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Watch out for the Petty thieves at festivals
Friday 19 July 2013
This weekend's Lovebox festival will shine the spotlight on the risks that musicians and DJs take when performing in front of tens of thousands.
Music review: Bruce Springsteen's Hard Rock Calling show was a three-hour masterclass in rock
Monday 01 July 2013
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
Born to keep running? Bruce Springsteen working on a new album
Monday 24 June 2013
Bruce Springsteen has dropped some serious hints that he is working on a new album - which would be his 18th studio record to date- saying that he still has “a lot of material” to share.
Music review: Bruce Springsteen proves he is still The Boss with epic Wembley Stadium set
Monday 17 June 2013
Wembley Stadium, London
Bob Dylan set to blow into Europe for 33-date tour
Friday 14 June 2013
US singer Bob Dylan will embark on a 33-date tour of Europe starting in Oslo on 10 October and ending at London's Royal Albert Hall on 28 November, a statement on his website confirmed today.
From The Who to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones: The albums that make you wish you’d been there
Friday 07 June 2013
Ahead of a new compilation of James Brown shows, Robert Webb lists the best live records
Album: Laura Marling, Once I Was an Eagle (Virgin)
Saturday 25 May 2013
Marling's fourth album is tall galoshes against the rising tide of the most irritating industry norm going, the one that requires female singer-songwriters to ingratiate themselves with the attractiveness of their personality.
Pot-smoking, peacenik Bob Dylan ‘unworthy’ of French Légion d’honneur award
Wednesday 08 May 2013
Is Bob Dylan “unworthy” of the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest civilian award? The head of the institution which decides on the recipients appears to think so.
Original lyric sheet of unreleased Bob Dylan anti-war song expected to fetch £35,000 at auction
Thursday 02 May 2013
A never-before-released Bob Dylan song lyrics are to go to auction in London next month, after being discovered in a drawer in Sweden.
Richie Havens: The singer who set the Woodstock festival on fire
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Andy Gill recalls how Richie Havens, who died this week, was a supremely talented musician who put his mark on an entire era
Album review: Gary Clark Jr, Blak and Blu (Warner Bros)
Friday 22 February 2013
Anointed even by Obama as "the future", young Texan blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr is widely viewed as heir apparent to such legends as Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a belief only partly confirmed by this debut album.
Dave Clark Five 'devastated' at death of bassist Rick Huxley
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Musician Rick Huxley, one of the founding members of 1960s chart stars The Dave Clark Five, has died at the age of 72.
Jamie Roberts: Why Bruce Springsteen, self-belief and porridge are on menu for me today
Saturday 02 February 2013
Millennium Eye: We have to play on the front foot to right the wrongs of the autumn
Album review: Bob Dylan, Folk Singer – Humdinger (Smith & Co)
Saturday 05 January 2013
This double-CD draws together some of the songs which comprised such early Dylan bootlegs as Great White Wonder and Stealin'.
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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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