American rapper Kanye West will premiere his debut art film Cruel Summer at the Cannes Film Festival today.

New-media gurus, political pointy-heads, start-up whizz-kids and rock stars mingled at this year's Zeitgeist conference. Adam Sherwin reports

The search engine is taking its quest for knowledge offline at a secluded British hotel

“I guarantee this will be the greatest concert of your life,” says Kanye West, with typical modesty, at one point in this first London Watch the Throne show. For fans of the pair, he might not be too far off the mark.  

If the team behind the Music is GREAT compilation were looking for live moments that captured the pop zeitgeist, there could be no better moment than Dizzee Rascal performing Bonkers at Glastonbury 2010.

"I do my thing, I do my thing," sings London homegirl Estelle, all smiles and sassy posture, with an even more ferocious outfit to match.

'I'm not even sure Kanye can play the drums, but I bet he'd pick it up'

With Urban Turban, Tjinder Singh reinforces his position as one of the UK's more engaging musical minds, Cornershop's Indo-funk fusion-pop further expanded here through a series of guest singers.

Melvyn Bragg is resurrecting The South Bank Show with an interview of Dizzee Rascal in a new documentary on the rise of the grime scene.

The May Bank Holiday may have been wet and bitterly cold, but Breakin’ Convention hasn’t lost its bounce. Now in its ninth year, the festival of hip hop dance theatre has a solid history, covering everything from rising youth groups to international acts. The weekend festival will be followed by a UK tour; today’s performance will be streamed live online.

Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died, his mentor Russell Simmons said tonight. He was 47.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed that years of playing live has left him with tinnitus.

Out damn Scot! Alan Cumming makes a mad Macbeth