After 30 years, 14 albums and a small library’s worth of column inches, the Manic Street Preachers are an established feature of British rock landscape. Indeed, it’s easy to mistake their presence as ...

Sings with life – thought, felt and hymned. My generation’s great travel writer moves to the wild highlands of Bulgaria and lives with the shepherds. Kapka Kassabova loses her relationship ...

At their recent convention, Democrats courted Middle America musically, enlisting singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, who hymned God, family, and honest work, and the Chicks (formerly of Dixie ...

Punk-turned-prophet Nick Cave often describes music as “sacred”. Performance, for him, is an act of communion with the audience. But Wild God, his 18th album with The Bad Seeds, feels more ...

London was the place where they first hit the headlines in 1933, their charms influentially hymned by the critic Arnold Haskell (who coined the term ‘balletomane’). The nymphet trio appear to have got ...

Nica Burns is a West End producer and the impresario behind the Edinburgh comedy awards. The fringe launches each year with her state-of-the-comedy-nation address, which this year hymned the art ...

The lo-fi songs of Daniel Johnston have been hymned by the likes of Beck, Wilco and Kurt Cobain. But, argues Ed Prideaux, Johnston's visual art was always at the heart of his appeal Our journalism is ...