Category: Music
‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record
Justin Vernon would rather not be doing any of this. Releasing a new Bon Iver album, promoting it. He absolutely isn’t going to tour it. [more…]
Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming
It seems weirdly fitting that Pulp have premiered their first album in 24 years with a song that appears to fret about the validity of [more…]
Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads
Ryan Coogler is the film-maker and hit-maker who started in social realism with his debut Fruitvale Station, became the Wakandan emperor of super heroism with [more…]
Sherelle: With a Vengeance review | Album of the week
Like turning up the radio to drown out the sound of a jackhammer, a lot of the dance music that is resonating right now is [more…]
One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream
Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in [more…]
Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop
It all started as an unsolicited Facebook message, which may have been the first sign of foul play – and led to Wolfgang Flür, ex-member [more…]
Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels
Patti Smith has written a memoir that her publishers are describing as her “most intimate and visionary work” yet, which is due out this autumn. [more…]
‘It is about all of humankind’: Ukrainian violinist Valentina Goncharova on her cosmic call to compose
On 7 October 2023, Kyiv-born, Tallinn-based violinist and electronic musician Valentina Goncharova “woke up in a bad state”, she says. “I felt something terrible was [more…]
‘Everybody seemed thrilled they’d made it inside’: sizzling images from Studio 54 – in pictures
Tod Papageorge: ‘Although I made these photographs more than 45 years ago, I’ll never forget watching this scene unfold near dawn on New Year’s Day, [more…]
‘The people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting’: Peter Capaldi on his punk rock past
One of my first musical memories is of being given a Beatles wig. They sold them in Woolworths but it wasn’t a normal wig with [more…]
