Nick Cave

In his hat, drooping moustache and white suit, one could easily place Luke Haines as a hash dealer you would perhaps encounter in a Benidorm fun-pub touting for business amongst British package holiday debutantes from the north, rather than the Englishman exiled to Buenos Aires he would prefer to have you believe. Read More

Last Saturday, Camille O'Sullivan stood on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall in front of 5,000 people. Read More

Having produced the Ian Curtis biopic "Control," it makes sense that Todd Eckert would be drawn to Pittsburgh's Aaron Jentzen. Read More

Tickets for the Napa Valley Opera House's Winter/Spring 2010 Season go on sale to the public Monday, December 14! Read More

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Read More

One of the biggest highlights of ATP New York in September was seeing Nick Cave performing with the Dirty Three. Read More

With Britpop on its arse-end and gasping the final death rattle before its long-awaited demise in 1997, two British bands who had always marched to the beat of their own drum released two of the best albums of the decade: seminal works of ethereal beauty that stuck out like sore thumbs amongst the bloated and self-satisfied regurgitations from Noel, Damon et al. While history may have Radiohead's OK Computer pegged as the greatest album of the 90's, the initial plaudits heaped upon Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space were just as gushing - NME even gave it the number one gong in their Album of the Year Poll ahead of their po-faced Oxford contemporaries. Read More

Welcome to another edition of CD Impressions, the bi-weekly feature at JPP that allows the music writers to offer brief opinions and critiques on recent albums. Read More

Pop megastar Beyonce Knowles picked a starstruck Wrexham youngster out of the crowd at her recent concert in Manchester to sing a few lines with her. Read More

I told the researcher I couldn't help because I was about to watch a performance by one of my favourite bands, The Duke & The King. Read More