Beats & pieces

I recently finished reading Scottish author Irvine Welsh’s new novel Men in Love, a sequel to his 1993 debut Trainspotting – the all-time classic tale of youth, poverty, addiction, the working class a

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

Jo Whiley on dealing with life’s ups and downs, why chatting with friends is like therapy and the celebrity who surprised her most

It’s a sobering thought that the sounds of Big Beat are now nearly as bygone as Merseybeat was when Fatboy Slim, Propellerheads and Groove Armada burst onto the dance scene in the mid-to late 90s. If

Behind the irresistible rise of his elegant folk-pop-soul lie identity crises and recurrent rejections. A new album reveals a bolder, “bolshier” artist, but still with much to prove. “I have to keep polishing my knives,” says Michael Kiwanuka.