Asian artists at Hate Racism festival
There’s a good article on the Guardian blog about the lack of Asian artists at the Loe Music Hate Racism festival. I saw this mentioned somewhere else too, but can’t remember it now.
MIA is of course fantabulous, but they missed out Bishi. I would have gone to see her.
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What’s interesting is that young south asians in the US seem to have taken up the challenge of more edgy indo-fused political hip hop and r&b – check out karmacy(http://www.karmacy.com/)
An indian hip-hop band which disdains vanilla-bland r&b and gets stuck into issues – rapping in english, spanish, gujerati, punjabi and hindi … their new album contins scathing diatribes against the war in iraq, the treatment of women, and the effect of immigration to india – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fncsCNptj78 ….
Its the sort of scene we desperately need to be seeing evolving once again here ….