Music
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Is rave culture political?
Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter
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How the crackdown on squatting cramped British creativity
Ella Benson Easton explores how housing shapes the arts – and the impact of laws and funding cuts subtly killing alternative cultures
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The ‘progressive’ musicians putting profit over Palestine
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
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury – review
Bill Peel’s book provides a compelling case for black metal having potential to be a revolutionary artform, writes Gerry Hart
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Riot daze
In the current political climate, despair come easy. From Pussy Riot to queer cabaret, we must find hope in one another, argues Siobhan McGuirk
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A poet, a composer and an unlikely Greek protest song
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
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Samba-fusion: marching to our own drums
Victor Max Smith explores the history of samba-fusion and its role in protest movements over two decades