Articles

"Putin vs. Pussy Riot: Art, Repression, and Punk Rock Rebellion," 3/30/12
"We're the Wrecking Ball," 3/19/12 "Time Has Come For a Union," 3/9/12
"Never Mind Johnny Rotten, Real Punks Boycott Israel," 2/21/12
"The Burden of Crossing Over," 2/15/12
"A Tale of Two Fingers," 2/13/12
"The Curse of the Boss: Music, Elections, and the Promise of the American Uprising," 2/8/12 "Don Cornelius and the Power of Soul," 2/7/12
"The Rhyme of Revolution," 1/25/12
"As Many Roles As People Make It: An Interview With Ani DiFranco," 1/24/12
"Blues and Badness: What Etta James Gave to Music," 1/20/12
"Fallen Idols," 1/9/12
"The Red Raiders vs. Scott Walker: 'Union Maid' Invades the Rose Bowl," 1/4/12
"Punk Is Not a Crime (And Neither Is Islam)" 12/21/11
"Hitched To War and Bigotry," 12/19/11
"This World Ends Now..." 12/13/11
"The Nine Most Important Songs of 2011," 12/8/11
"The Revolution Will Be Amplified: Is the Occupy Movement Liberating Music?" 11/23/11
"Beats and Bombs?" 11/22/11
"A Soundtrack To the Human Struggle," 11/17/11
"Simmering Sounds: Oakland's Insurgent Culture and the Roots of Rebellion," 11/7/11
"The World Will Be Bright Again," 10/21/11
"We Are All L-Vis," 10/17/11
"Not My Country," 10/7/11
"Can Hip-Hop Be 'Bigger Than the Occupation?'" 9/29/11
"A Rebel's Guide to Guthrie," 9/23/11
"'And Still I See No Changes': Tupac's Legacy Fifteen Years On," 9/20/11
"Two Good Reasons to Boycott Fender," 9/7/11
"The Sounds of Anger," 8/30/11
"Riot, Rap and Racism in Cameron's Britain," 8/20/11
"The Fierce Independence of Maimouna Youssef," 8/19/11
"Don't Want My MTV," 8/5/11
"Oslo, Hip-Hop, and the Fight to Defend Multiculturalism," 7/29/11
"A Losing Game," 7/26/11
"Leaving Behind the Lounge," 7/19/11
"Remi Kanazi's Poetry of Struggle," 7/11/11
"Bono Faces the Music," 6/28/11
"Passion Is a Weapon," 6/14/11
"Blame Rapists, Not Artists," 6/9/11
"Gil and the Devil: Remembering Gil Scott-Heron," 6/6/11
"The Death of Hipsterism," 5/26/11
"Personal Revolution: An Interview with United Sons of Toil," 5/20/11
"Unity: Bob Marley's Legacy and the Global Uprising," 5/13/11
"Return of the Radical Nerd," 5/10/11
"Defiance in Day-Glo," 5/4/11
"Bieber's Empty Pop Can't Drown Out Palestine's Cry," 4/22/11
"'And Roses Too,' or the Case For Public Arts Funding," 4/21/11
"Damaged Gang," 4/6/11
"Pain, Promise and Protest on Lupe's Lasers," 3/14/11
"The Foolish Side of the Cultural Boycott Line," 3/29/11
"Don't Misunderstand: An Open Letter To Nas," 3/21/11
"Breaking the Sound Barrier In Madison," 3/7/11
"Beats Against Repression In Zimbabwe," 3/4/11
"Putting the Popular Back In Pop," 2/18/11
"Changing Times, Changing Tunes," 2/17/11
"Voices From the Gutter," 2/10/11
"Egypt: The Sound of Revolution," 2/9/11
"Piracy Funds Truth," 1/21/11
"This Year Goes To Eleven," 1/10/11
"Thirty Years of Sandinista!" 12/30/10
"Re-Imagining Lennon," 12/8/10
"It's Bigger Than Weezy," 12/4/10
"This Song Is Our Song," 11/29/10
"Memo to Kanye: No Olive Branch For Dubya," 11/7/10
"A Fight For an Orchestra's Future," 10/20/10
"Rap That Knows No Compromise," 10/18/10
"A Song Silenced By Hate," 10/8/10
"Beats, Rhymes and Progress: Hip-Hop's Division Dilemma and the Forces That Can Break Boundaries," 9/29/10
"A Chronicler of People's Songs," 9/20/10
"A Clarion Call For the Movement," 9/17/10
"The Kanye Controversy One Year On," 9/10/10
"Big (Racist) Mouth Strikes Again," 9/7/10
"A Decent Party," 8/23/10
"Haiti's Hip-Hop President?" 8/17/10
"Been Caught Stealing... Our Money and Our Rights," 8/6/10
