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2016 Round-Up Music Ian Sinclair

PROTEST music is dead, some said this year. They wouldn’t have, if they’d checked out Anohni’s intense Hopelessness (Rough Trade). 

Formerly working as Antony from Antony and the Johnsons, the British musician’s bold and brash electro album rails against Obama’s drone wars, Guantanamo Bay, climate change, dangerous masculinity and the death penalty.

Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers released the equally outraged American Band (ATO Records), their angry State of the Union address.

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