Do we need another female singer-songwriter? Feist; Laura Marling; the now ubiquitous Lana Del Rey: the internet being what it is, we can find what we are looking for with the click of a button. 

If the term family festival conjures the unwelcome image of bouncy castles and entertainers, Camp Bestival might change your view.

Tonight sees the biggest names in pop go head-to-head in one of the most anticipated nights of the British musical calendar.

There is a rare sense of occasion in Camden tonight, a feeling that momentum has got right behind this quietly determined artist from deepest Warwickshire.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran heads the field for this year's Brit Awards with four nominations.

Being a radio DJ is a cinch nowadays. Where once upon a time a DJ had to haul crates of records into work, now they can simply take in their iPod, set it to shuffle and then lie down for an executive nap.

“One day we’ll be a bloody serious band, Charles,” Rebecca Taylor (mostly) jokingly chides her doubting co-Slow Clubber Charles Watson, as a song’s start collapses in a heap.

A collaboration with a 30-piece orchestra: perhaps not the ideal occasion to debut live a B-side track, but The Leisure Society’s founders Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy have an agenda tonight.

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Winner of the Best Medium Sized Festival at last year's UK Festival Awards, Green Man is, at its core, a folk festival, which means beards galore on stage, even more beards among the audience, and lots and lots of guitars.

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Wilco show why they're the best live rock band in America right now with a clip from their forthcoming album, The Whole Love, which shows the band recording their new track, "Art of Almost", at their Loft Studios in Chicago.

It's hard to believe that Laura Marling, at just 21 years old, is already on the cusp of releasing her third album, which comes just 18 months after I Speak Because I Can.