"Shut the [expletive] Up: An Open Letter to Elton John," 7/30/10
"It's Nothing New..." 7/23/10
"The Modern Media Assassin," 7/14/10
"There is Power in a Boycott," 7/5/10
"Return of the Working Class Heroes?" 6/28/10
"M.I.A. is Right, NYT is Wrong," 6/11/10
"Silence for Arizona," 5/31/10
"Diaspora Rising: Rap, Reggae and Rebellion Converge on Distant Relatives," 5/24/10
"Back to Arizona," 5/17/10
"Soul-cialism," 5/12/10
"I Was Born Free!" 5/7/10
"We Need Songs For Right Now," 4/29/10
"Music For Forgetting," 4/23/10
"Nevermind the Genius," 4/12/10
"An Affront to Lilith's Legacy," 4/5/10
"What Makes the Walk Worth It," 3/29/10
"The Celtic Rocker: An Interview with Black 47's Larry Kirwan," 3/18/10
"The Ghosts of San Patricio," 3/17/10
"BBU Blowin' Up," 3/11/10
"A Rebel To the End," 3/1/10
"Bruce v. Ticketmaster: A Bittersweet Victory?" 2/22/10
"The Mayer of Pigtown," 2/18/10
"Modern Heavy Manners," 2/16/10
"There's Got to Be a Soundtrack," 2/11/10
"The Clash They Represent?" 2/8/10
"Fame Monster Unleashed," 2/1/10
"Hope For Haiti When?" 1/25/10
"Aid Not Troops: Why Wyclef is Wrong About Haiti" 1/18/10
"Flirting With Death: What Vic Chesnutt Can Tell Us About the State of Healthcare," 1/11/10
"Whose Decade: Bono's Or Ours?" 1/4/10
"Between Sorrow and Hope: The Year 2009 in Music," 12/30/09
"The Top 25 Releases of 2009: 5 - 1," 12/15/09
"The Top 25 Releases of 2009: 15 - 6," 12/8/09
"The Top 25 Releases of 2009: 25 - 16," 12/1/09
"Blurring At Windmills," 11/23/09
"The Children of Woody Guthrie," 11/19/09
"Rap Doesn't Kill People... Governments Do," 11/17/09
"Strong Medicine Man," 11/12/10
"Less Schlock, More Rock," 11/10/09
"Between Sounds Faded and Sounds Made," 11/2/09
"U2: An Almost Extinct Species," 10/25/09
"Are You Listening?" 10/19/09
"Blue Scholars: Beating Back Boundaries," 10/12/09
"Our Music is So Gay: Music and LGBT Liberation" 10/10/09
"Bad Acoustics: Using Music As a Weapon," 10/4/09
"Ghetto Rock ...or... Death By Def," 9/27/09
"Pearl Jam Pass the Torch," 10/20/09
"Kanye, the VMAs and the Spectacle of Controversy," 9/16/09
"Solidarity Hip-Hop Style," 9/13/09
"Fund Arts, Not Banks," 9/6/09
"It's Bigger Than Jackson," 8/30/09
"Sick Sounds: Musicians and Healthcare," 8/23/09
"Rise and Fall of the Woodstock Nation," 8/16/09
"Respect, Dammit!" 8/9/09
"Suicide Onstage: What Green Day's Theatrical Debut Means," 8/2/09
"The Wicker Park Fest: WTF?!?!" 7/29/09
"My Grind is My Stimulus Plan," 7/25/09
"With Arms Closed: Why We Should Hate Creed," 7/6/09
"How Michael Jackson's Music Changed the World," 6/29/09
"Son of Nun Interview, Part 2," 6/22/09
"Son of Nun Interview, Part 1," 6/8/09
"Plague Lovers' Purgatory," 6/1/09
"A Change is Gonna Come?" 5/25/09
"This Scene, It's Something to Live For: An Interview with Intifada," 5/24/09
"Whose Country is This?" 5/18/09
"Reality Relapse," 5/11/09
"A Spector is Haunting the Industry," 4/20/09
"Gaza Needs Music Too," 4/17/09
"Bank Robbin' Music," 4/13/09
"All the Rage," 4/6/09
"Nonsense on the Horizon," 3/19/09
"From Fallujah to County Antrim," 3/17/09
"Remember the Music," 2/27/09
"The Good, the Bad and the Clueless," 2/13/09
"Kill Your 'Idols'" 1/30/09
"This Change is Our Change," 1/23/09
"Respect For All, Not Just Some: A Public Letter to Aretha Franklin," 1/16/09
"Can You Handle Tha Truth?" 1/9/09
"Pop is Dead! Long Live Pop! The Top 20 Albums of 2008," 12/31/08
"Looking Back to Find the Future," 12/12/08
"The Voice of a Movement: Odetta, Activist and Singer, Dies at 77," 12/5/08
