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Sounds of the summer - your complete 2011 festival guide

25.03.11
David Smyth sorts out the Eminems from the Elbows to give you the lowdown on 2011's bumper festival season... more

End of the road for The Streets

07.03.11
Mike Skinner aka The Streets performed an emotional farewell gig in Brixton to mark the end of his music career... more

The return of the Rennaissance man

25.02.11
These days it's so boring to be good at only one thing. Just look at James Franco and Plan B, both multi-task masters. Richard Godwin puts down his guitar and picks up his pen to celebrate the age of the professional polymath ... more

CDs of the week: The Streets and James Blake

04.02.11
Our music critics round-up this week's biggest music releases including pop, jazz and world records... more

The end of The Streets

28.01.11
Mike Skinner is calling time on the act that influenced a generation of London songwriters - but there's time for one final glorious album... more

Jamie T feels the love

08.02.10
Jamie T's two Brixton Academy sell-outs confirmed that the 24-year-old is a genuine cult phenomenon set to explode into the mainstream.... more

Plan B - from hoodie rap to a true soul man

21.01.10
East Londoner Ben Drew was once a perma-hooded rapper dealing in lyrics so abhorrently violent that you wouldn't want to get too close... more

CDs of the week

04.09.09
Jamie T's new album is witty, gritty and well worth the wait and Charlie Wilson is, in many ways, a musical throwback.... more

CDs of the week

28.08.09
7 Worlds Collide's album is a relaxed delight, Noah and the Whale's record is undeniably powerful and Monty Alexander plays it straight.... more

I know this much is true: Eighties studios will be missed

21.08.09
Spandau Ballet member attacked the 'clinical' modern recording process after several London's studios closed down... more

Giant Mike Skinner crop circle welcomes Glastonbury revellers

25.06.09
The music begins at Glastonbury today with revellers arriving in their thousands hopeful showers hold off... more

Sex, soul and sin in Been So Long

18.06.09
Arthur Darvill and Che Walker's musical reworking of the latter's 1998 play, Been So Long, positively bristles with sassy riffs and layered rhythms.... more

The 25 must-see London gigs

15.05.09
From Britney Spears's circus to Jack White's new band, an extraordinary line-up of stars are coming to play in London before the summer festival season. Check out our 25 must sees... more

The Specials are Back in Rude health

08.05.09
They may be weaker of eyesight, thinner of hair and broader of girth, but The Specials' Brixton gig was still Geezer Central.... more

Off the record: Do try this at home, kids

17.04.09
Roll over Barney the Dinosaur and tell Big Bird the news — in Ziggy Marley, the under-fives have a new kind of musical idol.... more

I can’t see a Ting

09.03.09
Thousands of fans of The Ting Tings were turned away at the door after a power cut caused the band’s sell-out gig to be cancelled... more

Basement Jaxx top Wireless bill

17.02.09
Basement Jaxx are set to headline this year's Wireless Festival with The Streets and Dizzee Rascal also ready to perform.... more

High ideals and hi-de-hi stagecraft from The Streets

24.10.08
Mike Skinner’s first London show to promote his fourth Streets album featured an orchestra and gospel choir as the pioneer of geezer-hop set his sights on higher things.... more

CDs of the week

12.09.08
Mike Skinner is becoming one of our most poetic chroniclers of urban life, Jonas Brothers are a more wholesome McFly and David Sanborn is back.... more

Party boys have the X(fm) Factor

10.12.07
Xfm's Christmas party at the Brixton Academy featured Kate Nash and Supergrass but the night really belonged to south London's Bloc Party.... more

CDs of the week

03.08.07
This week's CD releases include The Coral, Molly Johnson and cockney-voiced artist Kate Nash, Lilly Allen's hottest competitor.... more

On Kate's own terms

30.07.07
As one of Britain's hottest young singer/songwriters, Kate Nash says she won't let her meteoric rise go to her head.... more

Let us tell you a story

18.06.07
Art Brut's simple, defiantly English songs have proved popular around the world, and as John Lewis discovers, with a number of celebrities... more

Metro Weekender is Streets ahead

02.04.07
Some of the biggest names in music are to appear at the Metro Weekender, a two-day extravaganza held in London and Cardiff in August.... more

CDs of the week

26.01.07
We take a look at some of the hottest albums released this week including the latest offerings from Norah Jones, the Klaxons and Miles Davis.... more

Jamie suits fans to a T

18.01.07
Charming Jamie T is not particularly indie, or folk, or reggae, or hip hop. But he is all talent and the crowd loved him, says Marcus Folley. ... more

Starz in his eyes

12.01.07
There's more than a touch of Mike Skinner in Just Jack's genre-twisting grooves. But jazz, funk and electro influences are there too, says Martha de Lacey.... more

London's coolest bars and clubs

13.12.06
London has been shaken and stirred. A new wave of intimate and sophisticated bars and clubs now rule the night scene. As the season gets into full swing, we tell you where to party.... more

Downloads of the week

22.09.06
One-man-band Ciaran McFeely has released a hazy ballad, Belle and Sebastian are set to make long car journeys with small children more bearable and Mike Skinner goes on record with Pete Doherty.... more

Just a regular guy...

20.09.06
Fresh-faced, sharp-witted Just Jack is a 24-year-old Londoner whose music merges soul, hip hop and house styles, doused with cartoonish fantasies. ... more


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