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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
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

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
Posted in2017: The Year In Protest Music

Top 5 Protest EPs of 2017

When I complied the list of the 25 best albums of 2017, there were a few EPs I was seriously considering as well, but I ended up going exclusively with…
Posted by CJ Baker December 17, 2017
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Little Hands – Fiona Apple

As far as protests go, this is pretty straight forward. Fiona Apple composed this chant for the Women March on Washington which took place on January 21st, 2017. "We don't…
Posted by CJ Baker December 13, 2017
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Daily Dose of Protest: Letter to the Free – Common featuring Bilal

Later today there will be a Senate election in Alabama. The Republican nominee Roy Moore is not only an accused child molester, but he has a long history of promoting…
Posted by CJ Baker December 12, 2017
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: No Lives Matter – Body Count

In this tune, Ice-T starts off with a spoken word intro,  discussing why Black Lives Matter instead of All Lives Matter. From there he goes one step further and states…
Posted by CJ Baker December 11, 2017
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Mosh – Eminem

On October 10, 2017, Eminem performed an anti-Trump freestyle during the BET awards entitled "The Storm". On December 7th, Eminem furthers attacks Trumps and tackles systemic racism in the polarizing…
Posted by CJ Baker December 10, 2017
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Daily Dose of Protest: Old Man Trump – Ryan Harvey (with Tom Morello and Ani DiFranco)

One of the better anti-Trump protest songs was written about Donald Trump’s father. It featured lyrics by the iconic folk singer Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967. During a two-year…
Posted by CJ Baker December 9, 2017
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Miniskirt – Braids

Time Magazine just named the Silence Breakers, connected with the #MeToo movement as their Person of the Year. Because of this, "Miniskirt" from the Canadian indie experimental pop band Braids was…
Posted by CJ Baker December 7, 2017
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Daily Dose of Protest: Gatekeeper – Jessie Reyez

Ever since women started to come out against Harvey Weinstein, the floodgates started to open up with multiple sexual predators finally being outed. Giants in every industry have fallen.  Also the hashtag…
Posted by CJ Baker December 6, 2017
Posted inDaily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose Of Protest: You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie (featuring Tanya Tagaq)

On December 4th, 2017, Donald Trump announced a reduction of two national monuments in Utah. This lead to a mass protest from both Conservation groups and First Nation organizations. Also…
Posted by CJ Baker December 6, 2017

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