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Song of the Day: As the heatwave continues let's enjoy a double from Nigeria's prolific genius, one about our most precious resource, the other in relation to a police confrontation involving a planted cannabis joint
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Prophets of Rage - a protest supergroup
Song of the Day: To accompany Donald Trump's continuing controversies, two powerful tracks from the new album made by as potent a protest force in music imaginable – a supergroup of three members of Rage Against The Machine along with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, and frontman B-Real of Cypress Hill
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Eels, fronted by Mark Oliver Everett. This song comes from their ironically titled 2013 album Wonderful, Glorious. And this song includes the Brazilian rainstick.
Song of the Day: While Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un insanely posture with nuclear weapon threats, a song that portrays the nature of an insecure, repressed, psychopathic mind, which might explain it all
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Malcolm Browne's photograph of a self-immolating monk protesting against the killing of Buddhists by a US-backed Vietnamese regime in 1963
Song of the Day: With the Trump regime, a North Korean conflict, and much more besides, it's time to unleash the ultimate song of defiance, still raging against foreign policy and the corruption of power
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The rare five-member Pink Floyd of 1968, including Dave Gilmour (front) and Syd Barrett (second left)
Song of the Day: A darkly humorous choice for the current political climate. It is when there were briefly five members of the band, and a setting that inspired a passage in Douglas Adams's famous book
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