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Wilco fans, mark your calendars: The band’s biannual Solid Sound Festival is returning to North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 26-28, 2026 — and they’ve just announced a very special show to kick off the weekend. On the festival’s opening night, Wilco will be joined by U.K. folk singer Billy Bragg …

If U2 is accepting an award named for folk singer Woody Guthrie, it’s a safe bet that Bono is going to use the opportunity to say a little something about music, protest, and the changing political climate. That happened Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the U2 frontman and the …

For anyone who follows the news, the story will sound eerily familiar: migrant workers rounded up by immigration officials, put on a plane and transported to a deportation center and, ultimately, Mexico. The shocking twists, however, are the year it happened — 1948, in Fresno County, California — and the …

“Music is sometimes a good way to kick the front door open,” says Ken Casey, the lead singer for the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. On Friday, the 81st anniversary of D-Day, Casey and his band took to the stage on the National Mall, the headline act as several politicians …

When Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello took the stage at Boston Calling Music Festival on Sunday evening, his solo set featured a pointed message. On the screen behind him, a graphic compiled nearly two dozen buttons that read and spelled out “Fuck Trump,” labeled the president a “tyrant,” and …

Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello performed a surprise set for picketing members of SAG-AFTRA and WGA in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood earlier this week. The long-time union supporter backed the striking actors and writers, telling NME,“They’re making history here on the sidewalk in front of Paramount Studios …

Jeff Tweedy has shared a new version of Woody Guthrie’s classic labor song, “Union Maid,” which appears as a bonus track on the soundtrack for Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World. Tweedy delivers a zippy, brisk rendition of the early-Forties anthem, which is sung from the …

Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey was walking the booths and stalls of the Great Allentown Fair before his band’s show that night on the Grandstand Stage when he started to feel increasingly uneasy. The leader of the Boston band known for their Irish-influenced punk rock and vocal support of workers’ …

Woody Guthrie, the singer, songwriter and writer who spoke truth to power decades before the phrase was invented, was long known to take a political stand. Now, 55 years after his death, he’s still doing just that. As part of a new exhibit of his life and work, he’s joined …