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Music is an entertainment slash art form that doesn't suffer B.S. well. Sure you can singsongs about benign subjects like having a crush or wanting a Benz but try and sing a

song about how the Koch Brothers need more tax breaks or how teacher's unions areoverpaid and it's going to sound really, really F'd up. But other than Green Day wehaven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. Sure Rage Against the

Machine was amazing and Neil Young had his say about Bush, but I'm always amazedhow even small local bands stay away from the fact that our country is being ripped off,

polarized and lied to by huge corporations that don't pay taxes and weirdo billionaireswho inherited all their money.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know thereare acts out there still putting a message in their music. Maybe it's Clear Channel's

ownership of so many radio stations. Or maybe it's iTunes and Apple being a companythat makes most of their stuff in China. Or maybe it's because the outrage is just

starting to really spark in the Midwest with all those insane Governors attacking themiddle and lower classes.

I asked this question enough that finally some musician friends of mine in Austin, Texas(the home of music as far as I'm concerned) called my bluff and said, "If you write the

lyrics we'll record the songs." So we did. The band is called English Teeth (KevinHoetger, Kevin McKinney, and Kyle Crusham). They smoke live if you haven't seen them.

We recorded for four days in Austin and it was a blast. And just like that we were readyto release our EP of protest music.

But Kevin, Kyle and I realized we didn't want to be anywhere near the final word on this.We wanted other people to do their own songs. We wanted people to cover our songs or

remix them. We wanted all kinds of voices. And we didn't want to rely on corporateradio stations or MTV or iTunes. So we decided to create this project: Public Domain

Protest Song.

This is the site which launches today.

The songs are completely free. No strings attached. But more importantly we want yoursongs and raps. We also want you to take one of our songs on this site and re-record it,re-write it, mash it up, hack it to bits, tear it apart, then put it back together again. Click

the button to submit and we'll post them. The songs can be about anything: local issues,national, international, whatever. We don't care. We just want music about what's going

on. If you're in a band and you cover one of our songs, send it to us. If you play a coverof "Which Side Are you On Boy?" we'll post that too.

We want to support the songs that will be played at rallies, punk or folk shows, rap


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concerts and on iPods for the next ten years. We want the God Save the Queen or the

Maggie's Farm of our times. We know it's out there.

And once again: it's all free. Anyone postingmusic is posting it cause they believe it needs tobe heard. Not to make residuals. And we mean

no offense to those recording music for money.We get it. You gotta pay the bills. This isdifferent. We want to create a scene outside the

corporate radio stations and corporate musicoutlets.

So please forward this site and play this music.

And Public Domain Protest Song will be

scheduling shows in Los Angeles and Austin withguest musicians that will hopefully lead to more

shows. We'll also be releasing videos and of course more music from English Teeth andmyself as well as from some other bigger name artists who are already interested.

Spread the word.

Thanks from Adam McKay, Kevin Hoetger, Kyle Crusham and Margaret Saadi Kramerand Lauryn Kahn.

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