Music

On the eve of a major show at the National Portrait Gallery, considering the legacy of MJ in light of ‘Apeshit’ and fraught debates on Blackness

A new history of grime, Dan Hancox’s Inner City Pressure, details the rapidly shifting London landscape out of which it emerged

Sophie Fiennes’s new film Bloodlight and Bami reveals a personal side of the singer as yet unseen 

To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense, physical, almost pugilistic

To celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Second Summer of Love, Gucci and Frieze present new films exploring the cultural impact of acid house

Paul Rekret surveys ‘chill wave’, the mellow pop, sepia-toned indie and tropical dance tropes in new music releases 

With ‘David Bowie Is’ at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Glenn Adamson on the evolution of the music video – a genre Bowie ‘essentially invented’

At this year’s platform for experimental music in Bergen, laughter was the most striking sound 

An interview with Frieze Music artist James William Blades

From Ragnar Kjartansson’s Italo-pop-infused The Sky in a Room to Matt Stokes’s happy hardcore recitals: the organ’s profane potential

Two controversial events suggest a precarious relationship between China’s culture industry and the state’s soft power project

From Shanghai to Dubai, a new history charts the frontiers where underground scenes battle big business for electronic dance music’s soul

‘An artist in a proud and profound sense, whether he liked it or not’ – a tribute by Michael Bracewell

At a time of #metoo fearlessness, a collection of female critics interrogate their own fandom for music’s most celebrated sexists

Why the 40-year-old Mute record label remains an enigma

When musical signifiers for sex so often become sonic pornography, LCMF 2017 showed alternative ways of marrying sound and body

Arthur Jafa’s intertwining of video collage and music has the power to open up minds and bodies

From the drone blasts of Polwechsel to Pauline Oliveros's ecological politics, deep listening at the festival’s anniversary edition

The London Sinfonietta celebrates 50 years of supporting and performing new music

What does the new music genre 'necropolo' reveal about Poland's current political situation?