Find this playlist on Spotify here.. Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City” (1973) Starting with those mellow but foreboding electric piano chords, Wonder’s story-song is the stuff of old ...

Noname, 'Song 33': Protest Music In 2020 : We Insist: ... "I saw a demon on my shoulder / It's lookin' like patriarchy," the Chicago lyricist raps in her signature mellow voice.

Guitarist G.E. Smith and soul singer LeRoy Bell have shared a stirring new song, “America,” from their upcoming collaborative album, Stony Hill, out August 28th via BMG.. The track is a mellow ...

“But for me, I’ve always felt a balance between the two – I write goofy, sappy love songs, and then even on the first record (2001’s Brushfire Fairytales) I had songs making social commentary.

In this era, if artists are globally popular, they’re not singing protest songs. And if they’re singing them, they don’t reach the mass audiences they might have commanded in previous decades.