In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
Adding a fresh chapter to an already stellar discography which includes stints with his brothers and the saxophonist Wayne Francis as part of the Afrocentric quartet United Vibrations, born in Londinium while...
Singing through a ring modulator offset by the distortions and amplifications of the surrounding band, which drew upon an unconventional background in aspects of Dixieland jazz, Indian classical ragas, John Cage, and...
At the pith or heart of Mourning Due, the latest album by the Oakland-born and Brooklyn-based emcee Nappy Nina, the spoken word poet and jazz visionary Moor Mother delivers a bravura verse...
Sexually deceptive, curiously receptive, and twisting through 180 degrees as they unfold their flowers to the sun, this week Jófríður Ákadóttir wields the orchid as a symbol of rebirth as the Icelandic...
Collaboration is the key word this week, as Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen light one up on an irresistible duet. Danny Brown leads the Bruiser Brigade alongside Bruiser Wolf, J.U.S, Fat...
On ‘Song for Berta’, written and recorded over a couple of days, JFDR, Sandrayati Fay, and Damien Rice remember the Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, with all proceeds going...
JFDR immerses and forgets, Tierra Whack chops peppers and onions, Okay Kaya covers Shania Twain, and Shameika shows potential. Rico Nasty teams up with Don Toliver and Gucci Mane, while DaBaby and...
Coronavirus can’t stop the music but inevitably colours the act of listening, whether distending the walls, heightening the sense of claustrophobia, or channelling the mind to sunnier climes. Amid new music from...