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SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour of music goes all over the globe this time, with our round-up of the worlds top selling folk artists, based on the Transglobal World Music Chart, July 2026​

This week we celebrate NAIDOC Week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Organising Committee) with a playlist from 2023-2025 that highlights the diverse excellence of Australia's indigenous musicianship. Artists represented include Jungaji, Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight), DOBBY, Emily Wurramara, ICONYX, Selve, Christine Anu, 3%, Ripple Effect Nabe, Jen Cloher and Gurrumal.

One of the definitive giants of 20th-century music, Abdullah Ibrahim was a visionary pianist, composer, and cultural custodian. Born Adolph Johannes Brand in Cape To wn in 1934, he rose to local prominence as a young man classified as "Coloured" under apartheid, drawing deeply from the rich musical traditions that surrounded him. First and foremost, Ibrahim was a pianist of immense distinction, channeling the foundational music of his youth - the African Methodist Episcopal

Away from the massive commercial gravity of Bollywood (the mainstream film industry) and conventional commercial pop, Indian independent artists are fundamentally reshaping subcontinental music.

Sun Never Sets On Music's never-ending World Tour returns to Palestine & Israel, as we supplement our May 2024 playlist of music from the war-torn land.

Considered collectively, her three most recent works operate as a cohesive, revisionist trilogy, meticulously deconstructing the foundation myths of modern Australia. Beginning with the forgotten female resistance at Eureka, moving through the suffragettes' often-untold struggles, in Australia and UK, and culminating in the seminal democratic action of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, Wright provides an unflinching, updated narrative.

To celebrate Radiohead's return to touring after a seven year absence (other than side projects) we present the video of their first show of their European Tour.

From all around the world, imagine a playlist of the most beautiful, angelic music. This is it! or Click album covers below to open individual albums in Spotify Click album covers above to open individually in Spotify or

In a career that spanned almost the entire history of post-WWII British music - his musicianship bridging jazz, folk, blues and beyond, - Danny Thompson's legacy is peerless.

Click to open Audiobook on Spotify An essential read/listen for all Australians (Original and non-Original) So-called Australia is built upon a lie: that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of acclaimed Wik artist Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 236 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilised progress', under an oppressive colonial syst

his week we celebrate NAIDOC Week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Organising Committee) with a playlist from 2023-2025 that highlights the diverse excellence of Australia's indigenous musicianship. Artists represented include Jungaji, Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight), DOBBY, Emily Wurramara, ICONYX, Selve, Christine Anu, 3%, Ripple Effect Nabe, Jen Cloher and Gurrumal.

SunNeverSetsOnMusic’s World Tour turns Stateside this month with a deep dive into USA Southern Soul - the living, breathing tradition that blends gospel, blues, R&B, funk, and country into something raw, resonant, and defiantly human. This music is forged in churches, juke joints, kitchen-table studios and front porches - a soul language passed from generation to generation and still evolving in the hands of today’s most urgent voices. The Southern United States, stretching f

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour heads south this month to South Africa, where we’ve uncovered a dazzling spectrum of forward-thinking albums spanning spiritual jazz, gqom, amapiano, post-punk, protest rap and traditional-inflected sonic experimentation. These artists are not only redefining South Africa’s soundscape but are also asserting its voice across global stages with urgency, soul and brilliance. Officially the Republic of South Africa, the nation occupies the souther

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour heads north this month to Norway, where we’ve uncovered a striking array of bold, genre-defying albums from artists working across experimental jazz, electronic minimalism, indigenous Sámi traditions, progressive pop, and more. Many of these musicians are expanding Norway’s rich musical heritage into new, internationally resonant territory. Officially known as the Kingdom of Norway, the country stretches over the western portion of the Scandin

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour visits Indonesia this month, where we were treated to a vast wealth of innovative sounds across many genres, including many artists whose work merges local and regional musical heritage with contemporary, international sounds. The Republic of Indonesia is spread across an archipelago that comprises over 17,000 islands - including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state an

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour returns to Australia this month, to capture the best albums released here in the second half of 2024. It's another impressive output to add to the many albums released in the first half of the year and captured in our World Tour #6 - Australia's Best New Albums (Jan - Jun '24). Highlights include albums by Allysha Joy, Ela Thompson, Emily Wurramara, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Necks, Paul Kelly and Parvyn but there are many many more too

If you thought German music was still cabaret and beer-halls, krautrock and EDM, think again! There's still some of that but there's a wider range of music coming out of Germany these days. (And it's not only from Berlin, which nearly half a century later still attracts musicians from all around the world seeking inspiration on the streets where Nico, Nina, Bowie, Eno, Iggy, U2, Nick Cave, Pixies, REM ... lived and loved and recorded). So, for the tenth instalment of our 2024

34 RECENT FLAMENCO ALBUMS - ESSENTIAL LISTENING LINK TO FLAMENCO ALBUMS WEBPAGE LINK TO SPOTIFY PLAYLIST Spain is surely one of the most musical places of them all and Flamenco is a cultural jewel of Spain. Originating in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the 18th century, flamenco emerged as a unique art form deeply influenced by the region's diverse cultural heritage, blending Romani, Moorish, Jewish, and Andalusian folk traditions. Over time, flamenco evolved into a globally c

Tanjazz is the annual festival of Jazz in Morocco's northernmost city of Tangier. The lineup of performers goes to new high level this year as it brings the music of Northern Africa and Andalusian Spain together with the improvisational dynamics of Jazz. We're once again imagining the atmosphere inside the Palais des Institutions Italiennes - and between sessions, a great meal of seafood, pasta and pizza with a bottle of Terres Rouges at the Casa d'Italia. Omar Sosa | Maalem

This month we journey to Taiwan to capture the best music we could find from the past couple of years. Having lived in Taipei for a few years, we have great affection for this island of striking contrasts, whose diversity of cultures and environments is reflected in the music. Our playlist ranges from the serenity of Debby Wang's and Chien Chien Lu's vibraphonic jazz to the intense wall of sound of Dharma's death metal Buddhist chanting - with experimental, folk, soul and muc