Jason Curtis

Close on a decade and four albums later, Live are one of rock music’s more important and widely respected players when it comes to enthused originality and balls-to-the-wall, feel-good modern rock. Jason Curtis speaks to Chad Gracey about their new album, sushi and U2.

<b>CD of the week:</b>
Tumi and The Volume:<i>At the Bassline</i>

Every now and again an album creeps up and sinks its teeth into your aural cavity so successfully that it makes you a fan from merely a single spin, writes Jason Curtis.

Something old, some-thing new, something borrowed, something blue. Words typically reserved for those about to enter the institution of matrimony are an apt and fitting explanation of 31-year-old Arno Cartens’s latest musical distraction, New Porn, writes Jason Curtis.

In an industry continually reporting the demise of yet another player, band or record label, Chrissie Hynde is assertively nonchalant about her place, writes Jason Curtis. Hynde doesn’t think rock music is that important.

Busi Mhlongo’s new album flirts with jazz and pays tribute to struggle heroes. She talks to Jason Curtis about the highs and the lows.

Tamara Dey is an individual, and her music represents that as much as her fans applaud her and her role as an emissary of local music’s many faces. Jason Curtis lends an ear to her new album.

Jason Curtis speaks to one of the United States’s finest wordsmiths, poet Ursula Rucker, who appears at this year’s Urban Voices festival.

Pop band Watershed has quietly become the biggest musical export to Europe since Johnny Clegg and Savuka. A tight international itinerary will keep them busy well into next year, writes Jason Curtis.

Placebo drummer Steven Hewitt talks to Jason Curtis about their new album.

Massive Attack speak to Jason Curtis about war in Iraq and their new album.

Robbie Williams tells Jason Curtis about his move to Los Angeles and his latest album.

Jason Curtis talks to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.

A South African rock band is making it big in the United States, writes Jason Curtis.

Kobus! have become the unsuspecting yet willing ambassadors of the Afrikaans renaissance in music, writes Jason Curtis.

<i>The Magnificent</i>, is an aptly titled collection of tracks that confirms Jazzy Jeff’s place as one of urban music’s more consummate and gifted artists, writes Jason Curtis.