Algiers
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Live Review: Grauzone Festival, The Hague, Netherlands, 10-12 February 2023
Grauzone Festival’s 10th anniversary took place last weekend in the heart of The Hague, Netherlands. Grauzone aims to present a diverse and cutting-edge programme where music, film and art complement each other. It features young talent as well as established names rooted in or influenced by the underground music scene from new wave, electronic to …
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News: Algiers announce new album for February and release new single featuring Zack De La Rocha & tour dates
ALGIERS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUMSHOOKFEBRUARY 24 LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE‘IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE’ FEAT. ZACK DE LA ROCHA AN ALBUM RECORDED WITH BIG RUBE (THE DUNGEON FAMILY), ZACK DE LA ROCHA, BILLY WOODS, BACKXWASH, MARK CISNEROS (HAMMERED HULLS), SAMUEL T. HERRING (FUTURE ISLANDS), JAE MATTHEWS (BOY HARSHER), LATOYA KENT (MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR), NADAH EL SHAZLY, DEFORREST BROWN JR. …
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Track: Algiers release expanded reimagining of Cleveland (20/20)
Taken from their 2017 album ‘The Underside of Power’, Algiers have released a hugely expanded version (to 50 minutes no less). On the original, vocalist Franklin’s James Fisher names the black people killed by police or who died in extraordinarily suspicious ways and who’s deaths were explained away as ‘suicide’. In this new version, the …
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EP: Massive Attack – Eutopia
Massive Attack have teamed up with Algiers, Young Fathers, and Saul Williams to release an incredibly interesting audio-visual EP that feels like more of an art installation than three tracks that happened to be released together. The EP, entitled Eutopia, is essentially a series of three mini-lectures with enough audio and visual stimulation to keep …
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LISTEN: raging brilliance from Algiers
MATADOR’S eclectic, forward-thinking Atlanta outfit Algiers have released a two-track new single via Bandcamp, “Can The Sub Bass Speak”/ “It All Comes Round Again”. A powerful brace of songs, “Can The Sub Bass Speak” is a raging, righteous declamatory text in the great tradition of The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, over a free …