SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
I gotta get to hurtin’
PAUL STEPHEN ADEY explores how rap can create catharsis for both artists and fans
(L) Earl Sweatshirt performing with the rest of Odd Future in March 2012; (R) Kemba
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
I HEARD a rapper’s verse a while ago that stopped me in my tracks. The artist was Kemba and the song, Daemons, featured on the posthumous album Bad Vibes Forever (2019), by the conflicted and gifted artist XXXTentacion.
Similar stories
LEIGH CARRIAGE remembers Roberta Flack, a spellbinding virtuoso of musical interpretation
New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus
ADAM DE PAOR-EVANS remembers MC Duke: a pioneering British rapper more people should know about
SARAH A SON explains how K-pop was manufactured by government strategy as a global branding tool for South Korea