Bill Peel’s book provides a compelling case for black metal having potential to be a revolutionary artform, writes Gerry Hart
In the current political climate, despair come easy. From Pussy Riot to queer cabaret, we must find hope in one another, argues Siobhan McGuirk
Gerry Hart reports on lockdown, gentrification and the face of Newcastle’s live music
Matt Phull and Will Stronge share more thoughts about the post-capitalist potential of the Acid Corbynist project
The protest songs for which Bob Dylan is most famous were written in a 20-month burst in the early 1960s. Within a year Dylan had turned his back on them – not in renunciation of politics, argues Mike Marqusee, but to pursue a deeper kind of radicalism