Readers recommend playlist: songs about rendezvous
Artists ready to meet up for this week’s date include Basement Jaxx, Canned Heat, Frank Zappa and the Rolling Stones
July 2017
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about being trapped
Nina Simone, Warren Zevon and Corb Lund are among the artists stuck in various states of mire in this week’s reader-curated playlist
September 2016
Music blog
Manu Chao – the king of global folk punk returns home
He is Parisian by birth, but Barcelona has long claimed Manu Chao as its own. So how did his live return to the city pan out?
November 2013
Manu Chao: Siberie M'était Contéee – review
Manu Chao pairs chanson with rock-reggae on this winning hymn to Paris, writes Neil Spencer
May 2013
Clandestino: the story of Manu Chao's classic album
It is 15 years since Manu Chao released Clandestino, an album that saw him talked about in the same breath as Bob Marley. Here the author of a new book about the singer traces the making of the record and the many stories it then spawned
December 2012
Flavia Coelho: Bossa Muffin – review
Neil Spencer enjoys a mix of Brazilian samba and reggae rhythms that recalls Manu Chao
January 2012
The week in music
The week in music - in pictures
The week’s highlights from planet pop and beyond, starring Lady Gaga, Lou Reed, Sinead O’Connor, KT Tunstall and more
August 2009
Singer Manu Chao teams up with psychiatric patients in Argentina
Spanish-French singer records album in a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires
April 2009
Manu Chao investigated by Mexican government
The world music star risked expulsion from Mexico after branding the authorities as 'state terrorists'
February 2009
Power trio
When Manu Chao teamed up with Amadou and Mariam, the result was a world music landmark
January 2009
Out of their heads
Guerrillas outside, stowaways inside and hash cake for Christmas ... Duncan Campbell on what happened when musician Manu Chao took his own train through Colombia
June 2008
Music blog
Glasto 2008: How much MOR etc, pt III
Music blog
Glastonbury 2008: How much MOR can I take?
May 2008
Music blog
The mile high club
In the Sahara with Manu Chao and Javier Bardem
November 2007
Music blog
On tour: Manu Chao and a squat in Peckham
Manu Chao hosts a squat party in Peckham
October 2007
All sound and fury, signifying not much
Music blog
Music Weekly - featuring Manu Chao
Manu Chao
The wild rover
September 2007
In praise of ... Manu Chao
Leader: Songs about oppression, exploitation and isolation can lift the soul: reggae shows it and so does the music of Manu Chao.
