New York Times • 23rd June 2022

New York Times: For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the team behind Cxema parties have shifted its focus, but political engagement is nothing new for the artists.

Kinfolk • 16th March 2022

Kinfolk: David Erritzoe on the mind-bending potential of psychedelics

"David Erritzoe arrives at our meeting on a fold-up bike, perfectly coiffed and turned out in navy, ready to talk about drugs."

Financial Times • 21st January 2022

Financial Times: What Cameo knows about celebrity

Tom Faber explores the app which lets you pay celebrities to record personalised video messages, uncovering surprising truths about 21st-century fandom.

Kinfolk • 16th November 2021

Kinfolk: Fatima Al Qadiri

The shape shifting star of contemporary electronica.

The Guardian • 24th April 2021

Guardian: ‘In the game, I knew myself as Hannah’ — the trans gamers finding freedom on Roblox

37m people use the gaming platform every day in search of adventure – and for teenagers exploring their gender identity, it is also a place of liberation.

Resident Advisor • 6th December 2018

Resident Advisor: Hardcore sounds from Tehran

Tom Faber travels to Tehran to meet the artists behind SET, a festival championing electronic music in the capital of Iran.

17th December 2021

Financial Times: The transformative power of games

Why have humans kept games in their homes for millennia? Tom Faber dives into the new rise of board games and the surprising history of why we play.

The Guardian • 31st March 2021

Guardian: Phil Elverum's songs of loss gave me a language for that shapeshifter, grief

After my first boyfriend died, Elverum’s Microphones and Mount Eerie helped me make sense of a bleak world.

Pitchfork • 25th February 2021

Pitchfork: Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software

With the release of two free programs that encourage experimentation with global tuning systems, the musician and researcher Khyam Allami is challenging the Western biases of music production software.

Financial Times • 18th January 2022

Financial Times: Why gamers are turning their backs on NFTs

Developers see new revenue streams but players are suspicious of more in-game purchases.

The Guardian • 28th February 2020

The Guardian: Umm Kulthum, Arab music's eternal star

With a voice adored by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and millions across the Arab world, Umm Kulthum rejected gender norms with her powerful, political music.

Financial Times • 14th December 2021

Financial Times: Gaming needs to end its stereotyping of the Arab world

‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Medal of Honor’ have featured reductive portrayals but the tide is starting to turn.

The Guardian • 19th August 2019

The Guardian: 'If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won't stop the interview': Palestinian hip-hop crew BLTNM

Palestine’s rich hip-hop heritage is born out of the tension in the region, but BLTNM don’t just want to make music inspired by conflict – they want to have fun too,

Kinfolk • 16th November 2021

Kinfolk: Rage Against the Machine

A conversation about the influence of invisible algorithms.

The Face • 27th June 2019

The Face: Grindr has transformed gay life, but is it for the better?

Grindr has been championed as a cure for gay loneliness and a symbol of sexual liberation. In its 10th year, Tom Faber weighs in on the app that transformed the landscape of gay sex and dating.

Financial Times • 7th October 2021

Financial Times: Nils Frahm — the piano ‘will always be my medicine’

After an exhausting world tour and a new album with FS Blumm, the German musician is happy to shift back a gear.

Financial Times • 7th June 2019

Financial Times: The collectors battling to preserve Arab music

Tom Faber reports from Beirut and London on the passionate individuals saving a rich vein of culture threatened by war, politics and neglect.

Huck Magazine • 9th August 2021

Huck: The new generation of video game creators taking sex seriously

For decades sex in games has been problematic or conspicuously absent. Tom Faber speaks to the queer creators using games to explore desire, pleasure and consent in an original way.

The Guardian • 7th March 2019

The Guardian: Mashrou' Leila — the Lebanese indie band championing Arab gay rights

Embarking on a European tour and collaborating with Róisín Murphy, the fast-rising quartet say the west is wrong to see their progressive politics as unusual in the Arab world.

Resident Advisor • 15th October 2019

Resident Advisor: Stihia — An Electronic Dawn In Uzbekistan

The site of one of the modern history's worst environmental catastrophes is now home to a bold new music festival. Tom Faber travels to Moynaq to find out more.