‘It blows my mind that Jimmy Page wanted to play with us’ … Aerosmith. Photograph: Andre Csillag / Rex Features/Andre Csillag/Rex Features Corinne Bailey Rae, singer There have been so many amazing moments in my career so far: coming off stage to find Prince had been in the audience, playing for Nelson Mandela, being introduced [...]

The Jolly Boys: (from left) Joseph ‘Powda’ Bennett, 73; Albert Minott, 72; Derrick ‘Johnny’ Henry, 71; Allan Swymmer, 82, and Egbert Watson, 84. Photograph: William Richards A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I’m in Kingston inside a windowless room with a low ceiling and brown carpet on the walls watching five old men. They [...]

Prog rock – the music that refused to die. Illustration by Jiro Bevis. At the end of 2008, the journalist Jerry Ewing pitched an idea for a new magazine to a publishing company. His idea was a magazine dedicated entirely to progressive rock, long reviled in the critical mainstream as the apotheosis of the musical [...]

Days shy of its season 4 premiere, it looks like that the entire soundtracks from “Hannah Montana” upcoming season have made their way out. The leaked songs include the ones which have Miley Cyrus teaming up with Iyaz, Sheryl Crow and Emily Osment. Retitled “Hannah Montana Forever”, the Disney Channel series will kick off the [...]