On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip hop luminary. This feature was first published on 11 September 2014
Ahead of new album Ritual and a headline set at this weekend's Green Man, Jon Hopkins takes Elizabeth Aubrey through an eclectic Baker's Dozen spanning adolescent favourites, ambient rarities, gifts from the algorithm and the soundtracks to his travels across the globe
At this year's edition of the cross-cultural Berlin festival, Luke Turner finds questions asked and answered about the malleable nature of "pop", the therapeutic nature of Cats Eyes' music, the raw power of Algiers and the necessity of European co-operation. (Photographs: Annett Bonkowski)