Zero G Sound

Paul Robeson is one of the greatest yet most unknown figures of the 20th century.  His philosophical framework was comprised of anti-colonia...

Recorded between April and June of 1971, Alice Coltrane's "Universal Consciousness" stands as her classic work. As a tes...

Equipped with a band full of instruments operated by various parts of his anatomy, Bay Area legend Jesse Fuller was a folk music favorite i...

Born in Chile in 1965, QUILAPAYUN is today one of the best known latin-american music groups in the world. On an artistic level, the group´...

Banda Bassotti is an Italian ska-punk band formed in 1987 in Rome. Their songs are generally political in nature, focusing on Communist a...

The Dog Faced Hermans were a four-piece band whose style could be described as anarcho-punk incorporating folk and noise influences as wel...

"The Internationale" is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records,...

Townes Van Zandt's music doesn't jump up and down, wear fancy clothes, or beat around the bush. Whether he was singing a quiet, intr...

A compilation of tracks from 2El Capitan" and "All Used Up: A Scrapbook", "The Telling Takes Me Home" is a quick ...

This album was recorded live in 1990 by a re-formed version of the band without either Dolphin Taylor, who was playing with STIFF LITTLE F...

On July 3, 1977, Sun Ra shared a bill with Paul Bley at Axis-In-Soho as part of the Newport in New York Festival, which was recorded b...

An actor, humanitarian, and the acknowledged "King of Calypso," Harry Belafonte ranked among the most seminal performers of the po...

Decades before his time, political and musical revolutionary, Sun Ra, developed a new plane of cultural existence where black people were ...

The folksinger Arlo Guthrie likes to tell a story about his father, the legendary Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967, at the age of fifty-five....

The opera, "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" ("Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny"), is a razor-edged critiqu...

Konstantin Wecker is a household name in Germany. He is probably the country's best-kept secret to the rest of the world. For over 25 ye...

"Lotte Lenya sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill" is a LP recorded by Lotte Lenya in Germany in 1955, five years after the ...

"The blues, contrary to popular conception, are not always concerned with love, razors, dice, and death," Richard Wright wrote in...

This album was originally released by Moses Asch, founder of the Folkways label, on Asch Records in 1941 as "Struggle: Documentary No....

Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was a true poet who invented most of his lyrics on the spot and never seemed to run out of new ideas. He was a bl...