Song of the Week: Maná’s ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños? combines powerful music with message — Listen and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Maná is on the North American leg of their México Lindo Y Querido tour, including dates in the US. Credit: Andy Kellen By Saul Myhre, Alliance Intern from the University …
Song of the Week: Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi urges us to act before we pave over paradise
Joni Mitchell in 1968. Credit: Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive, Getty Images By Saul Myhre, Alliance Intern from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities ’21 “Don’t it always seem to go, That …
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 …
