Filip Kalinowski pays tribute to the indefatigable, make it fast, make it slow Ghanaian funk innovator who died this month.

Their fourth album asks why so much Black music born from pain makes people dance. The band needed the answer for practical reasons ...

Music journalists love to declare the influences that must have gone into a new album, but a lot of the time the artists responsible themselves are left baffled by such comparisons. We thought, why ...

Tariq Goddard attends the first event of its kind and wonders what (if anything) the many speakers have learned from the auteur it was named for ...

Ahead of a comprehensive box set of live recordings, Richard Foster considers the 'other' Joy Division – one that barely gets ...

Manchester post-punks return to the scene of two classic albums from 1982 and 1986 with new mixes, new tracklistings and a ...

As Soul Jazz launch a deluxe reissue to mark 50 years of this Count Ossie classic, Neil Kulkarni explores an imaginative, forward-thinking and post-modern fusion of the ancient and modern ...

With his new book shortly to be published by Fitzcarraldo, Ian Penman talks Fassbinder, 'negative dandyism' and image addiction with Jeremy Allen Newly published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, It Gets Me ...

Angus Batey casts his mind back two decades to Food & Liquor and realises that Lupe Fiasco was the last of his kind.

The English novelist, author of Doloriad and The Vivisectors talks campus novels, Coil's 'Fire of the Mind' and her surprise ...

We have this inside joke: how many people from Stotrojka does it take to change a light bulb? How does it all work, and how ...

Archie Forde hails a compilation of young Icelandic artists which rails against gentrification and foreclosed futures alike ...