Category: Music
Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama
Newcomer-fans of Walton Goggins, sharing gifs of his stunned expression in The White Lotus, might want a look at this interesting but flawed movie: a [more…]
‘It ain’t over till one of us is gone’: the pop stars who refuse to bury the hatchet
Whether informed by the perspective and poignancy of one’s twilight years, or by the promise of loads of touring cash, some of pop’s most bitter [more…]
Alvin Lucier is still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain
In a darkened room, a fractured symphony of rattles, hums and warbles bounces off the walls – like an orchestra tuning up in some parallel [more…]
Everyday people: the parking wardens, estate agents and more who inspired classic songs
Bruce Springsteen – Last Man Standing (teen bandmate George Theiss) Last week Joe DePugh, a star high school baseball player from Freehold, New Jersey, died [more…]
Clem Burke obituary
Clem Burke, who has died aged 70 of cancer, was the drummer with Blondie from the group’s early days in the mid-1970s through to their [more…]
Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off | Stuart Heritage
Not winning an Oscar can do funny things to people. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio. He tried harder and harder with every successive loss until he [more…]
‘I thought I was going to die – and it was so freeing’: Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on stardom, breakups and surviving cancer
Mark Hoppus is prodding at his phone, attempting to find a photograph of the swimming pool at his mid-century modernist home in Beverly Hills. “The [more…]
‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle
Christopher Neil, producer/writer I was a pop producer working with the likes of Sheena Easton and Dollar. Mike Rutherford was a prog rock musician with [more…]
Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen dies aged 69
Dave Allen, the bassist for British post-punks Gang of Four, has died aged 69. His surviving bandmates, vocalist Jon King and drummer Hugo Burnham, said [more…]
‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist
The first single I bought She Loves You by the Beatles, for 25 cents at a garage sale in Glendale Heights, Illinois, even though I [more…]
