• New Energy for Old Belgian Music
    Thursday, January 21, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    About Towers – New Energy for Old Belgian Music (ARC Music) is the title of the new album from Belgian band WÖR. Release date is… The post New Energy for Old Belgian Music first appeared on World Music Central.org .
  • ‘Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey’ Available Soon
    Thursday, January 21, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    A new book titled ‘Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey’ will be available on March 17, 2021. The book tells the important history of Patricia… The post ‘Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey’ Available Soon first appeared on...
  • Fira Mediterrània Manresa 2021 Showcase Still Accepting Proposals
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    The Fira Mediterrània Manresa music fair and showcase is still accepting proposals. The deadline to submit projects is January 27, 2021. The annual event takes… The post Fira Mediterrània Manresa 2021 Showcase Still Accepting...
  • Superb Guitar Mastery from Latin America
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    Duo Coincidencia – Veracruz – Sones y Flores (Cugate Clásicos Latinos, 2020) Veracruz – Sones y Flores presents a set of delightful, masterfully performed guitar… The post Superb Guitar Mastery from Latin America...
  • Emam and Friends 2020 World Fusion Album
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    Percussionist Emam has released a world fuion album titled Emam and Friends 2020 (Eternal Music). “Being locked in during the Coronavirus pandemic in Goa (India)… The post Emam and Friends 2020 World Fusion Album first...
  • Spellbinding Re-imagined Ragas
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    Kuljit Bhamra – Essence of Raga Tala (ARC Music, 2020) Essence of Raga Tala presents a set of timeless and mesmerizing musical pieces rooted in… The post Spellbinding Re-imagined Ragas first appeared on World Music Central.org .
  • Vildá Wins Music Moves Europe Talent Award 2021
    Saturday, January 16, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    Finnish duo Vildá is one of the winners of the Music Moves Europe Talent Award 2021. The world music act combines joiks and sounds of… The post Vildá Wins Music Moves Europe Talent Award 2021 first appeared on World Music...
  • Transglobal Underground Subscription-Only Album ‘After Cinnamon’
    Saturday, January 16, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    Transglobal Underground is set to release an all-instrumental album titled ‘After Cinnamon’ next month. This is a subscription-only release and will not be available publicly.… The post Transglobal Underground...
  • Virtual WOMEX Extended Programme in January 2021
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    World music conference WOMEX has announced the Virtual WOMEX Extended Programme for January 2021. virtualWOMEX Extended Programme features Conference sessions and a Film program, along… The post Virtual WOMEX Extended Programme in...
  • Unsigned Only Music Competition Deadline Soon
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from World Music Central.org
    The regular deadline for Unsigned Only Music Competition is approaching soon on January 20, 2021. Unsigned Only includes a world music category. The Grand Prize… The post Unsigned Only Music Competition Deadline Soon first appeared...
  • Danny Boyle to direct Sex Pistols TV drama based on Steve Jones' memoir
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Co-written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, six-part series Pistol to star Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan and Babyteeth’s Toby Wallace as Jones Danny Boyle is to direct a six-part television drama about the Sex Pistols – to be titled Pistol...
  • Simon Rattle to leave London Symphony Orchestra in 2023
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Conductor will take up a new role with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for ‘personal reasons’ Sir Simon Rattle is to leave the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) in 2023 to become chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...
  • A Bowie biopic with no Bowie songs? Stardust isn't the first to try
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Many have attempted to bring Ziggy’s story to the screen. But there are ways of working around copyright restrictions Credit to new film Stardust for even attempting to recount how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust without using any of...
  • Olly Alexander on success, sanity and It's a Sin: 'All those hot guys. I loved it!'
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    The Years & Years frontman is starring in Russell T Davies’ new drama about the Aids crisis. He talks about bulimia, his ‘dark’ clubbing days – and how he learned to enjoy filming sex scenes It’s a Sin: ‘If Covid was an STD it would...
  • Human, alien, other: Why we’re all still in love with David Bowie
    Sunday, January 10, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Five years after his death, the superstar famed for his restless reinvention continues to inspire and fascinate fans By the time you read this, the David Bowie tribute concert will be over, and an unholy alliance of Ricky Gervais,...
