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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
1969 Woodstock Music Festival Performer Tier List
September 28, 2024
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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
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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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 19, 2025
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80 Years of Protest Songs Part 4: 1999-2018

80 Years of Protest Songs Part 1: 1939-1958 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 2: 1959-1978 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 3: 1979-1998 The aftermath of 9/11 ushered in…
Posted by CJ Baker September 22, 2018
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80 Years of Protest Songs Part 3: 1979-1998

80 Years of Protest Songs Part 1: 1939-1958 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 2: 1959-1978 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 4: 1999-2018 The 1980s had the reputation of…
Posted by CJ Baker September 21, 2018
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80 Years of Protest Songs Part 2: 1959-1978

80 Years of Protest Songs Part 1: 1939-1958 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 3: 1979-1998 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 4: 1999-2018 The 1960s ushered in what is…
Posted by CJ Baker September 19, 2018
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80 Years of Protest Songs Part 1: 1939-1958

80 Years of Protest Songs Part 2: 1959-1978 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 3: 1979-1998 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 4: 1999-2018 Music is the ultimate time capsule.…
Posted by CJ Baker September 18, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Come On Now – The Family Feud

The history of protest music has no shortage of topical songs written in response to current events. The advent of the internet makes it easier than ever to immediately release…
Posted by CJ Baker September 18, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Prayer Song – Noname featuring Adam Ness

Noname is the moniker of Fatimah Warner, a 26-year-old indie rapper from Chicago. She just released her first official album Room 25, a much-anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed 2016 free…
Posted by CJ Baker September 17, 2018
Daily Dose of Protest: My Contribution To This Scam – Jean Grae & Quelle Chris
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Daily Dose of Protest: My Contribution To This Scam – Jean Grae & Quelle Chris

Jean Grae & Quelle Chris just released a new video for "My Contribution To This Scam," one of several standout tracks on their 2018 album Everything's Fine. The animated video…
Posted by CJ Baker September 16, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Bones – Canches

An artist's art is often influenced by the political climate that surrounds them.  That is definitely the case with indie rock trio Canches.  The members are from the UK, Spain…
Posted by CJ Baker September 14, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: You Hate The Title – Speedy Ortiz

"You Hate The Title" is off of Speedy Ortiz's 2018 album Twerp Verse. The album's Bandcamp page describes the tune as "a slinky traipse through the banality of this current…
Posted by CJ Baker September 13, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Don’t Leave It In Our Hands – The Essex Green

"Don't Leave It In Our Hands" is from The Essex Green recently released album Hardly Electronic. It is the veteran's indie band's first album since 2006's Cannibal Sea. Both the tune and…
Posted by CJ Baker September 11, 2018

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