Social / Political

ELECPHONIC: ELECPHONIC
ELECPHONIC presents an incisive socio-political commentary in a whimsically Mercurial collection of nine tracks simmered and steeped in a stew of electronica.
Recommended if you like Peaches.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $6.30
STATE RADIO: Us Against The Crown
Chad Stokes, Chuck Fay, and Brian Sayers have ingrained the ideals of progressive politics with their infectious blend of rock, punk, and reggae beats.
Recommended if you like Sublime, Dispatch.
HOLLY NEAR: Show Up
Celebrate 35 years of social change music and keeping the political song tradition alive with Holly's latest recording, Show Up
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO: Fellow Workers
Utah sings labor songs and tells stories about where labor unions come from and why we need them today, while Ani's ingenious instrumental and vocal arrangements make the old songs come alive again and, yes, rock.
Recommended if you like Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, Mark Twain.
DANIEL GANNAWAY: SUMMER STORM | A collection of ukulele ditties
Recorded in Hawaii and NZ, SUMMER STORM - singer/songwriter Daniel Gannaway's sixth solo outing - references laidback island life with the ukulele's nylon strings, while wrapping it up a dynamic folk/indie-rock/electronic feel.
Recommended if you like Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.60
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Take Me Home, A Sampler of American Artists for Peace
Jesse Colin Young and 12 other artists perform their own peace songs in a variety of Americana /roots styles, plus award-winning "Take Me Home" video. 100% of the net proceeds support Veterans for Peace in their efforts to bring the troops home now.
Recommended if you like Jesse Colin Young, Country Joe McDonald, Joe Craven.
CD price: $15.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Amaze Me: Songs in the Key of Peace
A grassroots benefit CD of women's voices for peace. The album features thirteen songs by independent singer-songwriters from across the US. All proceeds (100%) are being donated to organizations that support peace,
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick.
CD price: $15.00
PHONOSS: Dead Slow For Hell
The follow up album to the 2004 release 'Eliminator' from Phonoss, Dead Slow For Hell is a darker, heavier follow on, grabbing your ears from start to finish.
Recommended if you like Dinosaur Jr., New Model Army, Queens of the Stone Age.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MITCH WALKING ELK: Indians
Political/Native American contemporary Artist/Anti War/Anti-anti Indian/pro clean environment/some country/folk
Recommended if you like Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Mitch Walking Elk.
CD price: $12.97
OTIS GIBBS: one day our whispers
" In troubadour Otis Gibbs, we may have found America's contemporary Billy Bragg. Not since late A&M period Phil Ochs have we heard such a distinctly American blending of the personal and the political" - Edward Burch, HARP MAGAZINE
Recommended if you like Steve Earle, Billy Bragg & Wilco.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
DANIEL GANNAWAY: OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political
Documenting many of singer/songwriter Daniel Gannaway's previously unrecorded songs of environmental, social and political importance, OP-ED is an inspired compilation of acoustic material on guitar and ukulele - recorded in Hawaii during Feb 06.
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco, Donovan, Jack Johnson.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.40
BRIAN GLADSTONE, PRODUCER: Peace Songs For A Better World Volume II
The songs encompass anthemic and hymnal styles along with new-Country, alt-Rock, Folk, Celtic and Pop, and deal in turns with Peace derived from simple everyday things, Peace nurtured through introspective worship.
CD price: $12.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Where Have All the Flowers Gone: the Songs of Pete Seeger Vol. I
A stunning collection of musicians paying tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger.
CD price: $29.00
OTIS GIBBS: 49th and melancholy
For Fans of early Dylan or "Nebraska" era Springsteen. Americana/ Alt-Country
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
UTAH PHILLIPS: I've Got to Know
Spouting, fulminating, and singing about war, peace, pacifism, and anarchy, Utah focuses on the Gulf War using songs, poems, and rants that apply equally to the invasion of Iraq and war in general.
Recommended if you like Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, Mark Twain.
EMMA'S REVOLUTION: One
Grand prize winners of the John Lennon songwriting award. Activist singer/songwriters whose songs are sung around the world.
Recommended if you like Joni Mitchell, Indigo Girls, Woody Guthrie.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
CECE BORJESON: The Cost of Freedom
The Cost of Freedom is a work dedicated to people everywhere who work for peace, freedom, civil rights and for social and economic justice.
CD price: $15.00
SAQI DOSAJ: We The People
Saqi's politically themed debut is a funky fusion of spoken-word poetry and song, featuring an impassioned performance style and her musical penchant for the eclectic, ranging from folk to raggae...
Recommended if you like Ani DiFranco, Alix Olson.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
MARC MOSS: America Cries
A plea for America to return to a true Democracy. Evokes emotion, yet upbeat and catchy, reminiscent of the sixties anti-war songs.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00