Ammar Kalia

Global music column – May

'Can Tony Soprano make me a better parent?': the lessons we've learned from lockdown TV

I wish more people would read ... Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Hollywood's Jeremy Pope: 'Is there room for another black man like me?'

Remembering Tony Allen, the pioneering Afrobeat drummer who inspired generations

Tony Allen: the Afrobeat pioneer's 10 finest recordings

The extreme loneliness of lockdown: 'Even though my partner is here, I’m struggling to cope'

Gilles Peterson: ‘This period is going to be one of nostalgia'

My favourite book as a kid: The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Global Music Column – April

Cash for questions: what's next for big-money gameshows?

Lockdown with Limmy: Trucking, tweeting and the joy of Mrs Brown's Boys

Indian Sun by Oliver Craske

Bouncer's dream and gorillagrams: an oral history of Neighbours – the world's silliest, sunniest sho

Ravi Shankar: where to start in his back catalogue

Joe Pasquale and aborted vasectomies: BBC's Doctors is 20 and as weird as ever

Comfort viewing: our favourite shows to rewatch in lockdown

I've never seen … The Shining

'Scroungers' and stereotypes: Kate & Koji revels in outdated prejudice

Shabaka and the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History