Tony Allen

The past decade has born witness to a silent revolution. Once upon a time, any artist outside the Trans-Atlantic drift was shunted down into the ‘world music’ section – a dark, dank, dusty corner of your local record emporium. Now, though, the most influential blogs are re-discovering African music while audio globe-trotters such as Vampire Weekend invite a generation of guitar groups to search beyond The Beatles ‘n’ The Stones. In its own small yet influential way, Africa Exp...

Facebook's weak stock market debut has a potential silver lining for the social media giant - some short sellers may have been scared off. About 8.1 percent of the 421 million shares in the initial public offering were sold short as of May 31, about two weeks after its trading debut, according to a Reuters analysis of exchange data. That percentage is lower than for Pandora Media Inc, LinkedIn Corp, Angie's List Inc and Groupon Inc - half of the other Internet companies that went public...