Taking music to the masses: Bristol band Cut Capers, known for their lively shows performing swing funk, soul, hip-hop and ...

Sharks were formed in 1972 by bassist Andy Fraser after he left Free. There were two albums, line-up changes and ripples ...

Britain had multi-platinum superstars Def Leppard, but there was a big drop off after that. That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of UK bands ready to take their shot at the big time. The likes of ...

Oasis lost the “Battle of Britpop” to Blur but emerged larger than the narrow hype. Radiohead sprinted from their biggest song and began reinventing the very notion of a rock band by dismantling it.

Some of the very best rock music of the new millennium was being made in the UK, and 25 years on, these brilliant albums shouldn't be allowed to fade into obscurity ...

For all its passing British sea shanties and folksongs, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony does Walt Whitman’s determinedly ...

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The first British band to command the stage at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater wasn't the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. It was Cymande. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHASING AN EMPTY DREAM") CYMANDE: (Singing) ...

Although immigration agents detained their saxophonist in November, the band continues to keep ska-punk alive despite the ...

British rock band Coldplay shared glimpses from their Ahmedabad stay on Tuesday, days after the India leg of their Music of the Spheres World Tour came to an end. The video begins with glimpses of ...

The cliché says what’s old is new again. It’s not often that we see a gap of 51 years between albums, but the legendary British funk and R&B band does just that, following up 1974’s Promised Heights ...

Another musical example of cultural diffusion is that of ska – a genre of Jamaican pop music – heading to Indonesia. So popular is ska in Indonesia that ‘Indonesia ska’ has become its own sub-genre, ...