i'm looking for good *modern* anti-authoritarian, pro labor music.

[bmebenji@mstdn.social]

@DeliaChristina Gojira has some fucking bangers
Planned Obsolescence
The Grind (listen to it sarcastically)
Toxic Garbage Island
A Sight to Behold
Adoration for None
World to Come
Global Warming

[lady@glitch.cat.family]

@The_T @DeliaChristina i second Chumbawamba, especially the album “Singsong And A Scrap” (which is more folk than most of their records). “Smith & Taylor” is a highlight for me

Blue Scholars are good and pro-labour, but Filipino Maoist, so probably don’t meet your criteria for antiauthoritarian.

[waha_06x36@mastodon.social]

@The_T @DeliaChristina Also, Farewell to the Crown: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4XmNNb63TVo

[aarbrk@mstdn.mx]

@DeliaChristina Music specifically about labor and authoritarianism, or political, class conscious musicians more broadly? I could name some of the latter.

[joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw]

@DeliaChristina Evan Greer does folk punk music that she literally plays at picket lines and protests.

A few examples:

Emma Goldman would have kicked your ass
https://youtu.be/6AP3-k91zfQ?si=bX7J5E_SDL8Sxvnq

Picket line Song
https://youtu.be/LUYuTsJLxNo?si=v612o3VJ6vzmbFJ4

[ericbono@beige.party]

@DeliaChristina

@historyofpunkrock

[cedartea@social.coop]

@DeliaChristina
Appreciate'cha - Nick Shoulders

[joriki@infosec.exchange]

@DeliaChristina

https://youtu.be/hdYepYGHHE0

[bmebenji@mstdn.social]

@DeliaChristina Alter Bridge has released many clearly politically focused songs in the past few years (though they deny it for fear of alienating some fans)
Pawns and Kings
Season of Promise
Fable of the Silent Son
Last Man Standing

[sparks@social.treehouse.systems]

@DeliaChristina This is basically "Workers' Rights: The Metal Album."

https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/kentucky

[patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot]

@DeliaChristina how modern is "modern"?

Heaven 17 (We Don't Need) This Fascist Groove Thang.

https://youtu.be/lV5dbcOmw6I?si=X_6WHUL2O7bnhNBY

[patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot]

@DeliaChristina and just about anything Billy Bragg has ever written.

"Between The Wars."

https://youtu.be/yLQgkF_FsO4?si=snFxMdAOK3XqMtPT

[patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot]

@DeliaChristina the Tenementals are a left wing Glasgow band. They perform gigs with union leaders.

https://strengthinnumbersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-a-history-volume-i-of-vi

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@SRLevine @DeliaChristina

Woody Guthrie, Billy Bragg , and the crossover album mermaid avenue

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@DeliaChristina
Senser

[inconspicuous-lurker-99@boymilk.cafe]

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but heres the best I have to offer:

David Rovics... One song is: "Failed State". Much of his work is about related history, like "1848"," Rojava", and commentary on wider subjects like overall class struggle.

Another artist is Grandson. His works are more about the current dystopia broadly, only tangentially related to labor through entangled issues. But it is anti-authoritarian. A couple examples: "Dirty" "Autonomous Delivery Robot". Very modern.

And my final offering, Moon Walker. Very similar to Grandson, modern. But, more overt in the meaning of the music. Some examples: "Apocolypticism", "Ban this song" (definitively anti-authoritarian lol), "Monopoly money".



Enjoy~!! :3

[oceanographer@musician.social]

@DeliaChristina Not sure if “British anarchocommunist hip hop with 1990s beats” is what you’re looking for, but if so I recommend QELD: https://qeld.bandcamp.com/album/kush-zombies

[smsee@mastodon.social]

@DeliaChristina Maybe Mathew Herbert, Strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE41XRIArH4

[jarizleifr@mstdn.social]

@soundclamp @DeliaChristina @buffyleigh Would've recommended Test Dept, was not disappointed to see it already here!

[deathkitten@firetribe.org]

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social Have you checked out The Dropkick Murphys? Particularly the albums "This Machine Still Kills Fascists", "Okemah Rising", and "For the People"