Low fidelity

Kneecap in Dundee, Scotland. (Instagram/Kneecap32)

More than just flag-waving rabble rousers

2 min read . 10 May 2026

Kim Gordon. Image courtesy Wikipedia

Kim Gordon's latest album takes aim at AI and American technocracy

4 min read . 12 Apr 2026

Balendra Shah addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Janakpur in 2026. Photo by Sumit MISHRA/AFP

When musicians tune in to politics

5 min read . 15 Mar 2026

J Dilla photographed at the Key Club in 2000 in West Hollywood, California. (Getty Images)

Why J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’ remains unmatched

5 min read . 02 Mar 2026

Divine's new album offers familiar beats and ideas

Divine's gully rap gangster persona wears thin on new album

5 min read . 11 Jan 2026

Kaali Duniya at G5A Warehouse in Mumbai on 4 May, 2024. (Ayush Sayalkar)

Tushar Adhav and the politics of the dance floor

4 min read . 14 Dec 2025

D'Angelo playing in New York City, 2015 (getty images)

How D'Angelo's neo-soul masterpieces influenced a generation

4 min read . 08 Nov 2025

Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires. Photo courtesy AP

Taylor Swift's ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ only offers lacklustre mediocrity

4 min read . 11 Oct 2025

Nothing captured the late '90s malaise as perfectly as the 1999 debut album by Slipknot

Slipknot's debut album remains a subversive, genre-crossing masterpiece

5 min read . 14 Sept 2025

Dhanji in concert

Three new indie rap records you should hear

5 min read . 07 Aug 2025

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Photo courtesy Wikipedia

King Gizzard are contemporary music's premier shape-shifters

4 min read . 09 Jul 2025

Viagra Boys in concert in 2019. Courtesy Wikipedia

Punk rockers Viagra Boys mix bizarro humour, nihilism and empathy

4 min read . 11 May 2025

Black Country, New Road in 2020. Photo by Paul Hudson/Wikipedia

Black Country, New Road's reinvention continues

4 min read . 13 Apr 2025

FKA Twigs' sonic ode to dance floor transcendence

4 min read . 26 Mar 2025

Folk musicians from Rajasthan perform at the Jameson Connects South Stage. Photo: courtesy Aarohi Mehra

‘Fieldlines’: A music residency programme where folk jams with electronic

5 min read . 06 Mar 2025

'GNX' is the sixth studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar.

‘GNX’: Kendrick Lamar at his most anti-heroic

5 min read . 15 Dec 2024

Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, the Creator’s artful self-exploration

5 min read . 10 Nov 2024

SOPHIE blended genres to create a radical new sound

A final farewell to the era-defining sound of SOPHIE

5 min read . 13 Oct 2024

The anarcho-punk band's performance at the FIB Benicassim Festival in Spain, in July 2015. (Getty Images)

Full-volume fury: Godspeed You! Black Emperor returns

4 min read . 14 Sept 2024

Brooklyn rapper-producer JPEGMAFIA

JPEGMAFIA, the trickster king of experimental hip hop

4 min read . 12 Aug 2024