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Áššu – Luoteniegut (Nordic Notes / CPL-Musicgroup, 2025) Áššu, the trio led by veteran Finnish Sámi singer Ulla Pirttijärvi, intertwines traditional joik with contemporary sounds… The post Áššu Rekindles Sámi Fire on...Monday, June 30, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Mamah Soares, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Salvador, Bahia, returns with Banho de Abô, a new single released on June 13 via Kaxambu Records. Featuring… The post Mamah Soares Mixes Candomblé and Club Beats in “Banho de...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from World Music Central.org
The longstanding relationship between jazz and samba remains as strong as ever, with “Afosamba” by Brazilian pianist Antonio Adolfo and his octet a shining example… The post Tried, True and Terrific first appeared on World Music...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Sister Sadie – All Will Be Well (Mountain Home Music, 2025) Bluegrass group Sister Sadie returns with All Will Be Well, a new full-length album… The post Sister Sadie Mix Bluegrass and ’90s Twang on All Will Be Well first...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from World Music Central.org
(headline image: Algair Jaw Harp) Few musical instruments are as small and unassuming yet as globally far-reaching as the jaw harp. Also known as the… The post An Overview of the Twangy Jaw Harp first appeared on World Music Central .Saturday, June 28, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Here to Stay is the latest release from Jocelyn Pettit and Ellen Gira, an 11-track collection that reflects themes of home, travel, and musical kinship.… The post Fiddling Around the World: Pettit & Gira Make Themselves at Home...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from World Music Central.org
CMH Records’ long-running Pickin’ On Series continues with Pickin’ On Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bluegrass Rising, featuring vocal and instrumental reinterpretations of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics… The post Creedence...Friday, June 27, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Various Artists – Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 1 (Curios, 2025) A diverse lineup of artists pays tribute to Neil Young… The post Young at Heart: All-Star Tribute Album Strikes Gold first appeared on World Music...Friday, June 27, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Mara Aranda – Geografías de la Diáspora Vol. IV: Sefarad en el Corazón de Bulgaria (self-release, 2025) In the fourth installment of her five-part series… The post Balkan Beats and Sephardic Streets: Mara Aranda Maps a Forgotten...Friday, June 27, 2025 from World Music Central.org
Glasgow-based folk quartet Gnoss, featuring Aidan Moodie, Graham Rorie, Connor Sinclair, and Craig Baxter, has unveiled a new single, “Hjop,” signaling the start of a… The post Gnoss Folk Quartet Tunes Up for 2025 first...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetary In the psychedelic south-east corner of the Glastonbury festival site a rocket has been built to carry Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Big summer bets such as F1 and The Smurfs are using stars like Rihanna and Tate McRae to appeal to a wider audience Posters for the Brad Pitt Formula One race car drama advertise it, with a heavy dose of cheese, as F1 the Movie . But...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Every artist dreams of playing the world’s greatest festival, but what’s it actually like? Artists returning this year, including Fatboy Slim and Self Esteem, look back at their first shows You can tell it’s 1984 by my shirt. I’d just...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
More than 200,000 people expected at Worthy Farm for lineup including Olivia Rodrigo and Irish band Kneecap The gates to Glastonbury festival have opened for 2025 with more than 200,000 ticket-holders set to descend for a long weekend of...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Lairy, drunk, fighting, laughing … five photographers who shot Oasis recall what it was like capturing them in depressing pre-fame hotels – and at their Champagne Supernova heights I didn’t really know the Gallaghers then. I had only...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Playing on party boats, recreating Chili Peppers videos: the experimental pair are committed to the bit – with a new album influenced by lockdown, recovery and Stonehenge On a breezy May evening, the New York-based art rock duo Water...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
The Guardian is hosting Q&A sessions at Glastonbury’s Astrolabe theatre, including with the notorious Libertines pair – post your own questions below Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s relationship has been called “one of pop’s great...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
After disasters such as Astroworld and scary bottlenecks at last year’s Glastonbury, Emily Eavis and crowd experts explain how they’re trying to make events safe In the last two decades the British festival season has ballooned in size...Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
The teenage heartthrob, who become an LAPD instructor, had announced he had stage 4 cancer earlier this year Bobby Sherman, whose winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a teen idol in the 1960s and 70s with...Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham Accompanied by the Hallé Orchestra, the 81-year-old singer’s voice shines during this relentless blast through the hits Diana Ross’s show tonight opens with two career retrospectives. The first, a lengthy...Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
As they announce a dystopian new album and play Glastonbury, Karla Chubb and co explain why they’re not keeping quiet about Palestine and sexism Between the so-called “Craic Pack” actors (Cillian Murphy, Saoirse Ronan, Barry Keoghan), a...Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Principality Stadium, Cardiff The US singer-songwriter graduates to the UK’s biggest venues with a theatrical show to match, featuring a house on fire, Allen Ginsberg recitals and some very real tears Lana Del Rey is standing in a...Monday, June 23, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Milton Keynes Bowl Public Image Ltd deliver a thrilling set and the The can still enthrall, but it is the techno-symphonies of headliners Kraftwerk that remain truly peerless This new one-day event is an attempt to import California’s...Monday, June 23, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Royal Festival Hall, London Closing out a Simz-curated Meltdown festival, and with a host of star guests helping out, these songs gain extra nuance as orchestra and star meld perfectly together Not many can say that they’ve reloaded a...Monday, June 23, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
