Features

Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Baltic Sisters: breathing new life into Lithuanian sutartinės

The Baltic Sisters, singers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, open a gate into sutartinės, a beguiling regional treasure

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Roots Round-Up: Watchhouse, Valerie June, The Faux Paws and more

This is quite the grab-bag of music reviews from North American artists, ranging from pop-leaning to super out-there experimental, but still all rooted in tradition

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Folk Round-Up: Nordic fire, Irish Americana and English folk song

Featuring Wyn Oran, Innocent Hare, Tern, Hartwin and Lorraine Nash

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Champeta: “Reuse [of music] was not considered an infringement, but a legitimate creative practice”

Andrés Gualdrón delves into how African records, piracy and resistance shaped a Caribbean-Colombian sound

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Lágrima Ríos: recovering the lost Paris sessions of an Afro-Latin tango icon

Serendipity brings to light a historic recording from Lágrima Ríos, one of few Afro-Latin singers to find fame in tango

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Essential 10 La Réunion Albums

Artists and labels from La Réunion select the albums that have helped this small, isolated island become a hotbed of musical creativity

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Sally Potter's My World interview: “I’ve always thought of music as an equal partner to what we are seeing visually [in films]”

Jane Cornwell discusses tango, travelling through music and climate activism with the English filmmaker who has lately turned singer-songwriter

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Songbook: ‘Hind Horn’ with Alasdair Roberts, Màiri Morrison and Pete Johnston

Emma Rycroft talks to Alasdair Roberts, Màiri Morrison and Pete Johnston about a ballad that travelled from Scotland to Nova Scotia

Monday, May 12, 2025

Songlines Summer Festival Guide 2025

The sun has finally arrived and the festival line-ups are coming in thick and fast, so here’s our guide to some of the best festivals showcasing global artists in the UK and around the world this summer

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Q&A: Abigail Lapell

We check in with the Canadian singer-songwriter ahead of her first ever UK tour

Friday, April 25, 2025

To the Moon & Back #3: The Sounds of Abkhazia

Vincent Moon reveals a suite of ten films recorded in the contested independent state of Abkhazia, a sublime tropical land between Georgia and Russia

Thursday, April 10, 2025

“I'm rebelling against what the music industry and social media was telling me to do” | Natalie Wildgoose interview

Utilising a panoply of pianos across the Yorkshire Dales and her grandfather’s reel-to-reel recorder, the lo-fi folk artist invites us to Come Into The Garden