Ammar Kalia

Star Feminine Band – In Paris Benin’s Star Feminine Band have had a remarkable journey to releasing their music. The seven-piece...

“I have always been a hustler,” Rimzee says. “Music comes second because even though people say that your dream will eventually pay you,...

In 1995, 31-year-old Sanjeev Bhaskar was performing a two-week run of The Secret Asians, his comedy double act with the musician Nitin...

Fifteen years ago, Wimbledon singer-songwriter Jamie Treays – AKA Jamie T – released his debut album, Panic Prevention. Armed with a...

On 18 March 1985, Australian viewers were introduced to a suburban cul-de-sac. Over the course of an unremarkable pilot, a noisy stag do...

Lamin Fofana – The Open Boat Across the eight tracks of Lamin Fofana’s latest album trilogy, the Sierra Leonean producer builds on his...

"I definitely lead a non-politician life; I smoke weed and I go to strip clubs with my wife,” the rapper Killer Mike says with a laugh....

Tumi Mogorosi – Group Theory ‘New Black music is this: find the self, then kill it.” The US poet Amiri Baraka wrote these words in the...

It’s not often you get the green light from Bob Dylan to run riot with his songs. But for composer Simon Hale and playwright Conor...

Sean Paul is a party-starter. Few artists have a back catalogue better primed for the dancefloor than the multimillion-selling Jamaican...