British jazz is currently blessed with vocal talents. Bandleader Charlie Pyne is just one sample from a spectrum that embraces big band fan James Hudson,
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On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights
Born in 1945 and raised in London, singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970, inspired by a trip around
Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review – takes country music by its plaid collar and sets it on fire
Ever since Beyoncé – to quote the lady herself – “changed the game with that digital drop” via her self-titled fifth album, released without warning
The Ed Sheeran decade: how the everyman megastar remade music in his own image
Ed Sheeran is popular because he is a generational talent. Ed Sheeran is popular because his output is generic and bland. Ed Sheeran is popular because
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs named in lawsuit accusing his son of sexual assault
The music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and his 26-year-old son Christian “King” Combs are both named in a lawsuit that accuses the younger man of
The Guide #133: Why is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter so long?
Have you listened to Cowboy Carter yet? No, but I mean all of it? All 27 tracks? All 78 minutes and 21 seconds? Don’t be
Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!
Fifty years on, the footage of Abba performing Waterloo at the 1974 Eurovision song contest is very familiar indeed: the conductor dressed as Napoleon, Agnetha’s
‘This is an art form – and we’re losing it’: is the music video dying?
In increasingly turbulent times for the music industry, one aspect has remained steadfast: its passion for stats. At the start of the decade – with
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – their most adventurous set yet
When Vampire Weekend emerged in the mid-00s they sounded like nothing else around, quoting unfashionable sources such as Minutemen and west African guitar sounds (via
Sananda Maitreya: ‘I hypnotised myself into believing I was a genius’
Do you stand by your claim that [debut album] Introducing the Hardline … is as significant as Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? VerulamiumParkRangerI said