Look Out Guantanamo Bay…a New Music Coalition is Forming

Remember when several bands found out that their music was being used to break detainees in Guantanamo Bay? Well, they are finally standing up and doing something about it.
Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Rage Against the Machine, and others are joining a coalition to put pressure on the Obama Administration to close the Cuban once-secret prison.
This is an interesting idea, and it is great that these bands are being proactive. The whole idea of using blaring music for hours at a time, sometimes days, is horrifying.

According to documents from January 2002 to October 2003 they would play everything from Nine Inch Nail’s ‘March of the Pigs’ to the Meow Mix jingle. No joke.
Sadly, I don’t think that a bunch of musicians getting together behind the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo will do as much as they hope. But Obama has always been adamant that the prison will be closed, so many it will offer just enough support to push it through.