Hear·March 23, 2026A new generation of musicians doubling down on ICE resistance‘Melt ICE’ and creative counteractions to Trump’s authoritarian takeoverText: Hayden MerrickImage: Beck O'Hara
Hear·March 21, 2026The resistance will be… harmonised?Meet some of the groups looking to revive America’s tradition of protest musicText: Ning Chang
Hear·December 1, 2025Silvana Estrada and the roads that lead homeThe fierce act of singing to rememberText: Santiago FloresImage: Aislinn Tonis
Hear·September 8, 2025‘Tuff Times Never Last’… this too shall passHow Kokoroko’s latest album is a sonic balm for a world in fluxText: Simmone AhiakuImage: Fiona Quadri
Hear·August 21, 2025The club can heal usHow raving keeps us alive – even when the world is trying to kill usText: Fopé AjanakuImage: Tinuke Fagborun
Hear·August 19, 2025SHARPE festival is holding firm in Slovakia’s culture warSpaces of free expression are becoming all the more precious as the country veers closer towards illiberalismText: John BellImage: İsmihan Uğurlu
Hear·August 13, 2025The woman behind the Dancehall Queen of SwitzerlandLateena, the Jamaican artist reclaiming riddims for trans self-loveText: Larissa KennedyImage: Esther Lalanne
Hear·June 17, 2025Untangling chains of complicity: music festivals during genocideKKR, cultural capital and the movements challenging the corporate festival machineText: Darío Karim Pomar AzarImage: Natasha Phang Lee
Hear·April 14, 2025The Raï Legacy: mapping Algeria’s struggles through its most opinionated music genreExploring how the rebellious spirit of a former colony can be channelled through its national folk musicText: BougiImage: Tommy H
Hear·April 10, 2025Honouring our ancestors in activism: In conversation with ArowahArt is a weapon for the massesText: Sara BafoImage: Sali Mudawi
Hear·February 28, 2025The New Song Movement: Latin America’s soundtrack to the revolutionHow the Nueva Canción genre is influencing a new generation of artists taking up the mantle of protest music in Latin AmericaText: Larissa KennedyImage: Javie Huxley
Hear·February 12, 2025“Carrying the torch” of a queer country renaissanceOrganisations like Stud Country are bringing a rich history and community of country dance to a new generation of urban cowboysText: Ning Chang