The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Daily Dose of Protest: Come On! – Jon Spencer

From the artist's Bandcamp This is the latest single by the veteran rocker (which also includes The Bobby Lees’ Kendall Wind and Spider Bowman, and Deke Dickerson). The rollicking protest…

CJ Baker April 23, 2025

Songs Lists

25 Protest Songs About Women’s Reproductive Rights

Women's reproductive rights continue to be a hot-button issue all around the world. For example, on June 24, 2022, in the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. There…

CJ Baker April 23, 2025

Songs Lists

16 Protest Songs About Climate Change

Source: Markus Spiske | Pexels One of the objectives of this website is to document music's link to different protest movements. Music often mirrors what is happening in the world, so…

CJ Baker April 22, 2025

Songs Lists

5 Protest Songs of Rodriguez

RIP Sixto Rodriguez (July 10, 1942-August 8, 2023), photo courtesy of guah, via Flickr On August 8, 2023, Detroit-born singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez sadly passed away at 81. Under the name…

CJ Baker April 22, 2025

Daily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Scars And Stripes Forever – Genitorturers

Their first release since their 2009 album Blackheart Revolution, this is the latest single and video from the veteran industrial metal band. Both the video and lyrics articulate the current…

CJ Baker April 22, 2025

Songs Lists

12 Protest Songs of The Temptations

The Temptations during a 1969 performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Credit: Bernie Ilson, Inc. / Publicity for Motown Records & The Ed Sullivan Show. The Temptations were one of…

CJ Baker April 21, 2025

Songs Lists

15 Protest Songs Of Prince

Photo via Flickr, via World's Direction, public domain. Sadly, on April 21, 2016, Prince passed away at the age of 57. Even though Prince wasn't widely viewed as an explicitly…

CJ Baker April 21, 2025

Daily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: New Gens (featuring Daddy O) – Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio

From the artist's Bandcamp The legendary Public Enemy emcee released the first single from his upcoming solo album, Radio Armageddon, out May 18. Also featuring Stetsasonic's Daddy-O, it is not…

CJ Baker April 21, 2025

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Daily Dose of Protest: Happy Easter – Jesse Welles

From the artist’s website For your Easter Sunday, here is a tune by the prolific singer-songwriter Jesse Welles (could easily just start posting a song of his daily). The satirical topical…

CJ Baker April 20, 2025

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Daily Dose of Protest: Withholding – Divide and Dissolve

From the artist's Bandcamp This is the latest single and video from the recently released 5th album, Insatiable, by the mostly instrumental doom metal project of Takiaya Reed. As with…

CJ Baker April 19, 2025