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5 Protest Songs of Rodriguez
April 22, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Scars And Stripes Forever – Genitorturers
April 22, 2025
12 Protest Songs of The Temptations
April 21, 2025
15 Protest Songs Of Prince
April 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: New Gens (featuring Daddy O) – Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio
April 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Happy Easter – Jesse Welles
April 20, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Withholding – Divide and Dissolve
April 19, 2025
15 Protest Songs of Sinéad O’Connor
April 18, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Fight The Power – Public Enemy
April 18, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos – Public Enemy
April 18, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
April 18, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Public Enemy
April 18, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Sad Old Woman (featuring Matt Korvette) – Problem Patterns
April 18, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: There’s No Future In Optimism – Garbage
April 17, 2025
100 Best Protest Songs of the 21st Century So Far (2000-2024)
April 16, 2025
100 Best Protest Albums of the 21st Century (So Far)
April 16, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Cat Guy – Propagandhi
April 15, 2025
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69 Protest Songs Of 1969 Playlist
April 14, 2025
10 Protest Songs Of Max Romeo
April 14, 2025
Neil Young (with Joan Baez & Maggie Rogers) Performs Rockin’ In The Free World at Fighting Oligarchy Rally 
April 13, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Don’t Happy, Be Worry – Hilltop Hoods
April 13, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Supercallousfascistracistsexistnazipotus – John D. Cundle
April 12, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Deport the Billionaires – David Rovics
April 11, 2025
Dropkick Murphys Perform at Hands Off Protest in Boston
April 10, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: War On Women (Live) – Delilah Bon
April 10, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Tariffic – Jesse Welles
April 9, 2025
100 Best Protest Songs of the 2020s So Far (2020-2024)
April 9, 2025
55 Best Protest Albums of the 2020s (So Far)
April 8, 2025
12 John Prine Protest Songs
April 7, 2025
12 Protest Songs of The Staple Singers
April 6, 2025
5 Protest Songs of Nirvana
April 5, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Evangelist (featuring Jello Biafra) – Ani Kyd Wolf
April 5, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Let’s Make Africa Green Again – BRAFA
April 4, 2025
10 Protest Songs Inspired By Martin Luther King Jr.
April 4, 2025
5 Protest Songs of the Beastie Boys
April 3, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Tateworm – Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores
April 3, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: War Is a God – Jesse Welles
April 2, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
April 1, 2025
10 Chris Cornell Protest Songs
April 1, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: A Change Is Gonna Come – Lonnie Holley
April 1, 2025
A Month of Protest: March
March 31, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Four Women – Nina Simone
March 31, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Mississippi Goddam — Nina Simone
March 31, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Immigrant Songs – Deerhoof
March 31, 2025
50 Heavy Metal Protest Albums
March 30, 2025
100 Heavy Metal Protest Songs
March 30, 2025
10 Joni Mitchell Protest Songs
March 29, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: At Peace – Propagandhi
March 28, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Oh Bondage Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex 
March 27, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Crazy On You – Heart
March 27, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
March 26, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Buried Truth – DeeDee Austin
March 26, 2025
11 Aretha Franklin Protest Songs
March 25, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Respect – Aretha Franklin
March 25, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Super Lover (featuring Annie Lennox) – Allison Russell
March 25, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Working Class Hero – John Lennon
March 24, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Mythical Cowboys – Dead Pioneers
March 24, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Glib Tongued (featuring El-P) – Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
March 23, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
March 22, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Redemption Song – Bob Marley and the Wailers
March 21, 2025
10 Protest Songs of Johnny Cash
March 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Small Dick Energy – Mat Ward
March 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Gendercide – Blak Rapp Madusa
March 20, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: What’s Going On (Song) – Marvin Gaye
March 19, 2025
7 Cover Versions Of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On
March 19, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Get Together – The Youngbloods
March 19, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Red – Jesse Welles
March 18, 2025
Top 25 Protest Songs of All Time (Video)
March 18, 2025
100 Best Protest Songs of All Time
March 18, 2025
Protest Music of Hall of Fame: Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill
March 17, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: The Message – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 
March 16, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
March 15, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Sinéad O’Connor
March 15, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: We Shall Overcome – Pete Seeger and Joan Baez
March 14, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
March 14, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash
March 13, 2025
20 Protest Songs of Neil Young
March 12, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Joe Hill
March 11, 2025
10 Protest Songs of The Clash
March 10, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: The Clash
March 10, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: This Land Is Your Land – Woody Guthrie
March 7, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Dust Bowl Ballads – Woody Guthrie
March 7, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Woody Guthrie
March 7, 2025
A Month In Protest February
March 1, 2025
A Month In Protest: January
February 1, 2025
Reaction To Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Protest Songs Of All Time List
January 29, 2025
Reaction to Rolling Stone’s List of the 250 Greatest Albums of 21st Century (So Far)
January 14, 2025
6 Best Protest EPs of 2024
January 1, 2025
100 Best Albums of 2024
December 27, 2024
Daily Dose of Protest: United Health – Jesse Welles
December 12, 2024
40 Best Protest Albums of 2024
December 10, 2024
Comparing Rolling Stone’s 74 Best Albums of 1974 With My List
December 2, 2024
A Month In Protest: November
November 30, 2024
My Epic Soundtrack: The Trinity Session – Cowboy Junkies
November 11, 2024
Month of Protest: October
October 31, 2024
25 Best Songs of 1974
October 25, 2024
10 Barbara Dane Protest Songs
October 22, 2024
Top 74 Albums of 1974
October 19, 2024
10 Kris Kristofferson Protest Songs
October 2, 2024
A Month of Protest: September
September 30, 2024
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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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 22, 2025
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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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 22, 2025
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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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 21, 2025
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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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 21, 2025
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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…
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Posted by 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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 20, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Soon – Steven Keene
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Daily Dose of Protest: Soon – Steven Keene

