Eric Clapton
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The Ministry of Misinformation Is Busy Censoring
By Ray Wilson I was sitting on a bench and listening to one of my favourite street performers. It was a late Sunday afternoon, and it was warm in the sunshine. “Hi there, Si! How’s it going?” “Yeah, all right, I guess.” He told me about his Sundays and how he really enjoyed spending a…
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Where Are the Rebel-Rousing Titans of the Music Industry Hiding?
Essay by Tom Penn In 2009 rap-metal protest band Rage Against the Machine hijacked the Christmas number one spot with the single ‘Killing In The Name’, a song which culminates with frontman Zack de La Rocha’s vitriolic yells of ‘f**k you I won’t do what you tell me!’. The British ‘real music’-loving public had sent…