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From the video for Undecided Voters
Song of the Day: As voting continues in the US presidential elections, a wry and catchy new number by the indie band from Toronto, with echoes of The Strokes, dips into online manipulation of the ‘undecided’ or indeed ‘undercover’
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Song of the Day: On US election day, in a song that came out last year, a pertinent reminder of what kind of sham incumbent is in the White House, and what problems must be addressed, by the veteran New York singer-songwriter
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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Alice Cooper waves the election banner
Song of the Day: In the wake of the most vital mid-term US elections in a generation, the 1972 rock song that is often wheeled out on these occasions, but less known is that it is a reworking of an earlier song, Reflected
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When things get out of hand in politics …
Song of the Day: In the heat of farcical parliamentary Brexit manoeuvrings and Trump trampling through the ruins of international relations, here's a clever reimagining of a white-collar high-level meeting if it was a street-gang brawl
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Putin takes Trump for a ride
Song of the Day: After Rocky Mountain Mike's humour take on Donald Trump and the far right, another great satirist focuses on the Russian leader's ego through the prism of musical hall and ragtime
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Go home, you fuckwit
Song of the Day: To mark the unwelcome visit of the current US president to the UK, two ironic versions of the famous Bob Dylan song that capture the falsehood, narcissism, hypocrisy and divisive racism of the Donald
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A Tribe Called Quest's original quartet
Song of the Day: Two superb tracks that span the career one of the genre's most revered groups, from 1991's album The Low End Theory to 2016's We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service
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Prophets of Rage - a protest supergroup
Song of the Day: To accompany Donald Trump's continuing controversies, two powerful tracks from the new album made by as potent a protest force in music imaginable – a supergroup of three members of Rage Against The Machine along with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, and frontman B-Real of Cypress Hill
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Donald Trump is supported by far-right groups such as the KKK and neo-Nazis
Song of the Day: In a traumatic week in which racism appears to be endorsed by US president Donald Trump, let's cut through bigotry and hatred with a sharp 1990 song from the Massachusetts band
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Eels, fronted by Mark Oliver Everett. This song comes from their ironically titled 2013 album Wonderful, Glorious. And this song includes the Brazilian rainstick.
Song of the Day: While Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un insanely posture with nuclear weapon threats, a song that portrays the nature of an insecure, repressed, psychopathic mind, which might explain it all
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From the video, inspired by Trumpton and Camberwick Green
Song of the Day: On the eve of their return to Glastonbury, we make another Trumpton connection here with the band's disturbing Wicker Man-style depiction of society in the shadow of xenophobic politics
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Leonard Cohen. He knows.
Song of the Day: Ever got the feeling you are being lied to? From Donald Trump sacking the FBI director to Britain's Theresa May's reasons for a sudden general election, the great deep voice of truth speaks out
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Malcolm Browne's photograph of a self-immolating monk protesting against the killing of Buddhists by a US-backed Vietnamese regime in 1963
Song of the Day: With the Trump regime, a North Korean conflict, and much more besides, it's time to unleash the ultimate song of defiance, still raging against foreign policy and the corruption of power
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Morrissey
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Father John Misty, we take a dip into more great ironic lyrics, and in the shadow of world war, perhaps the ultimate 'fidding while Rome burns' from the Mancunian ex-Smith
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Lou Reed on the corner New York's 8th Avenue
Song of the Day: Today's selection is as much a sample of Reed's truly great, and undervalued album of 1989, New York, where social and political criticism comes with great music, and killer, prescient lyrics
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The rare five-member Pink Floyd of 1968, including Dave Gilmour (front) and Syd Barrett (second left)
Song of the Day: A darkly humorous choice for the current political climate. It is when there were briefly five members of the band, and a setting that inspired a passage in Douglas Adams's famous book
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Michael Franti on the cover of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's 1992 album
Song of the Day: From Kate Tempest dystopia we highlight a natural forbear by Michael Franti and Rono Tse, where television's effect of ignorance still resonates, only perhaps more smaller screens and via social media
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Kate Tempest
Song of the Day: From PJ Harvey's war-torn English rose we move to a passionate post-Brexit poem-song with an industrial, urban edge that captures an isolated, confused, dystopian Britain and beyond
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