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The writer and artist delivers a tuneful crash course on the history and development of ballroom music 

BY Sydney Baloue |

In her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the artist reaches new heights of candour

BY Simon Wu |

On her latest album, the musician tackles mourning and uses memory as a way to enrich life’s soil

BY Harry Tafoya |

The artist’s ballroom and dance music-inspired new album is a rebirth necessitated by ruin

BY Harmony Holiday |

The group of art students – assembled by Ming Wong – negotiates the boundary between engagement and appropriation

BY Thea Ballard |

With cult-like fanfare surrounding his elusive upcoming album, Donda, Harmony Holiday examines the US rapper’s erratic process

BY Harmony Holiday |

At Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, the artist harnesses her voice to explore how sound can sculpt our perceptions of space

BY Sonja-Maria Borstner |

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

BY Anton Spice |

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

BY Sumeet Samos |

The artist speaks with Olamiju Fajemisin on the legacy of Rock Against Racism in the UK

BY Olamiju Fajemisin |

Shon Faye pays tribute to the pioneering musician and producer whose generation-defining music will live on in the exultations of the dance floor 

BY Shon Faye |

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

BY Sean Burns |

frieze editor Andrew Durbin speaks to the author about his new essay on Bollywood for the November/December issue

BY Andrew Durbin |

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress? 

BY Susan Neiman |

Presented in partnership with BMW, Lianne La Havas gave an exclusive solo performance followed by a live conversation with frieze’s Jennifer Higgie for a special episode of podcast Bow Down

The musician’s retrospective album proves he has long been ahead of his time – and out of this world

BY Eliza Barry |

Charles Aubin, Aruna D’Souza, Brendan Fernandes, Ligia Lewis and Paul Maheke take stock of the performance world in the wake of COVID-19 

The writer and musician’s latest album, Mandinga Times, is a bracing ode to apocalyptic collapse

BY Julyssa Lopez |

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness

BY Eric Otieno Sumba AND Nelly Y. Pinkrah |

Pop Smoke’s posthumous release is an authoritarian play on the senses

BY Aria Dean |