The 2000s

Two step (or 2Step as it’s more commonly known to distinguish it from the American Cajun and country dance style) grew out of garage music with a strong influence from the jungle genre of the mid ...

Ten years after the height of Britpop, it enjoyed a revival. 2004 brought Franz Ferdinand to the fore, as the Glasgow group released its debut. With their New Wave influenced sound, they were ...

Festivals have been part of the summer musical landscape in Britain since the start of the 1970s although after an initial burst, for much of that decade they were sporadic events. Even during the ...

When Nirvana came to an abrupt halt in 1994 with the suicide of front man and guitarist Kurt Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl had a number of options. He was offered the drum chair in several bands, ...

Garage music came originally from America but its development into what is internationally termed UK Garage occurred in the dance clubs in the 1990s. The problem was that imported garage music was ...

Just as there’s been a resurgence in rock bands, many of whom recalled the 1970s in style, in the middle of the Noughties, so there’s been a revival in the singer-songwriter genre. It’s an ...

There’s been a huge shift not in pop music itself, but in the way pop stars are created. After the Millennium some have still come up in the older ways, whether they’re manufactured and hyped boy ...

He’s the biggest star of the new Millennium in Britain sometimes controversial, often egotistical, occasionally charming, an idol not only to teen girls, but also their older sisters and mothers. ...

It had become an institution on the air for 42 years by the time it finally ended in July 2006. For many years it was the only chart countdown show on television, essential viewing on a Thursday ...

The Internet has had a huge impact on the music business, in ways that no one could have predicted even five years ago. More worrying, at least for record labels, especially those selling to ...

Probably no one expected folk music to rise from the ashes. After all there had been a revival in the 1950s and for a short while it had been the hip thing. But that had all been washed away by the ...

There are probably as many different opinions about the greatest rock bands as there are people who listen to rock music. Much of it is bound to be subjective. But there are some who stand above ...

Emo is one of those terms that’s become so widespread in recent years that it seems to have lost a lot of its meaning. You hear of “emo kids” and it’s a fashion trend (usually meaning tight jeans, ...

Grime has been Britain’s addition to urban or black, music, although it’s remained largely a British genre which has only managed to make small inroads into the U.S., the home of urban music. It ...