Category: Music
Raw, romantic and radical: Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Recently (1987) As with a lot of her 60s peers, Joan Baez seemed slightly out of place in the 80s. She only released two [more…]
‘It’s ended up being nothing to no one’: can K-pop overcome crisis?
Earlier this decade, it seemed as if the long-vaunted South Korean takeover of American pop was finally happening. In summer 2020, BTS’s Dynamite became the [more…]
Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
Last February, the American “indie rock supergroup” Boygenius – AKA Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – announced an indefinite hiatus. The announcement came [more…]
Johnny Mathis, 89, retires from performing due to ‘age and memory issues’
Johnny Mathis, the US pop singer whose career stretches back to 1956, has announced his retirement from performing live. A statement posted to Facebook reads: [more…]
The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’
‘I had an epiphany recently,” FKA twigs says. You have to love a conversation that starts like that. “Where I sit in the industry now [more…]
Wigmore Hall says it no longer requires public funding
Celebrated classical music venue the Wigmore Hall has succeeded in its aim to raise £10m and will no longer require Arts Council funding, its director [more…]
Ticketmaster may have breached law in pricing Oasis tickets, says CMA
The UK competition watchdog has said that Ticketmaster may have broken consumer protection law in the way it sold more than 900,000 tickets for Oasis’s [more…]
‘It’s so politically loaded’: Marlon Williams on ‘finding the gall’ to write an album entirely in Māori
Marlon Williams recalls a survey he once read about how often people think about death: on average, once a week. He laughs incredulously. “You know [more…]
‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees
In 1965, Micky Dolenz was an architecture student and jobbing actor in Los Angeles, doing the rounds of auditions for TV pilots. As a 10-year-old [more…]
‘They’re still under there, they never got out’: the Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage
When Futureheads singer Barry Hyde was commissioned by Sunderland city council to create an album inspired by the north-east’s mining heritage, he was astonished to [more…]
