Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.

Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.

Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.

For Phuket's ethnic Chinese community, this bizarre festival is a time of cleansing, purity and abstinence.

Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.

Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.

In Japan on one day a year 20-year-olds pull out all the stops for a big, noisy, colourful public party, notes Ian D. Robinson.

Lydia Jenkin's week of movies, music, TV and more.

Erykah Badu is in her songwriting prime so Splore audiences are in for a treat with her as the headline act, writes Scott Kara.

Jazzie B from Soul II Soul talks to Scott Kara about club culture and being pioneers of the sound system.

After 15 years in the music business, Erykah Badu remains a fiercely independent spirit and genuinely inspiring artist. VOLUME spoke with Badu prior to her first visit to New Zealand.

Liz Light gets a world of music at WOMAD.

The City of Sails celebrates its birthday this weekend with a historic regatta, as it has done for 172 years. Danielle Wright finds out what to expect at this year's event.

M83's latest album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, released last October, is a huge, melodramatic, pop soundscape filling two discs, richly layered and boldly drawn.

Indie pop duo Cults are the epitome of New Yorker-style coolness.

A sweet, artistic, free spirit, with a voice that rivals Enya and Bjork, New York-based Cameron Mesirow, who works under the artist name Glasser, is the kind of musician who dreams up the idea of a two-person organ, and then actually gets one made.

Belgian-born Australian indie pop artist Gotye (you say it like "Gaultier"), whose real name is Wally De Backer, is much loved in Australia.

Max Cavalera and his brother Iggor didn't speak to each other for 10 years after Brazilian metal legends Sepultura splintered into two camps.