Barlow’s performance at White Lake Studios will be part of the revived “Upstate Unplugged” series, an intimate concert ...

With two upcoming sold-out shows at The Orange Peel, the genre-defying band discusses its past, future projects and plans to ...

Neal Francis sent me a thoughtful note a few days after our SPIN interview. It was like getting a response to a fan letter from one of the Cassidys—Shaun or David—in the ’70s. Francis brings the ...

Apologies for the small break so soon after the Christmas gap in proceedings. The bloody New Music Editor fucked off to India. What an inconsiderate twat. But ...

Whack up the bunting and put the candles on the cake, because somebody very special just turned 30 this year.

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...

Trilok Gurtu has spent decades reshaping global perceptions of percussion, blending Indian classical rhythms with jazz, world ...

Surly, cantankerous and occasionally violent, the late Ginger Baker was nonetheless one of rock’s greatest drummers. In 2011, ...

The term ‘recession pop’ is not a recognised genre; it’s a trendy name for that huge uptick in up-tempo pop that emerged ...

Jamaican singer Cocoa Tea, whose celebrated career blurred the divide between roots reggae’s righteous convictions and ...

Nigerian superstar Rema is redefining African pop music — and has scored a record-breaking single in the process. But he had to overcome a tragic past ...

Day four of South by Southwest Music felt especially global.