Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow, Niles Rogers, Bootsy Collins, and other famous musicians released a video under the banner of “Artist for Action to Prevent Gun Violence” in hopes of securing more gun control. Source Views: 0
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Watch: Famous Musicians Including Billy Eilish, Sheryl Crow, Peter Grabiel Push Gun Control Campaign
700 musicians join pledge to support for Palestinian freedom
Today, Musicians for Palestine is announcing 700 new signers and releasing a second statement. Organizer Stefan Christoff joins the podcast to discuss this milestone. Source Views: 0
Musicians, artists withdraw from music festival in Berlin due to Israel partnership
Several American, English and French singers have pulled out of Berlin’s Pop Kultur Festival due to the event’s partnership with the city’s Cultural Department of the Embassy of Israel. French singer, Lafawndah, withdrew from this week’s Pop-Kultur Festival shortly before the start of the pop culture festival yesterday, after she condemned the organiser’s support for […]
Hundreds Of Musicians Sign Onto Boycott Letter
Stand In Solidarity With Palestine. Hundreds of musicians, including members of Rage Against the Machine, have signed on to an open letter that asks other artists to boycott performances in Israel until it ends its occupation of Palestine. The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, members of Cypress Hill, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and System of […]
Polish musicians reclaim Warsaw’s Jewish past with song
When classically trained flutist Ania Karpowicz and pianist Marek Bracha play works by composer Wladislaw Szpilman in the Warsaw neighborhood of Muranow, they are doing more than honoring a well-known Polish composer. They are placing him back in a Jewish-Polish framework that many in the audience – local residents of the neighborhood where the Jewish […]
Paris musicians put on concert in front of occupied Odéon Theatre
Classical musicians put on a concert in Paris on Saturday protesting COVID restrictions that have seen theatres closed. They staged the performance in front of the Odéon Theatre, which has been occupied for several weeks by artists, musicians and many temporary or short-contract workers who depend on cultural events for a living and are unable […]
Fajr Music Festival to honor three musicians with lifetime achievement awards
TEHRAN – Veteran musicians Mohammadreza Es’haqi Gorji, Maliheh Saeidi and Hassan Nahid will receive lifetime achievement awards at the 36th Fajr Music Festival, the organizers announced on Monday. They also plan to pay tribute to composer Ahmad-Ali Ragheb, who died of cancer last December. Es’haqi Gorji, 73, is a dotar virtuoso who is an expert […]
One of the best musicians in Israel sings about the war to liberate Palestine
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Musicians try to lift spirits in COVID-hit Brazilian favela
Musicians have been trying to lift spirits in COVID-hit Brazil. They played in Sao Paulo’s largest favela, Heliopolis, which is home to more than 200,000 people and has been badly affected by the virus. The musicians, from Heliopolis, are part of the Baccarelli Institute, a non-profit organisation that has been promoting the social inclusion of […]
Tilda Swinton, other writers, actors, musicians condemn Trump’s Jerusalem move
Tilda Swinton, Mark Ruffalo, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno are among dozens of writers, musicians and actors condemned Donald Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,” the letter states, “Donald Trump seeks to achieve through a declaration what Israel has been trying to do for […]
Artists, Actors, And Musicians Support Net Neutrality Protests
Above photo: Michael Stipe, Tom Morello and Graham Nash are among the 150 musicians, actors and artists who penned an open letter in support of net neutrality. Ollie Millington/WireImage, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images, Bobby Bank/Getty Images Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and […]
Video: Brisbane musicians rework Nick Cave classic to demand he cancel Israel show
“This coming from a country that eradicated it’s indigenous population, while commiting cultural genocide…, Quite true, and very sad, and and the consequences have dogged us. But the conditions of life in Europe were enough to create streams of tens of millions of immigrants and the resources of America there for the taking. So the […]
Legendary Rapper Says Male Musicians Have to Perform Sex Acts to Make It in Music
Legendary rapper, RA the Rugged Man has been calling out the depraved monsters in the music industry for years, and now he’s hitting even harder. by Matt Agorist, guest author If you are looking for bubble gum radio music about bitches, hoes, cars, and jewelry, then RA The Rugged Man is not for you. However, […]
Young Gaza musicians break the Israeli siege – by accident
Here’s a kind of a sunshine story – which is really a stroke of luck, and no thanks to Israel. Yesterday, Nigel Wilson reported in Al Jazeera that two Gazan musicians, violinist Sofiya Radwan and trumpetist Raslan Ashour (both 16), managed to complete a tour with the Palestinian Youth Orchestra, and perform in the West […]
Israeli musicians to Thom Yorke: Canceling Radiohead show will disrupt Israel’s ‘business as usual’ facade
Dear Thom Yorke, We are Israeli musicians writing you about your scheduled performance in Israel this July 19. It is our understanding that the public appeal urging you to respect the Palestinian picket line and cancel this concert was published only after a private appeal went unanswered. Likewise, we will only publish a public letter […]
Prehistoric Musicians of Europe – Mammoth Ivory and Bird Bone Flutes from 40,000 BCE
The researchers have obtained important new radiocarbon dates for bones found in the same archaeological layers as a variety of musical instruments. The instruments take the form of flutes made from the bird bones and mammoth ivory. They were excavated at a key site in Germany, which is widely believed to have been occupied by […]