See·May 8, 2024Turning waste into beautyIn conversation with Usaginingen about reclaiming Teshima from its nickname ‘garbage island’ Text: Aileen Angsutorn Lees
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·March 21, 2026The resistance will be… harmonised?Meet some of the groups looking to revive America’s tradition of protest musicText: Ning Chang
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
ArticlesHear·November 30, 2022Meet Knife Girl, the Finnish musician defying gender and genre boundariesOn how her new album celebrates being trans, young and understanding yourself in a crazy worldText: Isaac MukImage: Sali Mudawi
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·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·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·March 18, 2024Lessons on shame and vulnerabilityFrom Faith Moyosore’s Blue Hour NotesText: Adebayo Quadry-AdekanbiImage: Alex Francis
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 5, 2023Finding music in liminalityMaïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”Text: Isabella Yasmin KajiwaraImage: Alia Romagnoli
ArticlesHearRefugee Week·June 24, 2022Resisting the Hostile Environment with hip-hopConversations on cuts, deportations and revolution with rapper AWATE.Text: Erin CobbyImage: Salam Zaied