Category: Music
Ethel Cain: Perverts review – pink noise and punishment as cult star heads underground
In 2023, the Guardian interviewed Hayden Anhedönia, who records as Ethel Cain. She was, in theory, riding high on the critical success of her self-released [more…]
Phish review – spiraling jams and communal bliss at Madison Square Garden
Phish have long been something of a unicorn in the fabric of popular music. Operating largely outside the traditional framework of the industry, the Vermont [more…]
Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025
Central Cee – Can’t Rush Greatness Since the release of 2022’s Doja and the following year’s Sprinter, Central Cee has looked like UK rap’s biggest [more…]
Top Venezuelan pianist urges music world to snub youth orchestra linked to Maduro
One of Venezuela’s most celebrated musicians, the pianist Gabriela Montero, has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country’s world-renowned [more…]
Female artists’ success helps arrest 20-year slide in UK sales of physical music
Charli xcx’s Brat summer may have given way to cold winter, but the success of albums by female artists helped arrest a two-decade-long decline in [more…]
Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof was ‘scathing about African leaders’, files reveal
The Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof urged Tony Blair not to appoint an African co-chair to the UK-led organisation working to overhaul international aid to [more…]
‘We’ve been through the wringer’: Doves on addiction, breakdowns – and touring without singer Jimi Goodwin
Just over four years ago, Doves were on the crest of a wave. Their first album in more than a decade – The Universal Want [more…]
Jack Bond obituary
The Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí refused to cooperate with anyone wanting to make a film about him – until 1965, when he was finally [more…]
‘I’d turn that off if I was having sex!’: Joanna Page’s honest playlist
The first song I fell in love withWild Wood by Paul Weller, when I was in the National Youth Theatre of Wales, staying away from [more…]
Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre sample song by London learning disabilities charity
Snoop Dogg has worked with artists including Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry and Mariah Carey – and now a small London charity for people with learning [more…]
