Rock & Pop
The Eagles, interview: 'Rock's become very shallow and trite'
The Eagles are touring the world and have a new DVD out, but they're 'not sure you can change the world with music anymore', they tell Neil McCormick.
Ghostpoet: Some Say I So I Say Light - exclusive album stream
Have a listen to the second album from the Mercury-nominated singer and let us know your thoughts Reading on mobile? Listen here Ghostpoet doesn't oversell his music. "It's a chance for me to mumble over quirky sounds. That's me in a nutshell," he ha
Emeli Sande is bigger than the Beatles! And it's official!
It's the Glaswegian singer's year: first she swept the board at the Brits and now her album has spent 63 weeks in the Top 10 - longer than the Fab Four's record Age: 26. Occupation: Singer-songwriter. Full name: Adele Emeli Sande Gouraguine. Th
Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled - exclusive album stream
Have a listen to the composer's first new album in 24 years and let us know your thoughts It's been 24 years since Van Dyke Parks last released an album of new material. The composer, who turned 70 at the beginning of this year, may have teased us with t
Leona Lewis - review
After emerging the surest thing ever to win X Factor, then breaking America with one of the decade's bestselling albums, 2007's Spirit, Leona Lewis was proof at last that Simon Cowell could pluck a proper star from obscurity and make them look like they'dOne to watch: Ms Mr
They've yet to release their debut album but this American duo aren't afraid to think big. Fancy a duet, Justin Timberlake? Lizzy Plapinger is wearing a backwards marijuana-leaf baseball cap over her orange-violet-crimson hair, an acid yellow crop top, t
Noah and the Whale: Heart of Nowhere - review
(Mercury) Noah and the Whale have grown up noticeably on record, their debut's fresh-faced whimsy succeeded by albums of lost love confessionals and then Radio 2-friendly grooves. Their fourth is a satisfying blend of youth and experience, at its best wh
Frank Turner: Tape Deck Heart - review
(Xtra Mile) Old Etonian-turned-punk-frontman-turned-acoustic-troubadour Frank Turner hit the jackpot with 2011's England Keep My Bones , and was rewarded with a slot at the Olympics opening ceremony. Sensibly, the follow-up doesn't radically tinker with
Rudimental: Home - review
(Asylum) Rudimental are four young men from London whose single Feel the Love was the closest thing Olympic London had to an official soundtrack last summer. Drum'n'bass tracks don't tend to conjure descriptions such as "feel-good", but the soul vocals o