Free Radicals
Five years in the making, Free Radicals' White Power Outage, the band's vision of the end of white supremacy is embodied in the wild cover art by John Kitses, featuring the power-of-the-people pulling the white-power fossil fuel plug out of the socket, and a Trump-tank riding to armageddon with battalions of MAGA hat guys and cocktail swishing executives. The over 50 musicians include 4 year old kids from Peace Camp Houston chanting their hearts out, 92 year old Harry Sheppard playing with the power of a lifetime of experience on the vibraphone, and every single generation in between. White Power Outage vocalists and musicians represent so many of the beautiful shades of Black, LatinX, white, Asian, mixed, and indigenous people that make up the culture of Houston, Texas. They came together to make revolutionary music, and to demand an end to white supremacy in the arts, culture, politics, the economy, and in their personal lives. Now the band is about to drop White Power Outage volume 2!
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