Tracing history through the baobab and tamarind reveals hidden paths of human migration and forgotten suffering.

Three days after Johann Sebastian Bach died from a stroke in July 1750, his body was laid in an oak coffin and hauled to a cemetery outside the city walls of Leipzig, Germany. Like many burials back ...

We round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. This month: sludge, death metal, plenty of doom, and some ...