Category: Music
High suicide rates show music industry ‘profoundly dangerous’, researchers say
Musicians have one of the highest suicide rates in the world because the music business contains so many difficulties such as intense touring, performance anxiety [more…]
Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles
Lady Gaga’s single Abracadabra is enjoying its fifth consecutive week in the UK Top 10. You can imagine a collective sigh of relief chez Gaga: [more…]
DJ Funk, trailblazing Chicago ghetto house producer, dies aged 54
DJ Funk, the producer who coined the term “ghetto house” and was one of the Chicago scene’s key innovators, has died aged 54. His death [more…]
Indian rock sensations Bloodywood: ‘What’s more metal than standing up for people you love?’
‘We’re serving a really nice dish called metal tikka masala,” jokes Bloodywood guitarist Jayant Bhadula. “It’s metal but with so many spices that it’ll overwhelm [more…]
Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify
In November and December last year, Spotify’s chief executive, Daniel Ek, sold 420,000 shares in the music streaming company, earning himself $199.7m (£160m). One wild [more…]
Guns, bombs and needle-drop genius: how AC/DC and Motörhead became the sound of World War II
There was a time, 20 or so years ago, when it seemed as if TV music supervisors were among the most important people when it [more…]
‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years
One of the oldest indie labels in Britain sits down a muddy lane on an old RAF site, less than a mile from the sea, [more…]
Lola Young review – soulful Londoner finds magic in the messy
The subject of Lola Young’s single Messy – No 1 for four weeks this year – hates the apparent contradictions in her character, and punishes [more…]
Jay-Z sues woman over allegedly falsifying rape allegation
Jay-Z is suing the anonymous woman who in February withdrew a lawsuit accusing the rapper of rape, claiming that she and her lawyers knowingly proceeded [more…]
‘Power of music’: steel pan bands foster joy and resilience at Trinidad and Tobago carnival
A crescent moon hung in the cloudless sky over Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), as steel pan orchestras pushed through a throng of thousands of supporters [more…]
