One of the world’s most respected cultural events — Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival — will soon make its African debut in the Cape Winelands, under the banner of the Montreux Jazz Festival ...

Wolleson has written of the importance of the drummer bringing her/his sense of structure and placement to music, and the way he consistently helps to shape its flow is ever-present, whether he is ...

Rocky’s new album was shared yesterday (January 16), and some fans had been expecting a feature from Morrissey after the rapper expressed his desire to “fuck with” The Smiths frontman back in 2018. “I ...

ASAP Rocky’s Don’t Be Dumb, the long-awaited follow-up to Testing that he once joked was “never dropping,” has indeed dropped. The 17-track album, featuring cover art by Edward Scissorhands and Batman ...

Deadline is Blackpink’s third mini album, following 2018’s Square Up and 2019’s Kill This Love. Their most recent studio album, Born Pink, arrived in 2022 and anchored a stunning world tour. Ahead of ...

Robyn is officially back. It’s been seven, nearly eight years since the Swedish pop icon released Honey, and the wait for a follow-up is officially over. On March 27, she’ll unveil Sexistential via ...

Turnstile’s NEVER ENOUGH itched a scratch I didn’t even know I had until this year, sending me on a journey of complete obsession. Joy, aggression, dance, rhythm, grit, noise and… peace? It was as if ...

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...