In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating the spirit and relevance of the protest song, spreading messages on such ...

Bruce Springsteen has always held a mirror up to America. Sometimes that looks like 1975’s Born to Run, about escaping ...

“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being ...

Freed from slavery, the Israelites spontaneously burst into song in this week’s portion. Singing is the first step on their ...

His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...

Woody Guthrie wrote the tune “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” about the same 1948 plane crash ICE is memorializing today ...

Less than two weeks after he stood on a stage in Red Bank condemning ICE operations in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen has ...

Donald Trump and tech billionaires have killed the counterculture that thrived in past eras of protest. Can today's artists lead the resistance again?

Mourning for Renee Nicole Good, the singer decried the Trump administration and the threat to freedom posed by “heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city.” ...

In January 2026, Senator Mark Kelly filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Emmylou Harris has always been a musical enigma, from the moment she first picked up the $30 pawn shop guitar her grandfather bought for her when she was a teen. She would later say the nightly folk ...