Tune-Yards: Sketchy review – Fully drawn and highly inventive

The fifth album returns us to early Tune-Yards

Tune-Yards: Should we should stop touring because of climate change?

Merrill Garbus is consumed by big problems: racism, procreation and carbon footprints

New Artist of the Week: Sudan Archives

Plus songs you have to hear from 1000 Beasts and Young Fathers

Merrill Garbus: On My Culture Radar

‘I’m in awe that Alicia Keys goes without make-up,’ says the Tune-Yards founder

Tune-Yards: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life review – a beguiling dance

The beauty and the beats of RBMA 2016

The Red Bull Music Academy touched down in Montreal this year and among the innovators putting the musicians through their paces were Thundercat, Tune-Yards and Björk

The Meltybrains? way: masks, madness and mistakes

The members of Meltybrains? might be classically trained musicians, but their music is indefinable, their fans look like cult members and their live shows are bewildering

Running the last pair of underpants up the Picnic flagpole

As the last of the mud flakes from the boots, Festival Fit reflects on EP14

‘The Ticket’s’ Electric Picnic 2014 Awards

We listened, we watched, we tasted, we argued: here’s our pick of the Picnic’s best bits

From milkshakes to jerk ribs – Electric Picnic-bound Kelis talks music, food and her love of both

Here comes Kelis. After a career of multicoloured musical twists and turns, Kelis is back with a new album “Food” to make her growing interest in all things food. Ahead of her appearance at the Electric Picnic 2014, she chews the fat with Jim Carroll

tUnE-yArDs: Nikki Nack

The case sensitive tUnE-yArDs bubbles up

To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer