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Sheryl Crow: Why Sheryl Crow is starting over

Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2008

Battling cancer and adopting a child led Sheryl Crow to reassess what is important in life. No longer concerned with what people think, she has ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes: The Return of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Interview by Paul Elliott, MOJO, April 2008

After seven years in the wilderness, the Black Crowes, America's freewheelin', dope-smokin', warring Blues Brotherhood are back. And this time their singer Chris Robinson is ...

Fugs, The: For The Benefit Of Tuli Kupferberg

Report by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 15 June 2010

For those who trot out the tired cliché of hippies morphing into stockbrokers, check out the Fugs. No sell-out here. ...

Damon Albarn

Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, April 2012

"Music is like blood or air," Damon Albarn believes. "It's part of us. We open up to its invisible flow. My life is immersed in ...

Paul Heaton: "Armed Revolution Is The Only Cure"

Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, June 2012

Baleful tunesmith, habitual cyclist, pub-owner, radical — Paul Heaton puts a foot on the ball and surveys the pitch. ...

Beautiful South, The, Housemartins, The: Paul Heaton: "Armed Revolution Is The Only Cure"

Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, June 2012

Baleful tunesmith, habitual cyclist, pub-owner, radical — Paul Heaton puts a foot on the ball and surveys the pitch ...

Emily Portman, Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Anaïs Mitchell, Kathryn Roberts: Never Mind the Birdlore: The New Face of Folk Music

Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, The Observer, 27 January 2013

The folk scene is changing – there are songs about police shootings, Occupy London and rape. Colin Irwin meets the singers who are shaking things ...

Janelle Monáe: "I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places"

Interview by Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 30 June 2013

She's an android-dating style queen who's been compared to Bowie. Is the R&B singer the saviour of pop? ...

Special AKA, The: When Pop Went Political: Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute Concert

Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, June 2018

IT WAS A party staged to express solidarity with the world's most famous political prisoner, while concurrently expressing vehement opposition to an overtly racist system ...

Specials, The: The Specials: Encore (Universal)

Review and Interview by John Lewis, Uncut, March 2019

Back in the studio for the first time since they reformed. ...

Paul Simon: How Graceland saved Paul Simon — and offended the anti-apartheid world

Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2020

Forged in South Africa, the 1986 masterpiece drew accusations of 'cultural appropriation', offence and theft. What were Simon's intentions? ...

Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom (Fridman Gallery)

Review by John Lewis, The Guardian, 15 January 2021

The composer’s two new works, exploring slavery and homophobia, are like immersive non-visual films ...

Wolf Alice on that Marilyn Manson "upskirting incident"

Interview by Laura Barton, The Evening Standard, 27 May 2021

Wolf Alice were making a third album when Covid hit — now it's arrived and its creators are itching to get back to business. They ...