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Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman: ‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’
On 11 June 1988, I was 12 and sitting with my family watching the Free Nelson Mandela Concert on TV. As a clan, we were
‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity
Ricky Ross, singer, songwriter I was a teacher in Glasgow but I wanted to start a band and write songs that meant something to people.
‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics
‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit
Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK
The world’s most expensive guitar, which Kurt Cobain played in one of Nirvana’s most acclaimed performances – the MTV Unplugged in New York show –
‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk
There is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the
‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist
The first song I fell in love with Samson by Regina Spektor, when I was 16 and falling in love for the first time. I
‘Woodstock for elder millennials’: the Garden State soundtrack anniversary concert
It’s been two decades since the release of Garden State, Zach Braff’s film about an alienated young actor’s struggle to find meaning in life. But
‘Much better vibe’: Manchester’s phone-free nightclub reviving the rave spirit
Standing in the queue at Amber’s, one of Manchester’s newest nightclubs, before your bag is searched or your ticket is checked, you are asked to
Usher review – glitzy Vegas-style spectacle is completely preposterous and preposterously entertaining
Early on during the first show of Usher’s London residency, the audience is treated to the sight of the teenaged singer fantasising about playing London