Category: Music
‘It brings you back’: the suburban choir helping people living with dementia reconnect
Leigh Scully looks to her husband, and asks: “Have you been enjoying singing, darling?” “Music. Music. Music. I love it,” Peter Scully says, with a [more…]
Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?
At the end of June this year thousands of people – from Scotland to Bulgaria, Chile to Singapore – gathered in an industrial estate in Manchester [more…]
Waxahatchee review – warm, rousing anthems about embracing change
Waxahatchee’s fifth album, Saint Cloud, came out on 27 March 2020, arriving into a changed world. Having made her name on crunchy indie rock, here [more…]
Raphael Rogiński: Žaltys review | Jude Rogers’ folk album of the month
Named after a Lithuanian snake spirit that supposedly brings families health and prosperity, Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński’s hypnotic new album is filled with the heat [more…]
‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery
‘Where we’re from,” says The Man from the Other Place in David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, “there’s always music in the air.” The line [more…]
Interpol: ‘I’m very glad we said yes to putting a song in Friends – it was a pretty hardcore moment’
Around the time of Antics [2004] your stage persona was very much inline with the music: atmospheric, brooding, serious. Eight years later there was lots [more…]
Hard rock, ambient weirdness and UFOs: exploring the greatness of early 70s Fleetwood Mac
In Mark Blake’s excellent forthcoming book about the history of Fleetwood Mac, Dreams, there is a great quote from Mick Fleetwood. Their co-founder is looking [more…]
Lady Gaga and Céline Dion to perform duet at Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony
One posted photos of herself at the Louvre, gushing: “Every time I return to Paris, I remember there’s so much beauty and joy still to [more…]
Mercury prize 2024: Charli xcx, the Last Dinner Party and Beth Gibbons among nominees
Charli xcx has crowned the so-called summer of Brat – the name of her sixth album album, whose lurid green aesthetic has even reached the [more…]
John Mayall was a lightning rod for the blues who changed the course of British music
Eric Clapton fled the Yardbirds in the spring of 1965, dismayed by the prospect of their latest single, For Your Love, bringing commercial success and [more…]