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Here s a look back at April s political news and the best new music that related to it, which tackles the wars on workers, women and minorities worldwide. You can also listen to a podcast of this column, including all the music, here. 1. BURNING FLAG - MATADOR On April 5, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson - fresh from saying workers had had too many days off by working from home during the coronavirus pandemic - announced the country was opening back up. Days later, British feminist punks Burning Flag released their debut album, which samples Johnson vowing that his much-maligned Brexit will close the productivity gap , on the track Broken Britain . Over crunching, punishing guitars, singer Holly Searle then seethes: What democracy do we live in when voting for a broken Britain? What future do we face when voices can be swayed by hate? Don’t think they’ll ever change, funded by the upper classes. Only way to make a wave is to riot in our masses. Resist, organ ....
Noel Gardner , April 20th, 2021 07:49 Forty years since their debut, and with their first new music in over a decade released this month, Noel Gardner meanders through the opaque history of these UK punk icons. Home page art: Crucified Mite by Nick Blinko An all too rare photograph of Nick Blinko playing live with Rudimentary Peni Rarely can this long-running series be more appropriately named than when considering the curious case of Rudimentary Peni, a transcendent punk band from England. Notionally part of a subculture which – to generalise – favours extroverts, clarity of messaging and maximum communication between artist and audience, the three-piece, who formed in 1980, had limited patience for how they saw that manifest. After 1983’s ....
Artwork by Nick Blinko, used for the new Rudimentary Peni album Great War. Photograph: Sealed Records Namechecked in the Oscar-nominated Sound of Metal, frontman Nick Blinko explains how he negotiated serious mental health issues to make astounding visual art and music Tue 20 Apr 2021 07.30 EDT The succession of cult band shirts worn by Riz Ahmed for his Oscar-nominated leading role in Sound of Metal establish the insider credentials of the film as much as those of Ahmedâs character. One of them will provoke particularly unexpected nostalgia for underground punk fans: a white Rudimentary Peni T-shirt, emblazoned with the cover of the Hertfordshire trioâs 1988 album Cacophony. ....
Rat-a-tat-tat, the new album by Dale Crover of Melvins is DARK. It has songs about dying when you re not ready to die. It has songs about busting up people trying to draw you into high school style drama bullshit. It has totally WHACKED out experimental tracks that sound like something out of Bowie s Low which were then assigned to a demented computer program. The black grime circulates throughout this bad boy. But, the weird thing is, Dale is a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of guy! Dale has been drumming for the Melvins for almost 40 years now, and he is the boom-bapper of all boom-bappers. He brings the raw power of Bonham ....
CinemaBlend Darius Marder s 2020 drama Sound of Metal is getting a great deal of praise as of late, and it s not just because of the movie s gripping story about a drummer in a metal two-piece coming to terms with his sudden and unexplained hearing loss. The director and cast, which is led by Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, and Paul Raci, provide great representation of the deaf and underground music communities with a level of detail and care that is rarely seen in a major motion picture. CinemaBlend has previously covered the movie s portrayal of deaf people and how the film s leads prepared for those early musical performances, but another thing I noticed on a recent watch was the great band tee shirts worn throughout. ....