Much good music, many styles & perspectives, in one place
Bill Stella | Somerville, NJ USA | 10/14/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Just some of the highlights:
Michael Franti's "We Don't Stop"
Faithless' "Mass Destruction", an apt ingenious re-visioning of just what is a weapon of mass destruction. (And the video is awesome, too.)
Lyrics Born feat. Lateef with perhaps the most beautiful hip-hop track I've every heard
Paris, in an intro to "What Would You Do" that may knock the cobwebs off the musty assumptions in your mind, re-arranging and editing Dubya's language to reveal the subtext, followed up with a meaty rap accompanied by a heart-tugging chorus.
Le Tigre's "New Kicks", beats behind soundclips from the 2003 peace marches, plus a chanting chorus that starts with "Peace -- Now", segues to "This is what democracy looks like, this is what democracy sounds like", and continues, indeed, to new kicks for old ideas.
Free*land with "We Want Your Soul" -- in the tradition of list poems (e.g. John Lennon), with a killer ending.
Plus Anti-Flag, Hamell on Trial, Ani Di Franco, Sonic Youth, Jurassic 5, and over a dozen more.
Peace-not-war dot org for more info (include dashes btwn the words)"