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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
RIP Sinéad O’Connor (December 8, 1966-July 26, 2023) Photo courtesy of Man Alive, via Flickr Sadly, influential Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor died on July 26, 2023, at the age of…
When Johnny Cash sadly passed away on September 12, 2003, he left a vault load of unpublished poems, lyrics, letters and other writings. Many of these were published in book…
For close to two decades, Josh Ritter has established himself as a well-respected singer-songwriter. Recently he had the distinction of writing two tunes ("Be of Good Heart" and "Silver Blade)…
On March 2, 2018, folk music icon and activist Joan Baez released her first album in ten years, Whistle Down The Wind. She also announced that it will be her…
"Cycles of My Being" is a new song cycle performed by world renown tenor Lawrence Brownlee. Lyrics were written by acclaimed poet Terrance Hayes and the music was composed by Tyshawn Sorey. Both…
"Circle The Block" is a new single and video from McKinley Dixon's upcoming mixtape, The Importance of Self Belief. The indie rapper addresses issues of police brutality over a funky…
“R.I.P. Patriarchy” The following inscription appeared on a tombstone which was featured on the cover of Petra Glynt's 2017 album This Trip. There is a renaissance of socially conscious female…
"Bad Bad News" is from Leon Bridges upcoming sophomore album Good Thing, which is scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018. Bridges 2015 debut album Coming Home had a Sam…
Escape-ism is the solo project of veteran punk artist Ian Svenonius (Nation Of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, XYZ, Chain And The Gang, among others). "Iron Curtain" is off of the…
"Gold Purple Orange" is off of Jean Grae & Quelle Chris new album, Everything's Fine which will be released on March 30th, 2018. The inventive and satirical hip-hop duo examines cultural…
Afrobeat singer and activist Angélique Kidjo just announced she will be releasing a full length cover album of the Talking Heads' 1980 classic Remain In Light, which is set for a June…