Music - News and Articles

• Bob Dylan's astonishing latter-day brilliance - Jack Hamilton
• Duran Duran stays up close and personal with fans - Suzi Parker
• Hand-made slide guitar with Mark Nilsen - Emon Hassan
• Home-made musical instruments - Ryan Reed
• Hottest music cities, according to SXSW - Richard Florida
• House music has become a global phenomenon - Dan Schawbel
• James Brown: The godfather of soul - BBC
• K'naan makes songs in the key of love - Sesay and Ellis
• Latin ska takes the stage in Los Angeles - Leigh Paterson
• Low E bass singer found for choral work - BBC
• Me N Ma Girls: Myanmar all-girl band - Simon Roughneen
• Musical bananas - TechTonic
• Omara Moctar: Guitar hero of the desert - Jessica Ellis
• Playing for Change: Street musicians unite world through songs - Isha Sesay
• Rock around the clock in Buenos Aires - Tim Fitzgerald
• Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years of raucous rock 'n roll - Hanspeter Kunzler
• Steel pan drumming in Trinidad - Huggins-Watts and Deller
• The elusive craft of a conductor - BBC
• The model and money behind viral hits - Natalie Robehmed
• The songwriting of Hal David - BBC
• The technology letting music festivals rock - BBC
• The vexing simplicity of Neil Young - Alec Wilkinson
• Toumani Diabate: Malian kora legend with Mali-Cuba fusion - Ellis and Kermeliotis
• Vusi Mahlasela: Spreading African spirit through song - Jessica Ellis
• What it's like to hear music for the first time - Rebecca J Rosen
• Why do songs stick in our heads? - Tom Stafford
• Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie centennial collection - Smithsonian

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• Did U2 just pass the Rolling Stones? - Hampton Stevens
• Inside Turntable.fm: Saving music radio from itself - Mathew Lasar
• MTV's 30th birthday, and politics and music today - Kurt Loder