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Daily Dose of Protest: Good Trouble – music for sea monsters
July 15, 2025
Tier List Tuesday: 100 Most Popular Songs (Video)
July 15, 2025
18 Protest Songs About Climate Change
July 14, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Joe Hill
July 14, 2025
100 Punk Protest Songs
July 12, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Pretend You Remember Me – Tom Morello
July 12, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Why Is This? – Indigenous Cats
July 11, 2025
15 Best Punk Albums of the ’80s
July 11, 2025
The Origins of Punk Rock (Video/Transcript)
July 11, 2025
15 Best Punk Albums of the ’70s
July 10, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: The List – Jesse Welles
July 10, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Working Poor – Doc Rotten
July 9, 2025
Massive 170 Rock Bands Tier List (Video)
July 9, 2025
The Evolution of Riot Grrrl In 30 Songs
July 8, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: King in America (featuring Damion Shade) – Casii Stephan
July 8, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: “Picnic in the Sun (Punching Nazis) – Phil Johnson and Roadside Attraction
July 7, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: My Friends Are Turning Far Right – Dani Rosenoer
July 4, 2025
This Machine Kills Fascists: Woody Guthrie (Video)
July 3, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: This Land Is Your Land – Woody Guthrie
July 3, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Dust Bowl Ballads – Woody Guthrie
July 3, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Woody Guthrie
July 3, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Bikini Kill
July 2, 2025
Protest Music of Hall of Fame: Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill
July 2, 2025
10 Joni Mitchell Protest Songs
July 1, 2025
20 Protest Songs of Neil Young
July 1, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Black Don’t Dead -Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio
July 1, 2025
A Month of Protest: June
June 30, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Suckered by Sabotage – Fishbone
June 29, 2025
Fishbone Albums Ranked/Top 10 Songs (Video)
June 27, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: No Kings In The USA (featuring Allison Russell)- Gangstagrass
June 26, 2025
11 Protest Songs of The Beatles
June 25, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: March Madness – Public Enemy
June 25, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy
June 25, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: 911 Is a Joke – Public Enemy
June 25, 2025
Massive 250 Music Artists Tier List (Video)
June 24, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: [Redacted] – MAY-A
June 24, 2025
25 Protest Songs of The Clash
June 23, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: The Clash
June 23, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Sometimes You Bomb Iran – Jesse Welles
June 22, 2025
25 Bob Marley and the Wailers Protest Songs
June 22, 2025
15 Protest Songs of Sinéad O’Connor
June 21, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Sinéad O’Connor
June 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Bob Dylan Wrote Protest Songs
June 20, 2025
25 Protest Songs of Bob Dylan (Video)
June 20, 2025
10 Kris Kristofferson Protest Songs
June 19, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Rage Against The Machine
June 19, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
June 19, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Chumbawamba
June 19, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Crass
June 18, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: No Kings in America – Lisa Bastoni
June 18, 2025
25 Covers of Bob Dylan Protest Songs
June 17, 2025
25 Protest Songs of Bob Dylan
June 17, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: RENEGADE SHEEP – Voice of Baceprot
June 17, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: The Beatles Wrote Protest Songs
June 16, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: “BYE BYE 25! – Kim Gordon
June 15, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: No Kings – Jesse Welles
June 14, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: politix – BEX
June 14, 2025
15 Protest Songs of Johnny Cash
June 13, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Bitter Tears: Ballads of The American Indian – Johnny Cash
June 13, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Wearing Black – Laura Jane Grace
June 13, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Ghost of Tom Joad (Song) – Bruce Springsteen
June 12, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: Aunt Molly Jackson
June 12, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Fire & Lightning – The Monolators
June 11, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Environmental Catastrophe Film – La Dispute
June 10, 2025
10 Protest Songs of Sly & The Family Stone
June 10, 2025
Interview with Chris Dowd of Fishbone (Video + Transcript)
June 10, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Fascists In Our Midst (featuring Jonathan Emile) – Paul Cargnello
June 9, 2025
30 Best Protest Albums of 2025 (So Far)
June 8, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Insubordinate Ingerland – Hot Milk
June 8, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Unskilled Labor Type Beat – Unskilled Labor
June 7, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: My Billionaire Daddies Are Fighting
June 6, 2025
100 Best Protest Albums of the 1990s According To Rate Your Music (RYM)
June 6, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Taniwha (featuring Randy Blythe) – Alien Weaponry
June 6, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: It’s Okay To Be Woke – Gary Alan Roberts
June 5, 2025
11 Protest Songs of The Beatles (Video)
June 4, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Who’ll Stand With Us? – Dropkick Murphys
June 4, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Frontier Wars – The Phosphenes
June 3, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: BRAINROT – grandson
June 2, 2025
100 Best Protest Albums of the 1990s
June 1, 2025
A Month of Protest: May
May 31, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Born Alone – billy woods
May 30, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: I’ll Do Anything For You (Squirrely Version) – Ministry
May 29, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Chimes of Freedom – Bruce Springsteen
May 28, 2025
15 Motown Protest Songs
May 28, 2025
15 Protest Songs of The Temptations
May 27, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Dead Diplomats – Jesse Welles
May 27, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Rule 4080 – Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams
May 26, 2025
15 Bruce Springsteen Protest Songs
May 24, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: The Lonely 21st Century – My Politic
May 24, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: I’ll Let You Know When I Am Ready – Kapil Seshasayee
May 23, 2025
100 Best Protest Albums of the 2010s
May 22, 2025
Protest Music Hall of Fame: What’s Going On (Album) – Marvin Gaye
May 21, 2025
10 Important Movie Soundtracks
May 21, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: War Pigs – Ukandanz
May 20, 2025
40 Best Protest Albums of 2016
May 19, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Decade of Crisis – Darkaside
May 19, 2025
10 Chris Cornell Protest Songs
May 18, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: (8647) 8+6+4+7=25 – SS Please Bring Me Pizza
May 18, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: QUEER american DREAM – Ryan Cassata
May 17, 2025
Daily Dose of Protest: Piranha – Nova Twins
May 16, 2025
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Daily Dose of Protest: Good Trouble – music for sea monsters

music for sea monster is an electronic artist from Toronto. His father is American, and he has a lot of family in the US, which contributes to his involvement in…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 15, 2025
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Tier List Tuesday: 100 Most Popular Songs (Video)

https://youtu.be/dr1fSKDIAnM?si=ETLCTIb01HSZhPuB On my YouTube channel, I'm starting to post a tier list every Tuesday. Not all of them (such as this one) will be explicitly protest music-related, but they might…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 15, 2025
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18 Protest Songs About Climate Change

One of the objectives of this website is to document music's link to different protest movements. Music often mirrors what is happening in the world, so it is no surprise…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 14, 2025
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: Joe Hill

https://youtu.be/5ry75lI-4PQ?si=d_fBZKYi0id7jFl- "Don't waste time mourning, organize!" Joe Hill was born Joel Hägglund (October 7, 1879) in Sweden before immigrating to America in 1902. He changed his name to Joseph Hillstrom,…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 14, 2025
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100 Punk Protest Songs

Punk has long been a genre that was not afraid to be political, making an important contribution to the canon of protest music, speaking out against a whole slew of…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 12, 2025
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Daily Dose of Protest: Pretend You Remember Me – Tom Morello

The latest solo single by the Rage Against The Machine guitarist is a powerful anti-ICE protest tune. “This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent…
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Posted by CJ Baker July 12, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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