Category: Music
Quade: The Foel Tower review – twisted Bristol band tap into the tensions between industry and nature
Listening to The Foel Tower feels like tuning a weathered old radio – you’ll be rewarded for applying patience and concentration. On this second album, [more…]
‘She had no interest in the comfort zone’: celebrating the centenary of Celia Cruz, Cuba’s Queen of Salsa
On 13 November 1973, at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico, Celia Cruz took to the stage in a bejewelled, psychedelic blue dress and vast [more…]
‘The goal of a protest song is to make people feel strong and alive’: Ani DiFranco on Broadway, Fugazi and 30 years of activism
Please talk about growing up in Buffalo, New York – the music scene there, and becoming an emancipated adult at 15. AugustoMAs a child, I [more…]
Julien Baker and Torres: Send a Prayer My Way review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
The origins of Send a Prayer My Way stretch back nearly a decade. The partnership between US singer-songwriters Mackenzie “Torres” Scott and Julien Baker germinated [more…]
‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god
In 1980, a tall, thin man landed in Buenos Aires airport, at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship. His name was Luca Prodan, a Scottish-Italian [more…]
‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?
Laura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task of not listening to Spotify for a week, but Alexis, your task was much worse: [more…]
The Who appear to fire drummer Zak Starkey over Royal Albert Hall performance
The Who have parted ways with Zak Starkey, the band’s drummer since 1996, apparently over a disagreement about his playing at their Royal Albert Hall [more…]
Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah has made another film (after Paradox in 2018) about her musician husband Neil Young; this one is about his recent 15-date solo tour [more…]
The love that dare not speak its name: why I’m coming out as a gay man who loves Taylor Swift | Joe Stone
As a self-evidently gay man, I’ve generally been spared the awkwardness of coming out. That was, until I became a Swiftie. In recent years I [more…]
‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah
Tuesday marks the 67th birthday of the late Benjamin Zephaniah – revolutionary poet, playwright, musician and fearless voice for social justice – following the inaugural [more…]
