Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Breaking barriers has been a trait of Dame Evelyn Glennie’s long career in music. Although profoundly deaf from the age of 12, she was determined to become the first person ever to forge a full-time c...

Four years to the day since her debut single came out, Zoe Cure, the Leeds-based acoustic singer-songwriter, unveiled Wave, the title track from her soon-to-be-released first album.

After headlining at BST Hyde Park this summer, Duran Duran are back on the road next month on a short tour of UK arenas. But hopes that the release earlier this year of the Nile Rodgers collaboration ...

Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Mercury prize-winner said ‘quite severe’ bleed was why he’d missed support slots with Mumford & Sons this year The British singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has said he has suffered a stroke and faces a “long tough journey” on the road to recovery. The 39-year-old singer from London, whose hits include Cold Little Heart and Home Again, said the “quite severe” bleed in his brain was the reason he had missed some tour dates this year when he was due to support Mumford & Sons, and that the stroke had been brought on by high blood pressure. Continue reading...

Theirs is a story that began in Leeds in 1977 and would go on to encompass millions of record sales, one of the best-known singles of the 1980s, and surprise second and third acts.

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music mov...

Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.

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Mary Coughlan is on a rural retreat and fretting about the quality of her mobile phone reception when she speaks to The Yorkshire Post. “I’m in the middle of absolutely nowhere, down in Connemara,” sa...

Cheetah Chrome the legendary guitarist with US punks the Dead Boys and proto-punk Cleveland band Rocket From The Tombs has died at 71.

There’s no holding back from the Leicester band on a night to launch their latest album.

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Amid the plethora of grunge bands signed to the Seattle-based record label Sub Pop at the turn of the 1990s, The Afghan Whigs were always something of an anomaly.

Hours after The Stranglers have shared an open-air stage in Scarborough with fellow veterans of the 1970s punk rock movement, the Sex Pistols and The Undertones, Baz Warne is relaxing in a hotel in Yo...

Social media footage this weekend revealed the cast of Sam Mendes’ four-film band biopic on the zebra crossing near the studio, posing for the famous image The production team behind the forthcoming four-film Beatles biopic, directed by Sam Mendes, has been spotted filming outside Abbey Road studios in London. Inevitably, this includes a recreation of the celebrated Abbey Road album cover, for which the band was photographed on the nearby pedestrian crossing – now a popular tourist landmark. Footage posted on social media on Sunday shows the actors playing the Beatles lining up on the kerb and walking across the road. Harris Dickinson, as John Lennon, is leading the walk, with Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison following in sequence. Continue reading...

Attempting to launch her new album while recovering from a broken wrist probably wasn’t what Catherine Anne Davies – aka The Anchoress – was expecting when she was planning the promotional campaign fo...

Attempting to launch her new album while recovering from a broken wrist probably wasn’t what Catherine Anne Davies – aka The Anchoress – was expecting when she was planning the promotional campaign fo...

Sugar have detailed a new mini-documentary, Changes: The Story of Sugar, set to premiere on YouTube on 6 August at 5pm BST. The 20-minute film traces the band’s journey from their first rehearsals in…

The vogue for bands revisiting albums from their back catalogue to mark significant anniversaries has become commonplace in recent years. But Clare Grogan admits to being initially puzzled by the ide...

Four years on from its world premiere, the Swedish pop quartet’s digital avatar show is still very much a winner.

No 10 announces reprieve after Andy Burnham previously pledged to raise tax from e-commerce warehouses and channel it to cutting hospitality sector’s bills Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced. The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses and is expected to save a typical pub about £1,100 annually, but will not be available to the very largest live music venues. Continue reading...