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Capicua: Singing Against Sleep
In Portugal’s age of political exhaustion, the rapper, writer, and scholar Ana Matos Fernandes — known as Capicua — insists that staying sensitive is an act of resistance.
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Tracing geographies through basslines and borders.
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The Moral Panic Mixtape: Tuga Drill and the Politics of Noise
While the far right organizes, the state obsesses over teenagers with microphones. Welcome to Portugal.
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Loud, Loved, and Unapologetic: The Life of Preta Gil
Brazil mourns the loss of a pop icon, a radical body activist, and an unapologetic breaker of taboos.
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Glitter and Gunshots: Inside Brazil’s Loudest Love Songs and Dirtiest Beats
From Belém’s pirated romance anthems to Recife’s pelvic revolutions and Rio’s favela raves, a new sonic map of resistance emerges—cheap, vulgar, sexy, and impossible to ignore.
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Sweat, Screens, and Scirocco: Wolfram’s Rituals of Heat
From Vienna’s disco underground to Lisbon’s sonic laboratories, Wolfram reimagines dance culture as moving image, projected ritual, and climate metaphor.
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Jamaicaxias: The Afro-Diasporic Rebellion You’ve Never Heard Of
In the Baixada Fluminense, a dancehall beat defies the borders of empire and maps out a new world.
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Paulo Flores: Angola’s Unofficial Ambassador of Semba and Storytelling
Awarded Angola’s highest cultural honor, Paulo Flores continues to use music as a vessel for memory, resistance, and community—on stages from Luanda to Lisbon.
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Frequencies of Fire: The Anthropophagic Beat
How Brazil’s Artists Chew Up Oppression and Spit Out Sound.
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Pressing Back: How Porto’s Vinyl Revival Cuts Through the Noise of the Global Industry
From Steam to Signal: Vinyl’s Material Uprising in the Digital Age.
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Neoperreo: Reggaetón's Dark, Queer, DIY Revolution
How a bedroom studio movement born in Latin America's underground became reggaetón's most radical reinvention
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Morabeza in the Mix: Cabo Verde’s Soundtrack of Identity
From morna to hip-hop, how a scattered nation rewrote its history through rhythm.
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Dispatches from a Narco-State: The Rap That Tried to Stop It
What has changed ten years later? From denunciation to silence in the soundtrack of a fragile state.