Category: Music

Morrissey has donated £50,000 to the Salford Lads Club, the institution pictured on the inner sleeve of the Smiths’ 1986 album The Queen Is Dead. [more…]

Arthur Ashin, AKA Autre Ne Veut, emerged in 2010 with a self-titled instant classic of underground pop: think Prince had he lived alone in a [more…]

In the booklet that accompanies Phil Manzanera’s career-spanning, 11-CD box set, 50 Years of Music, there is a photocopied page of small ads from a [more…]

The plucked melodic twang of the ngoni, a west African lute, has long added an unexpected texture to fusion records. Jazz trumpeter Don Cherry featured [more…]

Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia, to gang, drug and gun charges. The 33-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, [more…]

Seeing a room full of teenagers, some as young as 14, screaming their lungs out to a version of Aqua’s 1997 track Barbie Girl in [more…]

As they lock in to Yatton’s remorseless groove, you get the sense that the audience could leave and Beak> wouldn’t break stride. Night one of [more…]

How important were the circumstances of an often heartbreakingly hard childhood and background in rural Tennessee in the making of your career? eamonmccEverybody where we [more…]

Peter Perrett’s third solo album opens with a track called I Wanna Go With Dignity. You could suggest that’s par for the course: a certain [more…]

For most bands, the main perk of living in a slightly rundown mansion-cum-artistic community on the city’s edge would be having licence to make an [more…]