Listen Close: Recent Episodes
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Take a closer look at songs that have a social or political meaning, beyond their face value. Presented by Serge Negus each week on Mornings with Alex Pye, on Sydney's FBi Radio.
Serge breaks down the 2016 budget winners and losers. Broken up by one of Australia's strongest political tunes in the form of The King is Dead by The Herd.
Victim blaming, its something experienced a lot by women. Being catcalled or whistled at in the street would make most people uncomfortable, but society continues to tell women that they should take it as a compliment. But it is in fact a form of harassment and gender inequality.
One in every three women will experience domestic violence or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. No Way is anthem for the women of Australia in the face of adversity and a call to arms for government action.
M.I.A highlights the need for recycling and the environmental impact of the textiles industry through a H&M inititive called World Recycle Week. But is this just companies greenwashing for a profit?
The drone war waged by America according to many has failed and has been hailed by some as a recruiting tool for ISIS. Anohni's Drone Bomb Me highlights the personal reality and ethical questions raised when killing remotely from a distance.
Whats the price we pay for eating meat? Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change as well as being an ethical dilemma. Borneo's track Eating Animals pokes fun at the ease at which we turn a blind eye to the impact of our choice of consumption.
In Ode To Ignorance Remi tells it really how it is for someone of colour in this country called Australia. In his eyes, no one is to blame more for this ignorantly perpetuated racism that the media and politicians.
Captain Moonlight is know as Australia's queer bushranger, whose last request before being hung was to be buried by his best mate and lover. Marcus Whale has used this incredible part of Australian history as inspiration to right about a need for more diversity in Sydney's music scene.
The Songhoy Blues formed in Mali during a time of severe conflict, where if they were caught playing music, they could have had their hands cut or have even be killed.
Voicing the frustrations of a community that wants and deserves and better than what they are given, The Blacker The Berry is Kendrick Lamar voicing is contempt of institutionalised racism in America.
After being detained for over two years simply for expressing their political rights, Pussy Riot are back at with a track that brings light the the corruption in Russia's legal system.
Courtney Barnett's Depreston puts in song the reality of housing affordability for Millennial's across Australia.
Roots Manuva is no stranger to the hard life, growing up in the British underclass he has made a name for himself as one of the countries greatest hip hip artists - Hard Bastards takes aim at the reality of inequality in modern Britain.
Queer rapper producer LE1F breaks down the reality of racism within the gay community in his track Taxi.
Paternalistic governance is an issue we are getting all to used to here in Australia and Perth MC Mathas is having non of it. Enforce Less is a cleverly constructed breakdown of the laws created to help us, that actually hurt us.
Kendrick Lamar dropped one of the most political charged albums to come from a chart topping artists in years. Alright is his anthem to the oppressed, telling them to keep fighting through the negativity, and turn it into a positive.
Sikh Hip Hop artist and community worker L-Fresh The Lion highlights the need to be proud of your culture in his track Survive, an ode to his fellow Sikh's in a country that can at times be abrasively ignorant.
Anohni's first single off her highly political album Hopelessness delves into the lack off action taken on what is arguably the most pressing issue facing the world today - climate change.
M.I.A is no stranger to politics, and her song borders is nothing short of a machine gun spray of a political point making. Highlighting the the flaws in the way that the world is dealing with its refugee crisis and the identity conflicts created by borders.
Emma Donovan teamed up with with Tim Rogers and Joelistics to raise cover two classic Indigenous tracks to raise funds for the SOS Black Australia movement trying to stop the forced removal of Indigenous Australians from their traditional lands.
After feeling frustrated by the inequality experience by her in love friends not being able to get married, Elizabeth Rose penned Division, a song calling for a change in the continued political rhetoric surrounding marriage equality.
Disenchanted by the inability of Australia's left to put any sort of fight against the ever organised attack dogs of the right, The Drones track Taman Shud is a scathing attack on just about everything and everyone in Australian society.
Sydney's nightlife, music, arts and culture has been gripped in a battle with the law for over two years now. The Lockout Law have literally rendered parts of the city a ghost town. In finding an uncanny likeness to the lyrics of Ghost Town by British Ska band The Specials and Sydney's current cultural crisis, Sticky Fingers covered the song in an effort to challenge the current state of politics in Sydney.
Following the Adam Goodes saga, where the Indigenous AFL star and Australian of the year was continually jeered with racists taunts, Horrorshow wrote a rallying cry to the nation to take a long hard look at what white Australia labels 'racist', stating we have a habit labelling it "Any Other Name" when really, it is nothing other than racist.