Blog: MusicGeek.org

Mark Berube, an indie musician who performs folk-inflected indie with his group, Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few, discusses his perspective on music and politics. This is the third in a series of interviews with musicians discussing political perspectives.  What role do politics play in your music? Politics in modern music can very easily have the tendency to be preachy. I avoid this sort of statement as much as I can, unless I really want to put some balls behind something. I prefer subtlety, like "Ojala," by Silvio Rodriguez, probably [...]

• Mark Berube - Flowers on the stones