In a Texas courtroom, Robert Duvall stood up for his longtime friend Billy Joe Shaver during a serious trial, helping him avoid a lengthy prison sentence in 2010.

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an ...

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an important part in protests, from Woody Guthrie to Bad Bunny. So it’s not a ...

Trump has issued many pardons, including baseball legend Darryl Strawberry, rapper NBA YoungBoy, and Chicago gang leader ...

There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas.

Federal officers killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota early on Jan. 25, and that same afternoon, Bruce Springsteen sat down in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and wrote a furious response, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why musician Billy Bragg has outsourced his memoir. More than 600 friends, associates, collaborators and fans collaborate in ‘Billy Bragg: A People’s History’, a book about the life and works of a ...

Legendary British protest singer Billy Bragg has penned a new song about the people in Minneapolis protesting the influx of ICE agents. “City of Heroes” was inspired by the murders of Alex Pretti and ...

Bruce Springsteen knows what’s going on. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer released a new song this week paying tribute to the people of Minneapolis and condemning the violence and thuggery of President ...

Never one to shy away from speaking out about injustice with his music, Billy Bragg has shared a new song in tribute to the people resisting ICE in Minneapolis. He wrote, recorded, and posted “City of ...

Billy Bragg has released a new song called “City Of Heroes”. A description released alongside the song reads, ”The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still ...