Belle and Sebastian share song “If They’re Shooting at You” in support of Ukraine [Consequence of Sound]
Yo-Yo Ma performs a musical protest outside the Russian Embassy [NPR]
Spiritualized unveil third single from Everything Was Beautiful [Spin]
Deftones part ways with Quicksand's Sergio Vega [Brooklyn Vegan]
Wayne Kramer reactivates MC5 for new music, spring tour [Spin]
Porcupine Tree share "Of the New Day" from new LP, announce tour [Brooklyn Vegan]
Music History
[Courtesy of calendar.songfacts.com ]
March 7
1994: The Supreme Court rules that parody constitutes fair use in deciding that 2 Live Crew's version of Roy Orbison's "(Oh) Pretty Woman" (where the woman is now big and hairy) is legal.
March 8
1994: Two seminal albums from the '90s are released: Soundgarden's Superunknown and Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral. They enter the albums chart at #1 and #2, respectively.
March 9
1997: New York rapper Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.) is gunned down in Los Angeles streets just six months after his rival Tupac Shakur met the same fate.
March 10
2003: Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines sparks political controversy in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq after telling a London audience: "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."
March 11
1991: Pearl Jam begin recording their debut album, Ten, at London Bridge Studios in Seattle.
March 12
1988: Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" hits #1 in the US. The video, which shows a buttoned-up Astley singing his way around London, does well on VH1, but really takes off two decades later with the Rickrolling trend, as webmasters point links to the song's YouTube video to trick unsuspecting readers into watching it.
March 13
2013: Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys
takes out a skinhead fan after seeing him raise a Nazi salute. A crowd
had gathered onstage for the encore and, seeing the fan across the
stage, Casey hits him to the floor and lays into him. Calmly returning
to his bass, Casey proclaims: "Nazis are not welcome at a Dropkick
Murphys show."
Some artists are making political statements and releasing music in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Do you have a favorite political song from years past?
What have you been listening to?
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