Category: Music
Grammy awards 2025: list of winners
Album of the year André 3000 – New Blue SunBeyoncé – Cowboy Carter – WINNERSabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet Charli xcx – Brat Jacob [more…]
Mississippi Goddamn: A Celebration of Nina Simone review – singers capture star’s emotional spirit
Nina Simone is a tough singer to take on. Possessed of a mighty voice and virtuosic piano skills, her repertoire spans jazz standards to civil [more…]
Sharon Van Etten: ‘Weirdest thing I have done for love? I started watching sports’
What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received? I don’t want to be name-droppy, but this advice definitely came at a time in [more…]
Kehlani review – R&B tonic is just what the doctor ordered
“Welcome to the biggest show of my career,” announces Kehlani, to ecstatic cheers. Fresh from three Grammy nominations, a banging 2024 summer hit – After [more…]
‘There was a little bit of the devil in her’: Damon Albarn and Rufus Wainwright remember Marianne Faithfull
Damon Albarn: ‘We were quite lairy with each other’ I met Marianne somewhere in the early 2000s in a studio on the Goldhawk Road. Alex [more…]
Fury and denunciations: when pop idol Marianne Faithfull took to the stage – and silenced her critics
Marianne Faithfull had to overcome a good deal of prejudice in her life. When, as a 21-year-old, she was cast as Irina in a 1967 [more…]
Madonna trying standup is no joke: she’s a natural comedian and genuine kook
New York’s famed Comedy Cellar has long been known as a testing ground for hot young talent. The Greenwich Village club hosted stand-ups like Ray [more…]
Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings
Morning Sun (1965) Marianne Faithfull’s 60s releases were wildly variable, perhaps because she seems to have been beholden to the whims of producers who didn’t [more…]
Nao on fame, motherhood and living with ME: ‘I’ve had to work a lot on what my idea of success is’
Nao is trying to articulate how it feels to be on the verge of releasing a new album. When this thing that’s been yours and [more…]
Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking review – older and wiser
Having rather lost their way for a decade, the Manics rediscovered their fire on Send Away the Tigers (2007) and then 2009’s magnificent Journal for [more…]
