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Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud review – bold, fresh jungle unbound by tradition
Judging by the cameraphone footage, Nia Archives’ support slot at the last of Beyoncé’s 2023 London gigs was not an unqualified success. Archives has suggested
Party in a quarry! My decade of wild Euro raves – in pictures
Courcelles free festival and rave, France, 1997 Acts included Spiral Tribe and other sound systems. Gavin was heavily involved in this scene for a decade
Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the Fender Stratocaster
‘I found the cheapest Strat in all the shops,” says Nile Rodgers, speaking to me from Miami Beach, the very place he went trawling for
‘Bass on one shoulder, bow and arrows on the other’: life with Fela Kuti on history’s most dangerous tour
In 1977, after Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti criticised the military regime in his native Nigeria, 1,000 government soldiers raided his compound, Kalakuta Republic. They beat
Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, the musical sequel to Joker starring Oscar winners Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has been revealed. The
‘Her demons were probably worse’: does Back to Black reveal the real Amy Winehouse?
From the moment it was announced, in July 2022, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black has been plagued by controversy, with fans criticising everything
‘The spirits of my ancestors empower me’: jazz great Idris Ackamoor on Afrofuturism, activism and André 3000
The greatest music by spiritual jazz maestro and acclaimed saxophonist Idris Ackamoor suggests a swirling symbiosis between the living and the dead. Take his 2020
Reindeer skins and sonic looms: Borealis music festival dives into Sámi culture
On stage in a former industrial building in the Norwegian city of Bergen sits a strange, if not bewildering, selection of objects. There is an
Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation
There’s a video format spreading on TikTok. Recorded in towns across suburban England, teenage interviewers stop their peers on the street, fielding questions that range