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Rodrigo Y Gabriela are finger-plucking fairytale

03.09.09

A packed crowd cheer, clap and yell “Hey!” when Rodrigo insists. Gabriela smiles, her eyes shut, her fingers speeding instinctively.... more

Sound Check: The great myth of Woodstock

07.08.09

It's 40 years since the legendary music festival and we’re about to get a glut of nostalgia – but was it really such fun?... more

Classic images of pop stars that set Sixties style

25.06.09

Rare portraits of Sixties rock stars showing how pop influenced the style of a decade will go on show this autumn.... more

The Who's guitar is smash hit of Woodstock display

03.06.09

The guitar that Pete Townshend smashed on stage at Woodstock is to go on show in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the music festival... more

Underground graffiti tells story of 138 years at the Royal Albert Hall

22.04.09

The Royal Albert Hall is going underground with a new exhibition of graffiti art... more

Five to try: with music

08.04.09

Jazz and poetry fill the basement at Troubadour and Jeff Harnar's American Songbook is being performed at Pizza on the Park.... more

CDs of the week

27.03.09

PJ Harvey indulges in mewling, whining, little-girl-lost vocal exercises and Ida Sand is back to basics.... more

Stones' studio runs out of time

16.12.08

One of London's most famous recording venues, which has hosted the likes of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, could close over financial problems... more

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, dies in hotel

13.11.08

The last surviving member of one of rock music's most influential bands has been found dead in an American hotel room... more

Dog Soup raids Miles' cookbook

11.09.08

The sounds of Robbie Robson's new band Dog Soup are entirely palatable, being inspired by his principal muse, the late great Miles Davis.... more

Take cover, Celine is singing AC/DC - the tune voted world's worst cover song

22.06.08

Celine Dion's version of AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long has been voted the world's worst cover song.... more

McCartney’s delight at Linda exhibition

22.04.08

An exhibition of Linda MacCartney's work showing intimate family pictures and landscapes is to run at the Hyman Gallery.... more

Cultures mesh together

21.04.08

La Linea is as good a premise as any to put leading sitar player Nishat Khan and virtuoso flamenco guitarist Paco Pena on stage for the highbrow equivalent of a banjo duel.... more

Let there be rock

25.03.08

Proto-punk pioneers the Sonics made their UK debut at The Forum last night; 41 years after the original band split up. It was an event worth waiting for, says Pete Clark.... more

Lennie's gonna go our way

14.03.08

For all his reputation as a sanitised Jimi Hendrix and a Bowdlerised Prince, Lenny Kravitz showed he is his own man at his KoKo gig.... more

This year's Glastonbury Festival could be the last

15.02.08

An organiser of the Glastonbury festival has hinted that this year's 38th event could be the last.... more

Still Fretting in the basement

29.01.08

Singer-songwriter Stephen Fretwell sounded deserving of a much bigger audience than the one in front of him at the Troubadour coffee house.... more

Rare photos capture Hendrix at full volume

07.01.08

Rare photographs of Jimi Hendrix at every stage of his career are to be exhibited at a gallery in Soho.... more

DVDs of the week

06.11.07

George Clooney stars in Ocean's Thirteen, which leads the line-up of the best DVD releases this week.... more

Musical fails to inspire

10.09.07

Paco Peńa's Requiem for the Earth was worthy and honest but despite the 100-strong choir, the jerky musical journey lost its way.... more

A Polynesian paradise close to home

20.08.07

Mahiki - the hugely popular, hugely trendy cocktail-bar-cum-island-grill on Dover Street - is as comfortable as your favourite holiday destination, says Mark Bolland.... more

Off the record: David Smyth

11.05.07

David Smyth sees Blur bassist Alex James make an ironclad case for London to be named Favourite Music City, compares Prince and Barbra Streisand and checks out what's new on the net... more

Guitar greats on display

28.02.07

A free exhibition featuring photos of the world's greatest guitarists is on display at the Blink Gallery.... more

Rapper's shocking tactics don't go to Plan

12.02.07

Despite the horror, sex, violence and excessive swearing in Plan B's songs, his Shepherd's Bush Empire show was rather conventional, says Hugh Gallacher.... more

Harrods gets ready to rock

24.01.07

Harrods' shoppers will be swapping Fendi bags for Fenders with the launch of Harrods Rocks at the famous Knightsbridge store.... more

Traffic-stopping tribute to Jim

22.01.07

Bill Wyman, former Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, Yusuf Islam, Paul Weller and Pete Townshend all appeared at a tribute concert to psychedelic rocker Jim Capaldi.... more

Menu plays second fiddle

11.12.06

Toby Young wasn't looking forward to visiting The Pigalle Club but the house band certainly made the evening go with a swing.... more

Rocking in a jazz world

27.11.06

With Acoustic Ladyland's new album offering up a post-punk twist on jazz, Pete Wareham talks about how his skater past is influencing the present.... more

Soundtracks to our lives

10.11.06

It's time to stop being coy about the albums we love, says Garry Mulholland in his new book. So we asked him and a panel of experts to reveal their Top 10s.... more

A jazzed-up soundclash

05.09.06

Acoustic Ladyland tip a quirky nod to Jimi Hendrix in more than just name, with a debut album featuring Hendrix tracks remixed jazz fusion style. Tonight's gig previews their third album.... more