Singer-songwriter, Jesse Welles, sings from the Fort stage on the second day of the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI on ...

Social protest and music go hand-in-hand, and Trump's mass deportation push and the violent tactics deployed by ICE has sparked a fresh flurry of musical resistance.

It’s not just the megastars. In Minnesota, many musicians have lent their voices – and drum kits — to vigils, benefit ...

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...

Opening on Monday March 2, 2026, the When Voices Rise Songwriting Contest invites musicians to submit original songs that speak to the urgency, complexity, and hope of this moment in history.

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

As protests happen nearly weekly, we'd like to remind you our local musicians aren't rookies to standing up for justice.

Bad Bunny vows to protest with love. Bruce Springsteen has opted for a more confrontational approach. Both are part of a growing wave of pop-music dissent aimed at what critics see as overreach by the ...

Whatever else it was, this was protest music. Their early material involved lo-fi drum machines, with vocals fighting through ...

Lucinda Williams has been making music for decades. With her new album, she's speaking and singing to this moment, calling it ...

Yasmin Williams, seen here performing during the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tenn., had a confrontation last year with the interim president of the Kennedy Center, where she ...

Explore powerful protest songs from the 1970s that defined change, iconic tracks captured political unrest, social justice, and cultural transformation.