The Black Madonna, Mashrou' Leila, Brian Eno and others recently took part in a creative retreat in the shadow of the separation barrier in Bethlehem. In the first of a two-part feature, Tom Faber explains how the artists made music inspired by one of the modern world's most intractable conflicts.

This long-running London party descended from David Mancuso's legendary Loft parties and embodies its core values: incredible sound, an inclusive atmosphere and a timeless soundtrack. Tom Faber tells its story.

They called it The Second Summer of Love, that brief moment in the late 80s when acid house and the rise of ecstasy collided and rave was born. It’s a period of UK dance history which has been so thoroughly mythologised that even those too young to experience it seem to feel the nostalgia. Rave wasn’t the first music movement to have an impact on British society, but its drug-fuelled, anarchic hedonism upset the establishment like no other.

I cut my hand on a cactus as I was rushing to see Nicolas Jaar. There was the smell of rosemary and lavender on the desert air. Guided by a...

The conceptual electronica of Ata Ebtekar aka Sote sets up a collision of Persian music past and future through traditional instrumentation and freeform structure.

"If the people who invented house and techno were Arab, what would it sound like?" Tom Faber meets the artist who is trying to find out.

Multilingual hiphop collective Debo are thriving in post-revolutionary Tunis, exploring new freedoms through video, grafitti and mobile sound systems.

One of Japan's biggest pop stars doesn't actually exist.

Last night I was a cowboy, hunting bandits and sunsets across the great American plains. I was an assassin, cleansing Jerusalem of corrupt priests during the Third Crusade. I was...

Known for his metal balloon animals and fetching some of the highest prices ever paid for art, Jeff Koons is a polarizing figure in the art world. We explore ‘Now’,...