Thursday, April 10, 2025
Essential 10 Iranian Albums
Founded in 2001, 127 are a cornerstone of Iran’s alternative scene. Erin Cobby asks the group’s drummer Yahya Alkhansa to map out the country’s underground music scene in ten albums
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
Merlin Sheldrake's My World interview: “Much of creativity seems to happen at the tension between habit and creativity, between order and chaos”
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to one of the world’s foremost authorities on fungi and discovers his parallel love for music
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Stolen melodies, global hits: the bittersweet legacy of Los Kjarkas’ ‘Llorando Se Fue’
Los Kjarkas look back on a song that conquered the world as ‘Lambada’, despite modest expectations. “I have no idea what its charm was”, hears Charis McGowan
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Roots Round-Up: five new fiddle albums from North America that push tradition forward
Featuring new releases from Countercurrent, Morgan Toney, Rosalie Coleman and Brian Slattery, and more
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Folk maps: five new albums that chart a course through Britain’s musical landscapes
Featuring new releases from Filkin’s Drift, TRIP, Gavin Fairhall Lever, Chris Brain and Dan Sealey
Monday, March 24, 2025
National Folklore Survey for England launched to understand role of folk culture in modern England
The new National Folklore Survey for England project is focusing solely on traditional customs, beliefs and narratives
Monday, March 24, 2025
Folk Round-Up (Liz Overs, Reg Meuross, Will Finn & Rosie Calvert)
This month Tim Cumming features new releases from Ida Hedin & Johan Meidell, Will Finn & Rosie Calvert, and more
Friday, March 21, 2025
La Cueca, Antes de Dios (To the Moon & Back #2)
Film-maker Vincent Moon returns for a second instalment of To the Moon & Back, a series of largely unpublished films from his vast archives. This film takes us to Chile for a deep dive into cueca, the national dance of Chile
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Ashley Hutchings’ Million Dollar Bash
Folk-rock hero and Fairport founder is celebrating his 80th birthday with a different kind of Convention
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Songlines receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Songlines attended Folk Alliance International, the ‘world’s largest folk music gathering’, in Montréal to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and get lost in a hotel-spanning labyrinth of musical moments
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Musicians of the Nile pay tribute to Oum Kalthoum in Paris
Egyptian musicians come together in Paris to celebrate the life of one of the world’s most iconic singers
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Introducing: Kin’gongolo Kiniata
There is nothing trashy about this potent Congolese group recycling rumba for the ultimate junk jam
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Catriona Price: Routes to Roots
Scottish fiddler Catriona Price discusses grand plans to bring international musicians together through her ever-ambitious project
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Amayo’s Universe
Amayo, former frontman of Antibalas, has released a solo album honouring traditional Edo customs and his martial arts training. He picks the albums (and film) which led to this moment
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Kashmir’s beatboxers are fighting for recognition
Kashmir’s beatboxers come together to find harmony and opportunities through the blackouts
