Category: Music
‘I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back’: Will Smith gets jiggy with the Slap
When you have embarrassed yourself in front of the entire world, as Will Smith did during the 2022 Oscars, you find yourself confronted with two [more…]
With a little help from my friend: John, Paul and the ‘romance’ that transformed culture
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met and fell for each other in the summer of 1957. John was 16, Paul 14. Paul came to see [more…]
Mumford & Sons: Rushmere review – back to dreary basics
In the wake of the 2021 exit of banjo player (and son of the co-founder of GB News) Winston Marshall, Mumford & Sons have reverted [more…]
Dua Lipa wins second copyright case over single Levitating
A US judge has dismissed a claim by two disco songwriters that Dua Lipa copied her single Levitating from two of their songs, stressing that [more…]
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie review – darkness haunts a gorgeous ruined palace of a record
If Dan Bejar’s musically shifting Destroyer project has a trademark, it’s the art of surprise. The Canadian is a master of strange lyrical koans that [more…]
Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico and Lamia Bedioui: Watersong review | Jude Rogers’s folk album of the month
Savina Yannatou is a fabulous Greek singer whose work over the last five decades hasn’t stood still. Her CV includes interpretations of early music, throat [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…]
