This is a discussion about music NOT politics. Your reply can talk about the artists political views but don’t just start soapboxing yourself and break rule 6. They can/should be from any country talking about any government/political ideal. I think my favorite is either immortal technique or flobots.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    1·
    14 hours ago

    Crash Worship.

    They were an anarchist art collective out of New Orleans that put on these incredible live shows.

  • Edge004@lemmy.zip
    1·
    16 hours ago

    Some recent bands I’ve been enjoying include Sister Wife Sex Strike, Cricket!, SPY, Cheap Perfume, and JER

  • Johniegordo@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    There is inti illimani from Chile and Racionais MCs from Brazil. There is the language barrier though…

      • TotallyNotSpez@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Something To Hide, Despicable, Blood // Water, Dirty, Thoughts & Prayers, Darkside, Things Change, Peaches (feat. K.Flay), Is This What You Wanted, Apologize, Riptide, Zen…

        This should suffice for a great musical afternoon. :)

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Gonna be showing my age here, but I was heavy into the likes of Dead Kennedys, Ministry, the whole D.C. Underground punk scene (Black Flag, Fugazi, etc). Anymore, though, I don’t actively seek out music with strong political messages. I prefer to hear artists sing about their personal experiences, their struggles, triumphs, losses…and a political slant is okay as long as it’s an organic part of the song’s message and not just endless proselytizing or ruining your own music by being a political douchebag. (Looking at you, Ronnie Radke!)

    Edit: Almost forgot, dude, if hip hop is your thing, check out Run the Jewels.

      • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        My Ministry story: The one chance I got to see them was on one of the first Lollapalooza festivals, in Raleigh. They came on stage, started playing, and people in the audience started tossing plastic cups back and forth. For a while it was pretty great, but then people started getting stupid. They stared putting mud in the cups. They started throwing the cups on stage. Stage managers were running back and forth trying to collect the cups. Then one of the cups hit Al. He stopped singing, cussed out the crowd, left the stage, and refused to go back on. Their set was done and they had done maybe three songs. Someone came on stage and threatened to cancel the rest of the festival if people didn’t settle the fuck down.

      • hypna@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Brother Ali is also an excellent option in that genre, although his most directly political tracks are not his best IMHO.

  • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Midnight Oil (because I’m Aussie so very relevant)
    Rise Against
    RATM
    Billy Bragg
    Peter Gabriel
    Green Day
    Pink Floyd
    NWA

    • Tujio@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      As much as I hate my country’s devolution into fascism, I love that Murphys are having a resurgence.

  • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 days ago

    Someone mentioned RATM but no one ever talks about The Nightwatchman. Also Boots Riley and The Coup. Street Sweeper Social Club is a Tom Morello and Boots Riley project. Bad Religion is great also. Greg Graffin has several country albums that are pretty good.

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        A good starting point would be the songs “Re-education (Through Labor)” and “Prayer of the Refugee.” If you like those, I would recommend pretty much any of their albums from Siren Song of the Counter-Culture to Wolves. I haven’t kept up with anything more recent than those so can’t give an honest recommendation there, but I would imagine they would also be solid.

  • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Refused

    Incendiary

    Propagandhi

    I appreciate you mentioned Immortal Technique. Hip hop as a genre is generally very political, and doesn’t get a ton of recognition for it.

      • Tujio@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Refused is a Swedish thrash punk band. They made a couple EPs and albums, then put out their magnum opus, The Shape of Punk to Come, and then immediately broke up. They did get back together a couple years ago, though.

        Propagandhi is a Canadian post punk band. They’ve had a dozen different styles over the years, and nobody can agree on which they did best. Personality I like their heavy Thrash album best, Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes.

        • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 days ago

          Propagandhi is a Canadian post punk band. They’ve had a dozen different styles over the years, and nobody can agree on which they did best. Personality I like their heavy Thrash album best, Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes.

          Ohhh I’ll need to check out more of Propagandhi’s stuff if there’s variance in style over their albums. I enjoyed their lyrics, but the music style of the stuff I checked out wasn’t quite my favorite. Thanks for the comment :)

          • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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            2 days ago

            Propagandhi’s lyrics are depressingly accurate in 2026… and much of it was written more than 20 years ago

            My favourite is “and we thought that nation states were a bad idea”…(thats the long-ass song title)

              • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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                2 days ago

                Yes… since as long as i’ve been listening to punk rock in the early 90s, it seems like nothing has changed… maybe even gotten worse.

                As a youth punk rock made me hopeful. Gave me the sense that other people saw the same problems and writing songs and expressing displeasure… 30+ years later, i feel like we havent made much progress in our class struggle. The DIY ethic of the 90s seems to be gone. I’m still going to shows with 55 year old dudes singing about their high school girlfriends, lol…

                • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  2 days ago

                  The DIY ethic of the 90s seems to be gone.

                  I see glimpses of it coming back! Zines are making a come back, there’s newer punk bands joining the scene with fresh voices, and the youth are angry. I think we might be on the cusp of a big punk movement.

                  I feel you to my soul though. I could’ve written your comment myself. Coming of age right before the Iraq war and finding punk shaped my entire worldview.

      • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Sorry, I should have seen and responded to this sooner.

        For Refused - Rather Be Dead, Liberation Frequency, and Thought Is Blood are good starting points.

        For Incendiary - Front Towards Enemy, Bite The Hook, and Echo of Nothing

        For Propagandhi - essentially anything in their discography is good music and very politically charged. I find anything in their top songs to be good examples.

      • kobra@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        When I see Refused I immediately think of their song ‘New Noise’

        For Incendiary, I think of ‘Front Toward Enemy’

        I think both of those are probably their most popular songs? Probably for a reason, I’d start there!

  • kubok@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Massive Attack have their hearts in the right place. Their recent collaboration with Tom Waits is excellent.

    I am not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, but I admire him being the voice of the blue collar worker. I also loved Streets of Minneapolis (however sad the reason)

    Hangyouth is one of the more politically laden bands in our country. One of their biggest hits is ‘You do not hate mondays, you hate capitalism’.

    PS: I love this thread.