“He watched the pale, speed-driven teenagers shiver around the dance floor. Droplets of light sprayed onto their faces and T-shirts. In alcoves, couples were frozen in the trance of foreplay. The beat ...

It’s 1999, and a school IT lesson deep in the south east London suburbs. Our teacher asked who had a “home PC,” and everyone ...

Zambian-Canadian rapper Backxwash is set to release a new album, titled Only Dust Remains. Exploring themes of mourning, ...

Kelela is set to release a new live album, titled In The Blue Light. Spanning 12 tracks, the recordings featured on the LP ...

The road to The Specials' first number one was long but they blazed a trail in finally getting Too Much Too Young to the top ...

Having been on our list of dream Baker’s Dozens for some time, we were thrilled when Shackleton agreed to pen one for us ...

Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

The latest work by Irish composer/sound artist Gerard Gormley under the moniker of Being Strangers is an acoustic exploration ...

In the third edition of his column exploring the new wave of boundary-pushing folk and traditional music, Patrick Clarke delves into music's role in our intimate relationship with place, and rounds up ...

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth ...

The centrepiece of Wong Kar-wai's melancholy drama Happy Together is a raw depiction of gay romance, but it speaks to the filmmaker's wider fascination with Hong Kong migrant cinema, finds Ian Wang ...

A series of studio experiments a quarter of a century ago changed the face of soul music for the 21st C, and D'Angelo's ...