Category: Music
Don’t look back: after decades of apathy, A Complete Unknown has turned me into a Dylan nut | Laura Snapes
The bookshop in the town where I used to live had a world-beating second-hand selection. The music section alone was so bounteous that there was [more…]
Rihanna attends A$AP Rocky firearm-assault trial as ex-friend says he ‘was hit’
Rihanna has made her first appearance at the Los Angeles trial of her partner, the rapper A$AP Rocky. The singer-superstar on Wednesday morning sat out [more…]
‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down
Given that he is the producer behind some of the most cherished and idiosyncratic British pop of the 1980s, from Elvis Costello to Dexys Midnight [more…]
Luther: Never Too Much review – the mystery and brilliance of ‘love doctor’ Vandross
All of the mystery and certainty of love is carried in Luther Vandross’s radiant singing voice. On uptempo tracks he seems suffused with joy; on [more…]
Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?
Record of the year The Beatles – Now and Then Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso Charli xcx – 360 Billie Eilish [more…]
‘He said if I divorced him, he’d kill us all’: Candi Staton on abuse, alcohol and the story of Young Hearts Run Free
Candi Staton is part-way through a sprawling history of the days when she worked in a nursing home by day and sang in a bar [more…]
Ozzy Osbourne ‘shocked’ as Birmingham votes to honour Black Sabbath
Being awarded the Freedom of Birmingham “means a lot” to Ozzy Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath, Sharon Osbourne has said, after the city [more…]
Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine review – glorious exchange of skull-crushing riffs and deafening roars
As the final notes of Rain die out, Trivium’s Matt Heafy raises both hands towards the rafters in twin devil horns, his tongue all the [more…]
Hugh Jackman: From New York, With Love review – the showman hits Broadway again
When Hugh Jackman returned to his signature role of the superhero Wolverine last year, it was half a flex and half a retreat. On one [more…]
‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet
Peter Perrett (songwriter, vocals, guitar) This song was triggered by meeting someone who had started hanging around our rehearsal rooms in King’s Cross, London. She [more…]
