Thorns

As the stage erupts in a harmony of sound and colour, a white-robed musician teases high notes from his artisanal trumpet, the last of its kind in Africa. Read More

Live LunchEvery weekday, the RME is bringing you free live music in Mojo's to enjoy with your soup and sandwich. Read More

In a wheeze that may come to be ranked up there with former editor Steve Sutherland's August 1995 cover boosting the Blur v Oasis showdown , the NME tomorrow splashes its Christmas issue on a Q&A interview with Simon Cowell coverlined "The Grinch speaks". Read More

Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell are the directors of Until The Light Takes Us , a new documentary about the scandalous, sensational story surrounding the musical movement known as Norwegian black metal. Read More

"When the Paycheck Stops" (forum), 5:30-7:30 p.m., Laborers Local 309, 2835 7th Ave., Rock Island. Read More

N ew to Woodstock (another New York City escapee), singer-songwriter Kirsten DeHaan has a lot to say in a clever, catchy way, and obviously others feel the same way, as reality shows "Made" and "My Super Sweet Sixteen" have used her tunes. Read More

The inspiration from the musicians can't be contested. Read More

And he does so because he was a gifted artiste whose immense talent was not only a blessing for Zimbabwe, but also left a lasting legacy. Read More

Without question, the last decade has seen a massive shift in the way we collect music, with an emphasis on the collect – thanks to mp3s, music has become one big all-you-can-eat buffet, devaluing everything from bootlegs to boxed sets while changing the definition of "huge collection" from hundreds of CDs to tens of thousands of binary files. Read More