activism

Support Dirar Kalash, experimental multi-instrumentalist behind Sonic Liberation Front

Palestine-born, Berlin-based artist Dirar Kalash faced an accident after a gig without health insurance. But an outpouring of support is...

Healing, history, and a future reclaimed: Nina Pixel deep dive from Signals Festival

Ancestral Archaeology is more than the title of Nina Pixel's new double-album. It's an urgent practice at a moment of...

Listen to hours of music by Iranian women and nonbinary artists from solidarity takeover

From Tehran to locations around the world, on Palestine's own Radio Alhara, we now have hours of music to play...

These are the voices of resistance: interviews from Iran, female-nonbinary radio takeover

As people take to the streets of Iran shouting "Women, Life, Freedom!", Iranian music artists are raising their voices, too....

Sri Lanka – ශ්‍රී ලංකාව – benefit compilation in eerie, delicate drones and ambient sounds

The famines born of corruption continue, planetwide. It's hard to find words sometimes, but the latest release of artists banded...

Liquid Sky UFO modules: wild sounds, enough space for your fingers, plant a tree

In this first teaser for Liquid Sky's instrument label, the makers promises gear that raises some great questions. Like, what...

A five-story pyramid is backdrop for Kyiv’s music artists and queer performers

Inspired by crystalline geometries, Christopher Bauder’s STALACTITE towers nearly five stories over a Berlin backlot. On Sunday, it’s the setting...

Cries and pleas, expressed in music, in expansive benefit compilations for and by Ukraine

Here's another essential batch of projects against war, in support of Ukraine, many of them centering Ukrainian artists' music and...

With Oramics’ Cut the Wire, Polish and international artists in plea for crisis at Belarus border

At the border of Belarus and Poland right now, all the fault lines of the world's overlaid human catastrophes seem...