Music can be a powerful tool when it comes to spotlighting important issues. This is definitely a belief of musician and activist Evan Greer. The fist-pumping follow-up to her exceptional 2019 album she/her/they/them (one of the best protest albums of 2019) can be viewed as an extension of her work as deputy director of Fight For the Future, a nonprofit […]
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A large number of young people joining together to protest against a wave of fascism and racism. You might assume I’m talking about what is going on right now in the United States, and I very well could be. But I’m referring to the rise of The United Front, a white nationalist political party which rose in popularity in the […]
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2020 has been a terrible year for just about everyone. Everyone has their own ways of trying to cope, but if you happen to be a musician it is only natural that writing music would be one of your outlets of coping. The combination of being isolated due to the pandemic and the current state of the world creates the […]
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The title of the latest album by the art-rock duo is a direct reference to a line in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In the film, reluctant hero Luke Skywalker achieves transcendence by acknowledging his own shortcomings. Karl Evangelista and Rei Scampavia of Grex accomplish something similar. The album serves as a platform for them to analyze the challenges they […]
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For over two decades David Strickland established a reputation as a sought after producer, mixer and engineer. He has won both Grammy and Juno (the Canadian Grammys) awards and has worked with a wide range of artists including Pete Rock, Erick Sermon, EPMD, Keith Murray, Redman, Method Man, Drake and just about every notable Canadian Hip Hop artist. After an […]
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The Haisla Nation hip-hop duo’s latest EP Born Deadly is the followup to their acclaimed album Trapline, which was one of the best protest albums of 2019. In a press statement, Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce and Darren “Young D” Metz said, “A lot of the music we wrote for this EP was inspired by the energy we feel at our […]
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Part of the reason for me starting this site is to refute the misconceptions about the lack of modern protest music. The problem isn’t that there is a dearth of socially conscious music, the issue is that most of the artists creating the music inhabit the underground. If you take the effort to seek it out you’ll be greatly rewarded […]
Learn more →Back in the 1950s and 60s, New York’s Greenwich Village played a role in establishing the counterculture with its vibrant scene of anti-establishment beat poetry and folk music. That renegade spirit is still very much alive among a new generation of New York base protest singers and poets. This is the premise of a new documentary by acclaimed documentarian Karen […]
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