This fall, Born Losers Records and John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run) are excited to announce Music For Everyone Volume 2: A Compilation In Support of the ACLU. The album will be available to stream on all digital platforms on October 24, 2025 with physical copies available for pre-order now ahead of their official release on November 21, 2025.
Alongside that, three songs off the record are available to stream now: “Fight With Love” by Sparta,“Valley of Debt” by L.S. Dunes and “Anthem” by Straylight Run.
Following the success of Music For Everyone Volume 1 in 2016, which raised over $13,000 for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the long-awaited second volume features another incredible lineup of original music and alternative versions of fan-loved tracks from artists like Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run, L.S. Dunes, Sparta, Jeff Rosenstock, Kevin Devine, and many more. The compilation’s theme, “Fighting Hate with Positivity,” is a powerful message of unity in a time where civil liberties continue to be challenged across the nation.
Nolan shares about the album below:
“While this administration continues to attack first amendment rights, civil rights, voting rights and the rights of women, immigrants and the LGBTQ+ it gives me hope to know the ACLU is fighting back. It also gives me hope to see so many people putting their time and energy into making this compilation and supporting this cause. I’m so grateful to all the bands who contributed their songs to this album and I’m so excited for people to finally hear it.”
In addition to exclusive contributions from a wide array of artists, the 19-track compilation album features a demo version of “Put_Em Away” by Catbite, a redux of “Until I’m Gone” by Common Sage, and a live rendition of “Old Cold” recorded in Brooklyn by Jeff Rosenstock. The full tracklist can be found below:
1. Zeta – Born Guilty
2. Sparta – Fight With Love
3. Taking Back Sunday – The Pattern
4. Kayleigh Goldsworthy – Easy
5. Straylight Run – Anthem
6. L.S. Dunes – Valley of Debt
7. Rebelmatic – Alive on Arrival
8. letlive. – Pheromone Cvlt
9. Modern Chemistry – Crybaby
10. Fuckin Whatever – Will I Ever See You Again
11. Kevin Devine – Negative Conviction
12. Jeff Rosenstock – Old Cold (Live in Brooklyn)
13. Catbite – Put _Em Away (Demo)
14. Wax Jaw – Spit You Out
15. Prism Bitch – Carl
16. Common Sage – Until I’m Gone (Redux)
17. Home Star – Endless
18. The Republic of Wolves – Wildering
19. John Nolan – There’s No Hate Like Christian Love
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You can find out more about the ACLU here: Home | American Civil Liberties Union
You can view information about Music For Everyone’s first volume here: Music For Everyone | Collective Confusion Records, Sub City Records | Music For Everyone
About the American Civil Liberties Union. For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. Whether it’s achieving full equality for LGBT people, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age of widespread government surveillance, ending mass incarceration, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach
With more than 4 million members, activists, and supporters, the ACLU is a nationwide organization that fights tirelessly in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., to safeguard everyone’s rights.
Zeta statement on Born Guilty
Born Guilty was written across different years of our lives, each part carrying its own moment of darkness, longing, and hope. When we put the pieces together, it became a single story about survival, exile, and the fragile light we all try to protect within us. The first verses remind us that even in the darkest night, there is a light we can fight to keep alive. The second part (written long ago) speaks from a place of loneliness, from the feeling of being unseen as immigrants in the U.S. It is a quiet plea: that someone might discover us before our light disappears. The last part, written more recently, is Dani’s unfiltered response to the present moment. To broken families, to persecution, to the human cost of immigration policies that separate and silence. Our story is tangled with these lyrics. We have lived through arrests, endless immigration processes, and Dani’s painful decision to leave the United States after feeling targeted and unwelcome. And yet, we continue to create, to resist, and to search for connection.
Because we still feel part of this community. We still believe in the potential for change within our communities in the U.S., and we know we have so much to offer culturally to this country. Through this song, we want to encourage people to speak up for what they believe in, to defend good causes, to raise their voices for those who cannot right now, and to unite. Together we can make real change, and diversity remains our strongest weapon in this daily battle. That is what Born Guilty carries: not just anger or despair, but also tenderness, memory, and an insistence on love… for ourselves, for our communities, and for the ones still waiting to be seen. It is a reminder that we are not alone. Even if we are born in the shadows, we can still recognize the light within each other, and that light is what will guide us forward.
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