Thursday, December 11, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Hollie Cook’s Universe
British reggae’s ‘orator of love’ takes us on a tour of the albums that crafted her groove and shaped her artistic vision
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Take Note: Chimano
The singer-songwriter talks to Erin Cobby about life and music after taking a break from Kenya’s biggest Afropop band
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Label of Love: CSB Productions
Chris Wheatley finds out about an intercultural imprint curating styles from Algerian flute music and Great Plains atmospherics to Malian techno
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Mikey Kenney interview: “Music can be a cure, a reprieve; it’s therapy”
Sophie Parkes speaks to the Liverpudlian musician about finding his muse amid a heavy news cycle and the limitations of being labelled a ‘folk’ artist
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Emma Warren on the death of the youth club
Erin Cobby mourns the death of the youth club with Emma Warren, whose new book explores the now jeopardised role these venues have played in fostering musical talent
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Letters to the Future: a collaborative call to imagine – and shape – a better world
Emily Stabell finds out about a grand project bringing together musicians and writers to imagine a better future
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Dispatch: a dance revival in the Netherlands
Charis McGowan hears of a diasporic dance revival bubbling up in western Netherlands
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Live: Au Tour de Cordes (Saint-Louis, Senegal, October 31–November 2)
Simon Broughton untangles a West African celebration of string instruments, with electrified gimbri and a dozen-deep kora corpus among the global buffet
Thursday, December 11, 2025
A conversation with Alice Gerrard: “That was just the way it was back then, I mean, it was definitely a man’s world”
A pivotal and pioneering figure in the history of US old-time and bluegrass, Alice Gerrard sits down with Devon Léger for a career-spanning chat through her highs and lows and how she blazed a trail for other female performers
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Kneecap: reclaiming the narrative
Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap found themselves at the centre of several media storms this year, clashing with authorities while selling out shows worldwide. In an exclusive interview, they tell Erin Cobby that their upcoming third album is a push to refocus attention on what they stand for: promoting the Irish language and fighting colonial injustice
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Martyn Bennett: A Beginner's Guide
Billy Rough surveys influential sides by the late-great multi-instrumentalist, one of Scottish traditional music’s most vital contemporary figures
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Beyond the myths: Iceland Airwaves reveals the real sound of Iceland
Charis McGowan visits Reykjavik, where Iceland Airwaves is showcasing the many layers of Icelandic music. “It’s such a young culture”, she discovers
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Guitari Baro: the shape of African jazz to come
Robin Denselow speaks with Guitari Baro’s balafon virtuoso Lassana Diabaté and the the trio’s co-producer Lucy Durán about their innovative all-instrumental debut
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Yiddishkeit Futures
The klezmer revival began in the US half a century ago. Musicians from marginalised communities delved deeper into klezmer’s European roots while adopting contemporary, open-minded approaches to play the music. Celeste Cantor-Stephens speaks to three musicians whose work carries on traditions of ‘klezmer’ in different ways, asking if the klezmer revival is experiencing a new wave, or whether that initial revival ever really stopped
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Songbook: ‘El Cant de la Sibil·la’ (Júlia Colom's Mallorcan Christmas Eve Tradition)
Charis McGowan hears how an ancient song survived centuries to become a Mallorcan Xmas tradition, and a core influence to Júlia Colom’s Balearic folk
