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Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler – review

4821 days ago
Guardian MusicArena, ManchesterQuite why the former Dire Straits frontman and the 20th century pop colossus who only last week added runner-up in the Nobel prize for literature to his accolades are touring together is, at first glance, a mystery.But their collabo... more info

Should we learn to love Mark Knopfler

4823 days ago
Guardian MusicFor years the 80s star has remained resolutely uncool, but Bob Dylan doesn't seem to agreeChances are, if you're over 35, you were responsible for one of the 30m worldwide sales of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms. It's the fifth best-selling album in ... more info

Rihanna at the O2 Arena – review

4827 days ago
Guardian MusicSinger supplies plenty of big hits and spectacle, but the more relentless the raunch, the less interesting her music becomesAs the crowd assembles at the O2, you don't have to look far for evidence that Rihanna long ago turned from an R&B star into a... more info

Popdose Flashback ’91: Dire Straits, “On Every Street”

4853 days ago
PopdoseI knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating than a C+ paper from an A student. And that’s what On Every Street is, for the most part.... more info

New York state of mind: listeners pick 9/11 soundtrack to mark anniversary

4867 days ago
Guardian MusicBarber's Adagio for Strings, Vaughan Williams and Springsteen top list crowdsourced by WYNC public radioNew York's public radio network faced an interesting challenge when contemplating how to fill the airwaves on the tenth anniversary of the World T... more info

FlashBack! - Bob Dylan - Infidels (1983) (album stream)

4892 days ago
Totally Fuzzy Infidels is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 22nd studio album, released by Columbia Records in October 1983. Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity and ... more info

Bob Dylan announces UK arena tour – ticket details

4899 days ago
NMEMark Knopfler is set to join the folk legend on his October tour more info

Bobby Valentino: Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake – review

4910 days ago
Guardian Music(Handmade Music)Bobby Valentino faces one obvious problem: that his image as a British Clark Gable lookalike, complete with moustache, and his chosen name (retained after a legal battle with an American R&B singer) could get in the way of the music. ... more info

Chris Barber: Memories of My Trip - review

4952 days ago
Guardian Music(Proper Records)Celebrating visionary British trad-jazz veteran Chris Barber's 80th, this two-disc set includes encounters with Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Dr John and Eric Clapton among others – testaments to how influential Barber was for a gene... more info

Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar – review

4988 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIf it was not for the laptop at the side of the stage, this would have looked like an Indian classical recital, with two musicians wearing long tunics sitting cross-legged on a dais, one playing tabla and the other a sitar... more info

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