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Roger Wright, BBC Proms Director

We talk to BBC Proms director Roger Wright to get a glimpse behind the headlines and find out what it’s all about...

By Anita Awbi 5 Aug 2013

Review: 100 Best Albums of All Time

What do Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Green Day’s American Idiot and The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead have in common? All are feted as among the best long players ever in the new book The 100 Best Albums of All Time by Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson.

By Anita Awbi 5 Aug 2013

BBC Proms Modern Composers

This week we're celebrating the breadth and diversity of the BBC Proms. With the 119th season now in full flow, we've scoured the exhaustive programme to unearth some of the most interesting UK composers taking part this year. From Julian Anderson's opening piece Harmony to Django Bates’ The Study of Touch, many of Britain’s best working composers have won new commissions or premieres. Listen to our pick here.

By Anita Awbi 2 Aug 2013

Russell C Brennan

Russell C Brennan has been writing songs since the early eighties for cult acts including Eleanor Rigby and Ministry of Ska. Since then, Russell has managed a London record shop, launched a record label and penned an insider’s guide to the music industry. He is now working with singer Joannaa T on a new indie-pop project. We caught up with him to find out more...

By Anita Awbi 2 Aug 2013

Radioactive Man

Radioactive Man (aka Keith Tenniswood) talks to us about his electronic music and love for analogue gear

By Jim Ottewill 2 Aug 2013

Kathryn Williams

You may remember Kathryn Williams from her moment under intense media spotlight back in 2000 when her self-released record was the outsider bet for the Mercury Prize. Since then she has forged a lasting career that has kept her writing to this day. We chat to her as she releases her 10th album to find out why this record might just be the one...

By Anita Awbi 1 Aug 2013

Sabiyha

While her Croydon school friends were absorbed in the homegrown grime and hip-hop of their local neighbourhood, Sabiyha was raiding her Guyanese father’s diverse record collection to discover delta blues. She is now ready to fledge with a voice that is warm and rich like Bessie Smith or Janis Joplin, while her melodies carry the sweet country lilt of Tammy Wynette. Watch her perform the track Mother Knows Best exclusively for M.

By Anita Awbi 1 Aug 2013

Mark Jones

Wall of Sound is one of the UK’s most revered independent record labels thanks to the midas touch of founder Mark Jones. We quizzed this music industry veteran on discovering Stuart Price, hedonism and how it’s almost impossible for labels now to survive in the music business.

By Jim Ottewill 31 Jul 2013

The Sundowners

This new Liverpudlian five-piece are in thrall to the Laurel Canyon and the sixties folk-rock revival, creating a warm authentic sound that turns back the clock on 21st century indie. We spend some time with songwriter Alfie Skelly to discover how Liam Gallagher first persuaded him to learn guitar and hear how a teenage love of David Lynch has informed his music.

By Anita Awbi 30 Jul 2013
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