Has-Been Rocker Says He Will Not Run For Office July 25, 2017 – Kathy Cichon of the Chicago Tribune has an interview of has-been rocker and political firebrand nutjob Ted Nugent up, and he tells the Trib he met with the President and describes it as a “glorious moment in time”. He insulted everyone’s intelligence and…
June 22, 2017 – Moby released his “In This Cold Place” music video recently where President Cheeto ‘transforms’ into a missile-firing swastika Transformer robot, and the conservative right is totally freaking out, and claims it corrupts our youth, encourages violence towards the President, and is ‘anti-American’. Seems to me Moby is doing a great job,…
Activist Musician Teams Up With Donald Fagen “If you’re a Trump supporter, don’t come to my show, because you won’t have a good time. And also, I don’t understand your frickin’ values. Because I’m not singing about that. If you don’t understand the basic thing, you’re just fooling yourself. I guarantee that in this show,…
Musician tell Trump supporters: “I don’t understand your frickin’ values.” May 17, 2017 – One of my favorite artists, who once did all the instruments on one album, Todd Rundgren, said in a statement that if you are a Trump supporter, “Don’t come to my show.” The avant grade artist was interviewed by Variety, and…
From “Yankee Doodle” to Kendrick Lamar – How Protest Music evolved From Civil War Refrains to Viral Trump Videos APR 24, 2017 – Bridgett Henwood of VOX has a good piece up about the history of American protest music, from “Free America” of the American Revolutionary War to a Tribe Called Quest protesting the 2016…
Resistance Music in the Trump Era By Mara Donadio MARCH 20, 2017 – “Donald Trump’s election has elicited resistance marked by activism and political opposition spanning the entire partisan spectrum, from all corners of the world, expressed by a multitude of media. Perhaps most interestingly, resistance has cropped up through music. Numerous artists of all genres have released songs since November that…
“James Corden imagined the horrific ambitions of President Donald Trump and his administration in a parody of Matilda’s “When I Grow Up” on The Late Late Show Monday.” March 23, 2017 – Jon Blistein of RS has a piece up about James Corden’s Musical Spoof Starring Trump, Spicer, Conway, Bannon, and it is hilarious. Read the…
“The Russian dossier on Trump is real. 100% real” says musician-activist Moby. FEB 15, 2017 – Musician-activist Moby spent the weekend with friends of his that work in DC, and he says the got the lowdown dirt on the President, and that the Russian connection between the White House and the Kremlin is “100% real”…
“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…