There was high attendance at this year's Detroit Electronic Music Festival — roughly one person to each of Detroit's 70,000 vacant houses. Greg Scruggs reflects on his first visit to Techno City...

Hip hop don't stop! Well, not for 600 tracks anyway. Master mixer Bobby Corridor returns to Radio Spannered with the mother of all megamixes.

The gibbon-limbed protagonist of the self-mocking rock'n'roller canon continues to defecate on the carcass of stadium rock from the lofty heights of his stepladder.

Laurent Fintoni talks to LA-based producer Edward Ma, aka edIT, about the influences that have shaped his futuristic take on hip hop.

Since the start of the noughties, productions from both sides of the Atlantic have signalled a return to the boom bap beats of hip hop's golden era, says Laurent Fintoni.

Martin Longley ponders spurting testosterone, painful sound and John Zorn's haircuts as the mightily prolific, spittle-showering saxophonist takes to the stage with Lou Reed, Marc Ribot and Milford Graves.

São Paulo reggae pioneer Jimmy Luv drops a 100% Brazilian dancehall selection for 36th Sambacana installment.

Massachusetts-based DJ Flack makes his Radio Spannered debut with a mix-up of global bass music stretching from Sweden to Sydney via Boston and Bristol.

Glasgow's LuckyMe family are making the most of this 'beautifully open time in music'. Laurent Fintoni meets the idiosyncratic collective poised for world domination.