From viral hits to street rallies, musicians are producing a surging wave of protest music for people hungry for change.

“Country” Joe McDonald, the rocker who became a staple of protest music in the ‘60s, has died. He was 84. McDonald died ...

Last month, well-known Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi released a song titled “Auschwitz,” about the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters earlier this winter, which estimates suggest killed between 7, ...

The Super Bowl halftime show is fundamentally unserious. Dancers dance. Pyrotechnics explode. Athletes play a sport that barely anyone plays outside the country that invented it. Viewers at home ...

Something is shifting in the air. Not just politically, not just socially - but sonically. From folk singers with acoustic ...

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

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 ...

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

When a song keeps us awake at night or forces us to question our own comfort, that is already a form of political work ...

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 ...

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.

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