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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

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

Obituary: Foday Musa Suso (1950–2025)

Gambian griot, composer and kora master has passed away aged 75

Førde Festival 2024: exploring the roots of music

Jo Frost heads to Førde Festival, a picturesque event that values home-grown Norwegian music as much as the global artists which are its calling card

Global Ambient Music: 10 Essential Albums

Chris Wheatley picks out some of the world’s finest ambient soundscapes

Levellers: A Beginner's Guide

For over 30 years, the anarcho-folk collective have succeeded by doing things their own way. Chris Wheatley finds out about their grassroots rise to fandom and their enduring popularity

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

Seun Kuti: “Love for me is a force that can change the world” + Video Premiere

With a new album ready, his first in six years and one featuring an all-star cast – Damien Marley, Sampa The Great, Lenny Kravitz – Seun hopes to make a breakthrough: “Reaching the people without the mainstream is not easy,” he tells Jane Cornwell

News

Sir David Attenborough in the December issue of Songlines Magazine

The nation's favourite natural scientist discusses his recently-rediscovered musical field recordings from 1954-63 in the latest issue of Songlines Magazine

Features

A Conversation with Pedro Ben: “The idea was to put Mozambican music on the map, to show that it existed”

Fifty years on from Mozambique’s independence, one of the country’s leading singers tells the story of a legendary album. Richard Gray finds out about making music in a free Mozambique…