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 ...

When visual artist Arthur Jafa suggested Melvin Gibbs assemble a band to riff off Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, it could ...

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 ...

The Dean Blunt-approved London three-piece arrive with all the fanfare and art world caché a band could dream of, but do they ...

Bristol Sounds has revealed two of the headline acts playing its 2026 edition next summer. Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark ...

Sir Richard Bishop’s latest solo LP for Drag City finds the former Sun City Girl in fine, rambunctious form, says Bernie ...