Old Sea Brigade
It really feels like coloring outside of the lines. For as much as the music of Old Sea Brigade remains rooted in Americana, indie, country, rock, and ambient soundscapes, it blurs and breaks...
Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the...
Paul Mason
Paul Mason is a journalist, writer and film-maker. His latest book How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance describes the rise of the modern far-right, its colonisation of conservatism and...
Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Luedecke is the recording and performing name of multiple award-winning, Canadian roots singer-songwriter Christopher Luedecke. Born in Toronto, but now based in Nova Scotia, from the...
Moonlight Benjamin
Moonlight Benjamin (real name), is born in 1971 in Haiti and grew up in a protestant orphanage, learning how to sing at church. But quickly she left Church songs and gospel to a more personal musical...
Nakhane
One of the glorious things about pop music is the way that singular talents can come from anywhere. Born 30 years ago in Alice, a small town on the eastern Cape of South Africa, Nakhane has a...
Les Amazones d’Afrique
The first all-female supergroup of West Africa, the collective Les Amazones d'Afrique, is an event for world music. Whether they are undisputed stars or well-kept secrets, the musicians involved...
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is the author of three books: The People Vs Tech (2018) about data and democracies (Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize), Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and the...
Lucy Spraggan
Lucy Spraggan is in a good place and wants to share it with you. She is happy in love, life and music: three things that are reflected in the anthemic, upbeat, and infectious sound of her new...
J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts
A royal refugee turned soul survivor with a remarkable story of resistance having fled Burundi's civil war after three attempts on his life, landing in Wales as a teenager. On his debut album Free...
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Miatta Fahnbulleh is the Chief Executive of New Economics Foundation. Miatta has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering policy to empower communities and change people's lives. She...
Josh Okeefe
In 2012, Derby, England native and folk-singer Josh Okeefe dropped out of school, traveled across the Atlantic and arrived in Nashville, TN in search of the places his idols Hank Williams and Johnny...
Mariam Khan
Mariam Khan is a writer and activist. She is a contributor to Nikesh Shukla's forthcoming anthology Rife: Twenty Stories from Britain's Youth, writing on the policing and politicisation of...
Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo is a life-long social justice and environmental campaigner hailing from South Africa. Born in Durban in 1965, Kumi's first taste of activism came at age 15 when he organised and took...
Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is the New Statesman's economic commentator and a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). She is the author of a forthcoming book on the...