Thursday, January 29, 2026
Live Review: Suntou Susso's 'Jaliya Silokang – The Path of a Griot' launch
Simon Broughton meets kora player Suntou Susso at the London launch of a new album which updates ancient griot traditions for today’s challenges
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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Yasmine Hamdan: “I feared that the music would be disconnected with reality”
Bianca Carrera meets Yasmine Hamdan to discuss an album born from Lebanon’s crises and a journey of reconnection
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Mighty Sparrow: A Beginner's Guide
Nigel Campbell champions some choice cuts from the rabble-rousing canon of a ‘Calypso King’
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Imarhan: Storm Chasers
Imarhan are pushing their desert blues into new territories while grappling with an increasingly unrecognisable home impacted by tourism and migration. “Things are changing”, hears Daniel Brown
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Fadophonics
Karina Janø speaks to Slow J and Dino d’Santiago, two Afro-Portuguese artists at the forefront of a new generation breaking down musical and cultural barriers
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Yousuf Naseem: The Last Ballad of Dardistan
Ishtayaq Rasool travels to Kashmir to meet Yousuf Naseem, a Shina singer preserving oral traditions amid turmoil and displacement. Photos by Ishtayaq Rasool
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Folk Archives: Klezmer Flute
Russ Slater Johnson explores the Klezmer Flute with flautist Adrianne Greenbaum
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Icelandic Popular Music in the 1970s
Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen charts the birth of a distinctive Icelandic music identity shaped by cultural movements
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Bebel Gilberto on 'Tanto Tempo' at 25
As Tanto Tempo celebrates its 25th anniversary, Bebel Gilberto remembers the producer who shaped a downtempo bossa nova classic
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Introducing: COLECTIVA
Erin Cobby finds out how jazz liberation paved the way for a new ensemble to express communal feminine rage
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Songlines Music Awards 2025: Best Album
The best albums this year, as chosen by our writers, featuring ganavya, Songhoy Blues, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Mulatu Astatke, Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Gloria Estefan's My World interview: “If everyone was a purist, music would stop”
Latin idol, Cuban exile, Miami mentor and unrivalled queen of the conga, Charis McGowan speaks to the multi-award-winning songstress about returning to her roots
Thursday, December 11, 2025
How The Watersons recorded a landmark in English folk music
In a bedroom in Camden, one Sunday in January 1965, The Watersons recorded a landmark in English folk music whose reenactment of ritual and magic still sounds thrilling 60 years later
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Gatherings: Dave Brewis’s deeply rooted portrait of Britain’s living folk traditions
Sophie Parkes talks with filmmaker Dave Brewis about Gatherings, his new documentary series exploring Britain’s remarkable folk rituals
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Introducing: Nusantara Beat
Paul Bowler speaks to Gino Groeneveld of the high-flying collective putting a psychedelic spin on classic Indonesian sounds
