Eight-piece Ibibio Sound Machine fuse Ghanaian highlife with disco, funk and analogue synths. Ahead of performing at Walthamstow Garden Party, singer Eno Williams talks about their debut album, Nigerian folk tales and why she chooses to sing in the Nigerian Ibibio language
Viv Albertine of The Slits talks about being an original punk, band life and living for the moment
American jazz fusion pianist and composer Chick Corea took to the stage at the Barbican last month
The Stoke Newington opera singer who blurs the boundary between composition and performance
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Maria Gadú is to perform this month at the Barbican, in a reminder that there’s more to Brazil than its football
June sees the return of festival Field Day in Victoria Park, now a two-day event. Metronomy, Blood Orange, Neneh Cherry and Pixies are all confirmed as playing
Holding intimate gigs in unusual spaces is the concept behind Sofar Sounds
The Hackney based songwriter once described as the “spirit of Bob Dylan for the twenty-first century” is on the cusp of releasing his first album in five years which he describes as a “story album about love in stolen moments”
This six-week evening course with The Journalism School covers feature and reviews writing, pitching and blagging, interview techniques, subbing, contacts building, and law for music journalism. Starts Monday 9 June 2014
11am – 5pm, Monday 5 May 2014
6-21 June 2014, various East London venues
Electronic music producer Mom Tudie is only 18 but already has a distinctive musical style
