one of the greatest protest artists in history in on lb's pages

yeah cant imagine dylan doing 2 years in a russian prison

IDLES are pretty spot on politically and that shows in their lyrics! ‘The only way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich’.

Idles are the Radiohead of post punk and I love them

Will lookup on tidal later?

Don't want to start a war between them but... Dave > Stormzy :P

edit - don't know whats going on with lb but this post went wacky, anyway jokes aside Dave actually deserves a little shout in this. The live performance of Black was really invoking and things like Question Time and Children of the Internet will appeal to any stoned thinker haha :) - at least the UK scene isn't just kids dying on cough medicine after one youtube hit, wtf happened to America?!

You've got a lot to choose from in metal.
Check out some of the following:
Body Count: Black Hoodie
Body Count: No Lives Matter
Lamb of God: Poison Dream
Lamb of God: Now you've got something to die for
Dead Label: Dystopian Complex
Lock Horns: Blood and Oil
Gojira: Silvera
And I know this is basically a pisstake, but Dethklok Detharmonic in on point.

Bob Vylan are a great UK act not getting enough attention

https://youtu.be/ckf5Awk4fuU?si=2goqti20l5Wl2mEc

This has one of the greatest lyrics lines of any song ever written imo

"No liberal lefty cunt
Is gonna tell me punching Nazis ain't the way"

I'd say for this definitely Run The Jewels. Akala is still about as well. Immortal technique is meant to be releasing a new album soon. I don't think we will see the likes of a band like RATM again for sometime

Left a RATM gig with cracked rib from the most hectic mosh pit I’ve ever known, mega fun. Second best mosh was the Pogues in 88.

I saw someone with there arm twisted the wrong way being carried out of a RATM set. Reading 96' I believe. Great set, terrifying moshpit.. Did it anyway though. Fun times.

Cant believe nobody's mentioned Sleaford Mods

I’m quite liking these ‘Kneecap’ fellas! I like the cut of their jib!

Some "friends" of mine, sadly not currently performing together.

I agree the power of the music to inform and protest is lost, but straight out of the gate, you have macklemore Hinds Hall (this came out of nowhere!). Whatever your position on the conflict (or the tune) it sums up what the issue is. Bands are commodities and businesses know they can be used to influence, so they invest heavily. And if you don't tow the line then your out!

Toomaj Salehi is facing a death sentence for telling truths about the country he loves

he was released from prison in 2024

Money speaks louder than protest ;-)

Mudrat, Bob Vylan, Seb Lowe

Skinner brothers, ren

I forgot Public Enemy are still going strong.
I think they cornered the market in the American black protest field fighting fire with fire to show the other side of the American nightmare.

Tom MacDonald

Protest the Hero + Show Me the Body are two bands that spring to mind. These are certainly not protest artists sonically, as they are both heavier guitar bands, but are both aggressively anti-establishment, discussing topics you won’t hear other artists sing about.

What ever happened to Billy Bragg?

Anyone remember chumba wumba, great live band.

Unfortunately he grew up and joined new labour.
Saw him live at least dozen times, used to do loads of small gigs and protests. I was in socialist workers party and he was doing loads of fundraisers for the miners.

Today's protest singers? Taking shit on social media.at a guess.

it's tiktok's finest hour

Name calling,ie liberal, woke, lefty, there’s a trend to criticise caring views.

Just as much intolerance on the left as on the right. We live in a shallow social media driven world. In which we all eat consume far too much whilst slowly killing ourselves and the planet. Facebook, mcdonald's,nike etc. It's a shallow,plastic world and that's not a suitable environment for growing protest singers.

Sort of agree, unfortunately the mass media (particularly print media) are owned run by right wing, ie Sun, times, telegraph etc

The BBC, THe Guardian Newspaper, Channel 4, ITV to name a few left wing media outlets.

And for the BBC to be so biased is a disgrace just look at the stats over 14% LBGTQ within there workforce as opposed to 0.4% in most other organisations massively disproportionate.

Also the mainstream media seems to love to demonise the working classes.

The white indegoius male is despised by the main stream media especially the BBC.

All I do know is before all this WOKE nonsense started we had not been at this much level of war activity since the second World War and now look at all this mess.

Weak leftist policies have risked our safety and security to the point where I worry about my relatives safety in the UK and have also made us a target from forces that want to destroy us.

You need only look at who was the London mayor best mate at UNi for example ? None other than the leader of Albasha terror GROUP. and if that does not worry you to realise that if all this wokey business continues there won't be no western songs ti sing no more because they will be banned.

I remember the cold War, I remember living in the troubles and feeling and hearing the sounds of cemtex around me and going through the checkpoints. I talk from experience and no the real dangers that all this liberal far left nonsense brings as I have lived and breathed this shit before.

"The perceived partiality of the BBC comes from both sides of the political spectrum. Of the people in the YouGov survey who identified as supporting the Conservatives, 15% thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable towards the left and 23% thought they were much more favourable. Conversely, 26% of those who identified as supporting Labour thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable to the right and 20% thought they were much more favourable."

https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/bbc-bias/

Oh look your are wrong in the very first statement

Hilariously you are a excellent example of media manipulation imo

Billy Bragg is still going strong and sticking it to the suits and mega rich.

I blame the growing influence of the network - attentions turning inwards as the younger generation start living in the fantasy of the online world. I showed my teenage step daughter the matrix the other day thinking she'd love it - her response "why would anyone choose not to stay in the matrix"!

Oh, no. Humanity has reached that place. We are all fucked then.

its a perfect substrate for protest. people have the means and motive.

that's why there is tons of it in rap, singing is as dead as springsteen.

You said substrate! A thumbs up purely for that mushroom related word!

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