Thursday, May 15, 2025
Fela Kuti: A Beginner's Guide (by Femi Kuti)
Femi Kuti discusses his father’s legacy and his life as the son of an Afrobeat legend. “He was too kind to everybody”, hears Robin Denselow
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
10 Years of Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Festival
As Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Festival celebrates a 10th anniversary which once seemed highly unlikely, Erin Cobby dives deep into an event that has put its local artists on the map. “We spent our life savings”, she finds out
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Welsh Soul, Latin Heat: Carwyn Ellis and the global pulse of Rio 18
Carwyn Ellis continues his explorations into Latin music with a new album digging into the Chicano soul grooves of the US’ Latin diaspora. “I’m constantly wanting to do different projects”, hears Russ Slater Johnson
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
