Features

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The Rise and Resistance of Cambodian Hip-Hop

Alex Robinson visits Cambodia, where a new generation are using hip-hop as a force for social change despite repression that carries dark echoes of the country’s past

Thursday, March 6, 2025

2025 Preview: Reasons to be Cheerful

A lot is cooking this year. Here are the albums you should be getting excited about, from unknown West Virginian gospel singers and Afrobeat legends to Indigenous Brazilians playing ‘country music’ and soulful Ethiopian sounds

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Andy Irvine: A Beginner's Guide

The Irish music icon tells Emma Rycroft about Planxty’s swift success, his love of Balkan music and the array of sounds he’s explored from his first days in Dublin

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The Gurdjieff Ensemble's Sacred Movements

As Armenia’s The Gurdjieff Ensemble make their first visit to the UK for Songlines Encounters Festival, Simon Broughton talks to the group’s director about the enigmatic composer and mystic who inspired the ensemble

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Ichiko Aoba: “I was diving in the ocean with just the breath in my lungs, swimming with whales, listening to them sing”

Breakout Japanese folk star Ichiko Aoba speaks to Paul Bowler about formative influences and reveals how the experience of free diving off the coast of Japan helped inspire her latest album

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Roots Round-Up (David Brunelle, Jordan Wax, Pawlo Humeniuk and more)

Featuring new releases from Lara Wong and Melón Jiménez, Lily Talmers and more

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Eliza Carthy... on morris dancing and the future of folk music

Eliza ponders folk music’s need to evolve and wonders if morris dancing could be key to the tradition’s future

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Field of Research: Ewan MacColl

On the 110th anniversary of the legendary folk singer’s birth, Allan Moore looks back at his legacy and skill

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Fireside Stories: 20 Years of Lullabies from the Axis of Evil

In 2004, a Norwegian record label joined forces with female singers from the so-called ‘axis of evil’ in protest against a global climate of fear – over 20 years later, Lullabies from the Axis of Evil continues to be relevant

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Essential 10 Brazilian Albums (Selected by Seu Jorge)

The Brazilian samba singer and versatile actor picks out the albums and artists from his country that he couldn’t live without

Thursday, March 6, 2025

My World: Eddie Kadi

For the Congolese-British comedian, music and entertainment have always gone hand in hand. He tells Emma Rycroft about the sounds of his upbringing and his continued role as a “facilitator of modern-day African music”

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Songbook: ‘Long Lankin’ with Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver

On their latest album, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver have recorded one of the darkest child ballads of all time. Tim Cumming looks for the motive

Thursday, March 6, 2025

On Tour: Rakesh Chaurasia

Bansuri flute master Rakesh Chaurasia has worked with the likes of Zakir Hussain and Talvin Singh. We talk to him as he prepares to tour the UK with leading tabla player Shahbaz Hussain