Category: Music
Stadium-ready UK singer Myles Smith: ‘For the working class, music opportunities are few and far between’
Myles Smith’s song Stargazing – a thumping pop-hoedown full of stadium-sized chants and euphoric romance – was one of the biggest hits by a British [more…]
Bdrmm: Microtonic review – Hull shoegazers nod towards the dancefloor
Right from their self-titled shoegaze-indebted 2020 debut, Hull four-piece Bdrmm – so-called because they began as a bedroom project for singer/guitarist Ryan Smith – have [more…]
Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures review – nurturing music for bleak times
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Kyoto-raised Ichiko Aoba stated that she saw herself less as a conventional musician and more like a conduit [more…]
Malmin: Med Åshild Vetrhus review | Jude Rogers’s folk album of the month
A new Norwegian folk label, Krets, arrives with an arresting debut release – an “anarchistic” set of songs, dances, ballads and psalms from the rugged [more…]
Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’
On a video call from a hotel room in Hamburg, Gracie Abrams is expounding on the virtues of decoupling yourself from social media and living [more…]
Nuthing ta F’ wit: Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest albums – ranked!
20. Method Man – Tical 2000: Judgement Day (1998) Method Man’s second album is preposterously long, hopelessly uneven and features nine skits (one featuring a [more…]
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
The last time the world heard from Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, he was in the company of Pete Kember, better known as Sonic Boom, co-founder [more…]
‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home
It was a birthday party that would do even the most seasoned raver proud, with strobe lighting, glow sticks and a headline act who has [more…]
‘The killers I met in jail didn’t scare me’: singer Rokia Traoré on why prison was ‘a privilege’
‘It’s been like a kind of military training,” says Rokia Traoré of the nine months she has just spent in European prisons. “It was very [more…]
Pink Floyd to rerelease restored 1972 Pompeii concert film in Imax
One of the most distinctive concert films in rock history, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, is to be rereleased in cinemas – including in Imax format [more…]