Feature: O2 Arena Made Me Take Off a Palestine Football Shirt to Watch Lorde
Chloe Laws
Exclusive: The O2 will review its procedures after two attendees of a Lorde concert were ordered to take of their FC Palestina t-shirts.
Tag: music
Feature: A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won
Simon Childs
London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.
Feature: This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid
Ed Gillett
The brainchild of two LA music execs, the six-piece group featuring Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel started recording together the day before 7 October. Is as1one an earnest attempt at musical coexistence, or something more sinister ? Ed Gillett reports.
Downstream: Massive Attack Founder on Palestine, Riots and the Greenest Music Festival Ever
Moya Lothian-McLean talks to Robert Del Naja ahead of the Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator, a day festival which promises to be the greenest live music event of it’s size ever staged.
Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties
Owen Hatherley, Ash Sarkar and Juliet Jacques remember the decade that decency forgot.
ACFM: Microdose: Plugged-in Protest
Jeremy Gilbert narrates a playlist of modern protest, from hip-hop campaign boosters to new wave anti-imperialism.
ACFM: Trip 36: Festivals
Jem, Nadia and Keir argue over the political meaning of festivals, from Stonehenge to Castlemorton.
Feature: Private Companies Are Stealing Public Parks
Rivkah Brown
Across London, cash-strapped councils are signing away people’s gardens to entertainment mega-corporations – forcing small community groups to take action. Rivkah Brown reports.
ACFM: Microdose: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Jeremy explores the connections between festive cheer and spectral fear, with help from Lee Perry and Jacques Derrida.
ACFM: Trip 28: Horror
What can horror teach us about the nature of the universe? A Halloween Trip with ACFM.
ACFM: Trip 27: Magic
The revolution will be manifested. Keir, Nadia and Jeremy investigate magic, with music from Siouxsie, Queen and The KLF.
Opinion: Of Course Lowkey Is a Target – Music Is Essential to the Palestinian Struggle
Somdeep Sen
The campaign against pro-Palestinian musicians is a reminder of how central music is and has always been to the liberation struggle, writes Somdeep Sen.
Analysis: Dave’s Latest Album Demands That Black British Music Be Taken Seriously
Kojo Koram
On his latest album, We're All Alone In This Together, rapper Dave makes a compelling case for why Black British music should be approached with the same intellectual rigour as the great guitar albums of the past.
Opinion: The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
Forget the stereotypes, red wall voters aren’t inherently culturally conservative. The north has always pioneered culture.
Opinion: England Is in the Midst of an African Renaissance – but It’s Still Racist As Hell
Kojo Koram
As impressive as England’s current African cultural renaissance is, the goal must ultimately be to create a world free of the painful legacies that produced it, writes Kojo Koram in Contesting Culture, a new series asking who really owns British culture.
Feature: Dance Music Took to the Streets This Weekend, But for What?
Ed Gillett
When’s a protest not a protest? Arguably, when it’s just a party - but the boundaries between the two aren’t always distinct, writes Ed Gillett.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Jeremy Gilbert tunes into the politics of folk music, from communist troubadours to pastoral psychedelia.
Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
Eleanor Penny
The pop star inhabits a gilded version of the same cage that traps all wage labourers. She also has the same tools to escape, writes Eleanor Penny.