Best of Songlines Magazine: Celebrating 100 issues

Best of Songlines magazine: Celebrating 100 issues - Exclusively available on the App Store.

To celebrate the 100th edition of Songlines magazine (published on April 25, 2014) weve reproduced over 120 original pages of the very best features from Songlines magazine since 2002 to create this special collection, exclusively available through the App Store. This Best Of anthology shows how central music is to people’s lives no matter where they live and demonstrates the excellent writing and reporting that makes Songlines magazine so admired and respected as the authority in world, folk and roots music journalism.

Launched in 1999 and now published eight times a year, Songlines is the magazine that looks at the world through music. Covering music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, Songlines features artists from all around the globe: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, Buena Vista Social Club to Bellowhead, Ravi Shankar to Rodrigo y Gabriela, Tinariwen to Taraf de Haidouks.

Songlines is packed full of the latest CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, travel adventures, beginners guides, festival profiles, frontline reports and concert listings.

Every issue of Songlines magazine includes an exclusive 15-track compilation CD featuring our editors selection of ten tracks from the best new album releases, as well as a five-track guest playlist. These have included selections by Kate Bush, Mick Jagger, Damon Albarn, Jon Snow, Philip Pullman, Andy Kershaw, Robert Plant, Cerys Matthews and Pelé. Streamed audio excerpts from the Top of the World and Playlist selections are available in the Newsstand editions of each new issue. For more information download the free Songlines magazine app on the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/songlines-magazine/id580843500?mt=8 or download the free Songlines Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/songlines-podcast/id185744588?mt=2

Music is about politics, history, ethnicity and the environment - Songlines is your reliable guide to it all.

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