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Judge's anger as blunder delays crime boss case

27.10.09
Judge criticises prosecutors after he was forced to delay seizing the assets of a London crime boss who has flouted justice for seven years... more

CDs of the week

25.09.09
Ian Brown's My Way is a decent record, Newton Faulkner wants to be taken seriously and Alice in Chains are dignified.... more

Pearl Jam are in perfect harmony with their fans

19.08.09
From the Borderline in '92 to the O2 in '09, it's been a long slog for Pearl Jam... more

Gigs of the week

31.07.09
Kerrang!'s Week of Rock draws to a close, Field Day Festival comes to to town and Alice in Chains are at The Scala.... more

Knee surgery puts Joe Cole’s recovery on hold again

16.07.09
Joe Cole will miss the start of the season after having surgery on a knee problem... more

Buffett hands Bill Gates foundation £762m

03.07.09
Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion (£762million) in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... more

Globetrotting MPs: they get around

07.04.09
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We're still attracting the talent

03.04.09
Tech cheerleader and prolific tweeter Robert Scoble suggests in a recent blog that Silicon Valley, if not the entire state of California, might soon see a huge brain drain. Could he be right?... more

Meet Mister Mayhem

25.03.09
On Saturday, ahead of the G20 Summit, a London professor plans to ignite a revolution in the City. This is his bizarre manifesto... more

Hard Rock Calling all Londoners to choose Hyde Park

10.03.09
Organisers of Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park have urged Londoners to shun other festivals as they announced acts including Neil Young and the Pretenders... more

CDs of the week

27.02.09
No Line On The Horizon should mark the end of U2's years of consolidation and Courtney Pine is approaching his prime.... more

Amazon to sell groceries

30.01.09
Amazon is drawing up plans to challenge Tesco and the other big supermarkets with a home grocery delivery service... more

Frosty reception for Ellis after fan clash

24.12.08
New York Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis has been fined £6,500 by the NFL for throwing a snowball into the crowd during a 13-3 defeat at Seattle... more

Best CDs of 2008

19.12.08
From funk to fado, our critics round up the albums of the year.... more

Fleet Foxes touch on perfection

06.11.08
Four members of Seattle’s Fleet Foxes combined voices with such purity and angel sweetness that David Smyth almost felt sorry for the fifth.... more

Menzies signs a new 5-year deal with News International

21.08.08
Newspaper and magazine distributor John Menzies has announced the renewal of a contract with News International for another five years... more

Wild ride in Cutie's cab

15.07.08
Death Cab for Cutie's show at an uncomfortably packed, giddily enthusiastic Koko unveiled a band whose moment has come at last.... more

The next big thing: FLEET FOXES

28.06.08
A folk-pop band who are proving there is more to Seattle than grunge.... more

'Fuel freeze' likely cause of Heathrow plane crash

13.05.08
The British Airways plane that crash landed at Heathrow may have suffered from "fuel freeze" caused by cold weather... more

Original take on songs

01.05.08
Dina Martina is one of the weirdest, wiggiest and most accessible acts The Soho Theatre has staged for a long time, says Bruce Dessau.... more

One-trick pony of lovey backdrops

27.02.08
Fronted by a man with a derelict's beard and a trailer park baseball cap, Band Of Horses are a Supertramp for the new era.... more

The kids are all right

28.12.07
Doomed youth is one of director Gus Van Sant's favourite subjects. But, he says, there's hope for the skater boys and girls in his latest film Paranoid Park.... more

Not up to past glories

31.08.07
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players could not quite hit the right note in a show where the canned laughter provided the biggest laughs.... more

Vote-rigging the American way

19.04.07
Hacking Democracy is no cinematic masterpiece, but it doesn't have to be. What it lays out, that US elections can easily be fixed by computer hackers, is shocking enough.... more

Rabbit made of miraculous stuff

29.03.07
The Last Mimzy is choppily made, as if several different hands got at the editing, with two or three themes that aren't worked out properly. One to set the kids in front of and miss yourself.... more

Off the record: David Smyth

16.03.07
David Smyth ponders over Starbucks' move into the music business, the coffee company's imminent signing of Paul McCartney, and Steven Seagal's upcoming Shepherds Bush Empire gig.... more

Police announce tour dates

13.02.07
The Police have announced that they will embark on their first major tour since splitting in 1984. The tour will hit the UK in autumn.... more

Welcome return for Statesside success story

12.12.06
Resident here until January, British band Acoustic Alchemy are more successful in the US than at home but 20 years of Statesside touring had given their work a certain snap.... more

Heavy going

21.08.06
Trumpeter Jumaane Smith was blowing like a young Woody Shaw as the Rashied Ali quartet played some heavy modern jazz in two uncompromising sets at Live! on the Park.... more

A lesson in peaceful music

01.08.06
Gig review: To judge by the scary photograph on the sleeve of her current record, Year of Meteors, Laura Veirs is a frumpish librarian with unflattering spectacles. In the flesh, this tiny sparrow of a woman, proved to have rather more going for her.... more

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