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In their very first interview about a new album of protest songs, The Specials' Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter speak to Patrick Clarke about how political music and the energy of Black Lives Matter lifted them from pandemic-enforced inertia
In his latest report on the contemporary music scenes of Eastern and Central Europe, Jakub Knera looks at the music scene of Belarus and talks with band Soyuz and the hosts of online station Radio Plato about keeping independent culture alive under governmental oppression