His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...

Billy Bragg, who just wrote and released the song “City of Heroes,” talks with the Monitor about the impact of protest songs.

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

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams tapped into America's current period of struggle on her latest album, a collection of ...

Lucinda Williams has always been an activist. And she's not done fighting yet. On her Jan. 23 album "World's Gone Wrong," ...

Sometimes, when people feel scared or unheard, songs speak for them. Recently, a famous singer performed in Minneapolis and helped lift people’s spirits. Many citizens there were worried and angry ...

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 ...

At his live show at Sydney’s Factory Theatre, which took place amid the backdrop of the raucous biannual King Street Crawl, ...