  • Get Buzzin’ With Bez: Happy Mondays star to launch YouTube fitness class
    Saturday, January 9, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Cult hero wants to ‘get fit and mentally happier’ after ‘mainly sitting on sofa’ during lockdown Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Best known for shaking a maraca and freaky dancing as a member of the rock...
  • A gold rush for Neil Young will leave little left for younger artists | Rebecca Nicholson
    Saturday, January 9, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Music publishers are splurging hundreds of millions buying up back catalogues, but it’s a shortsighted strategy Maybe half of a Neil Young is worth $150m. For fans for whom his songs have soundtracked their weddings or holidays, their...
  • Nick Kent: 'I was in the right place at the right time, on the wrong drugs'
    Saturday, January 9, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    The rock critic who revived British music writing at the NME in the 70s is back with his first novel – a caustic tale of rock megalomania Nick Kent , who is as close as British music journalism ever came to producing a legend, finally...
  • Nicki Minaj to pay $450,000 to Tracy Chapman for copyright suit
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    The rapper has agreed to avoid trial for an out of court settlement after sampling the singer’s work without permission Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay $450,000 to Tracy Chapman over a copyright infringement dispute. The rapper had been...
  • 'His life is a rebuke to cynicism': what five years without David Bowie has taught us
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    In his song Five Years, Bowie imagined a dying Earth. Five years on from his death, it seems to have come true – yet he continues to uplift us On 11 January 2016, in pitch darkness, I turned on the radio at 7am and heard the news that...
  • Tracks of the week reviewed: Divide and Dissolve, Sleaford Mods, Tamar Aphek
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    This week we’ve got a slab of relentless reverb, a grubby dangerous banger, and some jazz-inspired filthy riffs Continue reading...
  • Viagra Boys: Welfare Jazz review – post-punkers are hard to love
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    (Year 0001) Expanding on their pulverising visions of lowlifes and inadequates, Viagra Boys’ second just about avoids caricature The second Viagra Boys album begins where the Swedish post-punk quintet’s debut, 2018’s Street Worms , left...
  • Farhot: Kabul Fire Volume 2 review – gut-shaking sonic collage | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    (Kabul Fire Records) The Afghan-born producer skilfully explores his heritage with an unruly collage of vocal samples blended with diasporic sounds For producer Farhot, the cut-and-paste method of sampling in hip-hop serves as an apt...
  • New Order’s 30 greatest tracks – ranked!
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    With the 40th anniversary of their debut single approaching, we rate the band who blend dance and rock like no other You can see why Movement is viewed less as New Order’s debut album than a footnote to Joy Division’s career – that is...
  • Barry Gibb: Greenfields – Gibb Brothers' Songbook Vol 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    (EMI) With subtle, beautiful arrangements, this foray into country-pop with covers by the likes of Dolly Parton, Jason Isbell and Gillian Welch is testament to the Bee Gees’ greatness On the face of it, the notion of Barry Gibb releasing...
  • AC/DC, Avalanches, and Pnau collab with Ladyhawke again: new Australian music for January
    Tuesday, January 5, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Each month we add 20 new songs to our Spotify playlist. Read about 10 of our favourites here – and subscribe on Spotify , which updates with the full list at the start of each month Continue reading...
  • Tinie Tempah and Emeli Sandé on how they made Disc-Overy
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    ‘I’d listen to 50 Cent rapping about the mean streets of the Bronx and knew I could never do that for Plumstead – so I pretended I was from the East End’ I came from a relatively poor council estate background in London. By the time I...
  • Gerry Marsden: 10 of his finest songs
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Away from eternal hits like You’ll Never Walk Alone, here are some of Marsden and the Pacemakers’ sometimes overlooked songs, from high-energy Merseybeat to folk-based numbers Gerry Marsden obituary Continue reading...
  • The month's best album reviews
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Discover all our four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, from pop to folk, classical and more Continue reading...
  • Paul Travis obituary
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    My partner, Paul Travis, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a musician and songwriter who was part of the British progressive rock scene in the 1970s, first with his own band, Travis, then with Liar. Born in Oldham, Paul was the oldest...
