Category: Music
Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a wholesale rewind to core career values
Pop stars spend their careers impaled on the horns of a perennial dilemma: whether to reinvent themselves and show range, or stick to core value [more…]
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarın Yoksa review | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month
Since the 1960s, Turkish groups have honed a distinct blend of Anatolian folk and psychedelia. Early pioneers Moğollar and Erkin Koray electrified the lute-like saz, [more…]
Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions review – as ever, Kristin Hersh is astonishing
View image in fullscreen Few bands have seesawed between melody and noise with as much emotional complexity as Throwing Muses, but for the alt-rock trio’s [more…]
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming [more…]
Everybody dance: Nile Rodgers’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!
20. Johnny Mathis – Fall in Love (I Want To) (1981) It was criminal that Mathis’s label cancelled the release of his Chic-produced album, I [more…]
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film
Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will oversee a film documenting Oasis’s 2025 reunion tour. Knight is described as the creator of the film and [more…]
En Vogue singer reveals she’s been living in her car for years
Dawn Robinson, a founding member of the widely popular R&B girl group En Vogue, has revealed she has been living out of her car for [more…]
Annie & the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
The saga of Annie and the Caldwells’ debut album is lengthy and convoluted. The record probably wouldn’t have existed at all had crate-digging record collectors [more…]
The Brand New Heavies review – acid jazzers are as slick and funky as ever
In their 90s heyday, the Brand New Heavies were synonymous with the sound of London’s dancefloors. The quartet’s blend of funk grooves, soulful vocals and [more…]
Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving
Since 2021, Spotify has published its Loud & Clear report, corralling data points to show how much money is being earned by artists on the [more…]
