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July 2024

Honest playlist
‘I try to avoid karaoke – I get too embarrassed’: Joss Stone’s honest playlist
The singer and songwriter on dancing with her three-year-old daughter, buying Spice Girls records and having ‘terrible taste in music’

November 2023

The Time Traveller’s Wife review – eternal romance is a bumpy ride

Joss Stone and Dave Stewart’s strangely forgettable score does little to lift this musical but there are some wonderful set pieces

May 2023

Shelley Maxwell: the soul-stirring master mover who makes superheroes dance

From The Secret Life of Bees to The Marvels, she is the choreographer everyone wants. The Jamaican dynamo talks about turning humans into horses, turbo-charging TV debates and her dream Bob Marley gig

February 2023

The Time Traveller’s Wife musical sets a date for London’s West End

With music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Joss Stone, the show based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller will open in autumn

March 2022

Sunday with Joss Stone: ‘I’d like to go to a pub, but they don’t have them in Nashville’

The singer tells Rachel Corcoran about spicy fries, going for a walk, tuning in to Radio 4 and dreaming of Devon

April 2021

The Q&A
Joss Stone: ‘My dream dinner guest? Jordan Peterson’
The singer-songwriter on smoking, her new baby and the C word

March 2021

Dave Stewart and Joss Stone team up for Time Traveller's Wife musical

The pair will contribute original music for adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger bestseller expected on stage by early next year

July 2019

Burt Bacharach review – magic moments from master of lounge

Joss Stone 'detained and deported' from Iran

March 2019

Faux reel: why do pop stars think ‘in the studio’ videos are more authentic?

Featuring mixing desks, big headphones and earnest nodding, the concept is as manufactured as pop gets

May 2016

My family values
Joss Stone: ‘It’s an injustice that we don’t talk about marijuana properly in Britain’
As she nears her 30th birthday, the singer talks about her strict upbringing and smoking weed with her friends in her teens, unbeknown to her parents

October 2015

Do Something creative
The DIY Q&A: Joss Stone
‘My favourite bit of kit? My diamond-tipped circular saw’

August 2015

Joss Stone: Water for Your Soul review – proficient, if hackneyed

Joss Stone’s unconvincing stab at reggae does little to restore her reputation

July 2015

Joss Stone: Water for Your Soul review – poor choices on a listenable album

Joss Stone has released seven albums – but has failed to live up to her early promise

April 2015

Turning tables: how Brit soul lost touch with its black heritage

While Sam Smith, Adele and co fly the flag for British soul in the charts, the only black artists in on the boom are talent-show stragglers. Why does the music industry refuse to market them properly?

February 2015

Van Morrison to release duets album featuring Bobby Womack and Michael Bublé

The soul icon’s new album will revisit 16 old songs with a variety of star guests, including Mick Hucknall, Steve Winwood and Joss Stone

November 2014

Music blog
Eric Bogle: I don't like Joss Stone's cover of No Man's Land, but I won't sue
Eric Bogle
The missing verses and rock arrangement diminish the antiwar message. Glorifying war? No. But sentimentalising it – maybe

November 2013

Music blog
McBusted: the lessons of the not-so-super supergroups
The union of McFly and Busted raises one question: will they be copying the supergroup model of NKOTBSB or Superheavy?

April 2013

This week's new tracks
Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks
Sweet Baboo | Nelly | Nadine Shah | Bat For Lashes | Yes Sir Boss Feat Joss Stone

September 2012

Gary Barlow to perform on War of the Worlds album remake

Joss Stone and Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson also among stars appearing on new take of Jeff Wayne's 1970s hit

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