animal rights
Award-winning singer wants you to “wear and eat as much seal as possible”
Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq recently trumped Arcade Fire, Drake and Mac DeMarco to take home the $30,000 Polaris Prize—the Canadian award for best LP of the year— for her latest album, Animism. Tagaq is also a strong supporter of the consumption of seals, which is something indigenous cultures in Canada have done for a very […]
Save Portugal. The Man's "endangered song" and the Sumatran Tiger
For Earth Day, Portugal. The Man have teamed up with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute to create an “endangered song” on vinyl made from materials that will degrade with time. Limited to 400, this awareness-raising song mirrors the depleting population of the Sumatran Tiger of which there are fewer than 400 left […]
Song Premiere: Focused Minds, "Content"
As humans, we have the power to change and affect many things, and often the other creatures with which we coexist are on the receiving end of our power, for better or worse. In “Content” from Focused Minds' upcoming album, The Fact Remains, out September 17 via 6131 Records, the band explores the concept of human apathy […]
