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Some of these things are not like the others :-)
Limp Bizkit does not deserve to be anywhere near this list. They are a piss stain on the seat of the limo Kurt Kobain's brother rented for Prom.
Before those, in the 60's there was CSNY, CCR, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Buffalo Springfield writing protest bangers.
Can't really think of much for this generation unfortunately. Instead we have, uh... Ye. :(
Ye definitly pulled for someone 🫳
I don't know what that slang means.
They don't have hitler symbols
I still don't get it. Who doesn't have hitler symbols? Why is that relevant?
Ye spoke for a generation while praising hitler and Trump. Not sure if you knew that.
Well that's why I said "instead we have, uh..." and a frowny face. It was sarcasm, but I guess it didn't come through.
Fontaines D.C. comes to mind.
I'm surprised someone finally brought them up. I feel kneecap and Bob Vylan is brought up to the recent news postings.
My point is mainstream is not speaking out, not lesser know groups. Think Farm Aid, Live Aid, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stone, NAS, Boogie down productions, etc... at their peak speaking out.
Some got blacklisted, some got arrested, some had the U.S. federal government come after them, and some died (Bob Marley) bc they dared to challenge the system. I haven't seen that since the 90s. 2000-to now, feels like money stops the current generations from taking those steps.
Fuck, Taylor Swift makes sure ever word is so starile before say she would vote for a democrat. Instead of ripping apart a child molester. Killer Mike goes from destroying Reagen and Bush to Obama. One of those are not the same.
Kneecap. If you're even partly plugged in you know about Kneecap.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/arts/music/kneecap-glastonbury.html
Kneecap has 3 cds and the first one seems like a throwaway. They could use the Glastonbury controversy to leap into that brand but only time will show.
They need to clean up the gay phobia/slurs.
Nirvana, Limp Bizkit and Tupac, all famous for not using slurs
You understand that things change over a period of time? It's not the 90s anymore.
Get into the punk/folk scene.
Wingnut Dishwashers Union
Pat the Bunny
Daze N Days
The Orphans
Really anything in this genre. You'd be surprised at the observations made by people living on the streets or just generally down on their luck.
I'm talking mainstream not underground or festival groups. Nothing aginst them but 50k streams vs 130mil is a big gap.
You're missing the forest for the trees.
Mainstream appeal requires certain sacrifices, and message is one of the first things on the block. Representation on that scale requires backroom assurances that do not allow the system to be rebuked in the way you are looking to see. Sure, you can have outspoken individuals like Dave grohl or Tom Morello making their opinions known, but the Foo Fighters will still play in Israel if the paycheck is big enough. Doesn't matter how much blood is under the stage, money talks.
You are missing the tree. Dave Grohl talking about he stands with people and good vibes while taking money from Microsoft and knocking up someone while married canceled his message.
Tom Morello has stood by his believes and echoes his mother's message. His mother spoke to congress about censorship. Her son joined up with a band that said fuck the government, with success. They didn't allow a war criminal like Bush use their music.
I do agree there are a lot of bands thay speak out of their ass about one thing while grabbing the bag with te other hand.
How on god's green earth did limp bizkit make it on this list?
Jesse welles
Sorry, but his music is pretty bad. Sounds like the guy that brings guitar to a party and clears out the place.
His most popular song by the charts is "Horses" which is a change to most of his other stuff. If he continues down this path he could be a voice for a generation but we will see.
Maybe you don't like his music, but there's plenty of us that do. "United Health", for example, was the best piece of art on that subject, bar none.
Don't know who us is. Only heard of him through my post.
Plenty of bands take time to get going.
Zeal & Andor, Manuel Gagneux has been through a lot of wide changes.
Wunderhorse, Jacob Slater seems unrecognizable from past work.
Durry, Austin Durry was in coyote kid for 12 years which was a nothing band by comparison.
Jesse Welles aka Welles aka dead indian aka Cosmic-American...... seems like he is trying to find his sound. A few more adjustments, I can really see him blowing up and still having a message.
Edit: Rock N Roll is a very good song and he kills it on the guitar.
Keep in mind that music lost a lot of its cultural cache since your benchmark decade of the 90's. Mass culture isn't really the same as it was then. I remember Weird Al talking about doing a lot fewer parody songs just because fewer people recognize any given song.
Yeah there's still music out there, but if you don't know it that's not really your fault.
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Most punk like Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Anti Flag, Black Flag, The Clash, Dropkick Murphys has been very political from the start.
I know they are older now but Dead Prez, Foo Fighters, Rise Against and System of a Down are still active. Then there is the much older Roger Waters who has been very political throughout his career. And let's not forget the legendary Los Tigres Del Norte.
But coming back to younger artists
- Killer Mike
- Kendrik Lamar
- Childish Gambino
- Anderson.Paak
- Bambu
- Andrew Jackson Jihad
- Feminazgul
- Lowkey (British rapper)
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Off topic, why would you put Limp Bizkit with the classics?
OP wasn't asking about classics, was asking about protest music
Fred Durst is and has always been a boot sucking poser. He has never protested anything beyond a groupie telling him "no."
In all fairness, back in the day it was limp Bizkit that got me into rock and the much better stuff. Not listening to them anymore (maybe every now and then something from their very first album) but still, without LB I would never gotten into rock the way I'm today
OP could have used Rise Against instead of Limp Biskit
didn't realize until just this moment that Rise Against ≠ Rage Against The Machine
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one of those is not like the others
OP was born in 1991 and was too young to have lived through the proper grunge revolution, but was just the right age to experience the corporate grunge poser revolution.
“With the instant availability of information, and content so easily obtainable, is the culture now a product that's disposable?“
This quote goes back to 2007. 18 years later it’s not even a question anymore, music and the culture around it has become disposable.
There’s always going to be great bands and artists who have something to say! I’ve heard some of my favourite bands just in the last 10 years. But society is never going to look at music the same, it’s just something people tap on their screen and give a quick listen, or worse; just watching some idiotic lip sync to a 20 second excerpt of it on tik tok.
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I'm too old to say what anything this generation is, but look up "fucked up" by Macklemore. Came out at the start of the year and it's the most rage against the machine esque thing I've heard in years. Got me riled up.
Edit: I see you literally called him out in the post, so this is old news to you I'm sure. I'll leave it for others to find!
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