I think was an unofficial copy of the song that I guess got taken down. As far as I can work out out Zach Bryan has not actually released the protest song in question, just a small clip of it (I guess maybe because of the maga backlash?) which definitely loses him a lot of punk brownie points IMO.
New song from the Boss.
It’s good. Listen to it.
There’s already a dedicated thread to the song:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis/1027139/
TikTok has a lot of protest songs. I’m being shown a lot of really good stuff. Let’s see if I can post this one for you guys. It’s so good.
Good VS ICE - Jesse Welles Dude has loads of good songs, all topical.
It’s sad that Rage Against The Machine are not around anymore, I’m sure they’d produce an album worth of protesting all this mess. But I’m sure Neil Young has something in the making as one of the sharpest critics of Trump’s regime. He made his website with his whole musical archive freely available to every citizen of Greenland in solidarity.
Oh dear, thanks for that great song! I knew that Billy Bragg, another artist walking in Woody’s footsteps, couldn’t keep quiet.
I think they’re still disbanded after their last reunion ended in '24, but as a consolation, here’s Tom Morello playing “Killing in the Name of” in Minneapolis last week.
Also, speaking of Woody, I’ve been listening to “Deportee” lately. Very much not a modern protest song, very much still relevant to modern politics.
I like it how the track is played instrumentally, but the audience knows every word. They even eject “Motherfucker!” at exactly the right spot. Thanks for that.
Yeah, I mentioned a few weeks ago in another thread how topical this song still is in our times, after almost 100 years. Some things seem to never change, sadly. The Byrds and Joan Baez both covered it in the sixties.
Update: Bette Middler chimes in with her great own version of Woody Guthrie’s “All You Fascists”. Great stuff.
Sadly this kind of thing never seems to become irrelevant.
Really great to see him out there still doing his thing. I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube reaction videos lately and some of the most popular are young people discovering Rage music for the first time.
I just found Dead Pioneers a few weeks ago and I really enjoy their sound. They are a Native American punk rock band from Colorado.
The first song I heard was Nazi Teeth and it was a video clip of Kermit the Frog punching Nazis, which seemed like an odd choice (and I can’t find it now) but it gave me a chuckle.
I also like No Kings