Music

From Bad Bunny to Arthur Russell, the artist curates a playlist to help ground us in the raging present

The artist and composer’s playlist is a glimpse into his universe

The choreographer and movement director curates a genre-bending playlist for those who embrace contradiction

The writer and artist delivers a tuneful crash course on the history and development of ballroom music 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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