Category: Music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review – up close and existential with rock’s great everyman
“YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH!” barks Nick Cave, crouched face to face with the first few rows of an audience who are having, at a conservative estimate, the time [more…]
Frankie Bridge: ‘I was anxious from the womb. It’s who I am’
I was anxious from the womb. It’s who I am. As a child, my thoughts would happen at night-time: I’d struggle to breathe and have [more…]
One to watch: Pem
“Since I was 10, my teachers asked my parents if I smoked!” Pem is trying to explain where her enthralling, vibrato-rippling voice comes from. Pem [more…]
The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World
The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World. The band’s frontman Robert Smith said: [more…]
Beyoncé leads Grammy award nominations with 11 nods
Beyoncé is out in front with the nominations for the 67th Grammy awards in what promises to be another female-heavy year. The star has scored [more…]
‘Leave your ego at the door’: from Thriller to Sinatra, Quincy Jones collaborators tell the stories behind his songs
Herb Alpert: ‘He put tempos in a place where it penetrated your body’ The 89-year-old musician and bandleader was born in the same generation as [more…]
Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty review – a gleefully self-sufficient affair
The playful garage-pop of recent Solitary Individual (featuring Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace) might primarily be an ode to enjoying your own excellent company, [more…]
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on crafting hits with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie: ‘I had to keep telling myself it was real’
Pat Metheny is pretty much everywhere. For the past four decades, the 70-year-old guitarist has been crisscrossing the globe, playing an average of 150 shows [more…]
Actress: Дарен Дж Каннінгем review – elegant mixtape leans into abstraction
A self-titled record can be significant, signalling a reset or autobiographical candour. Neither quite applies here, if only because UK electronic producer Darren J Cunningham [more…]
Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis’s contemporary album of the month
Musical invocations of Englishness can mean anything from Elgar to Davey Graham to the Sex Pistols. They can be nostalgic and pastoral, mournful or dystopian. [more…]
