Category: Music
Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia review – early midlife crisis triggers a freaked-out psychodrama
News of Tyler, the Creator’s seventh album came as something of a surprise: it arrived a matter of months after he announced on social media [more…]
‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house
Bryan Ferry, singer, songwriter I’m not a musical detective, but I’d put my money on the inspiration for Slave to Love coming from Prisoner of [more…]
Iron & Wine review – shadow puppets and folk-pop combine in singular gig
Sam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man [more…]
‘Julian Cope told me: you’re unemployable in the real world’: David Wrench, the Welsh studio wizard behind pop’s A-list
In 2009, David Wrench was close to giving it all up. He was working as an engineer in a recording studio in north Wales but [more…]
Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’
The last time I was in Los Angeles, in February 2020, I had told a white lie. My taxi driver asked me what I was [more…]
Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure | Stewart Lee
The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths [more…]
On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
Jacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952, the son of the prolific screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He began writing films in the mid-1970s [more…]
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’
The Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band [more…]
One to watch: Kofi Stone
When Kofi Stone was a kid he was already doing rap battles in the playground. The Birmingham artist’s dedication to his craft meant he started [more…]
‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance
There’s an enormous amount of pressure for couples choosing the right song to soundtrack their wedding’s first dance. It’s not just that it’s three minutes [more…]
