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Alban de Pury is selling music to the art world

20.11.09
Geneva-born Alban de Pury started out scouting for talent at indie label 4AD in New York before moving to 679 Recordings, home of The Streets, The Futureheads and the Mystery Jets, in London. ... more

Jarvis Cocker to play live for yoga classes

20.10.09
Jarvis Cocker is to play live accompaniment to yoga and aerobics classes as part of a five-day art "happening" in London.... more

Jarvis Cocker wants to be like common people

15.10.09
Jarvis Cocker shunned the VIP room at the Fantastic Mr Fox premiere afterparty to hang out with Common People.... more

Thousands of revellers flock to Glastonbury

24.06.09
Thousands of festival-goers descended on Glastonbury for this weekend’s music festival causing six-mile tailbacks from the site... more

Jarvis Cocker miscues his shots

18.06.09
Jarvis Cocker retains many of his charms — what other pop star could tell you that yesterday was Icelandic Independence Day?... more

CDs of the week

15.05.09
Eminem returns and he's back on form, Green Day produce a post-Bush rock opera and the Manic Street Preachers get old-fashioned.... more

Off the record: Out of tune and proud

24.04.09
Cher pioneered it, Britney can’t do without it — now British newcomer Mr Hudson is using Auto-Tune to do more than correct bum notes.... more

Twisted Christmas needed more twist

12.12.08
Twisted Christmas invites fairly well-known artists to twist an old Christmas song and perhaps write and perform a new one.... more

Zadie, Jarvis and cardinal to guest-edit BBC's Today

11.12.08
Novelist Zadie Smith, singer Jarvis Cocker and head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, were confirmed as guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme... more

Jarvis Cocker's nuggets of gold

27.11.08
Jarvis Cocker's music is utterly terrific. If the new record sounds anything like his Shepherd's Bush show, it will knock your socks off. ... more

Off the record

19.09.08
From Coldplay to KT Tunstall — charities are finding that enlisting musicians is the ideal way to get their message to a jaded public.... more

Mighty Boosh pull off comedy festival

07.07.08
Sceptics may have pooh-poohed the idea of comedians headlining an open-air festival but The Mighty Boosh put on a great show.... more

Wit and wisecracks by the sea

16.07.07
With stars like Bill Bailey, Phill Jupitus, Michael McIntyre, Robin Ince and Alan Carr performing, there was laughter all round at Suffolk's Latitude Festival.... more

Melting moments with Jarvis

25.06.07
Jarvis Cocker proves that you don't have to go to a huge festival to enjoy a one-of-a-kind live performance with his hit gig at Festival Hall.... more

Ska-punk prince turns jazz expert

21.06.07
Meltdown curator Jarvis Cocker only included one jazz event in the festival and thanks to Jerry Dammers it was brilliant, says Jack Massarik... more

Legend lost on the big stage

19.06.07
The first apostle of psychadelia, Roky Erickson, and his three-piece band give a plodding performance at the Royal Festival hall.... more

Critic's choice: Top five gigs

15.06.07
This weekend, the Wireless Festival continues at Hyde Park, Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown Festival kicks off and Muse play Wembley.... more

Jarvis goes into Meltdown

12.06.07
It's the most unpredictable festival of the year and the best thing about curating it, says Jarvis Cocker, is being able to celebrate the music you're most passionate about. ... more

Cocker lashes out ot bland pop stars

05.06.07
Jarvis Cocker has lashed out at today's pop music and TV talent shows, saying contestants only win if their voices betrayed "zero personality".... more

Jarvis heads for Meltdown

02.05.07
Jarvis Cocker has taken up the role of artistic director of the Royal Festival Hall's Meltdown and the former Pulp front man has assembled an eclectic line-up.... more

Broad range of fresh talent

01.05.07
A refreshing event at which musicianship was a higher priority than hype, Longing For Latitude was a showcase for some hotly-tipped, up-and-coming acts.... more

Cocker to play V Festival

27.03.07
Jarvis Cocker is to play the V Festival for the first time in 11 years, it has been announced. The former Pulp frontman inspired the idea of the two-venue event in the first place.... more

Off the record: David Smyth

16.02.07
David Smyth discusses why the Fratellis deserved their Brit and the danger advertising poses to rock festivals in his weekly column.... more

Lily in running for Brits glory

17.01.07
Lily Allen capped a remarkable 12 months of success with four Brit Award nominations - including Best British Breakthrough Act, Best British Album and Best British Single.... more

Solo Jarvis has the common touch now

18.12.06
Jarvis Cocker has mellowed and matured but he showed at Camden's Roundhouse he has lost none of his wit and humour as he soared through his infant solo back catalogue.... more

He's his own Man

23.11.06
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man sees Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and others sing some of the great man's songs. Performances don't quite match material.... more

Cocker proves there is life after Pulp

16.11.06
After Pulp's limp hurrah in 2002, Jarvis Cocker is back - this time on his own. But his new set-up is not so different from his old band's. And that's a good thing, says David Smyth.... more

CDs of the week

10.11.06
Jarvis Cocker's debut solo album features some of his most idiosyncratic work ever, All Saints' Studio 1 is jaw-droppingly dreadful and Yusuf Islam edges back to pop.... more

Jarvis finds form after a lost decade

07.11.06
After a few years in the music wilderness, Pulp's frontman Jarvis Cocker emerges with a classic solo album.... more

Committed cult of Jean Claude

23.10.06
The Barbican resembled La Rive Gauche as London's Francophiles assembled for the live recreation of two of the strangest moments in French music.... more

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