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Artist: Million Dollar Marxists
Five proud Canadians bringing the fast-loud sound to their hometown of Ottawa, Million Dollar Marxists were formed in late 2001 by vocalist Luke Nuclear, guitarists U. Lee Mobile and Steve Salmonella, bassist Johnny Genome, and drummer Timmy Two-Times. Laying down a frantic sound displaying the influences of the New Bomb Turks, the Humpers, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Abyssinia Band
With the flight of its Marxist dictator in 1991, Ethiopia experienced the first heady flush of freedom, and with it the surge of foreign cultural products that had been forbidden for so many years. The Abyssinia Band has been one of the most excited and exciting consumers of these new western musical ideas, attempting to blend them with the... [+] Read More
Artist: Black Furies
San Francisco-based Black Furies take influence from '70s punk, '80s hardcore, and straight-up rock & roll to create their own blazing punk soundtrack. They debuted in 2004 with a self-titled album on Take Root, and followed up the next year with an EP, Meanwhile, Back in the States... In 2004, they also contributed some music to the Wondertaker... [+] Read More
Artist: Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, poet and lyricist Bertolt Brecht was among the most controversial figures ever to impact musical theatre; an avowed Marxist, he often worked in tandem with composer Kurt Weill to create one of the most provocative bodies of work ever staged. Brecht was born February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria; while attending Munich University, he... [+] Read More
Artist: The Art Bears
A warm and wonderful avant-garde band consisting of Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, and vocalist extraordinaire Dagmar Krause. Frith and Cutler were longtime members of the seminal English radical political avant-garde art rock band Henry Cow, while Krause sang primarily with the fine German band Slapp Happy and in Henry Cow's latter years. The Art... [+] Read More
Artist: Amiri Baraka
Poet, playwright, critic, and novelist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) is best known to the jazz community for his two books, Blues People: Negro Music in White America, published in 1964, and Black Music in 1967, both as LeRoi Jones. Long before this, however, Baraka was identified with the New York School of poets and the Beats (he was... [+] Read More
Artist: McCarthy
The British band McCarthy is probably remembered more for their left-wing politics than their jangly sound. Formed in Barking, Essex, England, in 1985, McCarthy consisted of Malcolm Eden (vocals, guitar), Tim Gane (guitar), John Williamson (bass), and Gary Baker (drums). Gane was originally a drummer, but Eden taught him how to play a number of... [+] Read More
Artist: Frank Garvey
Frank Garvey is a radical all-around artist who dipped his fingers in painting, sculpting, songwriting, and theatre. He is best known as the creator and director of the OmniCircus in San Francisco, the world's first robotic theatre ensemble. Marxist philosophy, surreal dreamlike imagery, and a sweet-and-sour taste for the unfit (junk metal, the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Mekons
More than any band that came out of late-'70s England, the Mekons (the name taken from the popular sci-fi comic Dan Dare) have perhaps the most devoted fans of any band even remotely connected to punk rock. And why not? After 25 years together, this band, with an ever-shifting lineup (only Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh remain from the original... [+] Read More
Artist: Alf Edwards
If sections of a record collection can be allowed to sprout and expand like a patch of gourmet mushrooms, then English folk music would take over a wide swath of territory. The bubbling sound of this man's concertina would be in good supply as well, because he seems to have been something of an advance scout on the recordings of British folk... [+] Read More
Artist: Greg Matherly
Greg Matherly is a student at Middle Tennessee State University, working towards a B.A. in both English and Philosophy. He plans to graduate in the summer of 1999 and continue his education through a Ph d. He has been a music reviewer for Jersey Beat Magazine since 1992 and authors an experimental music column entitled "Deconstruction." Greg has... [+] Read More
Artist: Stereolab
Combining an inclination for melodic '60s pop with an art rock aesthetic borrowed from Krautrock bands like Faust and Neu!, Stereolab were one of the most influential alternative bands of the '90s. Led by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, Stereolab either legitimized forms of music that were on the fringe of rock, or brought attention to strands of... [+] Read More
