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The Rebel Beat Podcast 059 – Howl Arts Festival Inspires Montreal
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This week on the program, we bring you an overview of the annual Howl Arts Festival in Montreal. If you’re not familiar with the Howl Arts collective, they are a grouping of radical activists and artists in Montreal, trying to bridge the divides between culture and social movements. Not only do they put on amazing concerts and release amazing music, but they also organize interventions where artists speak out against gentrification, austerity, and police brutality. All said, we have a lot affinity with them here at The Rebel Beat.
Just one of the beautiful posters for the Howl Arts Festival
We caught up with Kevin Lo on the program this week to tell us all about the Howl Fest. Kevin is a Montreal-based activist, graphic designer, and member of Howl Arts. Fans of The Rebel Beat are already (perhaps inadvertently) acquainted with Kevin’s work, because he designed the logo for our show! Definitely check out his amazing design work with his own independent imprint, Loki Design.
All that, plus new tunes from LAL, Heathers, Agnostic Front, and a tip of the hat to 4/20, Oi Polloi style!
Enjoy!
Playlist – April 20, 2016
K.O.B. – Break they laws
Dead Prez – They schools
Chumbawamba – Revolution
Hard Left – Economy
Bad Religion – We’re only gonna die for our own arrogance
Agnostic Front – No war fuck you
Kultur Shock – Build a wall
Sandhill – 1981
Mohamed Masmoudi – Solo oud
Interview with Kevin Lo of Howl Arts
Ras Moshe and Stefan Christoff – Piano, bells, and sax
Beatrice Deer – Relocation
Elena Stoodley – L’essentiel
Saxyndrum – Maceonectar
Orkestar Kriminal – Der schmayser
Ras Moshe – Meditation for David S Wane
Yusef Lateef – Chang chang
Jurassic 5 – If you only knew
LAL – B.E.W. epilogue
A Silver Mount Zion – What we loved was not enough
Leftover Crack – Last legs
Classics of Love – We need a change
Oil Polloi – T.H.C.
Heathers – The hydra