Friday, April 24, 2015

Light In the Neoliberal Darkness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lPdg4URXu8
MV Bill and Kamila CDD throw down in this epic track from 2014 (English subtitles available in SRT format). Where Putinism's ideology of imperial Russo-whiteness has devastated Russia's once-thriving hip hop scene, Brazil's anti-neoliberal resistance movements keep fighting.


Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Music From Mali

It is one of the central paradoxes of the early 21st century, that the lands most terribly scourged by neoliberalism have also been centers of the most extraordinary political resistance and cultural creativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77PMQFHQys


Just listen to this gem by Malian artist Youssouf Karembe, called Ambaji (click here to support the artist). Also, shouts out to Baba Throbule for maintaining one of the finest music channels around.