The New YorkerOpinion

What Do We Want from a Protest Song?

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.
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16 Best Songs of the Week: Ratboys, Mitski, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ladytron, and More

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scotty Dransfield, and ...