14 February 2012 12:00 AM
Adele swept the Grammys on Sunday night, scooping six awards. Over at the Baftas, The Artist was the big winner, with seven golden masks. We take a look at the biggest winning artists, films and bands of the past 20 years
14 February 2012 12:00 AM
You might not know their tunes, but OK Go's viral videos have won the band millions of fans. Tim Walker charts their success
13 February 2012 12:12 PM
Last year I interviewed Tiga, owner of Canadian label Turbo Records, about his ZZT project – which he spoke about with me for the first time since it had been conceived. The label has gone from strength to strength since its inception back in 1998, with plenty of the artists on its roster doing remarkably well on a global scale, Azari & III for example. This year Turbo looks set to be even bigger than it has ever been with label head Tiga and his brother Thomas pushing the gears up a notch.
13 February 2012 12:00 AM
As I stood outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, just hours after Whitney Houston was found dead in her room, cars streamed past, blasting her songs out of their windows. It served as an instant reminder of just how many sensational hits Houston had. Few can forget her cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You". But there were many more.
13 February 2012 12:00 AM
From her rise as a fresh-faced teen to her sudden death in an LA hotel room at 48, Nick Hasted charts the highs and lows of a remarkable life
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
For a girl from a London council estate, it was a dream come true. The hit single 'American Boy' turned Estelle into one of the world's biggest pop stars – and won her a Grammy. But then life got in the way. Here, for the first time, she talks about heartache, betrayal and bouncing back.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
The American indie-rock band Here We Go Magic released one of my favourite songs of 2010 in "Collector", an off-kilter pop song full of angular guitars and Krautrock rhythms.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
Madonna's Super Bowl show has drawn criticism for nothing other than the material girl's age. Fiona Sturges is indignant
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
With their third album, The Maccabees have moved into epic territory, the chart-topping south London quintet tell Elisa Bray
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
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05 February 2012 12:00 AM
I wasn't surprised by the backlash after winning the Mercury Prize in 2009 [her debut album Speech Therapy had the worst chart performance by a Mercury winner, selling only 10,000 copies by the end of 2009]. I've seen it happen before and I was prepared for it. But what people fail to realise is that if I'd never won that award, I would have had to go back to my day job and I wouldn't have made my second album [Freedom of Speech, out next week].
05 February 2012 12:00 AM
The statistics say that pop rules and guitar music is dead. And the acts themselves? Simmy Richman meets four who don't care about the facts and figures – as long as they can keep on rocking...
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
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