Category: Music

Despite living much of her life in the UK, the jazz musician became a victim of the hostile environment policy. She talks about her fight to remain – and strengthening her rootsDuring lockdown, UK jazz artist Bumi Thomas has found space to spread out i…

Pretenders singer writes to the Guardian over treatment of couple trained by Linford Christie• Letter: London police should focus on gangs – Chrissie HyndeThe Pretenders singer, Chrissie Hynde, has described her shock at witnessing a “disturbing and ag…

Meighan, 39, appears in court day after band announced his departureThe former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has pleaded guilty to assaulting his former fiancee.Meighan, 39, appeared at Leicester magistrates court on Tuesday morning charged with assaul…

A bad vibe and worse acid hung around the 600,000-strong festival, with Mitchell getting heckled – but she used a stretch of perfect songs to create a moment of harmonyThe last days of August on the Isle of Wight, the weather fair, the island relishing…

As the new decade dawned, indie and rave collided and a seismic party began. Bands from the Happy Mondays to Primal Scream relive that explosion of pills, thrills and endless possibilities ‘I remember going to parties,” says Anna Haigh, “and dancing on…

Musician who wrote The Devil Went Down to Georgia and starred in Urban Cowboy was happy to play ‘anywhere with a good crowd’Charlie Daniels, who went from being an in-demand session musician to a staple of Southern rock with his hit The Devil Went Down…

‘Jimi Hendrix played in the band and lived at our house. He’d watch cartoons with us with his guitar strapped on, and we’d ask him questions as he practised’As a songwriter, inspiration can strike at any time. I’d just bought a new 12-string acoustic g…

From idiosyncratic Italian pop to experimental funk and moments from his classic westerns, here are some of the maestro’s most striking momentsTrying to sum up the maestro’s 66-year career into ten tracks is impossible. His work was simply too diverse …

Singer said to have struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour and wished to get his life back on trackTom Meighan has announced that he is leaving Kasabian, the Leicester rock band he co-founded as a student in the late 90s. The b…

Adams offered no specific comment on the multiple allegations of abuse and harassment made against him, in a piece published in the Daily MailRyan Adams has apologised for “the ways I’ve mistreated people throughout my life and career” in a statement p…