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Culture / Politics

Where are the songs of freedom?

June 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A discussion at PJ Media and then Instapundit, about music and the end of the Cold War, which we should be celebrating throughout this year, but we won’t be very …

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Culture

Is it me or is music shit?

January 27, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s day after Australia Day, so Australia’s taxpayer-funded hipster national radio station Triple J has run its Hottest 100 songs of the previous twelve months. They are voted by the …

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Culture

What will be the classics of today?

January 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Just the other day I was again browsing at Lifeline Bookfest, the twice-yearly largest charity book sale in the world, which takes place – of all places – in Brisbane, …

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Culture / Politics

Baby It’s Woke Inside

December 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In this week’s chronicles of outrage and offence: “Radio stations around the U.S. and Canada have dropped the 1944 Christmas tune from their lineups over lyrics including, ‘I ought to …

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Culture / Politics

Nothing Compares to Insh’allah

October 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

An artist formerly known as Sinead O’Connor becomes a Peace* Symbol: Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has revealed she has renounced Catholicism and converted to Islam, taking the new name “Shuhada’ …

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Culture

What do metalheads and Papuans have in common?

September 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A lot apparently, according to an anthropologist: Heavy metal fans have evolved to communicate with each other like remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a study by anthropologists has found. …

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Culture

Christian Devil’s Music

September 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A much maligned music genre has a long history and an interesting present: In 1972, when Larry Norman was still feeling optimistic about his musical career, he set out on …

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Culture / Politics

Fighting racist stereotypes with gangsta rap

August 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I don’t know how well thought out this strategy is: The video for KUDZAI’s 4 Deep In The Suburbs starts off menacingly — a police siren wails, and four figures …

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Culture / Politics

The right is the new punk, the German edition

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

i confess to guiltily liking heavy music from Germany, from Rammstein, which is just nasty, to In Extremo, which combines thumping guitars with bagpipes and draws from varied sources, including …

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Culture / Politics
January 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

#GRAMMYSSOBLACK – No one complains and campaigns when the America’s premier music awards become completely dominated by rap and R’n’B – possibly because no one cares, SJWs love it, and …

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Culture / Politics
January 18, 2018January 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SAVAGE BERNARDI – Musicians get quite touchy about their music. It is their baby after all, and who wants their baby touched by a filthy right-wing hand? Hence, Heart sends a cease-and-desist …

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Culture
January 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

RAP IS CRAP IS THE KING – Bad and sad news from the world of music: Rock is no longer the top dog in music. For the first time ever, …

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Culture / Politics

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

December 31, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A lifetime ago, a charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid made the UK recording history. Released on 3 December 1984, by the last day of the …

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Culture / Politics
December 23, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

POP MUSIC IS GLOOMY AND IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT – Kinda. “The New York Times” surveys 2017’s pop music landscape and finds it mired in gloom, doom and not-so-silent desperation: The …

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Culture / Politics
December 16, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WILL THE REAL SLIM SHADY PLEASE SHUT UP – Eminem is very angry that Trump doesn’t listen and respond to his attacks. Judging by this 1.5/10 stars review for his …

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Culture / Politics

Jerusalem, if I forget you…

February 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Some good news from Spain, where the courts have finally started fighting anti-Semitism, which so often in Europe comes disguised as anti-Zionism: A court in Spain’s southeastern Valencia province has admitted …

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Culture / Happiness / Life

On Iron Maidens and the power of music

June 11, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’ve just finished watching an oldish (8 years) doco about Iron Maiden’s 2008 “Somewhere Back In Time” world tour and it got me reflecting on the wonder that is music. …

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