Category: Music

One of the most extraordinary success stories in the history of African music began in 1978 in the south of the Malian capital, Bamako, in [more…]

Born in London, where she still lives, to an artist mother and musician father, Netia Jones is the new associate director of the Royal Opera. [more…]

Possessing a whisper-soft voice and sweetly melodic trumpet tone, Chet Baker (1929-1988) had a sound that is often imitated yet almost impossible to master. For [more…]

Music was playing before I was even born. I was born into the sound. My dad [radio presenter John Peel] used to make these mixtapes. [more…]

“This has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,” jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae [more…]

Exuding glamour, spectacle and pathos, Model/Actriz create a ferocious mix of industrial rock, dance-punk and pop that’s often sexy and disturbing in the same breath. [more…]

Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, [more…]

The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing [more…]

‘I don’t need to be from here to tell you I love you,” Kamasi Washington says, teeing up the velvet soul of Lines in the [more…]