It’s not just the megastars. In Minnesota, many musicians have lent their voices – and drum kits — to vigils, benefit ...

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

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 ...

Opening on Monday March 2, 2026, the When Voices Rise Songwriting Contest invites musicians to submit original songs that speak to the urgency, complexity, and hope of this moment in history.

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

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

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...

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 ...

Lucinda Williams has been making music for decades. With her new album, she's speaking and singing to this moment, calling it ...

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

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 ...