Musicians are giving voice to the urgency of Minneapolis. America has a long history of political protest in song.

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

With Green Day opening the 60th Super Bowl on February 8, everyone is thinking about what statement the California punk rock ...

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground.

The event also revealed that Springsteen shared some of my initial hesitations about “Streets of Minneapolis.” He said that before releasing it, he’d sent it to Tom Morello, the former Rage Against ...

A bizarre report Wednesday about the cause of a temporary airspace shutdown bore eerie resemblance to a 1983 German anti-war pop song. The post 99 Red Balloons In Real Life? El Paso Airspace Closure ...

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Lauryn Hill, Chaka Khan, Raphael Saadiq, Bilal, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, Lalah Hathaway, Wyclef Jean, Lucky Daye, Leon ...

The track written over the weekend and recorded on Tuesday (Jan. 27) is one of the singer's most political anthems to date and a response to killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

Motion City Soundtrack has never been overtly political. The band, hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has always made synth-pop inflected punk music, and social issues have never been their focus — ...

A South Beach nightclub has fired three employees after an anti‑Semitic song was played during a visit from a group of controversial online influencers. The Greater Miami Jewish Federation says it is ...

One-time star CNN anchor Don Lemon is in a wild war of words with Nicki Minaj after the rapper used a gay slur while calling for him to be imprisoned for livestreaming anti-ICE protesters as they ...