Inside Spellbound’s sleeping concert: An interview with Nkisi

Acting as the centrepiece of Turin’s Spellbound Festival this year was a concert you are meant to sleep through, inspired by accounts of unexplained sounds heard in the desert.

In Photos: Down The Rabbit Hole Festival 2026

Dutch festival, situated in the lakeside surrounds of Ewijk, returned in July treating revellers to sets from David Byrne, The XX, Avalon Emerson and more

Listen to a journey through cosmic disco curated by Daniele Baldelli

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

Pay it Forward: Kurt Vile on Neil Young

For Philly psych-folk wanderer Kurt Vile, no one does both in-the-moment rock ’n’ roll glory and pin-drop intimacy quite like Neil Young.

Listen to a playlist for journeys along country roads curated by Alfa Mist

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

In Photos: How Reload Sound & Friends celebrate Bristol’s musical legacy

Bristol DJ soundsystem collective team up with Foot Locker and Salomon at iconic club Lakota to explore the city’s musical identity through a genre-spanning night of music.

Rising: IMISSMYMOM are making existential shoegaze with a side of doom

With their second album, London-based band IMISSMYMOM are holding onto the spontaneity that first brought them together.

Napoli Segreta’s playlist for a red heat alert

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

The V&A’s Lost Music Venues: A celebration of the grassroots spaces that sustain British music culture

The V&A’s ‘Lost Music Venues’ display is part eulogy, part call to action and part cultural archive-in-the-making, curator Harriet Reed tells us.