ArticlesHear·July 27, 2022Kabeaushé’s masterclass in how to be unmissableMeet the artist bringing alternative Kenyan pop to the world.Text: Erin Cobby
Opinion·January 6, 2025Country is back — is conservatism next?Some say America’s politics is downstream from its culture. But that isn’t the end of the story.Text: Ning ChangImage: Tinuke Fagborun
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·April 10, 2025Honouring our ancestors in activism: In conversation with ArowahArt is a weapon for the massesText: Sara BafoImage: Sali Mudawi
Hear·May 21, 2024The Revolution is in 808On drill as a periscope with Adèle Oliver, author of Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK DrillText: Simmone AhiakuImage: Tinuke Fagborun
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·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·March 18, 2024Lessons on shame and vulnerabilityFrom Faith Moyosore’s Blue Hour NotesText: Adebayo Quadry-AdekanbiImage: Alex Francis
ArticlesHear·July 11, 2022Charting the rise of Pakistan’s electronic music sceneKarachi's first Boiler Room and the importance of carving out space for South Asian DJ talentText: Safiya BashirImage: Kohenoor Kamal
Hear·October 6, 2023“Mother Nature is a peng ting”Louis VI on how his latest album is a vision for living harmoniously with the planetText: Samia DumbuyaImage: Karla Lizethe Hunter
ArticlesHear·September 6, 2022Ugandan percussionists are keeping 700 year old traditions aliveThe Nakibembe Xylophone troupe on memory, ancestry and the transportive power of musicText: Erin Cobby
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