Awesome Sauce Music Friday

Seldom have such metal musicians sung so solemnly about digging holes. </p>

76 years, ago, the Zoot Suit Riots happened, in a combination of racism and self righteous patriotic expression (how dare people have fun clothes when cloth is rationed?!). At least a cool song happened and no one died.    

There is an all girl metal band in Indonesia, who, according to NPR have been told that playing metal is wrong and they should stop.  Nonetheless, they persist and sing about protecting the environment. Featured image credit:Jill Robidoux via flickr

Opera Politico has some Rossini for Trump   Featured image credit: katch via flickr

This showed up in my FB news feed and it makes me very very happy.  Not exactly accurate in all places, but non euphemistic, and makes me happy with its approach specifically to men who just don’t want to know anything about it. Featured image credit: Connor Gaston via flickr

One of the more interesting things I think, music wise, that made an appearance on the golden records is a song by the girls of a pygmy tribe in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.  These tribes are known for extremely dense and complex vocal music, to a …

In this amazing music video, a group of Saudi Women are singing and dancing for women’s rights! Some of it is explained in this captioned video for those of us who don’t speak Arabic. The best protests are those with singing and dancing. Featured image:  cross-stitch ninja via flickr