Locals are speaking out against President Trump’s gestures toward annexing the territory, and the song “Greenland Belongs to ...

Throughout history, musicians have used music as commentary on current events. It’s often powerful, and it’s a phenomenon ...

Messersmith captured the unexpected occurrence in a video, filming himself listening and laughing as The Current's Jill Riley ...

Artists from Jesse Welles to Nashville songwriter Zach Schmidt are singing about the senseless killing of Renee Good ...

Protests erupted across the country following the death of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and ...

Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

Bob Dylan's radical reworking of "Masters of War" at the 1991 Grammys split fans between those who declared the performance a bold success and others who derided it as a muddled mess. If the verdict ...

Bob Dylan started his career by writing inherently political protest music. He moved away from this style of music relatively quickly, but his protest songs are still culturally significant. When ...

Jeff Daniels tapped into his musical side during an interview with Nicole Wallace on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” delivering a live performance of an acoustic protest song he wrote titled “Crazy ...

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

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