Protest! Protest! Protest!

Under the Radar is coming out with their protest issue that you can skim it here. I don’t think it could have come at a better time…

As with Under the Radar’s 2004 Protest Issue, publishers Mark and Wendy Redfern asked an eclectic array of artists to contribute to the 2008 issue. Under the Radar conducted photo shoots with musical artists holding protest signs of their own making that will be auctioned for charity (the magazine provided the materials and the artists painted a message of their own choosing on the signs). Artists who were interviewed for the issue and/or photographed with their signs include cover stars Stipe, Brock, Walla, Meloy, and Daniel as well as Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, British Sea Power, My Morning Jacket, Okkervil River, Built to Spill, Jarvis Cocker, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dresden Dolls, Elbow, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Michael Franti, The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Sharon Jones, Talib Kweli, Jamie Lidell, Metric, Moby, Billy Bragg, OK Go, Peter Bjorn and John’s Peter Morén, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, St Vincent, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Rogue Wave, Stars, Supergrass, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, and more. Each protest sign was autographed by its maker(s) and will be auctioned on eBay on Sept 30 to benefit War Child International, www.warchild.us, a nonprofit that helps children in areas of conflict across the globe.

Included in the issue, Under The Radar’s “Top Ten Protest Songs Of The 21st Century”*

10 Bruce Springsteen – “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live” (2006)
09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes” (2002)
08 Elbow – “Leaders Of The Free World” (2005)
07 Sleater-Kinney – “Combat Rock” (2002)
06 Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (2007) [mp3]
05 Kris Kristofferson – “In The News” (2006)
04 Talib Kweli And Cornel West – “Bushonomics” (2007)
03 Tom Waits – “Hoist That Rag” (2004) [mp3]
02 Jarvis Cocker – “Cunts Are Still Running The World” (2006)
01 Bright Eyes – “When The President Talks To God” (2005)[mp3]

*honorable mentions include Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Radiohead and more. Complete list available in the Protest Issue.