Artists from Jesse Welles to Nashville songwriter Zach Schmidt are singing about the senseless killing of Renee Good ...
Venezuela has a deep tradition of reflecting political change through music. This week, as the country reels from the seizure ...
According to one of his biographers, Bob Dylan could have been sued for his iconic protest song, "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll".
One of the most famous protest songs of all time is “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon. Famously performed from Lennon and wife Yoko Ono‘s hotel room in Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada, the ...
Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out will return in the new year with an evening of music, story, and solidarity at the Burren Back Room on Tuesday, January 20. What began as an experiment in ...
On this day (October 23) in 1963, Bob Dylan entered the Columbia recording studio in New York and recorded “The Times They Are a-Changing.” The song captured the hearts and minds of listeners who, at ...
The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...
DJ Yella sits down with Keyshawn Johnson to dive into what led to N.W.A. writing and producing their famous protest song, 'F*** the Police' and how it became the theme song for Rodney King during the ...
I was delighted to see the June 9 op-ed by Rebecca Spiess and Alicia Chen, “In the Trump era, where have all the protest songs gone?” Yes, we need the famous singer-songwriters of our time to be a ...
Midway through his set at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, on Saturday night, Neil Young sat at the piano and performed his Reagan-era protest song “Long Walk Home” for the first time since ...