At what point does a song stop being a song? Strip away the beat, harmony and narrative; leave behind a voice, a melody, a ...

Filip Kalinowski pays tribute to the indefatigable, make it fast, make it slow Ghanaian funk innovator who died this month.

Their fourth album asks why so much Black music born from pain makes people dance. The band needed the answer for practical reasons ...

Music journalists love to declare the influences that must have gone into a new album, but a lot of the time the artists responsible themselves are left baffled by such comparisons. We thought, why ...

Ahead of a comprehensive box set of live recordings, Richard Foster considers the 'other' Joy Division – one that barely gets ...

Manchester post-punks return to the scene of two classic albums from 1982 and 1986 with new mixes, new tracklistings and a ...

Angus Batey casts his mind back two decades to Food & Liquor and realises that Lupe Fiasco was the last of his kind.

The English novelist, author of Doloriad and The Vivisectors talks campus novels, Coil's 'Fire of the Mind' and her surprise ...

We have this inside joke: how many people from Stotrojka does it take to change a light bulb? How does it all work, and how ...

Archie Forde hails a compilation of young Icelandic artists which rails against gentrification and foreclosed futures alike ...

This was completely impossible,” Nigel Godrich laughs from LA, where he is busy in rehearsals. He is referring here not to ...

If you cast an eye toward West Africa over the last decade, you’d be forgiven for viewing Nigerian music as a cultural giant.