Songs
TOM COCHRANE "Big League (For Humboldt)," 2018
TOM COCHRANE "Big League (For Humboldt)," 2018 When the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team's tragic bus crash in rural Saskatchewan left 16 players and support staff dead on April 6 it struck close to home for Canadian musician Tom Cochrane. In 1988 Cochrane scored a massive rock hit with "Big League," a song written from the perspective of a grieving parent of a promising hockey…
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HUGH MASEKELA, "Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)," 1987
HUGH MASEKELA, "Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)," 1987 South African jazz trumpeter and anti-apartheid crusader Hugh Masekela, who passed away today (Jan. 23) from prostate cancer at age 78, recorded 1987's "Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)" during his 30-year exile from his racially segregated homeland. Abroad, he had a No. 1 U.S. hit with "Grazing in the Grass;" performed…
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GRAHAM COXON, "Falling," 2017
GRAHAM COXON, "Falling," 2017 When Luke Daniel took his own life after a battle with chronic pain last year, his friend Graham Coxon from Blur recorded Daniel's song "Falling" to raise funds for suicide prevention. Proceeds from "Falling" will go towards an organization called CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). CALM's goal is to prevent male suicide, which the organization says…
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GORD DOWNIE, "The Stranger," 2016
GORD DOWNIE, "The Stranger," 2016 When musical poet/The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie died Oct. 17 due to brain cancer, he left Canada with one last message — the country must reconcile with the way it has mistreated its indigenous peoples for the last 150 years so that it can be better in the next 150 years. Downie backed up these words in deed (he created The Downie Wenjack…
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WILD BELLE, "Hurricane," 2017
WILD BELLE, "Hurricane," 2017 Melancholic Chicago-based indie popsters Wild Belle haven't sat idly while natural disasters have impacted much of the United States in recent months. The band have just released new single "Hurricane" to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which were devastated by the effects of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/hurricane/id1297805098?i=1297805100&mt=1&…
PROPHETS OF RAGE, “Radical Eyes,” 2017
PROPHETS OF RAGE, “Radical Eyes,” 2017 American rap rock supergroup Prophets of Rage, which release its debut self-titled album Sept. 15, debuted the music video for “Radical Eyes” on Aug. 22, the day after the solar eclipse. Said guitarist Tom Morello, “On the heels of this historic solar event, let’s all aim to eclipse racism.” Featuring the lyric “They didn’t hear my cry, they said f**k my…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/radical-eyes/id1240396188?i=1240396391&mt…
Artists For Grenfell, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” 2017
Artists For Grenfell, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” 2017 In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, English, which occurred this past June killing more than 80 people, Simon Cowell gathered together 50-plus artists to record a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Featuring a 300-strong choir of locals, led by Gareth Malone, and guest vocalists Queen’s Brian May,…
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ARIANA GRANDE, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Live From Manchester)," 2017
ARIANA GRANDE, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Live From Manchester)," 2017 One of the most moving moments to come out of the star-studded One Love Manchester concert on June 4 was Ariana Grande’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz anthem “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” The song’s hopeful message about trying to find a safe place fit perfectly for an event that was a direct response to the terror…
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THE TEA PARTY, "Release," 1997
THE TEA PARTY, "Release," 1997 Canadian rock trio The Tea Party, currently on tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their album Transmission, still talk about the inspiration behind one of the songs, “Release.” Frontman Jeff Martin wrote the lyric as an apology to women after watching a BBC story about women’s rights around the world. When it was released as a single, proceeds went…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/release/id390318385?i=390318484&mt=1&app=…
YOUNG GALAXY, "Stay For Real," 2017
YOUNG GALAXY, "Stay For Real," 2017 Montreal electro-indie rockers Young Galaxy hand out a lyrical warning on their newest single "Stay For Real." Backed by a firm mid-period Depeche Mode beat, singer Catherine McCandless repeats "Everything's changing/But we've got to stay for real." Nobody will question the band's "realness" considering they've teamed up with the Arcade Fire-…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/stay-for-real/id1200550390?i=1200550462&m…
ARCADE FIRE, "I Give You Power," feat. Mavis Staples, 2017
ARCADE FIRE, "I Give You Power," feat. Mavis Staples, 2017 Arcade Fire's newest song "I Give You Power" is a not-so-subtle message to new U.S. President Donald Trump. The Canadian-based indie rock band, which has two American members, Win and Will Butler, teamed with legendary soul singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples for the thumping industrial groover which was released the…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-give-you-power-feat.-mavis/id1197059204…
CRUZ BECKHAM, "If Every Day Was Christmas," 2016
CRUZ BECKHAM, "If Every Day Was Christmas," 2016 The 11-year-old son of soccer star David Beckham and former Spice Girls singer, Victoria, has released a charity song, “If Every Day Was Christmas.” “If everyday was Christmas and I can't be with you, underneath the mistletoe, kiss you when nobody knows," Cruz Beckham sings. Proceeds from the pop track go to Global's Make Some Noise,…
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SSHH, "Get Up Stand Up," feat. Eddie Vedder, 2016
SSHH, "Get Up Stand Up," feat. Eddie Vedder, 2016 Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder joins singer Sshh Liguz and guitarist Zak Starkey on the Bob Marley cover “Get Up Stand Up,” with proceeds divided between Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America, founded by The Who’s Roger Daltry; and Daltry and Pete Townshend, respectively. The song is from Issues, the charity covers album from Liguz and…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-up-stand-up/id1167929863?i=1167930441…
Death Cab For Cutie, "Million Dollar Loan," 2016
Death Cab For Cutie, "Million Dollar Loan," 2016 It's pretty clear from "Million Dollar Loan," Death Cab For Cutie's withering new song about candidate Donald Trump's financial privilege, who they *won't* be voting for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The song, which debuted as part of the 30 Days 30 Songs anti-Trump project, will have a slightly less partisan side-benefit.…
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/ca/album/million-dollar-loan-30-days/id1161930505?…
BOB DYLAN, "Masters Of War," 1963
BOB DYLAN, "Masters Of War," 1963 Legendary folk-rock musician Bob Dylan was recently awarded the Nobel prize in literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." While "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and a "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" may be better known protest songs, it's Dylan's "Masters Of War" from the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob…
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