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Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, Wales, August 17-20 2023

Kanda Bongo Man, Etran de L’Aïr and Dur-Dur Band Int bring danceable African sounds to the Welsh mountains…

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

Top of the World – June 2018

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June 2018 issue

The best new album releases from around the world (June 2020)

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June issue of Songlines, featuring Zoufris Maracas, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Santrofi, Orkesta Mendoza, and more...

The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson

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

Best New Albums

Top of the World – October 2019

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the October 2019 issue

A Beginner's Guide

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

Features

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.