We caught up with the critically-acclaimed Lancashire songstress to chat about her recent live work, Buddhist chanting and chocolate digestives. • What are you up to today? Looking for a guide book to Mexico as soon as I’ve managed to get myself out of the house – I’m going on tour there in two weeks and I [...]

  Rufus Wainwright has announced the birth of his first child with Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen. In what is the most unlikely news of the year so far, the gay icon announced the birth of Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen on his website. She was born February 2 in Los Angeles, and is described [...]

  It’s been over three years since Radiohead made headlines by releasing an album online with a radical choose-your-price payment system. Their latest album, announced just days before it was made available, is again download-only, but this time the Oxfordshire band are charging. Is The King of Limbs, the group’s eighth LP, worth the wait? It’s [...]

Arcade Fire have announced two new UK live dates for autumn this year. The Canadian indie line-up will play Manchester Evening News Arena on Wednesday, August 31, followed by Edinburgh Castle on Thursday, September 1. The two dates will follow a hefty touring schedule, taking Win Butler and co. across the United States and all [...]