Understand.
Connect.

This project starts from a concern about authoritarianism and a belief that music can help us talk about resistance, solidarity and the choices people make.

The purpose is public understanding, not outrage for its own sake. A familiar song can open a conversation; it cannot stand in for evidence.

Read the reporting. Listen to the song. Follow the sources, question the connection and make up your own mind.

The reporting establishes what happened. The song offers a different way into the conversation. Our job is to explain why we put them together—not to borrow an artist’s authority.

Resistance and solidarity recur in music and in public life. That resonance does not make different events equivalent, or tell us what an artist thinks about today’s news.

Each entry should give you a way back to the people who did the work: the journalists and researchers behind the reporting, and the writers and performers behind the music.

Our name is a nod to Frank Turner’s “Love Ire & Song,” a personal inspiration behind this project.

This is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Frank Turner or any other featured artist.