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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.

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

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.