Festivals tend to be about music but this summer it's about what you eat while you're listening to it. This weekend is Jamie Oliver's first Big Feastival in Clapham Common... more
There's something ironic about Emmy the Great promoting her second album, Virtue, in a church: it was written after her fiancé left her to become a Christian missionary... more
The nu-folk scene has everything a musical movement needs: a strong aesthetic (flat caps and grandad shirts), a defning instrument (the banjo), sex and betrayal. Richard Godwin on the Mumfords, Noah and the Whale and why everyone loves Laura Marling... more
Domestic bliss could be the casualty of this year’s £20,000 Barclaycard Mercury Prize as folk darling Laura Marling goes head to head with her boyfriend’s band, Mumford & Sons... more
As they reach their fifth album it’s still not clear whether Goldfrapp are a glorious pop phenomenon or a couple of chancers. Laura Marling and Mary J Blige also have new records.... more
Mumford & Sons are leading lights in the new literary London folk scene that everyone wants to join. Singer Marcus Mumford talks Steinbeck and Shakespeare... more
Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele were today all nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon.... more
Rock veteran Robert Plant, 59, faces Alex Turner, 22, and his Last Shadow Puppets in the battle for this year's £20,000 Nationwide Mercury Prize for album of the year... more
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