Music

It’s been an amazing year for the Portico Quartet. Sax player (and now pianist) Jack Wylie tells Mike Flynn about the band’s journey so far, the acts he's looking out for at this year’s London Jazz Festival and how they are happy to be taking jazz out of its comfort zone

The London Jazz Festival, which runs from Nov 14-23, returns for its sixteenth year in 2008, and it's bigger, better and more diverse than ever. Here are Time Out's picks

Newcomer Drums Of Death is attracting all the right kinds of attention. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the ‘voodoo-faced electronic-occultist’ as he gets set to play Time Out’s next On the Up night

Monkey, hero of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s opera ‘Monkey: Journey to the West’, isn’t just immortal: he’s pretty old too. Time Out traces the story of the demon-clobbering primate back to its origins in mystic Ming-dynasty legend

Never slow in forming and voicing an opinion, Noel Gallagher talks candidly about, well, pretty much everything Oasis, plus why 'Broken Britain' is a by-product of the demise of 'Top of the Pops'

Finally London’s pivotal role in breeding super-fresh musical talent is getting the fanfare it deserves. Eddy Lawrence checks out who’s breaking new ground for the Concrete and Glass festival

Keisha White is a member of popular combo Sugababes. Their new single, ‘Girls’, is out on September 29, and they play the Forum on October 1

As the summer festival season draws to a close, Time Out Music editor Eddy Lawrence casts his eye over some of the best live concerts on DVD