Mitch Whitaker Announces New EP, ‘Which Side Are You On?’

Mitch Whitaker isn’t interested in neutrality. On April 23, he releases his new EP, Which Side Are You On?, a stripped-down, unflinching collection of modern protest songs that confronts power, justice, and moral complicity with the directness the moment demands.

Drawing from the lineage of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen (artists who understood that a voice and an instrument, aimed honestly, can cut through noise that nothing else can), the EP carries that tradition forward without softening it. Almost everything is acoustic. No cushioning, no production gloss. Just voice, instrument, and the weight of right now.

Leading the release is “Which Side Are You On?” — the oldest question in protest music, answered here with two specific names: Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both killed by their own government, both unarmed. The song deals not in abstraction but in facts, laid out with plainspoken precision. Masked men in unmarked cars, abductions without accountability, official assurances that the victims were dangerous. Whitaker sets the record against the reality and lets the contradiction speak. The chorus circles back after every verse like a demand that refuses to be deferred.

“We the People” is the EP’s most openly defiant track, a collective declaration addressed directly to those in power. Whitaker writes in the first person plural, summoning a “we” that refuses to look away or abandon those who aren’t yet free. Beneath the defiance, though, is something closer to prayer. The song ends by calling on the mourning dove to sing for the living and the dead, and to carry these words on the wind.

“A Better Tune to Sing” draws quietly on Buddhist thought — the right view, the cessation of suffering, the path through the brush to a clearing — grounding it in vivid, earthy imagery rather than doctrine. It’s a song about the radical act of choosing a different way to live, and the freedom that comes when you stop carrying what was never yours to carry.

Mitch Whitaker says:

“This EP isn’t about neutrality. It’s about asking where you stand — and what that means in a moment like this.”