Marc With a C Credit: Vikka Leoni

They say art imitates life. More essentially, it reacts to life. Music especially has a storied tradition of commentary. And right now, the grapes of wrath are ripe.

All around town, benefit concerts have proliferated as both a reaction and a remedy to socio-political forces that are systemically working to disenfranchise and oppress us. Naturally, protest songs would follow. Within a couple days of each other, two Orlando music acts — MisfitKid and Marc With a C — dropped protest releases. The timing speaks to both our current reality and the mettle of our artists. The punk-rock maxim tells us that bad times make for good art, and these two releases are how we dissent.

MisfitKid is one of the musical guises of Orlando’s Daniel Fuller, whose best-known vehicle is drone-gaze project Danielfuzztone. MisfitKid’s new single — “See You at Nuremberg, Fuckers!” — was impelled by the January ICE killings in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, both U.S. citizens. 

Although MisfitKid’s new single is mostly instrumental, the title alone is point-blank with its sentiment. Then there’s that audio clip at the beginning of the song, the harrowing one where the infamous woman in the pink coat is screaming after recording the moment Pretti was gunned down by ICE agents. It’ll freeze your goddamn blood. From there, the song becomes a swelling storm of industrial noise, an unrelenting rhythmic clatter that seethes with fury. After six merciless minutes, the pounding finally fades into a continuation of the opening sample, leaving you devastated. It’s a tough but riveting listen. That’s the point. “See You at Nuremberg, Fuckers!” is on Bandcamp. Look for more new MisfitKid material to drop soon.

MisfitKid Credit: Courtesy

Meanwhile, the protest by Orlando indie icon Marc With a C stretches across six songs on the new Neat Protest EP. In sharp contrast to Marc’s highly atmospheric pop experimentation in recent years, this is a stripped-down return to his alt-folk roots. To meet the urgency of the times, these mostly acoustic songs are raw, direct and insistent like early Mountain Goats. 

With Marc’s famously scathing humor, Neat Protest unpacks and skewers the psychology of the sickness that’s in the national driver’s seat right now. Topics span false Christianity (“Jesus Dropped the Charges”), toxic masculinity (“Not the Good Guys”), gun culture (“Fuck Your Guns, Fuck Your Thoughts and Prayers”) and wholesale cultural ruin (“The Death of Everything”).

It’s a greatest hits parade for the apocalypse that serves equally well as timely rallying call or prime slice of gallows humor. In addition to streaming everywhere, Neat Protest is also available as a limited-edition CD via Needlejuice Records, with all proceeds going to Immigrant Defense Network.

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This article appears in March 11-17, 2026.

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