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How you likin’ Authoritarian America now? To all the conservative “disrupters” out there, The Bad Penny hopes this is what you were wishing for – and (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) that the wave of tyrannical terror sweeping the nation doesn’t drown you in its wake.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you; after all, we launched this On Tyranny franchise in December. But rather than subject you to “I told you so examples” from our 25-part series, we’ll instead suggest some of our favorite contemporary protest records that you can serve as your soundtrack for the weekend. Here goes, in chronological order:

Refused‘s The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)

System of a Down’s Toxicity (2001)

Fugazi’s The Argument (2001)

Lamb of God‘s Ashes of the Wake (2004)

PJ Harvey‘s Let England Shake (2011)

IDLES’s Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018)

Kishi Bashi’s Omoiyari (2019)

clipping.’s Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020)

Chat Pile’s Cool World (2024)

Divide and Dissolve’s Insatiable (2025)

Go to The Bad Penny’s On Tyranny hub for more installments in this series.

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