While reviewing the latest DJ Babatr release, I pondered on how important outside recognition is for an artist’s confidence.

Ben Graham looks back 45 years to a time when U2 were hungry young punks intent on carrying on Joy Division's mission ...

The Portuguese guitarist and ambient composer takes a suite of jazz standards into strange new territory ...

The new book by photographers Karla L. Murray and James T. Murray documents the unique character and colourful inner lives of ...

The Philadelphia group turn shoegazing on its head, replacing its hazy nostalgia with a restless, anxious energy, finds Aydin ...

At the Portuguese city's annual festival of "singular music", sets by Tashi Dorji, Erik Dæhlin, Masma Dream World and more ...

One of the first shows I attended after things slowly started to open up post-pandemic was a quintet performance by Marshall Allen. It opened with an invocation by noted Sun Ra scholar Dr. Thomas ...

Aya, Mohammad Syfkhan, Sly & The Family Drone, Rattle, Immersion, Rattle, Kiran Leonard & more for Cambridge festival ...

In the rich and varied history of Japanese art, I’d wager the work of Hokusai would be most recognisable to the average person on the Clapham Omnibus – or, indeed, the post-club Uber. Most people ...

London-rooted but breathlessly international, the rapidly emerging diffident art-pop trio Bar Italia arrive at their fifth album in five years, and third for Matador. In March 2026 they’ll headline by ...