Angus Batey looks at a lavish set of early DJ Shadow singles which restates the long-neglected idea of hip hop as art.

Canadian composer makes a tour of the church organs of Newfoundland and finds a surprising index of the changing of the ...

For years ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials has been cited as the soundtrack of the 1981 riots, perennially rolled out for ...

With an exclusive introduction by writer and film programmer Gareth Evans, the Quietus presents 'Off With His Head', an ...

In 1963, Nam June Paik made a doner kebab out of records. Born in Seoul in 1932, the irrepressible artist and composer had ...

In 2016, the ethnomusicologist, anthropologist and folklorist Anna Lomax Wood was in Palermo for a conference. While there, she and a friend decided to take a trip to some of the Sicilian villages ...

Like a culture that becomes a civilisation, a band that evolves into an institution ceases to be judged on purely artistic terms. This is never more true than when the arc of a career grows thicker ...

To read some of the press surrounding the lead-up to Kelela’s third album, you would be forgiven for thinking the American artist had made her “rock album”, à la, say, Charli XCX. Kelela’s previous ...

A thrilling exploration of sexual politics from the Bay Area-based rapper/producer and New Jersey-born beat maker ...