Climate and Culture

Earth Sounds

Earth Sounds

Earth Sounds

Cultures the world over have woven spoken word and music into their creation mythologies, suggesting that song is inseparably tied to nature. These artists are singing the same tune.

A young man leans back on a large speaker in a junkyard.

A young man leans back on a large speaker in a junkyard.

Making Music in a Warming World Music is a powerful cultural force, but the current model of touring and streaming harms the Earth. How can music take real action on climate?

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Raveena Aurora Leads with Love

Raveena Aurora Leads with Love

Raveena Aurora Leads with Love Through her hypnotic, soulful music, the Indian-American singer is imagining a Desi-futurist world that celebrates queerness, builds community, and empowers radical self-love.

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Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians

Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians

Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians White musicians are often credited for their activism. But Black artists were using music as a means of protesting climate injustice long before.

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ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality

ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality

ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality In the early ’90s, few artists were connecting the dots between queer erasure and ecocide—but ANOHNI was. Four years after her first contribution to Atmos, the transdisciplinary artist reflects on her pioneering work in queer ecology, trans ferality, and moving beyond binary notions of nature.

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How Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía Honors History and Nature in Music

How Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía Honors History and Nature in Music

How Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía Honors History and Nature in Music Simón Mejía, founder of Colombia’s Grammy-nominated band Bomba Estéreo, talks to The Frontline about how music-making is inextricable from the Earth.

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Why One Vaccine Scientist Turned to Rap Music

Why One Vaccine Scientist Turned to Rap Music

Why One Vaccine Scientist Turned to Rap Music Hip-hop has the means to educate the masses, according to Ruby Ibarra, the Filipina-American biotech scientist turned rapper. For Atmos, she breaks down why intentional music-making matters in the era of climate catastrophe. She also curates a Spotify playlist in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month.

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In Celebration of Unity

In Celebration of Unity

In Celebration of Unity Artist couple Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Jatinder Singh Durhailay on working with natural dyes, making paper from waste, and presenting their work at London’s HOME gallery. They also curate a Spotify playlist inspired by the lifecycle of a seed exclusively for Atmos.

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Women’s Fight Against Street Harassment

Women’s Fight Against Street Harassment

Women’s Fight Against Street Harassment Eliza Hatch, founder of feminist photography campaign Cheer Up Luv, discusses the many ways misogyny is prevalent in the public realm, and how she is using her platform to inspire and educate. In celebration of International Women’s Day, Hatch curates a playlist of songs by groundbreaking women exclusively for Atmos.

Earth Sounds

Love Songs for Nature’s Kind

Love Songs for Nature’s Kind

Love Songs for Nature’s Kind A curation of poems and songs to celebrate Mother Earth, who is so often overlooked during the most romantic time of the year.

Earth Sounds

Jawara Alleyne Reimagines Fashion’s Value System

Jawara Alleyne Reimagines Fashion’s Value System

Jawara Alleyne Reimagines Fashion’s Value System Ahead of London Fashion Week, the Jamaican-Caymanian menswear designer talks upcycling, circularity, and finding roots in music—discover his exclusive Spotify playlist for Atmos.

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Flowerovlove on Putting the Planet First

Flowerovlove on Putting the Planet First

Flowerovlove on Putting the Planet First The 16-year-old singer, who is spreading love and mindfulness through her music and lifestyle, speaks with Atmos about practicing radical self-love and curates a Spotify playlist exclusively for the second edition of EarthTones.

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Joy Yamusangie’s Musical Dreamscapes

Joy Yamusangie’s Musical Dreamscapes

Joy Yamusangie’s Musical Dreamscapes In the first edition of EarthTones, a monthly column at the intersection of art, music and climate, artist Joy Yamusangie speaks about the role of nature in their multimedia practice and curates a Spotify playlist exclusively for Atmos.

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Damon Albarn Creates Music from Mountains

Damon Albarn Creates Music from Mountains

Damon Albarn Creates Music from Mountains Ahead of the release of his new album, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, Damon Albarn speaks with Atmos about writing music at the intersection of art and politics.

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Tamara Lindeman/The Weather Station on the beach in a mirror suit by Rima Sater

Tamara Lindeman/The Weather Station in a field in a mirror suit

Breakup Ballads Can Be About Climate Change, Too For Tamara Lindeman—the singer-songwriter behind The Weather Station—songs about heartbreak and loss have just as much to do with climate change as they do an aching heart. The Canadian artist tells Atmos how music can be used to raise awareness about our warming world.

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Alaska glacier by Daniel Shea

Alaska glacier by Daniel Shea

A Glacial Pace No one knows fast like Maggie Rogers, whose music career came on like an avalanche, having gone from college graduation to playing sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall seemingly overnight. Rather than racing further ahead, she has chosen to make her next music release a collection of past work: Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011–2016. As she readies its release, she reflects on the unnatural pace at which artists are expected to create, what glaciers have to teach us about time, and how quarantine reminded her of what it is to be a human being.

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Girl in Red by Julie Pike

Girl in Red by Julie Pike

Girl In Red On Why She’ll Never Buy Clothes Again Whatever melancholic vibes that emit from musician Girl In Red‘s heartfelt, hazy pop music are quickly rerouted by Marie Ulven’s frank outlook on a range of topics, such as sexuality, politics, and climate change—and, like most of her generation, how they’re intertwined. Over Zoom, writer Owen Myers spoke with the Norwegian artist on creating during quarantine and her green approach to merch and touring.

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