The Kooks’ Luke Prichard and Hugh Harris join Classic Album Sundays’ Tina Edwards to celebrate 15 years of their debut album Inside In/Inside Out. Released in 2006, their debut sounds like the work of ...

As the 1980s drew to a close, hip hop had reached a pivotal moment. Whilst a potential for empowerment in mainstream rap had so far remained largely un-tapped, in favour of escapist music built for ...

The Flaming Lips blurred fact and fiction to make sense of our chaotic world; a world that continues to delight and horrify in equal measure. Check out some of the artists they inspired in our ...

Kraftwerk helped launch a musical revolution that started with new wave and extended itself through hip hop, techno, electro, house music and just about every variation of electronic music that is ...

The Sensual World captured just how far Bush had come by detailing the momentous transition from her youthful 20s into the emotional maturity of her 30s. Check out the music that inspired the album ...

Recent OBE nominee Skin joins Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to discuss the inspirational Nina Simone and Etta James – their lives, legacies, music and their many Montreux Jazz ...

Legendary Trident Studios and Abbey Road engineer and producer Kent Scott joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy in the latest instalment of our ‘My Classic Album’ series to discuss David Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’ ...

“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” – Billie Holiday Why is Billie Holiday still considered as one of the greatest jazz voices of all time? Throughout her ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 6 features Lucky’s Record Bar in Redruth, Cornwall. “You’re getting something different coming into a shop, talking to someone, hearing something new; ...

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is joined by the 80-year-old Queen of Brazilian Jazz, Flora Purim, from her home in Brazil to discuss her iconic 1973 LP Butterfly Dreams. Influenced by both traditional ...

“As a music nerd, I just had to follow my heart, and my heart was those beats that were happening in England. And maybe what I’m understanding more and more as I get older, is that music like Kate ...

Louie Vega, one half of the Masters at Work, the man behind Elements of Life and one of the greatest club DJs in the world joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy in conversation at The British Library to ...