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5 Protest Songs of The Temptations
April 19, 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
Top 100 Protest Songs of All-Time According To Rate Your Music (RYM)
September 19, 2024
A Month of Protest: August
August 31, 2024
Daily Dose of Protest: Dude Gotta Go 2024 – Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki
August 22, 2024
Daily Dose of Protest: The Beat Goes On (Freedom of Choice) – Jez Marie
August 21, 2024
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5 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 19, 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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15 Protest Songs of Sinéad O’Connor

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…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 18, 2025
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: Fight The Power – Public Enemy

Public Enemy's black empowerment anthem was composed for Spike Lee's classic "Cause I'm Black and I'm proudI'm ready and hyped plus I'm ampedMost of my heroes don't appear on no…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 18, 2025
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos – Public Enemy

"I got a letter from the government the other dayI opened and read it, it said they were suckersThey wanted me for their army or whateverPicture me givin' a damn,…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 18, 2025
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy

When socially conscious rap group Public Enemy recorded their 1988 sophomore album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck D stated his desire to create the…
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Posted by CJ Baker April 18, 2025
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Daily Dose of Protest: This Trip – Petra Glynt

Petra Glynt is a Canadian experimental indie pop artist. The political intent of her music can be discerned from one glance of the cover of her 2017 album, This Trip.…
Posted by CJ Baker January 8, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Disillusioned – A Perfect Circle

"Disillusioned", which was released on January 1st, 2018, is the 2nd single from the supergroup's upcoming album. It will be their 1st album since 2004's eMOTIVe (which was an album…
Posted by CJ Baker January 6, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: This Is Not The End – MILCK

MILCK went viral last year when she organized a flash mob performance of her tune "Quiet" at the Women's March On Washington on January 21st, 2017. It was a song…
Posted by CJ Baker January 5, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Little Bit – Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples 2017 album, If All I Was Was Black was one of the Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. One of the album tracks, "Who Told You That" was…
Posted by CJ Baker January 4, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Pay Gap – Margo Price

Margo Price's 2017 album All American Made was one of The Top 25 Protest Album of 2017. The title track of that album was also one of the Top 50…
Posted by CJ Baker January 3, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: Happy New Year (Prince Can’t Die Again) – Mac McCaughan

This little ditty was recorded towards the end of 2016 and the premise was fairly self-explanatory. Regardless of how bad things will get, on the bright side at least Prince…
Posted by CJ Baker January 1, 2018
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Daily Dose of Protest: This Ends Today – Garner Family

Anti-police brutality activist Erica Garner died of a heart attack on the morning of December 30, 2017 at the age of 27. Her tireless activism was motivated by personal tragedy.…
Posted by CJ Baker December 31, 2017
Posted in2017: The Year In Protest Music

Top 50 Protest Songs of 2017

French-Cuban duo Ibeyi, made up of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz recorded one of the 50 best protest songs of 2017. Photo Credit: Maya Dagnino This is a continuation…
Posted by CJ Baker December 30, 2017
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Daily Dose of Protest: The Body Electric – Hurray For the Riff Raff

Hurray For the Riff Raff's 2017 album, Navigator was the number one album on the list of Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. Today I decided to focus on a…
Posted by CJ Baker December 29, 2017
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Daily Dose of Protest: Today in Charlottesville – David Rovics

On December 20th, 2017, a street in Charlottesville, Virginia, was renamed after Heather Heyer. Heyer was killed on August 12th, 2017 when white supremacist, James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a group of…
Posted by CJ Baker December 28, 2017

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