Hear·February 24, 2023Looking back to see ahead: “and no one can trick me with Honey Mouth again”Beautiful Nubia's use of music for storytelling, activism and recollecting cultural memory amidst Nigeria's 2023 electionsText: Adebayo Quadry-AdekanbiImage: Tinuke Fagborun
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·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·May 31, 2023“You grow so much being around queer people”It Man frontman Finn O’Brien on being a trans man in musicText: Rudy HarriesImage: Salam Zaied
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
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·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 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·May 20, 2026Airwaves against austerityWhat Berlin’s community radios tell us about the politics of cultureText: Alice Vyvyan-JonesImage: Marius Hay Smith
ArticlesHear·June 30, 2022“Mandem settle, womxn to the front”Why inclusive dancefloors are key to a safer nightlife experienceText: Safiya BashirImage: Boe
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