Joe Hill saw his music as a weapon in the class war, composing songs to be sung on soapboxes, picket lines or in jail. And 100 years ago today, the forces of capital and the state of Utah executed him ...

Hundreds of music lovers gathered in Exposition Park on Monday for a Labor Day concert that celebrated the American workers’ contributions to the nation as well as their right to relax. The ...

If Americans are politically polarized, recent years have also marred religious solidarity. Besides the pandemic and politics, the past year has also seen the welcome but disruptive Dobbs decision and ...

Country music is a soundtrack to the blue-collar worker's life, from hammers to haylofts. The stories of farmers, cowboys, miners and more have been told in the lyrics of country songs throughout ...

Second on today's schedule, but a first-class music programmer, Garth Trinidad is one of three popular KCRW hosts featured onour nine-hour Labor Day music special. Like Jason Bentley (9am-noon) and ...

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store Ernie Ford’s recording of Sixteen Tons ...