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Green Day to headline Reading and Leeds festivals
Tuesday 12 March 2013
After performing a secret gig at last year's Reading and Leeds festivals rockers Green Day have been confirmed as the final headliners for this year's event.
Dundee duo caught LA on the hop
Sunday 10 March 2013
Rejected in London, two Scots posed as Californian rappers and ended up partying with Madonna
Biffy Clyro and System Of A Down added to Reading and Leeds festival line-up
Tuesday 05 February 2013
The August gigs will be both Eminem and Biffy Clyro's only UK festival appearances this year
Eminem to headline at new music festival in Glasgow
Monday 28 January 2013
US rapper Eminem will headline a new music festival to be held over ten days in Glasgow.
Eminem to headline Reading and Leeds
Tuesday 11 December 2012
US rapper Eminem will take to the stage to headline the Reading and Leeds festivals next year - more than a decade after he first topped the bill.
Eminem thanks fans for help in 'dark times'
Friday 10 August 2012
Rapper Eminem, who battled an addiction to prescription drugs, thanked his fans at a New York concert for helping him get through dark times.
Asher Roth, Jazz Café, London
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Emerging onto the stage with his (now long) ginger locks, this white Jewish rapper looks no more like a hip hop star than he ever did.
Three killed as massive storm destroys music festival stage
Friday 19 August 2011
At least three people were killed last night, and 71 injured, when a stage collapsed during stormy weather at a Belgian music festival.
Hip-hop moments that shook the world
Sunday 07 August 2011
From Kool Herc spinning in the Bronx to Jay-Z blinging in the mud, Matilda Egere-Cooper counts down the flash points that turned hip-hop from a marginalised inner-city culture into a global phenomenon
Album: Eminem Bad Meets Evil: Hell the Sequel (Shady/Interscope)
Friday 17 June 2011
Arriving unheralded by even the merest hint of advance notification, Hell the Sequel represents the belated reunion of Eminem and Royce Da 5' 9", an 11-track EP that outlasts many an album.
Chrysler drives back into profit
Tuesday 03 May 2011
Chrysler, the US car maker, is in profit for the first time since emerging from bankruptcy in 2009. The company posted net income of $116m in the first three months of the year.
Slim Shady's rap-sheet of relapse and recovery
Friday 01 April 2011
Eminem soared from drug-filled poverty to adulation and notoriety, and then collapsed into gilded, narcotic, seclusion. But, after his latest comeback, his biographer Nick Hasted believes the future holds plenty for the master wordsmith
Arcade Fire overwhelmed by Grammy triumph
Monday 14 February 2011
Arcade Fire were overwhelmed by their shock 'Best Album' Grammy win.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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