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Womadelaide 2025: Róisín Murphy, Khruangbin and others lead a blissful, sweltering weekend

Despite the heat, this year’s festival was full of magical moments and big sounds, with musicians making fascinating genre connections

The Guardian - AU · Mar 11, 2025

‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years

It’s gone from a cowshed to a cultural institution. As its 3,000-album archive gets digitised, different generations explain how Sain deepened Welsh identity

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025

"The next generation of Moog products will push boundaries while remaining deeply rooted in the craftsmanship and creativity that defines the brand": Moog at 60, from the ladder filter to the Labyrinth

As the iconic synth-maker enters a new era under inMusic, we speak to several key figures at the company to ask if it can stay true to its roots while embracing the future

MusicRadar · Feb 15, 2025

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“The Doctor Who theme was just a fraction of what she could do… She felt sound very deeply – things that haunted her came out”: Actress Caroline Catz on hearing Delia Derbyshire’s unreleased archive

Doc Martin and DCI Banks star’s record collection also features krautrock, space rock, acid folk, Canterbury and metal music

Louder · Dec 18, 2024

Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights on a Satellite review – fitting tribute to a century of jazz

As saxophonist and band leader Marshall Allen turns 100, his evergreen outfit effortlessly draw on their rich history, as classics meet the cosmic

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2024

"I knew the MC5 was telling the truth; There were dangerous truths that needed to be revealed": The last stand of rock's great revolutionaries

In 1968 the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band’s legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album

Louder · Nov 26, 2024

Lars Danielsson/ Verneri Pohjola/ John Parricelli: Trio review – wine chateau sessions mingle mature sensibilities

Bassist Danielsson, guitarist Parricelli and trumpeter Pohjola combine folksy melodies, Latin grooves and free-roaming improv on this lustrous album

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024

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"If you're going to do anything, do it full measure, don't equivocate, be all the way in": How the MC5's Kick Out The Jams became a rallying call for a generation

The title track of the MC5's debut live album was the incendiary call to arms that ignited punk’s vital spark in 60s Detroit

Louder · Oct 21, 2024

“The Grateful Dead? Man, they were abysmal. After 20 minutes half the audience had gone”: Meat Loaf’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, the MC5, The Who and more

Iggy, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Meat Loaf crossed paths with them all

Louder · Oct 12, 2024

The 32 greatest Saturday Night Live performances

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Total Film · Oct 11, 2024

“It gets tiring doing the same thing. In this life, you gotta do what you want, you gotta let your mind and fancy flow free”: The epic story of Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love, the heart of the guitarist‘s Holy Trinity

The story of Axis: Bold Of Love, Hendrix’s “science fiction rock’n’roll” masterpiece

Louder · Sep 28, 2024

Afrofuturism thrives in Philly − 5 artists you should know

From the creation of the Liberty Bell in the 1750s to the world-famous Philadelphia Sound soul music of the 1960s and ’70s, artistic innovation has long been a staple in Philly history. Today, the city’s thriving Afrofuturist scene is continuing this legacy.

The Conversation · Sep 27, 2024

Glastonbury live: Saturday with Coldplay, Little Simz, Orbital and more – as it happened

Cyndi Lauper, Jessie Ware, the Breeders and more performed on the second day at Worthy Farm, along with a secret set from Kasabian

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2024

Josèfa Ntjam on her surreal utopias in Venice

Artist Josèfa Ntjam and LAS Art Foundation bring other worlds to life with ‘swell of spæc(i)es’ at Palazzina Canonica during the Venice Biennale 2024

Wallpaper · Apr 19, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2024

‘The spirits of my ancestors empower me’: jazz great Idris Ackamoor on Afrofuturism, activism and André 3000

A musical seeker since childhood, the 73-year-old’s journeys have taken him from lessons with Cecil Taylor to a formative tour of Africa and now work with the Outkast star. He explains why he’s still chasing the next chapter

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Wayne Kramer: a complex and influential musician, dogged by lucklessness

The musician, who has died aged 75, co-founded MC5, a band that for all its undoubted brilliance, lurched from one disaster to the next

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2024

From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2023

The 10 best contemporary albums of 2023

There was soothing minimalism and bowel-quaking low end as Neil Gaiman got some wonderfully quizzical accompaniments and Manchester’s answer to Sun Ra freaked out

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2023

Isaiah Collier: Parallel Universe review – an inspired homage to the giants of jazz and soul

Recorded in single-take live performances, the Chicago multi-instrumentalist deftly throws funk, gospel, soul and his own fine voice into the mix

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023

‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 24, 2023

Mike Reed plays on — through Chicago music scene’s highs and lows

Through his work as Pitchfork Music Festival’s co-founder, owner of Constellation and the Hungry Brain, and an esteemed free jazz bandleader, Reed has helped shape Chicago’s music scene.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Richard Davis obituary

US jazz bassist who worked with Van Morrison and Sarah Vaughan and later became a professor of bass at Wisconsin University

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2023

The incredible story of the lost city of Atlantis that inspired Jason Momoa’s Aquaman

The myth of the underwater city has captured imaginations for over two thousand years

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2023

Move over guitar rock – Ezra Collective’s propulsive jazz is the true sound of modern Britain

Their Mercury Prize win has finally punted the ‘token jazz album’ era of the Mercury Prize into the past, says John Lewis

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2023

Labor Day weekend kicks off jazz season in Chicago — here are some highlights

“It’s a wide variety of different genres, from New Age to Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and a little bit of avant-garde,” said John Foster, the Jazz Institute’s managing director of programs and education initiatives, about this weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

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