Singer-songwriter, Jesse Welles, sings from the Fort stage on the second day of the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI on ...

If you’re wondering if protest music is still relevant, look no further than Bad Bunny or Bruce Springsteen. More than 128 ...

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...

As protests happen nearly weekly, we'd like to remind you our local musicians aren't rookies to standing up for justice.

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Social protest and music go hand-in-hand, and Trump's mass deportation push and the violent tactics deployed by ICE has sparked a fresh flurry of musical resistance.

Bad Bunny vows to protest with love. Bruce Springsteen has opted for a more confrontational approach. Both are part of a growing wave of pop-music dissent aimed at what critics see as overreach by the ...

American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, releasing tracks featuring searing criticism of Donald Trump and homage to ...

Yasmin Williams, seen here performing during the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tenn., had a confrontation last year with the interim president of the Kennedy Center, where she ...

Whatever else it was, this was protest music. Their early material involved lo-fi drum machines, with vocals fighting through ...

Folk musician Jesse Welles is part of a new generation of protest singers who are using their art to highlight what they say is injustice by President Donald Trump's ...