Thievery Corporation retaliate against radio

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  • The DC duo has set a September date for the release of their new album.
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  • Washington DC duo Thievery Corporation will release a new album in September called Radio Retaliation. As Carl Craig explained earlier this year to RA, the state of radio in the United States is dire, with only a few companies owning the majority of stations throughout the country. Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the two men behind the Corporation, are equally as unhappy about the airwaves and have recorded an entire album about it. Says Hilton "Radio Retaliation is about an exodus of conscious people who are willing to acknowledge something is wrong with the 'official version' in news and culture." Not an uncommon sentiment these days, surely, but with the duo bringing in the likes of Brazilian singer-songwriter Seu Jorge, Nigerian Femi Kuti and sitar master Anoushka Shankar, the message should go down rather easily to even those who don't want to hear it. Tracklist 01. Sound the Alarm feat. Sleepy Wonder 02. Mandala feat. Anoushka Shankar 03. Radio Retaliation feat. Sleepy Wonder 04. Vampires feat. Femi Kuti 05. Hare Krsna feat. Seu Jorge 06. El Pueblo Unido feat. Verny Varela 07. (The Forgotten People) 08. 33 Degree feat. Zee 09. Beautiful Drug feat. Jana Andevska 10. La Femme Parallel feat. LouLou 11. Retaliation Suite 12. The Numbers Game feat. Chuck Brown 13. The Shining Path 14. Blasting Through the City feat. Notch 15. Sweet Tides feat. LouLou ESL will release Thievery Corporation's Radio Retaliation in late September.
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