Category: Music

We should be working with those at risk of offending and supporting their talent rather than compounding their traumaIn June, the musician J Hus was arrested for possessing a knife. He has now been given an eight-month prison sentence, much to the disa…

Pop singer’s ÷ tour sells 4.86m tickets, ahead of world tours by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé and Jay-ZEd Sheeran has scored the highest-grossing live music tour of 2018, with revenues of $432m (£342m) from 4.86m tickets sold, according to industry analyst…

Funny, unapologetically flawed and instantly quotable, this second album proves the Bodak Yellow rapper is no novelty actBest albums of 2018Best culture of 2018‘Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrpp!” said Cardi B on the The Tonight Show. Host Jimmy Fallon didn’t know whe…

‘I wrote it in the summer during a heatwave. I was dripping sweat and standing there with jingling bells thinking: “This is crazy!”’I always thought it would be nice to have a Christmas No 1 – if nobody remembers you for the rest of the year, they’ll r…

Fans accuse Offset of manipulation after rapper makes unscheduled appearance on stage at Rolling LoudWhen rapper Offset made an unscheduled appearance during Saturday’s Rolling Loud festival to beg his estranged wife Cardi B for forgiveness, fans were …

Vocalist who brought a jazz sensibility to all kinds of songs and spent 60 years in the spotlightThe singer Nancy Wilson, who has died aged 81, did not consider herself a jazz vocalist – though many others did, including the Grammy awards judges (she w…

Kings Place, LondonThe Bellowhead fiddler put on an uncharacteristically sedate evening of poignant music about the first world warThe fiddler with the Midas touch, Sam Sweeney has barely put a foot wrong since, dissatisfied with the teaching, he walke…

People’s musical choices say so much about what kind of year they have had – because they were decisions made in privateWhat am I listening to? For the past week, mostly people telling me about their Spotify end-of-year playlists; the personalised rank…

With up to 300 beats per minute, singeli could be the world’s most frenetic music. In Dar es Salaam, its creators explain how it helps to create a better lifeOn a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a…

O2 Academy, GlasgowThe Glaswegian has built up a raucous following for his unvarnished acoustic anthems – and his word-perfect reception here hints at big things to comeHe may not yet be a household name but outside one of Gerry Cinnamon’s emphatically…