CD: The Killers - Wonderful, Wonderful The Vegas quartet's fifth album - is it destined to be th
From The Arts Desk The last song on The Killers' new record is called "Have All the Songs Been Written?". The words refer to Brandon...
CD: Cat Stevens/Yusuf - The Laughing Apple - The legendary songwriter gives us the album we've b
From The Arts Desk When, in 2006, Yusuf announced his return to music, speculation was rife as to how he might now sound. At first, the...
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Albert Hammond The songwriting supremo talks Justin Bieber, rapping, a
From The Arts Desk Albert Hammond might not be a household name but he's still, undeniably, one of the world's greatest living...
Trains, Tweets and a Turnip: the making of a children's classic
On the eve of World War Two, a Polish publisher took the unusual step of commissioning an advertising duo to illustrate some children’s...
CD: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains The kings of stoner-rock are back and now they want to dance
From The Arts Desk Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme recently declared that, while recording Villains, his intention had been...