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V&A East Museum opens in London with ‘The Music is Black: A British Story’ exhibition
New five-storey museum in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park launches on April 18 with landmark exhibition charting 125 years of Black British music
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Best New Albums
Top of the World – May 2020
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the May 2020 issue
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Amália Rodrigues: A Beginner's Guide
Pleasure, pain and poetry – the ‘Queen of Fado’ gave Portugal its soundtrack during a turbulent 20th century. Chris Moss looks back over Amália’s career
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Celebrating Festivals: A Lost Summer of Music
The summer of 2020 will be remembered as a giant void in the festival calendar with coronavirus causing a deluge of postponements and cancellations from Shetland to Sarawak. In a show of support for the festival community, musicians and Songlines contributors share their favourite festival memories over the years. Read more in the current issue (#160) available now.
Best New Albums
Top of the World – January/February 2020
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the January/February 2020 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – April 2020
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the April 2020 issue
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Welcome Here, Kind Stranger
Owen Spafford gathers an all-star cast for his forthcoming multi-media celebration of the traditional music ‘session’
Best New Albums
Top of the World – November 2018
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the November 2018 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – October 2018
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the October 2018 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – December 2018
The month's best new albums, including Gaye Su Akyol, Bixiga 70 and Karine Polwart
Features
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
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50 Great Moments in World Music
We've noted 50 great moments from 7000BC to the present day – concerts and confrontations, collaborations and conspiracies – all of which have shaped the sounds we're listening to today
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Rowan Rheingans: “We need to learn not to be afraid to sit with some sorrow and grief. We need to make room to feel and have compassion”
The musician Rowan Rheingans has a new solo project and album that are part-memoir, part-theatre. She talks to Julian May about the many influences that shaped these works