"It's Hard Bein' Humble in the Belly of the Struggle: A Conversation With the Democracy and Hip-Hop Project," 11/21/08
"Collisions Ahead," 11/14/08
"Raging In the Streets," 11/4/08
"On Enemy Ground: The Clash Live at Shea Stadium," 10/29/08
"Artists of the World Unite!" 10/22/08
"I'm a Human Being, Y'all!" 10/4/08
"Militant Entertainment: What the RNC and DNC Protests Can Tell Us About Where Music is Headed," 9/24/08
"A Different Brand of Humor at the VMAs," 9/8/08
"We the Fire Next Time!" 8/5/08
"NaS, the N-word, and the Changing Face of Hip-Hop," 7/28/08
"Rosa Clemente's Stand," 7/22/08
"Guyville Reloaded," 7/7/08
"The Struggle of Rebel Diaz," 6/25/08
"The Groundbreaking Beat of Bo Diddley," 6/5/08
"Tellin' It How It Is: Hip-Hop Stands Up For Sean Bell," 6/5/08
"Serious Hip-Hop For Serious Times," 5/14/08
"Rebel Music: Thirty Years of Rock Against Racism," 4/30/08
"The Disney-fication of CBGB," 4/15/08
"Songs of Survival and Hope," 4/7/08
"Freedom Songs: Erykah Badu's New AmErykah Part One," 3/2/08
"Barack's Big Hype: Is Obama the candidate of the Hip-Hop Generation?" 2/17/08
"We Need Rock! We Need Choice! Music Needs a Woman's Voice!" 2/9/08
"Picket the Grammys! An Open Letter to the Writers Guild of America," 1/28/08
"Liberation From the Music Business As Usual," 1/20/08
"They Are Human and They Need To Be Loved..." 1/14/08
"Rebel's Requiem: The Legacy of Strummer Five Years On," 12/29/07
"Trouble In the Heartland: Springsteen Casts a Spell With Magic," 10/9/07
"M.I.A.'s Kala: Real World Music," 9/14/07
"Kenneth Foster's Songs of Freedom," 8/24/07
"Rebellion In Light and Dark: A Talk With Photographer Glen E. Friedman About His Book On Fugazi," 8/20/07
"The Beat Has Stopped: Good-bye Mr. Roach," 8/18/07
"Amy Winehouse: Got Soul? Hell Yeah Sister!" 8/10/07
"Clear Channel, Payola, and How They're Killing Radio," 8/7/07
"The White Stripes Don't Fear the Rock," 7/17/07
"The Anti-Bush 'Band' Wagon: Why Are So Many Artists Taking Bush to Task?" 6/12/07
"Hey Lizzie! Remember This One? God Save the Queen Thirty Years On," 6/8/07
"Are Green Day Kicking Ass For the Working Class?" 5/23/07
"I Got the BP Blues," 5/13/07
"Rage Against the Machine Returns!" 5/4/07
"The Mad, Loud and Brilliant World of Lester Bangs," 5/1/07
"Is Russell Simmons Playing Politics With Hip-Hop?" 4/27/07
"Son Volt's Search For a Better World," 4/20/07
"A Hundred Million Gold Coins: Why Steve Jobs is NOT a Saint," 4/11/07
"The Times They Are A Changin': The Shifting Winds of Protest Music," 3/16/07
"Bloc Party's A Weekend In the City: The Beauty and Ugliness of Modern Life," 3/4/07
"Bashing Britney: The Face of a Shameless Industry," 3/1/07
"'There's a Need to Be Hopeful': The Radical Beats of Radio 4," 1/28/07
"Notes of Resistance: Ten Musical Reasons to Be Cheerful In 2007," 1/7/07
"Respect Must Be Paid: Farewell Mr. Brown," 12/26/06
"The Poet and the Tyrant: Victor Jara's Music and the Brutal Legacy of Pinochet," 12/18/06
"All Towers Crumble: Should We Mourn the Loss of the Megastore?" 12/6/06

Not on Rebel Frequencies

"Radiohead's In Rainbows: Cutting Out the Greedy Labels"
Eleventh Transmission and Socialist Worker, November, 2007
"The World is Worth Fighting For: The Legacy of Joe Strummer"
MR Zine, 12/22/06
"In Support of Piracy"
MR Zine, 10/27/06
"From Mp3's to Sweatshops: iPod and the Sound of Slavery"
Dissident Voice, 6/21/06
"Rapper or Terrorist? US Locks Out M.I.A."
Dissident Voice, 6/14/06
"In Defense of Rock 'n' Roll"
Dissident Voice, 6/6/06
"London's Still Calling After 25 Years"
CounterPunch, 10/2/04