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Mad about the boy: Jason Cowley remembers the voice of a generation of alienated young men
In the autumn of 1982, Virgin Records announced that Japan, one of the most stylish and intelligent (and, increasingly, most successful) pop groups in the country, were splitting up. Japan comprise...(Continue Reading) Billy Bragg: the British singer-songwriter talks … about his career, his politics and a series of new recordings that breathe life into old Woody
BILLY BRAGG is a most unlikely pop music hero - well - mannered, flannel-shirted and decidedly unglamorous. Bragg has always placed greater emphasis ......(Continue Reading)Hugh Masekela
For nearly 40 years Hugh Masekela's trumpet-led jazz scores have been the sound track for South Africa. In his early twenties, he left home to take his music out into the world; by 1968, at age 29,...(Continue Reading)It's not the end of love
We celebrate our engagements with parties and our weddings with showers. But there's no ceremony to mark the painful moment when a love relationship ......(Continue Reading)Mississippi yearning: on her latest release, vocalist Cassandra Wilson brings her sultry southern charm to R&B classics, country ballads, blues standards
Cassandra Wilson continues to surprise listeners with her clever and sensuous vocal interpretations. On her latest album, Glamoured, Wilson, one of our most gifted jazz vocalists, maintains her ava...(Continue Reading)
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