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Judge's anger as blunder delays crime boss case

2009-10-27T08:32:03Z

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

CDs of the week

2009-09-25T11:04:50Z

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

Pearl Jam are in perfect harmony with their fans

2009-08-18T23:00:00Z

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

Gigs of the week

2009-07-31T09:41:49Z

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

Knee surgery puts Joe Cole�s recovery on hold again

2009-07-16T11:52:53Z

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

Buffett hands Bill Gates foundation �762m

2009-07-03T07:47:55Z

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

Globetrotting MPs: they get around

2009-04-07T08:50:41Z

We're still attracting the talent

2009-04-03T08:44:34Z

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?

Meet Mister Mayhem

2009-03-25T11:25:25Z

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

Hard Rock Calling all Londoners to choose Hyde Park

2009-03-10T10:38:09Z

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

CDs of the week

2009-02-27T10:38:42Z

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

Amazon to sell groceries

2009-01-30T14:05:38Z

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

Frosty reception for Ellis after fan clash

2008-12-24T09:39:28Z

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

Best CDs of 2008

2008-12-19T10:13:46Z

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

Fleet Foxes touch on perfection

2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

Menzies signs a new 5-year deal with News International

2008-08-21T08:20:19Z

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

Wild ride in Cutie's cab

2008-07-14T23:00:00Z

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

The next big thing: FLEET FOXES

2008-06-28T00:10:04Z

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

'Fuel freeze' likely cause of Heathrow plane crash

2008-05-13T10:12:05Z

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

Original take on songs

2008-04-30T23:00:00Z

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

One-trick pony of lovey backdrops

2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

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.

The kids are all right

2007-12-28T11:15:05Z

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.

Not up to past glories

2007-08-30T23:00:00Z

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

Vote-rigging the American way

2007-04-18T23:00:00Z

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.

Rabbit made of miraculous stuff

2007-03-28T23:00:00Z

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.

Off the record: David Smyth

2007-03-16T13:34:31Z

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.

Police announce tour dates

2007-02-13T08:55:13Z

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.

Welcome return for Statesside success story

2006-12-12T00:00:00Z

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.

Heavy going

2006-08-20T23:00:00Z

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.

A lesson in peaceful music

2006-07-31T23:00:00Z

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.