The sun looks like shining on Forbidden Fruit

But even if the forecast is wide of the mark, a battery of great acts will keep your spirits up

Forbidden Fruit festival: everything you need to know

Line-up, tickets, opening times, security, transport and the acts not to miss

This Album Changed My Life: Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots (1993)

Cadence Weapon on an album that’s a Rosetta Stone for rap styles

G Perico: 2 Tha Left – LA rapper makes it look Eazy-E

Ticket Awards 2017: The best music of the year

Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant

Big fish of rap remarkable in his EP minimalism

Vince Staples commands a stunning presence

Electric Picnic: Our guide to Friday’s early action

Can’t decide what to see on day one? Here’s a roadmap with directions

Electric Picnic preview: A fortress of friends and curry cheese chips

Electric Picnic is all about those perfect moments of music and madness in Stradbally. So which songs, stages and Picnic slices are our writers looking forward to?

Lights, camera, contortion: the trailblazing work of Tim Saccenti

‘If you played my videos together it would sound like a favourite mixtape’

Gorillaz - Humanz: made with the groove in mind

Melvin Benn would ‘absolutely welcome any regulation’ of secondary ticketing market

Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement

The xx and Duran Duran to headline Electric Picnic

The first tranche of acts is announced hours after the festival sells out

Album of the Day: Schoolboy Q’s Blank Face - Kendrick had better watch his back

Kendrick Lamar and the rise and rise of the LA sound

The power and the fury of Kendrick Lamar’s music comes from its deep Los Angeles roots. Here's a musical journey through the sonic heritage of the west coast