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The Rough Guide to World Music: Brazil

Brazilian music is a whole world of its own. It may be best known for samba – the irrepressible rhythm of carnival – but that's only a fraction of the story

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Music of Brazil: A Rough Guide

Brazilian music is a whole world of its own. It may be best known for samba – the irrepressible rhythm of carnival – but that's only a fraction of the story

Songlines Music Awards 2025: Europe

The best albums from Europe in 2025: Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocărlia, Duo Ruut, Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni, Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Salvador Sobral and Söndörgő

Rainforest World Music Festival 2026

One of the world’s great music festivals, set in Borneo’s living rainforest

Oslo World 2023

Martin Longley witnessed Mari Boine, Bixiga 70, Gaye Su Akyol and Les Mamans de Congo at the 30th anniversary of this exceptional city-spanning festival…

K-Music Comes To London

The 11th edition of the celebrated Korean Music Festival brings some of the country’s most vital artists to the capital this autumn

FMM Sines 2018 opening weekend

The opening weekend of the much-loved Portuguese festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with four evenings of free concerts in the seaside town of Porto Covo

Tinariwen: every album reviewed

Since their debut album in 2001, the throbbing desert blues of the Touareg guitar band Tinariwen has conquered the musical world: here are reviews of all of their albums to date

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

Glatt & Verkehrt: from Hungarian folk to Afghan resistance songs, a festival of voices without borders

Simon Broughton selects highlights from Austria’s most vital world music festival

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

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Music of Afghanistan: A Rough Guide

Despite continued fighting, there is new musical life in Afghanistan and new interest abroad. Simon Broughton and Veronica Doubleday report

Rhiannon Giddens and Béla Fleck: The Banjo Summit

The banjo is riding high once more, and with various accusations of cultural appropriation in the air, we decided the time was right for a debate with two of the best banjo players out there, Rhiannon Giddens and Béla Fleck