https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_(Canadian_band)

Beast was a Canadian electronic music duo based out of Montreal. Its members were vocalist and lyricist Béatrice Bonifassi and composer/producer Jean-Philippe Goncalves. Bonifassi was the main songwriter for the band and the music was composed and produced by Goncalves.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45879024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49429668

Woody Guthrie (1912 - 1967)

Sun Jul 14, 1912

Image: Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: This Machine Kills Fascists [Wikipedia]

Woody Guthrie, born on this day in 1912, was a socialist singer-songwriter whose output includes songs such as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Tear the Fascists Down".

Guthrie was raised by affluent parents in Okemah, Oklahoma and Pampa, Texas. When the Dust Bowl period began in the 1930s, he left his wife and three children to join thousands of Oklahomans migrating to California looking for work.

There, he worked at Los Angeles radio station KFVD, achieving some fame from playing hillbilly music. He also became friends with Will Geer and John Steinbeck and wrote a column for the communist newspaper People's World from May 1939 to January 1940.

After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, he wrote anti-fascist songs with the folk protest group the Almanac Singers and frequently performed with the slogan "This machine kills fascists" displayed on his guitar.

Although Guthrie did not consistently organize with any left party, he was associated with anti-capitalist movements throughout his life, stating "the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party."

• Date: 1912-07-14
• Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, woodyguthrie.org.
• Tags: #Communism, #Birthdays, #Fascism.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

Cheap Perfume - Fauxminism

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MG8GJBSJE

Cheap Perfume - Probably It's Capitalism https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjRFDrwhduI

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/47845053

The letter, signed by over 1,000 artists, calls for Israel to be banned from next month's contest in Vienna

The No Music for Genocide campaign have released a new open letter signed by over 1,000 artists calling for Israel to be banned from Eurovision.

Massive Attack, IDLES, Kneecap, Brian Eno and Sigur Rós are among the huge list of names that have signed the letter, which comes after Eurovision organisers decided in December not to hold a vote about whether or not to disqualify Israel from the 2026 contest, which takes place next month in Vienna.

“A large majority of Members agreed that there was no need for a further vote on participation and that the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 should proceed as planned, with the additional safeguards in place,” the European Broadcasting Union, a group of broadcasters that air the contest in 56 countries, said in a statement.

In their own statement about the open letter, the organisers of No Music for Genocide said: “Every year, for its entire 53-year tenure as a Eurovision participant, Israel has perpetuated its terrorising systems of apartheid, torture, land theft, and military occupation against Palestinians from the river to the sea with complete impunity. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israel’s leaders speak openly about the contest’s geopolitical value.

“NMFG stands with and amplifies the incredible grassroots organising efforts across Europe to boycott Eurovision until Israel is banned. From PACBI to direct actionists, from Film Workers For Palestine in Hollywood to striking dockworkers in Italy and Morocco, people of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world.”

The NMFG campaign had previously signed up artists including Clairo, Lucy Dacus and more to remove their music from streaming services in Israel. Massive Attack also launched an alliance for musicians who are facing “intimidations from within” the music industry over their support of Palestine and Gaza. The band’s Robert del Naja was arrested at a Palestine Action protest in London this month.

You can sign the open letter here and read it in full below.

Continue Reading HERE