Appropriation

Peso Pluma, IAMTRA$H, Mabe Fratti? On this mixtape, Mexican and «Mexican» artists face each other who will probably never be friends in real life.

What role and methods can a Western person adopt when curating contemporary music from a global perspective? In his ongoing endeavor to understand the world through music and sound, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter suggests 13 curatorial principles. Read the first six here.

As a child, our writer made mixtapes out of recorded radio shows. In this personal essay, she explains how she disobeyed the station’s official music curation.

Some people think they know what Italian music is, until you really start to ask.