From the artist's website The veteran New York-based singer-songwriter and folk artist Steven Keene has established a reputation for composing timely social critiques. For example, his 2020 album Them and…
Posted by CJ Baker July 27, 2022
10 More Protest Songs About Women’s Reproductive Rights
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10 More Protest Songs About Women’s Reproductive Rights

Back in August 2018, this site published a list of 10 topical tunes dealing with women's reproductive rights. That was around the time that Argentina voted against legalizing abortion. There…
Posted by CJ Baker July 25, 2022
Daily Dose of Protest: Fits/My Love Can’t Be – Katie Alice Greer
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Daily Dose of Protest: Fits/My Love Can’t Be – Katie Alice Greer

From the artist's Bandcamp Katie Alice Greer, the former lead vocalist of Washington D.C. punk band Priests, recently released her full-length solo debut Barbarism. Greer wrote, produced, and recorded the…
Posted by CJ Baker July 13, 2022
An Epic Soundtrack To An Mundane Existence Chapter 4: Up Front There Ought ‘a Be a Man in Black
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An Epic Soundtrack To An Mundane Existence Chapter 4: Up Front There Ought ‘a Be a Man in Black

I recently started a podcast based on a novel I wrote. The podcast episodes feature music discussed in the chapters. This episode also features a top list of protest songs.…
Posted by CJ Baker July 6, 2022
Daily Dose of Protest: We Won’t Go Back – MILCK, BIIANCO, Autumn Rowe (featuring Ani DiFranco)
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Daily Dose of Protest: We Won’t Go Back – MILCK, BIIANCO, Autumn Rowe (featuring Ani DiFranco)

Credit: Lorie Shaull Back on January 21st, 2017, singer-songwriter MILCK went viral when she organized a flash mob performance of her song “Quiet” at the Women’s March On Washington. The…
Posted by CJ Baker June 29, 2022
30 Best Protest Albums of 2022 (So Far)
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30 Best Protest Albums of 2022 (So Far)

Since I started this site at the end of 2017, I seem to introduce these lists with variations of it has been a shitty year, but at least we have…
Posted by CJ Baker June 20, 2022
Spitting off the Edge of the World – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (featuring Perfume Genius)
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Spitting off the Edge of the World – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (featuring Perfume Genius)

From the artist's Bandcamp The influential indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs has recently released their first tune in close to a decade, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,”…
Posted by CJ Baker June 15, 2022
New Podcast: An Epic Soundtrack To A Mundane Existence
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New Podcast: An Epic Soundtrack To A Mundane Existence

I recently started a weekly podcast based on a novel that I wrote. The novel is music-centric, and the podcast features the tunes discussed in the chapter. The podcast and…
Posted by CJ Baker June 12, 2022
Daily Dose of Protest: Rise Above – Ibeyi (featuring Berwyn)
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Daily Dose of Protest: Rise Above – Ibeyi (featuring Berwyn)

From the artist's Bandcamp May 25 marked the 2nd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, and sadly nothing has really changed. Racially motivated killings and cops murdering black people…
Posted by CJ Baker June 1, 2022
Daily Dose of Protest: GDP – Bob Vylan
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Daily Dose of Protest: GDP – Bob Vylan

From artist's Bandcamp. Bob Vylan is a grime punk duo who recently released their 2nd full-length album Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life. Just like their 2020 debut album,…
Posted by CJ Baker May 11, 2022

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