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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...

Brutal, creative sound worlds in 4-part compilation from Paula Temple’s Noise Manifesto

Distort sound, distort norms - that's the watchcry of Paula Temple's Noise Manifesto. But even though it's a celebration 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....

Techno meets graphic novel: Alan Oldham’s Johnny Gambit is back to the future

1986, Chicago. Hot Comics. Inside the sleeve of a Rhythim is Rhythim 12-inch. Private detective Johnny G is always popping...

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...

MVMNTS: Vibrating, shuddering sounds from Hiro Kone x Roxy Farman benefit Pakistan relief

Welded sheet metal and springs have a contact-mic dialog with modular synths in a chillingly brilliant EP by Hiro Kone...

How the Open Music Lab creates safe space for refugees, marginalized artists [Hacklab Inputs]

This is an easy one to relate to: you want space to be creative, to grow in your practice, and...

Music videos come to Game Boy Advance carts, in the ultra-chillwave world of Slow Magic

Video killed the radio star, then reality TV killed MTV, then social media killed the Internet. Well, it's back, all...