What’s the clearest indicator that a new artist has made it? A hit single perhaps? A BRIT Award? A double platinum debut album?
How about all of the above? For ...
1. STREAMING IS NOW A GLOBAL PHENOMENONThe global value of streaming grew a massive 60.4% in 2016 as new services launched and the world caught on to the new ...
The 2017 Jazz FM Awards took place last night, with the Rolling Stones, Laura Mvula, Damien Chazelle, Donny McCaslin and Gilles Peterson among the big winners.
A stellar line-up of ...
1. HE INVENTED ROCK’N’ROLL
That’s not ‘influenced’, not ‘shaped’, not ‘gave a bit of a boost to’. Invented. Ike Turner, Bo Diddley and others may have been there or thereabouts, ...
Tributes to Chuck Berry have been pouring in following the news that the songwriter and guitarist who defined rock'n'roll had died at the age of 90 in St Charles, Missouri. ...