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Music, Music Feature Apr 26, 2018
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The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires

More than a century ago, Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the radical union’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on that legacy of struggle through music.
- By Kim Kelly
- Tags: Music Feature, Little Red Songbook, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, Wobblies, Joe Hill, Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, Billy Bragg, John Darnielle, Mountain Goats, Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine, Nightwatchman, Lucy Parsons, Eugene V. Debs, Big Bill Haywood, There Is Power in a Union, The Rebel Girl, The Preacher and the Slave, Pie in the Sky, Solidarity Forever, Which Side Are You On?, I’m Too Old to Be a Scab, Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, Haymarket Affair, Ralph Chaplin, Circles & Ciphers, No Cop Academy, Black Lives Matter, Movement for Black Lives, BLM, M4BL, Ethan Ethos, Rebel Diaz, Chance the Rapper, Jamila Woods, G Herbo, Austin Lunn, Panopticon, Kentucky, Florence Reece, Talib Kweli, Dropkick Murphys, Fight for 15, Big Red Songbook, Alexandra Bradbury, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, strike, Flood Wall Street, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 31, 2017
Matt Jencik of Implodes makes his solo debut with an album of gorgeous drone

Plus: Instrumental hip-hop producer Radius drops three records in a busy month, and the Love Lion label releases a cassette of vintage gospel to benefit Black Lives Matter.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Matt Jencik, Implodes, Weird Times, Hands in the Dark, Circuit des Yeux, Slint, Radius, Budamunk, Portal to Canis, Mathematics Recordings, Jamal Moss, Hieroglyphic Being, the Secret Life of Sound, Get Into Something/Becoming, Culture Power45, Sense, producer, Emily Elhaj, Love Lion, Antigravity Magazine, Shout Music, BLM, Black Lives Matter, Reckless Records, Angel Olsen, gospel

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