Ammar Kalia

Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak On their debut album, Israeli bandleader Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood...

Seventy hours into the birth of his first child, Lewis was told that his wife needed to be rushed into surgery for an emergency...

Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights...

Bongeziwe Mabandla – amaXesha Over the past decade, South African singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla has been reimagining Xhosa folk...

The muse can be a fickle thing to find, but Nida Manzoor’s inspiration has always been close to home. “My sister, Sanya, is only a year...

The six years since the release of Leslie Feist’s last album, Pleasure, have been momentous ones for the Canadian singer-songwriter. She...

Dave Okumu is concerned about community. “Everyone is encouraged to go down a solitary road at the moment, where other people don’t...

Forty-five years ago, audiences first glimpsed the sun-kissed, palm-lined campus of Rydell High, the school setting for the movie musical...

Ale Hop & Laura Robles – Agua Dulce The cajón contains a radical history. The box-shaped percussion instrument is now commonly used in...

“We played for three days straight with no notes on the page and no repeats. There were 12 musicians in the room, just listening and...