Category: Music
Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic
A movie based on New York band the Ramones could be coming apart after a legal battle that in many ways mirrors the trajectory of [more…]
Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2024
1. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony, August) Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s return was prompted by the near loss of their life’s work [more…]
Peaches: ‘Who should play me in the biopic? Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers’
What has been your most cringeworthy run-in with a celebrity? Oh my god, so many. Here is a story I’ve never told. Kelis asked me [more…]
Paul McCartney review – a dizzying, bittersweet, life-encompassing journey through time
Towards the end of Come on to Me – a song about sexual chemistry from the near-end of the Paul McCartney solo catalogue – the [more…]
Wham!’s Last Christmas is Christmas No 1 for second year running
Forty years after it was held off the No 1 spot by Band Aid, Wham!’s Last Christmas is the UK Christmas No 1 for the [more…]
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 1 – Charli xcx: Brat (and Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat)
In 2022, Charli xcx released Crash, an album that she claimed was a deliberate “sellout”. An artist who had previously seemed hell-bent on singlehandedly dragging [more…]
Paul McCartney reunites with Ringo Starr at London concert
The two surviving members of one of the world’s greatest bands reunited on stage on Thursday in a concert that also paid emotional tribute to [more…]
Del Boy did it! Or did he … ? Test your knowledge with our bumper Christmas culture quiz
Source: theguardian.com
You and I are gonna live forever: why 2024’s pop was all about sharing the moment
The past year brought with it intriguing musical movements, not least a sudden pivot towards country by a succession of mainstream pop stars. Heralded by [more…]
Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73
Bob “Slim” Dunlap, who replaced Bob Stinson on guitar in cult Minneapolis band the Replacements, has died at 73. In 2012, Dunlap suffered a stroke. [more…]
