From street choirs and drummers to new tracks by Laamar and Bruce Springsteen, a new wave of protest music is rising in response to ICE operations. MPR News host Catharine Richert talks with The ...

The event also revealed that Springsteen shared some of my initial hesitations about “Streets of Minneapolis.” He said that before releasing it, he’d sent it to Tom Morello, the former Rage Against ...

On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the ...

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long ...

Carole King’s iconic “You’ve Got A Friend” is about as pure of a friendship song as you can get. Honestly, if your BFF wouldn’t “come runnin’” when you really need them, as the song states, you should ...

For north Minneapolis singer/songwriter Geoffrey Lamar Wilson, it started even before the public knew anything about Renee Good. “I came home and started writing this song before learning her name,” ...

Responding to tragedy in song is an age-old American tradition. From slave spirituals to civil rights-era protest songs to the YG and Kendrick Lamar songs that soundtracked the last decade of Black ...

Stephen Schwartz shares what the creative process was like writing Glinda's "Girl in the Bubble" and Elphaba's "No Place Like Home." Patrick Gomez is an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly.

Is a communications degree right for you? Shane Hummus explores career paths, job skills, and potential pay to help you decide if it's a good fit. The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper ...

The depth and breadth of the international Christmas songbook continues to astound. This year I’m adding a dozen new tracks, and they’re all over the place genre-wise – soul, punk, country, doo-wop, ...

When a bird spots a predator and emits an alarm call, do its neighbors think “predator” and then react? Or do they automatically freeze or fly away because that’s what they’re wired to do?

Wicked: For Good includes two new songs that were not part of the original Broadway musical. Following the film’s release, composer Stephen Schwartz explained how the new tracks – “There’s No Place ...