‘Steve is the Jesus Christ of MCs, man. He died for all these guys.” With a chuckle, Darrell Austin is lionising his uncle Steve –
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Beabadoobee review – singer-songwriter cautiously ups the rock ante
Beabadoobee’s stage decor – huge white drapes, an artfully placed stepladder and a dozen cans of paint – heavily implies that the indie rock singer-songwriter
Roy Haynes, jazz drummer whose career spanned nine decades, dies aged 99
Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter Leslie
‘Drumming is full of machismo, so vulgar, so dumb’: Valentina Magaletti, the musician giving the underground its rhythm
‘People tell me I’m a serial collaborator, but sometimes a dialogue is more interesting than a monologue,” says Italian drummer and musician Valentina Magaletti. “When
The Corrs review – family folk-poppers surprise with grit, grunge and gothic drama
There’s a French and Saunders skit from 1998 in which the comedy duo impersonate the Corrs, presenting the Irish family band not only as clones,
The White Stripes drop lawsuit against Trump campaign for unauthorised Seven Nation Army use
The White Stripes have dropped their federal lawsuit against Donald Trump for unauthorised use of their song Seven Nation Army in a video posted by
Lou Donaldson obituary
The droll, sleek-haired saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was disinclined to let a good lick or a good gag wither on the
‘Grief is giving me this beautiful, deepening understanding’: Phil Elverum on loss, new love and his landmarks of US indie
For almost two decades, Phil Elverum’s life centred around performing and recording music. First as the Microphones and then as Mount Eerie, he had accumulated
‘Almost like imprisonment’: the shocking truth about life for boybands in their ‘golden era’
‘People often don’t get it,” says Ritchie Neville. “They think being in a famous band is a dream. But I’ve had situations where I’m out
‘James Brown kept cutting our stage time’ – how the Stylistics made You Make Me Feel Brand New
Airrion Love, singer Three of us were in a Philadelphia group called the Monarchs and the other guys were in the Percussions. When we left