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Songlines Magazine

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Songlines magazine covers the world's most exciting music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from all around the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, from Miriam Makeba to Mariza, from Gilberto Gil to Gogol Bordello.

Songlines is packed full of the latest CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, concert-listings, travel stories and every issue comes with an exclusive compilation CD.

Edited by Simon Broughton, co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music, Songlines sees music as a window on the world and features the sharpest criticism and the best writers.


World music news and latest happenings

12.06.08

The new July 2008 Songlines podcast is now available through iTunes

12.06.08

The new July issue of Songlines is on sale from June 13 featuring Glastonbury Festival’s Emily & Michael Eavis’ playlist and the editor’s choice of the 10 best new releases

12.06.08

Barack Obama’s favourite Kenyans, Extra Golden, fight to get their July UK tour underway

7.05.08

WOMAD Festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire on July 25-27

21.04.08

The BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 winners are…

27.08.07

Manu Chao talks exclusively about his new album on the Sept/Oct #46 podcast

19.10.06

Announcing the launch of Songlines at all major WHSmith stores across the UK

17.03.06

Songlines has just celebrated its first foreign language edition of the magazine – published in Farsi in Iran

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