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Festival: Tropical Pressure
Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, July 10–13
Liverpool’s all-female nightlife collective SisBis have announced a seminal event headlined by Brighton’s Mr Bongo.
Founder of New Zealand band Fat Freddy’s Drop has passed away
South African researcher and DJ Atiyyah Khan unpacks the significance and difficulty of accessing and archiving music in Africa
Chris Wheatley delves into a label promoting the sounds of the Finnish underground
Acclaimed British-Egyptian academic Dr Hannah Elsisi discusses an ambitious new project surveying the sonic and sensory rituals surrounding African migration
In the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta sits between the European and Islamic worlds. That dual heritage is reflected in its Indigenous music, reports Simon Broughton, and it deserves to be better known
Bangkok’s pioneering club is to close its doors after more than 12 years
"I sincerely hope that Babel Med – or some equivalent – will return in 2019"
Manchester-based producer Nazar looks back to his conflict-afflicted upbringing in Angola and picks out some audio plums from the debris
Get an exclusive first listen to tropical beat-maker El Búho's latest remix, taken from his forthcoming album Tributaries
Picture highlights from the 2018 Songlines Music Awards Ceremony
The Israeli-Iranian singer and actress Liraz talks to Jane Cornwell about rediscovering her Iranian roots, singing in Persian and the risks taken to fulfil her desire to record with fellow Iranian musicians
The 20th-anniversary edition of Lake of Stars shows how much Malawi's music scene has grown
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