More often than not, the official history of New York’s late ‘70s scene ends in the scuzzy confines of CBGBs, and the birth of American punk (or New Wave, to use its proper nomenclature).

This year marked the 400th anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade and the arrival of 20-30 West Africans to the American continent. In August, The New York Times Magazine, led by staff ...

In the late 90s, a movement began in West London that was to inspire a new direction in dance music. Though this movement was never acknowledged in the mainstream music press, never had a ...

The Turner Prize-winning artist on politics, music and his film Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992, now showing at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition. The Vinyl ...

Multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet on taking a hacker’s approach to create playful, subversive works of music and visual art. Freeka Tet can’t decide whether he’s a hacker, a magician or a ...

In the summer of 2006 the Klaxons spawned nu rave, but the real youth subculture of the mid-00s was the music that DJs played after bands had finished: blog house. It’s difficult to define ...

The Houston native on DJ Screw, his city’s musical legacy and What Dreams May Come, his most ambitious project to date. Houston sounds like no place on earth, but these days everything sounds ...

Aphex Twin has carved out his own space in the history of electronic music, spanning ambient, jungle, techno and more. FACT lists his 50 best tracks so far – from familiar classics to ...

Taking inspiration from the synthesizer-driven funk of George Clinton, G-Funk brought an electrifying new sound to gangster rap, welding squealing leads and squelching basses to West Coast street ...

South London friends and collaborators Klein and Curtly Thomas on identity, experimentation and technology. Klein redefines what it means to be an artist for the precarious composite of the now.

In modern rap, barely a day ever passes without a fresh story about “borrowed” beats. The likes of Kanye West, Jay Z and Mac Miller have all been recently involved in legal disputes that ...

Jeremy Judelson was a marketing intern at media outlet Mass Appeal when he snatched the chance to interview his idol, not knowing where his relationship with the reclusive musician would lead.