David Byrne and Mavis Staples are two legends who come from vastly different musical traditions, but they've got a long history with each other. And it's a history built around one song: "Slippery People," a twitchy and gospel-influenced jam from the 1983 Talking Heads album Speaking In Tongues. A year after the Talking Heads released…

More anniversary shows please. Blink 182 perform live in 2017Blink-182 have played ‘Enema Of The State’ in full to mark 20 years of the seminal record. Ahead of the landmark anniversary on June 1, the pop-punk icons played the record as they headlined California’s Back To The Beach festival over the weekend. While i...

A public memorial service for rapper Nipsey Hussle is being held at Los Angeles' Staples Center today. Along with performances from Marsha Ambrosius and Jhené Aiko, the event featured the reading of a letter from former president Barack Obama honoring Hussle, who was shot and killed late last month. The program handed out to attendees…

This Thursday, a public memorial for Nipsey Hussle will be held at the LA Staples Center. The event is called Nipsey Hussle’s Celebration Of Life and tickets are available to California residents only.

"It's time we take back some control and teach the youth right from wrongNeville StapleFounding member of The Specials Neville Staple has released a single called ‘Put Away Your Knives’ in tribute to his late grandson who was stabbed to death. Fidel Glasgow, the son of Mr Staple’s daughter Melanie, died after he was...