Drive-By Truckers formed in Athens, Georgia 20 years ago, and the band's been exploring the music and culture of the American South ever since. Their new album continues that tradition, with a piercing look at issues of race and police brutality.
Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson. Trump University Was Textbook Fraud. Gente-fied | Series Trailer. Prophets of Rage. Neanderthals Built Underground Structures.
Tom Morello told Bloomberg Politics, “Well there a thing called the Republican National Convention in July and that’ll be a perfect place for a band like Prophets of Rage to cause a ruckus and we will be there on the streets in the fields and in the concert hall.”
Prophets of Rage combines the sonic firepower of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill.
Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
Legendary rock star Patti Smith's look back expresses supremely well the tentativeness of every movement forward, the sense of following a path so risky, so sketchily perceptible, that at any moment one might go astray and never be heard from again, never perhaps even hear from the deepest part of oneself again. For a book that ends in success, it is acutely sensitive to that abyss of failure that haunts the attempt to become any kind of artist.
The Jon Stewart Mysteries Presents. Amandla Stenberg: Don't Cash Crop On My Cornrows. Do Federal Taxes Reduce Income Inequality? The Wanted 18: Movie Teaser. Jimmy Page: How Stairway to Heaven Was Written.
Stairway to Heaven was one of the biggest rock songs of the 1970s - loved, imitated and sometimes parodied. Guitarist Jimmy Page gives a personal account of how a rock anthem came together.
Country Joe: Cakewalk to Baghdad. Los Lobos: One Time, One Night. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son. BB King: We're Gonna Make It. Pete Seeger: The Star Spangled Banner.
Some folks are born
made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red white and blue
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son
This Vietnam wartime song (1969) puts a spotlight on the unequal sacrifices hidden by patriotic spouting.
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