Jay-Z’s social justice arm Team Roc has slammed the arrest of a peaceful Charleston protester who, in a viral video, was singled out by police and taken into custody. In the video seen by over 29.5 million people on Twitter, Givionne “Gee” Jordan Jr. is peacefully protesting in Charleston, South …

Dirty Projectors have released a new song, “Inner World,” set to appear on their second of five planned 2020 EPs, Flight Tower, out June 26th via Domino. The song — which arrived with a video directed by bandleader Dave Longstreth — features some classic Dirty Projectors fare as a charming …

Alicia Keys appears in a new video campaign that calls for the officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor to be fired and arrested. Launched by the group Until Freedom, the campaign is centered around a question Keys asks at the start of the video: “Do you know what …

The protest movement that has erupted during the past few weeks in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of former Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin is unlike anything America has seen since the Sixties. Sure, there have been numerous large-scale marches and political demonstrations since that time, …

Days after sharing a 2019 solo acoustic rendition of “Southern Man” and telling his fans that “it’s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing,” Neil Young has written a lengthy opinion piece on his website titled “Hope” in which he elaborates on his feelings about this moment …

It’s been a long decade for Mickey Guyton, but nothing has ever felt quite as long as the past two weeks. As one of very few black voices in mainstream country music, Guyton has spent the days following George Floyd‘s death in Minneapolis carrying an unthinkable burden as she leads …

This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have rocked the city over the past week in the wake of the police killing of George …

A local Fox affiliate ran a story about a family flagging down law enforcement to protect a business from looters, but when police arrived on the scene, the officers handcuffed them. Fox News, however, when broadcasting the affiliate’s report, removed the part of the footage where police drew their guns …

Björn Ulvaeus has written more than 150 hit songs and shows, co-founded one of the most commercially successful acts the music business has ever seen, and been recognized as one of the greatest songwriters in history — but one role the Swedish hitmaker never expected to be in was that …

Loneliness has always had a place in pop music, from “Are you lonesome tonight?” to “My loneliness is killing me.”What else are songs, if not a way for artists to reach out across the vast stretches of space and time that separate them from their listeners? A great song can …