Category: Music
Charli xcx, Jade and Ezra Collective’s Brit awards cap a vintage year for adventurous pop | Alexis Petridis
The Brits has long been in the business of underlining success; upsets and shock wins aren’t really the point. If they seemed moderately more exciting [more…]
Wild, waspish and whip-smart, there are few rock stars as great as David Johansen | Alexis Petridis
Nick Kent’s fabled 1974 NME piece about New York Dolls, Dead End Kids on the Champs-Élysées, is packed with characters and incident. The band have [more…]
Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63
Singer Angie Stone, known for her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died at the age of 63. A representative for the singer confirmed [more…]
On my radar: Richard Russell’s cultural highlights
Richard Russell was born in London in 1971. He joined XL Recordings in 1991 as an A&R and took over the label several years later, [more…]
Justin Hawkins: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? “I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed”’ | The Q&A
Born in Surrey, Justin Hawkins, 49, wrote music for adverts and played in bands with his brother, Dan. In 2000 they formed the Darkness; their [more…]
Stadium-ready UK singer Myles Smith: ‘For the working class, music opportunities are few and far between’
Myles Smith’s song Stargazing – a thumping pop-hoedown full of stadium-sized chants and euphoric romance – was one of the biggest hits by a British [more…]
Bdrmm: Microtonic review – Hull shoegazers nod towards the dancefloor
Right from their self-titled shoegaze-indebted 2020 debut, Hull four-piece Bdrmm – so-called because they began as a bedroom project for singer/guitarist Ryan Smith – have [more…]
Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures review – nurturing music for bleak times
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Kyoto-raised Ichiko Aoba stated that she saw herself less as a conventional musician and more like a conduit [more…]
Malmin: Med Åshild Vetrhus review | Jude Rogers’s folk album of the month
A new Norwegian folk label, Krets, arrives with an arresting debut release – an “anarchistic” set of songs, dances, ballads and psalms from the rugged [more…]
Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’
On a video call from a hotel room in Hamburg, Gracie Abrams is expounding on the virtues of decoupling yourself from social media and living [more…]
