“Though the short-sighted executive order was blocked, it has enacted a chilling effect whose end result is unknown” Richard Gehr on RS writes about Trump’s idiotic, and illegal, travel ban order. One musician told him, “No agent’s going to say, ‘I’m going to take on a Syrian artist for next fall.’” Read the full article…
Mark Townsend writes on The Guardian: “A cache of lost Bob Marley recordings has been discovered after lying for more than 40 years in a damp London hotel basement. The 13 reel-to-reel, analogue master tapes were discovered in cardboard box files in a run-down hotel in Kensal Rise, north-west London, the modest lodgings where Bob…
JAN 23, 2017 – Roger Waters comes charging out of the gate to lead an “Anti-Trump Resistance” and fight President Trump’s policies and agenda. Rolling Stone has a good piece up featuring a video performance of him doing his masterpiece “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” in Mexico City heavily laying into Trump and his policies. Animals was…
“In Trump’s America, the inauguration seemed to suggest, entertainment is something necessarily divorced from politics.” JAN 23, 2017 – Music.Mic has a good piece up about the musicians and bands that played at Trump’s inauguration on Saturday, and how it reflects and “speaks volumes” about a Trump administration and their values. Check out the article…
“To continue with the anti-Trump stance, as well as to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Green Day have released a new lyric video for Revolution Radiocut “Troubled Times.” Of the new video, Armstrong said in a press release ‘Today we celebrate love and compassion more than ever.’” Read more on UpRoxx below, and watch Green…
“Our decision is based SOLELY on the respect and gratitude we have for Bruce and the E Street Band.” JAN 17, 2017 – The B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen cover band that was going to play at Trump’s inauguration has announced they are pulling you and will not be performing. It looks like the…
JAN 15, 2017 – Musician-activist Neil Young has wrote a new song about Donald Trump reports The Hill. Some of the lyrics are, “Delete and fast-forward, my friend. The elections are over and nobody wins. But don’t worry too much, you’ll go crazy again.” Read the full article below. http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/314294-willie-nelson-writes-trump-inspired-song-for-new-album
President-Elect Trump has a guest-starring spot in Emin’s 2013 music video for “In Another Life.” JAN 12, 2017 – President-Elect Trump’s ties to Russia continue to show up and pile up. This time it is Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire and real estate developer, whose son made a ‘music’ (I use that term loosely) video with a…
‘The world is a different place’ Says Edge JAN 11, 2017 – U2 has delayed the release of their new album because of the result of the US Presidency election results. Edge told RS the the band was putting their new album on hold for some “breathing space” to consider what they wanted to say…
Chuck D, David Crosby, Angie Martinez & Rapsody Weigh In JAN 10, 2017 – Musicians Chuck D and David Crosby, and Rapsody along with NY DJ radio personality Angie Martinez sit down with Billboard and Adelle Platon and Dan Rys to discuss President-Elect Trump, music, and what a Trump Presidency will mean to music. David…