Hear·June 5, 2023Finding music in liminalityMaïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”Text: Isabella Yasmin KajiwaraImage: Alia Romagnoli
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
ArticlesHear·November 9, 2021Meet the musician making Mariachi a feminist issueshado sits down with Alina la Histérica to find out more about how she is making Mariachi a feminist issue and reclaiming public space.Text: Erin CobbyImage: Javie Huxley
Hear·February 16, 2023Imagining a world beyond caste discrimination through desi-futuristic musicIn conversation with Kapil Seshasayee on caste discrimination, Indian nationalism and the power of music to disrupt mainstream narrativesText: Akshata KapoorImage: Joe Habben
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 13, 2025The woman behind the Dancehall Queen of SwitzerlandLateena, the Jamaican artist reclaiming riddims for trans self-loveText: Larissa KennedyImage: Esther Lalanne
ArticlesHear·June 30, 2022“Mandem settle, womxn to the front”Why inclusive dancefloors are key to a safer nightlife experienceText: Safiya BashirImage: Boe
Hear·April 10, 2025Honouring our ancestors in activism: In conversation with ArowahArt is a weapon for the massesText: Sara BafoImage: Sali Mudawi
Hear·March 18, 2024Lessons on shame and vulnerabilityFrom Faith Moyosore’s Blue Hour NotesText: Adebayo Quadry-AdekanbiImage: Alex Francis
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·May 3, 2023What the music industry could learn from sex workers’ fight for decriminalisationIn the words of Laika, “We’re people, not just performers”Text: Erin Cobby
Hear·August 29, 2023“We just wanted to give ourselves a chance”: Berlin’s next-gen ravers talk partying and politicsThe city’s complex relationship with its clubbers and why not everything has to be activismText: Justin KendallImage: Natasha Phang Lee