Arts & Culture: Music
Lead Feature
Rap on the run
Wanted by the FBI for black activism in the States, Nehanda Abiodun fled to Havana, where she became the "godmother of Cuban hip-hop"
In music
An idyllic setting for some extreme karaoke
- By Phill Jupitus
- 21 August
One of the more ludicrous modern clichés is that comedy is "the new rock'n'roll". But in my experience, if you put on a comedian at a rock gig, the crowd tend to react rather badly
Bill Drummond: The way I see it
- 21 August
A founding member of the KLF, Drummond set up the K Foundation, which famously burned £1m in cash on the Scottish island of Jura. His latest project is a conceptual choir he calls The 17
Efrim Menuck
- 14 August
Menuck is a member of the Canadian band A Silver Mt Zion, acclaimed for its mix of rock, folk and avant-garde styles. The band’s most recent album is “Thirteen Blues for Thirteen Moons” (Constellation Records).
The politics of love
- By Martin Bright
- 07 August
After a long hiatus, Randy Newman has produced an album of beauty and anger
RZA
- 07 August
RZA is an American music producer, rapper and actor, best known as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. He also has a passion for chess, as is clear from his new website, http://www.wuchess.com.
Feature
Sounds from the outside
Two new album releases show that there's still a place for nonconformists in British pop.
Album Reviews
All woman
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 20 September
Leaving gender-bending rock behind, P J Harvey has produced an album of fragile beauty
New world order
- By Daniel Trilling
- 23 August
MIA adopts the feisty sound of the slums, but she is strongest when closer to home.
Swinging Addis
- By Rachel Aspden
- 16 August
Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.
The sound of resistance
- By Rick Jones
- 05 July
Using folk melodies and bracing discords, Baltic composers railed against Soviet dominance
More in music
Changing man
- By Rachel Aspden
- 31 July 2008
The way I see it: Joanna Newsom
- 31 July 2008
The thrill of the chase
- By Rick Jones
- 31 July 2008
Six million ways to buy
- By Becky Hogge
- 31 July 2008
Disorderly conduct
- By Daniel Trilling
- 24 July 2008
Alicia Keys
- 17 July 2008
Sing out sisters
- By Vic Motune
- 10 July 2008
