Daily Beast, “Peter, Paul & Adolf: Neo-Folk Has a Nazi Problem”
The music was good, if you could overlook some artists’ fixation on Nazi death skulls. That was the dilemma facing listeners like Shane Burley, a writer covering far-right extremism. “I like neo-folk,” Burley said. “I want to go to neo-folk shows.” But neo-folk music—along with a handful of other genres like black metal, industrial music, […]
ARTSATL, “Folk music icon Frank Hamilton brings the traditions he helped create to his Decatur school”
My biological father, Frank Strawn Hamilton, was a labor organizer and a philosophical hobo. He got around on the old rattlers in those days [a railroad train consisting of freight cars], and finally wound up in New York doing lectures on socialism and anarchism. He was a mentor for a novelist by the name of […]
Gothamist, “A History of NYC Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday To Reagan Youth”
Reagan Youth was political from the very beginning, formed by Forest Hills-natives with a vision of “a loud, fast, anarchist, punk rock band that would expose the evils of society,” according to their website. A broad ambition, to be sure, but one that they remained committed to during the ten year period, beginning in 1980, […]
Houston Press, “Donald Trump Has Already Inspired an Awful Lot of Songs”
McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born anarchist who called McKinley “an enemy of the good, working people.” Does that sound vaguely familiar? Although the song includes the lines “they tried to make me trust him and they tried to get me scared,” and “He was a rotten bastard and I’m happy that he’s […]
The Sacramento Bee, “The voice of Nevada City, KVMR, makes a move,” March 5, 2015
The voice of Nevada City, KVMR, makes a move by Sam McManis, The Sacramento Bee, March 5, 2015 Of course, given KVMR’s famous leftist tilt and its quasi-anarchist heritage exemplified by the legendary folk protest singer U. Utah Phillips, you didn’t expect program director Steve Baker to actually use something so square as the crosswalks […]