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Songlines Music Awards 2025: US & Canada

The best albums from the US & Canada this year, featuring Alison Krauss & Union Station, Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’, Parchman Prison Prayer, Peggy Seeger and Sam Amidon

Best Albums 2020: Fusion

All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Featuring Xylouris White, Sunny Jain, Derek Gripper, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn and many more

Fireside Stories with Dele Sosimi: “Fela was a radical who taught us about radicality. I still miss him”

Dele Sosimi spent the 80s globetrotting with Fela, even taking the reins of his 20-piece band, bringing joy and peace to Lagos’ chaotic commune where they lived, played and partied

Ethiopia In Brussels: Mulatu Astatke & Black Flower review

Ethio-Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke played a retrospective set from his golden era on the opening night of the Brussels Jazz Festival

Jake Xerxes Fussell Clicks Into Gear On New Gibson & Toutant Track

Self-confessed folk freak and Songlines favourite joins underground indie-Americana darlings for groove-riding escape fantasy

BRDCST, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Apr 7-9

Joe Rainey, Gaye Su Akyol & Sainkho Namtchylak sang at the hyper-diverse festival that bills itself as 'The Ideal Antidote For Paranoia & Hysteria'

Jake Xerxes Fussell: “It was always traditional music that I took the most seriously”

Paul Slade finds out why the singer, guitarist and song collector was always destined for a life in folk music and how his latest album unexpectedly paid homage to a dearly departed friend

Zakir Hussain & Les Amazones d’Afrique: Live In Brussels

Martin Longley reports from a long weekender in Brussels with tabla legend Zakir Hussain, pan-African supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique and frenetic Ugandan DJ Kamire.

Meeting Avalanche Kaito: “There is rhythm, there is noise, the sound of the texture is crazy”

Belgian trio Avalanche Kaito, led by Burkinabé griot Kaito Winse, have driven their post-punk assaults to combustible extremes on their latest album

“How am I going to be a legend?”: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at 50

Rossella Pinto, one of the original members of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, and her son Mauro Durante, their current bandleader, reflect on the group’s 50-year history of preserving and promoting the popular pizzica music of southern Italy