Eddy Grant joined Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy for a Classic Album Sundays session at the British Library to take a look back at ...

The Album Club is like a book club but centred around albums and it started as a monthly online gathering during the pandemic ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 6 features Capsule Records in Brighton. “A record shop just ends up being a kind of hub for creative people to coalesce around. They come in on a ...

Ready or Not, the Fugees dropped The Score on the world in 1996 and scored an opus masterpiece that achieved massive commercial and “crossover” success and is, by any standard, a classic album. Check ...

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 ...

Join us on the 19th June to explore this landmark electronic album released in 1991. How Jeff Mangum became inspired by Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' and turned it into a modern classic.

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 ...

Few artists command the respect of Nina Simone, she was the master of vocal versatility. Subtle changes of her voice to suit whatever the music needed from traditional the traditional sounds of jazz ...

Plenty of musicians profess political and social ideals, but few follow through with the dedication that Fela Kuti had. While his views may have been incendiary, controversial and endlessly disruptive ...

On this episode, Colleen tells the story behind the album featuring music that inspired a young Van Morrison and of course music from the classic ‘Astral Weeks’.