Rock legend Chuck Berry and opera and theatre director Peter Sellars, both from the US, have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize, organisers said Wednesday. "Chuck Berry was the rock’n’roll pioneer who turned the electric guitar into the main instrument of rock music," the jury said in its citation. "Every riff...

Jonathan Higgs and Jeremy Pritchard offer their opinion on the recent Hyde Park concert line-up    

In 1992, Daft Punk’s once and future idol Brian Wilson said, “It was a childhood dream of mine to make music that made people feel loved.” That same year, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo formed the indie-rock band Darlin’ (named after the Beach Boys song, natch) with Phoenix’s La...

Few bands can claim to have invented an entire genre of music. The Beatles didn’t do it. The Beach Boys and visionary writer and producer Brian Wilson didn’t do it. Frank Zappa didn’t do it. Black Sabbath, a band once filleted by rock critics like Lester Bangs and targeted by generations of parents for allegedly [...]

Eclectic line-up for A Day At the Park event on July 7