By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
Cover art by Zonagirante Studio
Music against terror is not a slogan, nor a consolation. It is not therapy. It is not decoration. It is an atavistic form of resistance, an emotional archive where we leave what we still cannot name. Every week, in these Contemporary Tunes, we listen to artists who compose as if they were survivors—because they are.
While the world continues to burn with cynicism and amnesia, we do a simple exercise: sharpen our hearing so as not to lose our memory.
What we don't want for next year:
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We don't want tyrants who disguise themselves as messiahs.
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We don't want clandestine prisons or concentration camps redesigned for television.
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We do not want genocides explained with euphemisms.
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We don't want algorithms deciding who deserves to live.
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We don't want presidents with billionaire smiles who think they're gods.
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We don't want police officers who think of themselves as inquisitors.
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We don't want children without schools, adults without rights, and the elderly without dignity.
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We do not want the comfortable silence that endorses all of the above.
And yet, here we are, listening. Because music, in the midst of this grotesque theater, is the only language that does not pay homage.
Yes, we're pessimists. We don't have a manual for hope. Nor a promise of salvation. But music allows us to survive with dignity, and that minimum is a victory.
This playlist is full of songs that resist, that remember, and that imagine. They are songs that do not submit, that do not conform, that do not accept the normalization of horror.
And as an important warning:
Starting December 14, we will publish our year-end roundups — not to distract us, but to remind us that even in dark times, artists continue to produce beauty with the precision of those who know the future is not guaranteed.
Listen. With anger, with tenderness, and with discernment.
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Will you find your new favorite song?
Today we're making a bet. Among the 40 new songs of Current Tunes, You're going to discover at least one song that you won't be able to get out of your head. Whether you like furious guitars, synthesizers that float like neon in the dark, or vocals that sound like midnight confessions, this playlist has one for you.
We invite you to explore it at your own pace, but with open ears. And if that song appears—the one that sticks, the one you repeat, the one that changes your mood or your day—let us know.
We're interested in knowing if we won the bet.
