However, Bruce Springsteen has been making subtle political statements in his music since the start of his career. Here are four songs that prove he’s never backed down from sharing his truth. From ...

Discover the impact of protest music in 2025. Songs that unite and inspire change, sung by diverse and LGBTQ artists.

Music exists for as many reasons as humans have thoughts. Whether expressing joy, love, grief, or anger, music conveys our deepest feelings like no other art form. To me, the noblest of all reasons ...

Johnny Cash might best be known as an outlaw country singer who changed the mold, but he’s also known as an accomplished protest songwriter. Many of his songs have held poignant political and cultural ...

Naomi Westwater performs at "Which Side?" on Aug. 13 at the Lizard Lounge with backing band The Paid Protesters. (Courtesy Mike Ritter) Boston mariachi singer Veronica Robles recently performed during ...

I t happened earlier this month the same way it always happens. Jesse Welles was scrolling on his cell at home in northwest Arkansas — Siloam Springs, population 21,000 — when he came across a ...

Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's “Masters of ...

Country musician John Rich, an ally of President Donald Trump best known as one half of the duo "Big & Rich," released a fiery protest song against the Tennessee Valley Authority after leading recent ...

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts played Chicago’s Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island on Wednesday evening, and near the end of the main set, they debuted a new song titled “Big Crime” that ...

Michael McDermott hadn’t planned to rush out new music Friday, but the daily headlines about persistent immigration arrests in the Chicago area compelled him to respond the only way he knew how. “The ...