Since the release of her 2011 debut album, Finding My Way Home, British Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed has been exploring her heritage through jazz improvisation.
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‘Hip-hop was like dog years. You’d be over by your third album’: De La Soul on grief, Gorillaz and never giving up
In early 2023, De La Soul – Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer, Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur and Vincent “Maseo” Mason – were preparing the reissue of
‘The synergy is amazing’: Stewart Copeland album fuses nature and music
Chirping Arctic terns and howling wolves are among the birds and animals that will be heard in a pioneering composition that fuses sounds from nature
You wanted a hit? LCD Soundsystem’s 20 best songs – ranked!
20. X-Ray Eyes (2024) The most recent LCD Soundsystem single sounded remarkably like a callback to their earliest releases: a minimal backing of rhythm track
The Burden of Black Genius: documentary examines career of Sly Stone
Pop has rarely been able to look away from Sly Stone for both the right and the wrong reasons. At his peak Stone was a
Post your questions for Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi
She fronted Lush, who stood out from both the dream-pop and Britpop scenes in the 1990s; more recently, she wrote one of the best rock
John Glacier: Like a Ribbon album review – this otherworldly British voice is in a class of her own
You could easily read Steady As I Am, from John Glacier’s debut album, as a mission statement. “I’m sticking to the plan, not the game,”
‘Comedy and art should push up against a line’: Rich Peppiatt on class, controversy and Kneecap
He first came to national attention blowing the whistle on his own dubious practices at the Daily Star and earning 14 mentions in Lord Leveson’s
Kanye West sued, dropped by talent agency and retail platform over antisemitic slurs
Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on
Hamish Hawk review – Jarvis Cocker-esque Scot shows why he’s at the edge of the big time
On new album A Firmer Hand, Hamish Hawk traded the easy, early Scott Walker-indebted indie of previous albums – 2021’s Heavy Elevator and 2023’s Angel