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Berlin-based DJ and educator Gizem Adiyaman breaks down the evolution of the genre in Germany

BY Gouri Sharma AND Gizem Adiyaman | 14 SEP 23

The earliest known sounds from one of disco’s most extraordinary talents served as a template for his later triumphs

BY Nate Lippens | 30 AUG 23

Her new record, I Inside the Old Year Dying, looks away from present terrors to the reassurance of past mythologies

BY Claudia Kensani Saviotti | 20 JUL 23

In her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the artist reaches new heights of candour

BY Simon Wu | 01 JUN 23

On her latest album, the musician tackles mourning and uses memory as a way to enrich life’s soil

BY Harry Tafoya | 17 OCT 22

The artist’s ballroom and dance music-inspired new album is a rebirth necessitated by ruin

BY Harmony Holiday | 30 AUG 22

The group of art students – assembled by Ming Wong – negotiates the boundary between engagement and appropriation

BY Thea Ballard | 22 OCT 21

With cult-like fanfare surrounding his elusive upcoming album, Donda, Harmony Holiday examines the US rapper’s erratic process

BY Harmony Holiday | 03 AUG 21

At Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, the artist harnesses her voice to explore how sound can sculpt our perceptions of space

BY Sonja-Maria Borstner | 27 MAY 21

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

BY Anton Spice | 14 APR 21

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

BY Sumeet Samos | 22 MAR 21

The artist speaks with Olamiju Fajemisin on the legacy of Rock Against Racism in the UK

BY Olamiju Fajemisin | 19 MAR 21

Shon Faye pays tribute to the pioneering musician and producer whose generation-defining music will live on in the exultations of the dance floor 

BY Shon Faye | 04 FEB 21

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

BY Sean Burns | 20 NOV 20

frieze editor Andrew Durbin speaks to the author about his new essay on Bollywood for the November/December issue

BY Andrew Durbin | 20 NOV 20

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress? 

BY Susan Neiman | 30 SEP 20

Presented in partnership with BMW, Lianne La Havas gave an exclusive solo performance followed by a live conversation with frieze Editor at Large, Jennifer Higgie for a special episode of Bow Down

26 SEP 20

The musician’s retrospective album proves he has long been ahead of his time – and out of this world

BY Eliza Barry | 21 SEP 20

Charles Aubin, Aruna D’Souza, Brendan Fernandes, Ligia Lewis and Paul Maheke take stock of the performance world in the wake of COVID-19 

04 SEP 20

The writer and musician’s latest album, Mandinga Times, is a bracing ode to apocalyptic collapse

BY Julyssa Lopez | 18 AUG 20