Bruce Springsteen and What Protest Songs Sound Like to Soldiers

It isn’t about soldiers going overseas, or even about war in the abstract. It is about Americans confronting Americans. It is ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

10 of Bruce Springsteen’s Strongest Political Songs

Not long after that, Springsteen made good on his word by releasing " Streets of Minneapolis ," a new song inspired by the ...

Bruce Springsteen drops ICE protest song in honor of Minneapolis shooting victims Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Bruce Springsteen released a new song titled "Streets of Minneapolis" Wednesday, in which the "Born in the U.S.A." songwriter ...

Bruce Springsteen Releases ICE Protest Song About "State Terror" in Minneapolis

Springsteen said "Streets of Minneapolis is "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in ...

From ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ to ‘Streets of Minneapolis’: Bruce Springsteen’s History of Politically-Charged Songs

Bruce Springsteen's new song 'Streets of Minneapolis' is just the latest politcally-charged song from the Grammy-winner.

Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis: how digital circulation boosts the impact of a protest song

The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared ...

Protest concert in Minneapolis draws Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello to First Ave

Music and activism collided at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on Friday as Tom Morello and Bruce Springsteen led a ...

From Bruce Springsteen on Minneapolis to CSNY on Kent State - a History of Instant Protest Songs

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...
Opinion

Bruce Springsteen drops searing anti-ICE protest song, ‘Streets of Minneapolis': ‘King Trump's private army from the DHS/ guns belted to their coats'

The track written over the weekend and recorded on Tuesday (Jan. 27) is one of the singer's most political anthems to date and a response to killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.