MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long

FROM Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind to Billy Bragg’s 1985 rendition of Florence Reece’s Which Side Are You On? and more recently Ill Manors, Plan B’s reaction to the 2011 riots, every so often a musical artist perfectly captures the socio-political ruptures of their time.
What Will Become Of England, the new single from Jim Ghedi, feels like one such song.

Reviews of new releases by Jens Lekman, Big Thief, and Christian McBride Big Band

IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Kathleen Edwards

From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Cassandra Jenkins, Ryan Davis & the Roundhouse Band, and Case Oats