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1. GOJIRA - FORTITUDE  On May 1, a march in Sydney for International Workers' Day brought the fight for jobs and climate together, but days later, the Australian government announced it was using $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money to keep oil refineries open. On May 19, it said it would use a further $600 million of public funds to build a gas-firedpower station, after the private sector refused to sink money into such a risky project. The same day, the world’s largest iceberg broke off Antarctica. Articulating the global climate anguish was the hugely melodic new album from French metal ban...

Brazil's MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album Issued on: 19/05/2021 - 04:08 Rapper MV Bill, is seen in Rio de Janeiro April 27, 2021 CARL DE SOUZA AFP 3 min Rio de Janeiro (AFP) Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years. At 47, Alex Pereira Barbosa -- his real name -- has earned the right to call himself a veteran of Brazilian rap since his 1988 debut as a teenage hopeful straight out of C...

Brazil’s MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album 167 RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Brazilian rapper MV Bill’s new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years. At 47, Alex Pereira Barbosa — his real name — has earned the right to call himself a veteran of Brazilian rap since his 1988 debut as a teenage hopeful straight out of City of God, the Rio de Janeiro slum made famous in the film of the same name (2002). In some ways, a lot has changed since t...