It’s just after 11AM on day two of Budapest Ritmo, and the House of Music — that undulating, gold-perforated landmark...
Interviews
There’s no playbook for keeping a small, independent festival alive for a decade, but Tropical Pressure has done it by...
In Estonia, the weather isn’t background noise. It’s narrative. The long, dim winters tighten your world into a kind of...
Suffolk’s Waveney Valley may be best known for its rolling landscapes, historic market towns and coastal quiet, but a bold...
Marseille was restless that evening. A storm had rolled in over the Mediterranean; the kind of late-winter weather that barrels...
Marseille never shuts up. It is a port city that runs on noise: traffic grinding through the hills, markets calling...
Inside the office area of Dock des Suds in Marseille, the Babel Music XP production team is still at its...
It’s just gone midnight in Brixton, and Ana Lua Caiano is standing behind the merchandise desk at Hootananny, having just...
Each spring, for five brisk days, Tallinn Music Week turns the Estonian capital into a magnet of international cultural exchange...
It began as a scattered murmur. A sousaphone line spiralled down from the top of the museum’s staircase. Then a...
Tomorrow is the day… and the night: Budapest Ritmo kicks off its 2025 edition and celebrates its 10th anniversary. And...
In 2020, with Berlin’s cultural life paused, a loose crew of artists gathered on the cracked concrete of Tempelhofer Feld,...