April 2025 – Page 4 – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Daily Dose of Protest: Tariffic – Jesse Welles

Photo Credit: Justin, CC BY 3.0 Yet another satirical gem from the prolific topical singer-songwriter. This one critiques Trump's tariffs. It also makes it clear that Trump and his ilk…

CJ Baker April 9, 2025

Songs Lists

100 Best Protest Songs of the 2020s So Far (2020-2024)

With the decade being just beyond the halfway point, I decided to previously post my list of the top 55 albums of the decade so far. I'm now following it…

CJ Baker April 9, 2025

2020s: A Decade In Protest Music Songs Lists

55 Best Protest Albums of the 2020s (So Far)

clipping. We have passed the halfway point of the current decade, and it continues to be chaotic. The chaos provides the canvas to create powerful protest music in response to…

CJ Baker April 8, 2025

Songs Lists

12 John Prine Protest Songs

John Prine (October 10, 1946-April 7, 2020) From artist Bandcamp page On April 7, 2020, acclaimed singer-songwriter John Prine sadly died at the age of 73, due to complications connected…

CJ Baker April 7, 2025

Songs Lists

12 Protest Songs of The Staple Singers

The Staple Singers on Soul Train with Don Cornelius. From their gospel roots to secular success, The Staple Singers played an important in helping to compose the soundtrack of the…

CJ Baker April 6, 2025

Songs Lists

5 Protest Songs of Nirvana

Nirvana performing at 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Credit: P.B. Rage Kurt Cobain tragically passed on April 5, 1994, at the age of 27. If he were still alive it…

CJ Baker April 5, 2025

Daily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Evangelist (featuring Jello Biafra) – Ani Kyd Wolf

From the artist's Bandcamp This tune is from the 5th solo album, The Last Steps of Man-Unkind, by the veteran Canadian Metis punk vocalist. On the YouTube video page, she…

CJ Baker April 5, 2025

Daily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Let’s Make Africa Green Again – BRAFA

Released back in 1985, a few months after Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", a reggae supergroup got together to record a charity single for Ethiopian famine relief. Formed…

CJ Baker April 4, 2025

Songs Lists

10 Protest Songs Inspired By Martin Luther King Jr.

1963 Mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr, . Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15th, 1929 and he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Considering the indelible impact…

CJ Baker April 4, 2025

Songs Lists

5 Protest Songs of the Beastie Boys

Photo Credit: Masao Nakagami On May 4th, 2012, Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys lost his battle to cancer, at the age of 47 years old. He was more…

CJ Baker April 3, 2025