On June 12, 2025, Nigeria will be celebrating 26 years of uninterrupted democracy. While this suggests that the nation has had nearly three decades to correct some of the wrongs and evil meted out by ...

A new solo recording by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe is featured on an upcoming compilation titled Democracy Forward that will be released during the first week of July as a two-LP vinyl set. The ...

The five finalist groups of the Songs for Democracy student competition performed for the University of Michigan campus community in the Hill Auditorium Saturday night. The groups had previously been ...

“Songs to Save Democracy” won’t be preachy, the organizers say. “There will be very little talking. The music is the message,” Reuter says. “I’m not a preacher. It’s not about preaching or getting the ...

“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark ...

There’s no need to rehash how long it took or how much money it cost to make Chinese Democracy. The album title became a cultural metaphor one might employ to describe a drawn-out, arduous, ...