Tom Morello turns 60 today — happy birthday, dude! Today, he’s been announced as the latest recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize, an award started a decade ago to recognize “outstanding contributions to music and activism.” (Last year, the winner was Pussy Riot.)

The punk collective Pussy Riot continue to make music and protest against the Russian government. Last week, it was announced that they would receive the 2023 Woody Guthrie Prize, an award given out annually “to an artist who best exemplifies Woody Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, film, lite...

A number of notable New York City musicians are getting streets re-named after them in their honor. As WNYC/Gothamist reports, last week the New York City Council voted to approve street co-naming changes for Wu-Tang Clan, Woody Guthrie, and (as previously reported) the Notorious B.I.G.

A previously unheard 1954 Woody Guthrie recording was discovered in the Shel Silverstein Archive and shared today by Variety. The song is called "Hoodoo Voodoo" and it features Guthrie, Sonny Terry, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Wilco and Billy Bragg recorded the song for 1998's Mermaid Avenue, an album that contains other renditions of Guthrie's...

John Mellencamp has been named the 2018 recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize