J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Enola Gay is not only one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most memorable tracks, it is one of the most poignant, ...

Below, we lay out the history of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” the battles it was born from, and what its lasting legacy has been. Perhaps more than any lyric or bit of history, the most important aspect of ...

Any songwriter can make some sort of general statement in a song condemning war. But we believe that the most effective anti-war songs are those that manage to tell personal stories that really bring ...

Despite some overall failings and the irreparable damage and loss caused by the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement actually wound up achieving many of its aims. The American military withdrew entirely ...

Country Joe McDonald, whose performance at Woodstock — in which he led a crowd of 400,000 through a subversive cheer before starting his satirical anti-war song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” — ...

“File:Countryjoe 79.jpg” by Rtsanderson is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. “Country Joe” McDonald, the band leader who fronted Country Joe and the Fish, and the voice that captured the frustration of the ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

John Denver was known for songs about sunshine, mountains and the simple pleasures of life. But in 1986, the singer-song writer released one of his most politically pointed songs and soon found ...

Enola Gay is not only one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most memorable tracks, it is one of the most poignant, bittersweet and perhaps contradictory pop songs ever written. It’s an incredibly ...