Category: Music
Mk.gee review – is this the world’s most exciting young guitarist?
Underneath the craze of Brat summer, New Jersey guitarist, vocalist and producer Mk.gee (pronounced “ma-ghee”) has been the year’s biggest word-of-mouth success after the release [more…]
Laura Marling review – gently transcendent songs of motherhood and domesticity
When Laura Marling finishes her piano-led performance of No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can, a tender love song for her daughter, she claims [more…]
This Search for Meaning review – slick reminder of radical rockers Placebo
This slick unrevealing music documentary about alt rockers Placebo highlights the potential drawbacks of making a film about a band decades after their first flush. [more…]
Midas Man review – Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is heartfelt as Beatles’ kingmaker
British actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars as the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein in this uneven but well-meaning biopic. The screenplay by Brigit Grant and Jonathan Wakeham [more…]
The mysterious world of Two Shell: ‘Our pranks don’t mean we’re not sincere’
Two Shell, a buzzy London duo who make hyperactive yet melancholy bass music, are well known for giving people the runaround. They keep themselves anonymous, [more…]
A history of violence: how has Chris Brown survived so much controversy?
On 30 December 2020, Jane Doe, a professional dancer who had just moved to Los Angeles, was invited by a friend to a New Year’s [more…]
50,000 Oasis tickets to be cancelled for violating purchase terms
Ticketmaster will cancel about 50,000 tickets for the UK and Ireland dates of Oasis’s reunion tour for violating the company’s terms and conditions in the [more…]
‘She straddled love and illusion, a hell of a sacrifice’: Kristin Hersh on meeting Sinéad O’Connor
In 2005, Sinéad O’Connor and I sat in a dressing room in London together, people-watching and listening, eyeing the music biz swirl around us suspiciously. [more…]
Unknown waltz by Chopin found in library vault after nearly 200 years
An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. [more…]
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexually assaulting 10- and 17-year-old boys
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in one of two lawsuits filed on Monday of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York [more…]
