The gifted musician Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks was an individualist who brought a unique vision to reggae music. Though chiefly known as a virtuoso saxophonist, Brooks was also a talented arranger whose ...

Few artists hold as firm an influence on electronic and technology-based musics as Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their reach spreads from the charts to the deepest corners of the underground, ...

For Club Use Only is your one-stop guide to the best underground dance music from across the world. Each month, The Astral Plane’s Gabe Meier forecasts the next wave of sounds due to break through ...

More often than not, the official history of New York’s late ‘70s scene ends in the scuzzy confines of CBGBs, and the birth of American punk (or New Wave, to use its proper nomenclature). Equally ...

In the summer of 2006 the Klaxons spawned nu rave, but the real youth subculture of the mid-00s was the music that DJs played after bands had finished: blog house. It’s difficult to define what blog ...

Birthed in Chicago’s blighted South Side in the early 2010s and popularized by artists like King Louie and Chief Keef, drill music – an aggressive descendent of trap – has all but faded from view in ...

With a new documentary film and compilation and everyone from Foals to Friendly Fires citing him as an inspiration, 25 years after his death Arthur Russell’s music – at once both experimental and pop ...

This year, Berlin’s CTM Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with a truly diverse lineup of innovative club and experimental music. FACT’s John Twells endured the entire 10-day marathon and ...

The Turner Prize-winning artist on politics, music and his film Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992, now showing at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition. The Vinyl ...

Her new album Utopia imagines a better world, while our own plunges into darkness. Why? Because nihilism is not going to save the planet, a fired-up Björk tells Al Horner, in a conversation also ...

The Houston native on DJ Screw, his city’s musical legacy and What Dreams May Come, his most ambitious project to date. Houston sounds like no place on earth, but these days everything sounds like ...

This year, Uganda’s MTN Nyege Nyege festival returned to Jinja for its fourth year – its biggest yet. FACT’s John Twells flew to Africa to investigate a four-day non-stop party that fused East African ...