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U2’s EP Days of Ash, their first new release since 2017
Song of the Day: Bono, The Edge and co return with their first new music since 1017 by the Irish rock giants, a return to form with a powerful protest song about current American politics, part of their new six-song EP, Days of Ash, out on Island Records
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
Song of the Day: A powerful brand new protest song by the Boss, tackling America’s controversial influx of ICE agents into Minneapolis and their recent murders of innocent bystanders Alex Pretti and Renée Good, released on Columbia
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Peter Perrett
Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records
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A still from the video for Hen Ogledd’s Scales Will Fall
Song of the Day: A strikingly different, wonderfully odd, eccentric and alternative folk and protest song by the British quartet of Richard Dawson, Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies and Sally Pilkington, heralding their upcoming third album Discombobulated, out on 20 February 2026 on Weird World / Domino Records
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Dave Okumu
Song of the Day: A powerful song inspired by the documentary about the January 1981 New Cross Fire in south London that claimed 13 Black young lives, with the title from a chant of anti-racism protests that followed
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Museum of Love
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life of Mammals, inspired by the Women’s March and a Don Cherry sound, a brilliantly percussive number by the New York duo of drummer and founding LCD Soundsystem member Pat Mahoney and musician Dennis McNany, aka Jee Day
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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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Cover from the forthcoming collaborative Keleketla! album
Song of the Day: Embracing the South African musical protest style toyi-toyi borne out of anti-apartheid, this new track fuses dance, jazz, gqom beats, hip hop and Afrobeat featuring Tony Allen alongside collaborators Coldcut, Soundz of the South, DJ Mabheko, Tenderlonious, Afla Sackey and Afrik Bawantu
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Run The Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P
Song of the Day: With the early launch fo of the hip hop duo of Killer Mike and El-P’s fourth album RTJ4, proceeds of which go towards legal support for activists for social change, the final heartfelt track about fear, violence and love
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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Tinariwen
Song of the Day: After Ali Farka Touré's African-origin-blues crossover, another fork the musical track, from those Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert in northern Mali, from their 2014 album Emmaar
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Hugh Masekela, 1939-2018
Song of the Day: A triple tribute to the sadly departed but hugely influential South African trumpeter, composer, singer, cornet and flugelhorn player, and leading anti-apartheid campaigner
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Prophets of Rage - a protest supergroup
Song of the Day: To accompany Donald Trump's continuing controversies, two powerful tracks from the new album made by as potent a protest force in music imaginable – a supergroup of three members of Rage Against The Machine along with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, and frontman B-Real of Cypress Hill
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