
As artists pressure music festivals to cut ties with Israel, prog-rockers like Radiohead and Nick Cave keep rejecting calls to boycott. Their stance is morally bankrupt, argues Aisling Walsh

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

Eugenia Russell looks at the unlikely protest song that united Mikis Theodorakis with one of his most illustrious collaborators, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Giorgos Seferis

Victor Max Smith explores the history of samba-fusion and its role in protest movements over two decades

Gerry Hart speaks to Simon Barr of Dawn Ray’d about black metal, its relationship with the far right and its radical potential

Gerry Hart reports on lockdown, gentrification and the face of Newcastle’s live music





