You couldn't have asked for much more in the way of stylistic diversity out of a Saturday spent at McDowell Mountain Music Festival at Margaret T. Hance Park. There was hip-hop, reggae, bossa nova, ...

So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

At 81, Gil says goodbye to the city that was once his home in political exile, playing a set that hops deftly between bossa nova, tropicália, reggae and funk Political prisoner, exiled psych-rock idol ...

With its dreamy lyrics and gentle sound, Brazilian bossa nova took over the world in the 1960s. After a spell in the wilderness of supermarkets and lifts, it's time to rediscover its beauty, writes ...