Clem Burke, the drummer whose backbeats powered Blondie to huge chart success across several decades, has died aged 70. Burke’s bandmates Debbie Harry and Chris
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‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle
Christopher Neil, producer/writer I was a pop producer working with the likes of Sheena Easton and Dollar. Mike Rutherford was a prog rock musician with
Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen dies aged 69
Dave Allen, the bassist for British post-punks Gang of Four, has died aged 69. His surviving bandmates, vocalist Jon King and drummer Hugo Burnham, said
‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist
The first single I bought She Loves You by the Beatles, for 25 cents at a garage sale in Glendale Heights, Illinois, even though I
Amadou Bagayoko obituary
One of the most extraordinary success stories in the history of African music began in 1978 in the south of the Malian capital, Bamako, in
Opera director Netia Jones: ‘AI is not going away. Either you batten down the hatches or you ride the wave’
Born in London, where she still lives, to an artist mother and musician father, Netia Jones is the new associate director of the Royal Opera.
Various: Chet Baker Re:imagined review – new reworkings by R&B, pop, soul and jazz artists
Possessing a whisper-soft voice and sweetly melodic trumpet tone, Chet Baker (1929-1988) had a sound that is often imitated yet almost impossible to master. For
Tom Ravenscroft: ‘I always wanted a shell suit, but my mum wouldn’t let me have one’
Music was playing before I was even born. I was born into the sound. My dad [radio presenter John Peel] used to make these mixtapes.
Kae Tempest review – a brave, intimate set where the personal is political
“This has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,” jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae
One to watch: Model/Actriz
Exuding glamour, spectacle and pathos, Model/Actriz create a ferocious mix of industrial rock, dance-punk and pop that’s often sexy and disturbing in the same breath.