Malcolm Jack
Malcolm Jack
Malcolm Jack is Pop and Rock Music Editor for The Big Issue and a freelance music, arts and features journalist for a variety of print and online titles.
Limmy is the comic relief that techno never even knew it needed
Music

Limmy is the comic relief that techno never even knew it needed

Shaggy, Sting, and the most ambitious crossover events in music history
Shaggy and Sting
Music

Shaggy, Sting, and the most ambitious crossover events in music history

Musical youth – is children's song finally getting a much needed shake-up?
Music

Musical youth – is children's song finally getting a much needed shake-up?

Songs of praise: Snoop, Dylan, Bieber and a history of musicians finding God
Music

Songs of praise: Snoop, Dylan, Bieber and a history of musicians finding God

Fuzzy illogic – why it's never too late to fall for Felt and Lawrence
Music

Fuzzy illogic – why it's never too late to fall for Felt and Lawrence

Franz Ferdinand, Always Ascending – Glasgow's finest are on the up and up
Music

Franz Ferdinand, Always Ascending – Glasgow's finest are on the up and up

First Aid Kit and Nils Frahm's new albums will warm you through the winter
Music

First Aid Kit and Nils Frahm's new albums will warm you through the winter

It's the vinyl countdown – five LPs of 2017 to give as gifts this Christmas
Music

It's the vinyl countdown – five LPs of 2017 to give as gifts this Christmas

This season's saints – the people doing good at Christmas
Activism

This season's saints – the people doing good at Christmas

Mull of Kintyre at 40 – Paul McCartney speaks exclusively to The Big Issue
Music

Mull of Kintyre at 40 – Paul McCartney speaks exclusively to The Big Issue

U2: Songs of Experience, review – more self-reference and sub-boyband anthems
Music

U2: Songs of Experience, review – more self-reference and sub-boyband anthems

Put the past behind you – on the Gallaghers' increasingly pantomime feud
Music

Put the past behind you – on the Gallaghers' increasingly pantomime feud