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Margaret Glaspy
Song of the Day: Following Sudan Archives’ body- and control-themed number, today’s song was written before the Roe v Wade reversal, but released in response, quietly powerful, bluesy protest by the American singer-songwriter backing pro-choice across a variety of situations
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Special Interest
Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years
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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: “Take me downtown … the darkness downtown …” A first new single since the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman’s 2019 solo album No Home Record, this powerful protest number with thrumming bass and dissonant guitars is a charity abortion rights fundraiser for Fund Texas Choice
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Divide and Dissolve, aka Takiaya Reed (right) and Sylvie Nehill
Songs of the Day: Dynamic volume changes and explosive sounds traverse from classical to dark metal in these extraordinary genre-defying instrumental pieces inspired by the history of colonisation by the Melbourne-based duo from their album Gas Lit
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That's the Fela
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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Millicent Fawcett campaigns for the vote in London's Hyde Park
Song of the Day: Two very contrasting songs to celebrate the centenary of the first legal step into women's suffrage in Britain - the Representation of People Act 1918 - followed by the eventually ratification across the US in 1920.
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