Category: Arts
Post your questions for folk music legend Peggy Seeger
After a long career which has established her as one of the most significant folk singers on both sides of the Atlantic, Peggy Seeger is [more…]
‘Everything we built – gone’: how the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene
Within the ashes of what used to be Christopher Fudurich’s home in Los Angeles, some objects from his garage music studio were still identifiable. Microphones [more…]
‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist
The first song I fell in love withTana Mana by my dad, Ravi Shankar. In the late 80s he was experimenting with synthesisers and released [more…]
Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene
Even Donald Trump knows that the price of concert tickets is too damn high. Recently, flanked by the preposterously dressed Maga rocker Kid Rock, the [more…]
‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure
It’s been 46 years since Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut at York’s Theatre Royal. Returning to the venue last week for Samuel Beckett’s [more…]
‘My moment of glory’: Nicolas Cage lookalikes assemble in London
On a sunny, bustling late afternoon outside a cinema in Soho, central London, more than 100 people have gathered, a number of whom sort of, [more…]
Has Marvel shot itself in the foot by bringing superfreak Sentry into Thunderbolts*?
Is there ever a right time to introduce into your superhero universe a psychologically unstable god-being with the potential to sneeze a continent off the [more…]
‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank
Thirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what [more…]
Add to playlist: Gelli Haha’s playful dance-pop and the week’s best new tracks
From Boise, IdahoRecommended if you like Devo, Chai, Remi Wolf Up next Debut album Switcheroo released via Innovative Leisure on 27 June The freshly hatched [more…]
‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’
I saw Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s cello case before I saw him – strapped to his back, making him taller. While we talked, the instrument sat beside [more…]
