Category: Music
The Jesus Lizard review – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm
The Jesus Lizard singer David Yow is not naked – which is probably for the best. It’s a cold night. But the frontman’s lack of [more…]
‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie
Brian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill is tucked away at the end of a cobbled mews, its facade a quarter of the normal size. The [more…]
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear review – more revitalisation than reinvention
A sparkling 2015 collaboration with Sparks aside, Franz Ferdinand’s career has felt like an exercise in diminishing returns, each successive album slightly less interesting than [more…]
Jakob Bro: Taking Turns review – lost masterpiece from great Dane’s understated jazz supergroup
When Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions that became jazz’s Birth of the Cool releases, the most bewitching solo voice apart from his own trumpet [more…]
‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock
Fifty years ago, the most important American underground rock band of its generation was dying. The New York Dolls, the androgynous-but-tough band who mixed the [more…]
Ticket resale prices for live UK events to be capped in crackdown on touts
The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack [more…]
‘Is it sexual? Or violent?’: 2024’s best record sleeves – in pictures
Cover art by Lulu Lin (2nd prize winner) for Romance by Fontaines DC Second place went to the artwork for Romance, the fourth album by [more…]
Lily Allen takes break from podcast, citing poor mental health: ‘I’m spiralling’
Lily Allen has announced she is taking a break from her BBC podcast Miss Me?, citing poor mental health and a “tough period” in her [more…]
‘It was anything but chill!’ Rising star Victoria Canal on performing with Coldplay – and what Tom Cruise taught her
Like many people, Victoria Canal failed to score tickets to last year’s Glastonbury festival. But the singer-songwriter’s solution wasn’t quite so relatable: Coldplay were headlining, [more…]
Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table
For the most part, Lambrini Girls’ debut album barrels along in roughly the style that’s hoisted the Brighton duo to cult success over the last [more…]