There are more than 3,000 performances to choose between at this year’s giant pan-genre jamboree. From pop A-listers to underground ones-to-watch, here are our picks ‘Not a vintage year,” came the usual grumbles about the Glastonbury...Sunday, June 22, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
The band remember their hit 2005 record Stars of CCTV and talk about coming back with a new dynamic Hard-Fi formed in 2003 in Staines, Surrey. Frontman Richard Archer, guitarist Ross Phillips, bassist Kai Stephens and drummer...Sunday, June 22, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
The Scissor Sister has a complex relationship with the Smiths and gets parties started with Grace Jones, but who’s her (not so) guilty pleasure? The first song I fell in love with I was obsessed as a child with the Muppets and Sesame...Saturday, June 21, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
She made her name with rage-fuelled anthems – and sold 75m records in the process. Now, with a highly anticipated Glastonbury slot, the California-dwelling earth mother is ready to let rip again … Alanis Morissette asks which version of...Friday, June 20, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Bad Bunny blasting bigotry against Puerto Ricans, Davido’s uplifting vibes and a blast from trip-hop’s past. Here’s what has caught your ear this year • Read the Guardian’s best albums of the year so far Constellations for the Lonely is...Friday, June 20, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
(Duo Ruut Music) The pair play with the traditions of Baltic Finnic runo song to explore the connections between the weather and emotion, giving ancient forms crossover potential Duo Ruut (Square Duo) are Ann-Lisett Rebane and Katariina...Friday, June 20, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
(Third Man Records) Will Anderson opens up on the NYC group’s third album, revealing an expansive articulacy to his take on 90s indie-rock The third album by these New York-based indie-rockers rings some crucial changes. First,...Friday, June 20, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Wednesday’s picaresque yarns are full of arson, sex shops and outcasts. At home in North Carolina, their leader explains why she likes things ‘a little bit scary’ – and what’s next after her split from bandmate MJ Lenderman To step into...Thursday, June 19, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
(Island EMI) The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yet L oyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes....Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from World music | The Guardian
Wilson bought Parks a Volvo when he’d barely met him – and together they brought sublime poetry to pop. He remembers the making of Smile, Surf’s Up and more It was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor – who I met backstage at their first...‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson
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From memories of photoshoots and telephone calls with the late Beach Boy, to appraisals of his complex but pure music, Guardian readers pay tribute to a great Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly...Friday, June 26, 2020 from World music | The Guardian
Although Covid-19 scuppered Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary, organisers Michael and Emily Eavis discuss the moments that made it the world’s greatest festival – from the healing fields to Stormzy Glastonbury festival’s first ever booking...Thursday, March 1, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
Amadou & Mariam, Ken Boothe and Dobet Gnahoré are among the first acts announced for this year’s WOMAD Charlton Park Festival from July 26-29 The first wave of names have been announced for this year’s WOMAD at Charlton...Wednesday, February 28, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
The April 2018 (#136) issue of Songlines is now on sale! Our cover feature artist this issue is the Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti who talks about continuing his father Fela’s musical legacy. Other features include interviews with the...Wednesday, February 28, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
Here is our selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the April 2018 issue of Songlines. Tracks from each of these albums are included on the free cover-CD with issue #136. To buy the new issue or to find out more about...Tuesday, February 20, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
Seun Kuti, eldest son of the late Nigerian legend Fela Kuti, will perform at Electric Brixton, London on March 2 Seun Kuti began performing at his father’s side at just nine years old. Fela Kuti’s musical talent and passion clearly...Tuesday, January 30, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
Fusion duo Xylouris White release new music video for ‘Only Love’, a Songlines Top of the World track this issue Cretan laouto player and singer George Xylouris and Australian percussionist Jim White together form a...Thursday, January 25, 2018 from Songlines World Music News
The March 2018 (#135) issue of Songlines is now on sale! Our cover feature artists this issue are 47SOUL, the Middle Eastern band who have been wowing audiences around the world with their electrifying live shows. Other features include...Tuesday, September 13, 2016 from World Music News Wire
http://www.worldmusicwire.com/ By the muddy bayou, under moss-strung oaks, American rock ‘n’ roll was born--or at least, one of its many forms. It flourished in small bars and dancehalls, on local radio stations, in family vinyl...Tuesday, August 2, 2016 from World Music News Wire
http://www.worldmusicwire.com/ Peru. It’s not a country that seems like an immediate inspiration for roots reggae. But when a young Cisco Lagomarcino moved back there from New Jersey with his family in the 1990s, that was the sound the...