Emma Wilkes asks - if one of the biggest popstars in the world is struggling, what must it be like for everyone else?

On megiapa’s ‘Intentions,’ voice notes from her grandmother, her mother, and her closest friends drift through the synth haze, a family album cut to beats.

In his autobiography, Music is My Mistress (Da Capo, 1973), Duke Ellington stated that “Jazz is a good barometer of freedom…. [T]he music is so free, that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.” While one can quibble with the use of the term

The story of a message board that changed hip-hop forever

Countless independent acts in every genre — punk, hip-hop, church choir — relied on him to create small runs of high-quality records and CDs.

The Australian guitarist on the solo album as a construct, getting away from predictability, and his perverse Pat Metheny fandom.

As Locrian reissues their landmark album, Terence Hannum discusses the band's evolution from experimental duo to post-metal trio, his separation of visual art from music, and why heavy metal "rewards playing it safe."

A mind-blowing array of music that spans regional styles.

For Honda, an artistic format is a language rather than an identity — a conviction she shares with Ono, and one that made curating a tribute feel less like a departure than a translation.

She was the epitome of Summer of Love chic – and became overshadowed by tragedy. But as her raw power is celebrated on stage in London, her family and bandmates explain there was far more to the singer than her legend

"I get close. I always want to see the pupils in their eyes," Winn wrote of her method — and 'Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties' is the first gathering of what that closeness yielded, from a coffee shop outside Eureka to the Grateful Dead's ranch.

Photo by Natalie Jennings Hiram’s music connects spaces and defines worlds. Immersed in specific natural environments, he listens and channels what he hears through different instrumentation.…

A selection of winners and notable finalists in the awards celebrating the art of music photography, which saw 24,500 images submitted from 42 countries

The pioneering artist answers the Nerve Q&A about Trump’s threat to culture, how she finds inspiration – and her forthcoming first-ever show in Wales. Interview by Jude Rogers

A selection of rap projects lost to the sands of time that deserve your time and love

Good and evil sit in the same character, the same song, and — Moss suspects — the same person, a Catholic inheritance she hears throughout 'The Knife, The Needle.'

Cut-up poetry meets cut-up music on an album that must be heard to be believed.

Angus Batey revisits the history and lasting legacy of A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory, 35 years after its release.

The legendary ‘Tiberi Tapes’ reveal new sides of the master, even to his biggest fans

U2 reconsidered at fifty.

Read Revolutionary Aesthetics: Exploring Warne Marsh's Overthrow of Sweet Georgia Brown by Daniel Casares on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Late Night Thoughts on Jazz coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

The Istanbul-born film and television composer discusses 'For Luca' — his earlier songs recast in his friends' voices, the dog it mourns, the freedom of being one crew member among many, and the melancholy he prefers to share.

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

Joel McIver looks back to rock's most pivotal year, 1991, via the history of three bands: Nirvana, Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Hear in-studio sessions from the Soundcheck Podcast series from Canadian-based Afro-Cuban duo OKAN and Afro-Cuban singer Daymé Arocena.

'Música Para Quinteto: Live at Jazz Cava' captures Juanma Trujillo's Barcelona quintet at full burn, following a prolific decade of recordings and a deliberate exit from New York for a life the Venezuelan guitarist believes feeds the music.

It became a Chicago house anthem classic – and it was cooked up in just 30 minutes by four postal workers after a tough shift on the letter-sorting machine

The banjoist discusses his three-year recording process, the Pacific Northwest landscapes that still inform his writing, and why assembling players like Sam Bush, Darol Anger, and Bryan Sutton meant working with musicians who make him play his best.

Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy

Maya Man goes Mark Fisher mode on Depop, Taco Bell, and Rookie Mag aesthetics.

Producer of new WSB box set speaks

Read A Time Capsule in Sound: Jim Pugh’s New American Symphonies by Kyle Simpler on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Groove Orbit coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

Gallows were the unlikely band to match Sex Pistols' "breach in the pop milieu" which along with their ace debut album came with a price tag.

The producer of 'The Wall,' 'Destroyer,' and 'Welcome to My Nightmare' discusses his return to the Jayhawks on 'Sanctuary Park,' how he builds a record out of three or four live takes, what a label and a band each want from a producer, and why he thinks the album still exists.

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

Read Old School with Wendel Brunious by Thomas Cole on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Profile coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

Harpist Lara Somogyi talks through 'a [time] patterned,' from delay pedals and disrupted loops to Steve Reich and 'A Pattern Language,' the architecture handbook that gave the album many of its titles.

Is the iconic mix CD gets a special 30th anniversary redux, Simon Whight speaks to Sasha & John Digweed – alongside some notable fans and affiliates – about its creation, the technology that made its composition so radical, and the lasting influence it continues to have on a new generation of DJs and producers today

This week: Jennifer Herrema, the Residents, Bob Ezrin, Elanor Moss, Ginny Winn, Ayman Fanous, and Mark Isham. Plus, Stoo Odom and Roger Kunkel of Thin White Rope explain the singing dog.

Looking back at three decades of the iconic underground rap label.

Producer Bob Ezrin talks The Jayhawks' Sanctuary Park, recording live in Toronto, leaving the US, and holding artists to their best work.

On first encountering OM, how John Coltrane changed my life, and wondering if hearing all six hours of OM could change all of humanity

Hear Mexico City-based Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti, and Brooklyn-via-Peru combo Tipa Tipo, recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast series.

Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan of the LA-based electronic duo Green-House talk imaginary video games, Sanibel Island shells, a stuffed sloth named Flanby, and the gentle stubbornness behind their new album on Ghostly International.

Charting the 30 year rise of Dawn Penn's reggae song You Don't Love Me (No No No) to become the sound of the summer in 1994