These photos appeared in our very first online edition. We think they're worth viewing again. Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.

Photographs depict a moment but they can contain years, decades. Few, however, are as saturated with history as Ruth Orkin's picture of...

Power To The People     Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has a lot to answer for.     After seizing power in 1980 he ran his country...

Our editor writes: I first saw Elvis Costello and The Attractions in 1981. This was at the old Ipswich Gaumont, and it was something of a...

Here  and here  are the last two parts of Steve Shepherd's series on John Zorn. Here , meanwhile, is an interview with Steve, giving some...

Boogie Man: The adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century By Charles Shaar Murray Chapter 12: Interlude – Dark Room...

Before he hired Mike Garson, David Bowie wanted to hire Annette Peacock. (She refused.) Peacock is an American composer, musician,...

Our editor writes: The Beths were introduced to me by Peter Moore, our African Music correspondent and a man responsible, over the years,...

Freedom (Hourya) by Abadane A mate of mine recently bought Just Outside Of Town by Mandrill on the strength of the cover alone. Although...

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Simon & Schuster, 339pp £35 When Bob Dylan released Self Portrait , his tenth studio album, in...

Here  and here  are the first two parts of Steve Shepherd and Steve Beresford's series on John Zorn. Here , meanwhile, is an interview...

Eshururu (Witness) – Dereb the Ambassador Ever heard of Ethio-Twist? Neither had I. But, after stumbling across Eshururu by Dereb the...

Chai are a Japanese pop band from Nagoya in Japan. Formed in 2012, the band released their debut studio album, Pink, in 2017. They have...

In our regular feature, travel writer and magazine editor Peter Moore writes about his love for African music. Busy Moken Music You'd be...

Significant Others Jazz & jazz-related LPs that are off the beaten track (part 1) It's 1980 and a gang of fifteen year olds are listening...

This piece was composed by Sam Fendrich specifically for Alan Tomlinson. The piece in some respects takes the form of a "conversation"...

In this new regular feature, travel writer and magazine editor Peter Moore writes about his love for African music. The Bad Will Die –...

Alan Humm writes: "Since Feeling is First" is a regular feature in which our contributors write about those things that inspire them. In...

Hattie McGregor is studying at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in the class of Lucia Swarts. As a recent graduate of the Yehudi...

Mark Cousins is a director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The...

Nai Ni Ya Who by Muthoni Drummer Queen Kenyan rapper and boss lady Muthoni Drummer Queen asks: "Whose Nairobi is this?". The answer is...

After finishing her time at the Obuda Academy of Artist Painters in Hungary, Edina Ardey moved to Munich in 1998. Nowadays, she lives and...

Every quarter, a writer or an artist or a musician tells us about the things that inspire them. Wild Swimming The natural world has...

Here is another playlist by Billy Bragg. Thanks to Billy for allowing us to host them. Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and...