The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The ...

Former Cecil Taylor side man brings together a band featuring Steve Reid and Earl Cross for a thrilling document of the New ...

The debut album from the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-producer, finds the digital age's only medieval princess bursting with ideas and cartoonish intensity. Truly, Hemlocke Springs contains m ...

Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti are releasing a collaborative album. Spanning eight tracks, the roots of Seismo lay in a commission by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which saw the two artists soundtrack an ...

When Amy Winehouse died in July 2011, the singer’s passing was a personal tragedy that also called time on a whole era. “It ...

Brian Coney celebrates the isolationism and destructiveness of the Canadian jazz punk trio Nomeansno's first essential album, Sex Mad.

A decade on from her last album, the influential neo-soul pioneer returns with an album of deft storytelling, rich jazz instrumentation and a cast of collaborators including Tierra Whack, Trombone Sho ...

As most of you will know, London venue Corsica Studios is to close in its current incarnation later this year – a cruel loss ...

As we hurtle into yet another new year, I’m still catching up on great records from the end of the last one – or great tapes, ...

John Quin steps into the preposterously testosterone sodden world of Taxi Driver and sees today's 'epidemic of male ...

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has criticised major label Universal for licensing a piece of his music to be included in Melania ...

Missy Elliott (along with Timbaland) meets The Quietus’ benchmark for genius, not necessarily via the route of producing three all time great albums in a row but as someone who changed popular music ...