Song of the Week: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with will.i.am’s sustainable poetry
Prophesizing “the Eskimo gets bit by a mosquito” and “rastas in Jamaica will get hit by a quake/that registers something like 8.8,” will.i.am’s brooding rhymes have a respectable snap of …
Song of the Week: Before the Water Gets Too High by Parquet Courts
By Saul Myhre, Alliance Intern from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities ’21 In their 2018 song Before the Water gets too High, Parquet Courts wonderfully conceptualizes the feeling that …
Song of the Week: 50 years ahead of its time – Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me”
Two of the images that capture how cutting-edge Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” album was in addressing environmental threats and social justice 50 years ago. Note the burning going on …
Song of the Week: How Cosmo Sheldrake has encapsulated the essence of the Earth’s oceans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUi_cm3OSJ0 By Saul Myhre, Alliance Intern from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Cosmo Sheldrake is the perfect example of a creator who at the heart of their being commands …
Song of the Week: Childish Gambino’s Feels Like Summer has a deeper message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0 By Saul Myhre, Alliance Intern from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities When Childish Gambino (AKA Donald Glover) sings Feels Like Summer, he’s not just talking about feel-good, warm, …
Song of the Week: I Don’t Believe in Violence by Larry Long featuring Cameron “La Diva” Wright
We’d like to propose a new national anthem to replace the current song which celebrates slavery, a massacre, war and violence. We propose I Don’t Believe in Violence, written in …