Thursday, December 11, 2025
Songlines Music Awards 2025: Newcomer
Our favourite debut albums this year include Wayku, L’Antidote, Merlyn Driver, Muslim Shaggan, Shiran & Bakal
Features
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Songlines Music Awards 2025: World Pioneer
The winner of this year’s World Pioneer award is Peggy Seeger. An American singer and musician who calls England her home, Seeger has been a seismic figure in folk music for seven decades. In a year that included her final album and final tour, Robin Denselow celebrates a revelatory career and speaks to the family members who have been at her side throughout
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Essential 10 Maskandi Albums
Kwanele Sosibo picks ten albums showing how the Southern African style has evolved from working-class folk songs to expressing a fugitive urban masculinity
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Québec at Showcase Scotland (Advertorial)
Profiling six stand-out Québécois groups who will be appearing at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections in January 2026
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Celtic Connections (Advertorial)
Europe’s premier winter music festival returns for its 33rd edition with a programme featuring Grammy winners, folk legends and artists from Cuba to Québec
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
London Arab Orchestra's Basel Saleh discusses music, displacement and supporting refugees through Choose Love
Syrian conductor shows solidarity with Choose Love and their humanitarian mission
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Eliza Carthy on judging this year’s finest music books
Eliza Carthy takes on the challenge of judging this year’s finest music books
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Folk Round-Up (Mànran, Nick Harper, Eve Goodman and SERA, and more)
Tim Cumming listens to new folk releases from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Ni Maxine’s Guide to Liverpool
Emergent Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ni Maxine gives a musical guide to her city
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Songbook: ‘Guéreh’ with Noura Mint Seymali
On her new album, Noura Mint Seymali has revitalised a Mauritanian wedding tradition. “Songs are like memes”, she tells Charis McGowan
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Ibibio Sound Machine on Together for Palestine
Charis McGowan talks to Ibibio Sound Machine about a historic musical fundraiser for Palestine
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Preview: Nicolas Jaar & Ali Sethi at London’s Pitchfork Festival
Ahead of a rare joint performance at London’s Pitchfork Festival, Charis McGowan hears how an unexpected musical collaboration formed
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Mishra and Deepa Shakthi spin global traditions into exciting new album
Global fusion collective Mishra and Sufi vocalist Deepa Shakthi talk to Tony Gillam about their genre-bending collaboration
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Introducing... Wayku
Chris Wheatley speaks to Percy A Flores Navarro, the mind behind a new project infusing Peruvian pandilla with jazz, electronics and surf guitar
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Spotlight: Vumbi Dekula
The Congolese guitar hero speaks to Michał Wieczorek about the peripatetic life of a soukous emissary
