prose Live! Ian Brennan | MUSE SICK with Judith Heumann
Politics & Prose September 25th, 2021 Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan’s seventh book, Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine…
Proposal for Social Transformation
The world is sick, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure. The world is sick, capitalism is the disease,…
London Calling with Randal Doane on You Forgot One Podcast
By Your Forgot One Podcast In this week’s episode, we explore everything that makes The Clash’s London Calling one of…
Tom Wilson: An Unsung Hero of the Studio
By Ian Brennan TapeOp May/June 2021 That an African American man played a massive and pivotal role in three seminal…
Ian Brennan’s New Album Is A Unique Look At The Comoros Islands
By NPR Weekend EditionMay 22nd, 2021 NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to producer Ian Brennan about the new album, We are…
’90s feminist punks Spitboy reissuing discography on Don Giovanni w/ liner notes by Billie Joe Armstrong
By Andrew SacherBrooklyn VeganApril 6th, 2021 Bay Area feminist punk band Spitboy only existed from 1990 to 1995 but they…
Michelle Cruz Gonzales on I Wanna Jump Like DeeDee podcast
By Giles SibbaldI Wanna Jump Like DeeDee PodcastMarch 21st, 2021 Michelle Cruz Gonzalez is an extraordinary Xicana woman who emerged…
Witch Camp (Ghana): I’ve Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be review – magical sound of the marginalised
By Dorian LynskeyThe GuardianMarch 13th, 2021 (Six Degrees)Sung in little-spoken Ghanaian dialects, these haunting, spontaneous songs by women accused of…