Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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