The Occupy Wall Street movement has gotten the attention of everyone so far; the media is covering it, politicians are on notice, but no movement is cool until it gets its own music. It’s clear that musicians are taking notice too. A whole host of music celebrities have been sighted at Occupy protests and some are even performing. It seems as though they are taking it all in for now, absorbing the crowds’ energy, waiting for that inspiration. But they know what every good student of history knows; the movement needs a soundtrack.

Tom Morello, former Rage Against the Machine member already said it at an Occupy London protest; “In my country, there’s never been a successful progressive struggle for social justice that hasn’t had a good soundtrack.” And it will if Russell Simmons has anything to do with it. In an interview with Billboard.biz the music mogul is promising no less than an “Occupy anthem.”

He says that he is pushing various artists to create music inspired by the movement. While he isn’t producing any Occupy-inspired music himself, he is directly supporting his colleagues through encouragement and explaining to them what the movement is about. He wouldn’t say which artists are in the studio working on it right now, but he says there’s “a lot of music coming.”

Simmons, always the visionary, explains that he wants Bruce Springsteen to visit Occupy New York since he represents that all-American working class hero, and if he can’t convince Bruce to come he’s sure his good friend Jon Bon Jovi will. But Simmons has even bigger plans; he informed Billboard.biz that they are in the process of getting permits for various Occupy concerts. If he is successful at creating a significant live music component to Occupy, it could be the 21^st century version of Woodstock. Every generation needs a Woodstock doesn’t it?