  • Tony Rice obituary
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Guitarist and singer who took bluegrass in new directions by experimenting with its traditional repertoire In the second half of the 1970s a loose group of young American bluegrass musicians rewrote the prospectus of that somewhat...
  • Geoff Stephens, chart-topping pop songwriter, dies aged 86
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Musician who had UK and US No 1s with the New Vaudeville Band, David Soul and more died from pneumonia after surviving Covid-19 last year Geoff Stephens, the prolific Grammy-winning British songwriter behind hits such as Winchester...
  • Gerry Marsden, frontman of Gerry and the Pacemakers, dies aged 78
    Sunday, January 3, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Singer known for hits You’ll Never Walk Alone and Ferry Cross the Mersey dies after short illness Gerry Marsden obituary Gerry Marsden, the lead singer of Gerry and the Pacemakers , known for hits including You’ll Never Walk Alone and...
  • Sunday with Arlo Parks: ‘I’m a nocturnal creature’
    Sunday, January 3, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    The musician likes meandering, Mexican food and being creative until the early hours Are you an early riser? Not exactly. I’m up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I’d sleep into the afternoon. Our Hammersmith family home feels empty as...
  • For Those I Love: Ireland's potent new poet of grief
    Friday, January 1, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Recalling the delivery of the Streets and the music of James Blake, David Balfe’s project is a cathartic document in the wake his best friend’s death Irish drill, jazz violin and supermarket musicals: 30 new artists for 2021 When the...
  • Irish drill, jazz violin and supermarket musicals: 30 new artists for 2021
    Friday, January 1, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    From the ferocious hardcore punk of Nicolas Cage Fighter to the ultra-meditative ambient of KMRU, discover new music from right across the pop spectrum Continue reading...
  • Ghanaian pop star Amaarae: 'I'm presenting black women as deities'
    Friday, January 1, 2021 from World music | The Guardian
    Raised between Accra and Atlanta, the genre-rejecting singer draws from her cosmopolitan upbringing – and a love of Kelis – to confront narrow definitions of womanhood Irish drill, jazz violin and supermarket musicals: 30 new artists for...
  • Emma Swift, Blake Scott, the Avalanches and others: the best Australian albums of 2020
    Tuesday, December 29, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    Guardian Australia’s music critics and staff bring you their favourite records of the year – in no particular order Every now and then an album breaks through the usual channels to make fools of what is left of the local music industry....
  • The best songs of 2020 ... that you didn't hear
    Saturday, December 26, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    In an unusual year that’s kept us most of us away from live music venues, Guardian writers pick the songs that deserve to have made more impact Continue reading...
  • The 10 best global albums of 2020
    Wednesday, December 23, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    Away from the English-language mainstream was a world of mindblowing sound from Indian raga to Malian mayhem, and Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela’s final work More on the best culture of 2020 Continue reading...
  • The 10 best jazz albums of 2020
    Monday, December 21, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    Alongside archive recordings from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and inventive new releases by Maria Schneider and Carla Bley, 2020 had plenty of spectacular fusions Continue reading...
  • Jack Harlow: That's What They All Say review – breezy confessionals
    Sunday, December 20, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    (Atlantic) The 22-year-old Kentucky rapper confronts his newfound fame on a debut album that hints at finer things to come Kentucky’s Jack Harlow is one of the most hyped new rappers of this year, with a No 2 single and a Grammy nod for...
  • Taylor Swift: Evermore review – a songwriter for the ages
    Sunday, December 20, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    On her richly resonant second album of the year, Swift dabbles with country noir and dives into the world of unbalanced relationships It’s testament to the tightness of these two “sister albums” that the title of Taylor Swift’s first...
  • Fiona Apple on the album of the year, Grammys hypocrisy and how #MeToo helped her get sober
    Friday, December 18, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
    Over two interviews and more text messages, our artist of the year unpacks her album Fetch the Bolt Cutters – and explains how she finally found compassion for herself after trauma and bullying The Guardian’s No 1 album of 2020: Fetch...
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