Category: Music
The 10 best global albums of 2024
10. Poeji – Nant Mongolian singer Enji’s debut collaboration with German jazz drummer Simon Popp is a masterclass in vocal range and control. Largely wordless [more…]
Lennie De Ice, British producer who pioneered sound of jungle, has died
Lennie De Ice, the British music producer whose track We Are IE helped to shape the jungle genre in the 1990s, has died. His friend [more…]
Music tells the story of our lives – and trusty old Last.fm does it better than gaudy Spotify Wrapped
Like many music fans with a conscience, I use Spotify begrudgingly. I need to listen to a vast amount of music for work; I want [more…]
Elton John: Never Too Late review – few surprises but plenty of joy in official life story
Here is a snapshot of the great singer-songwriter and pop genius as he prepares to retire from touring; he is to play his final live [more…]
TV on the Radio review – NYC art-rockers remain singular, energised and lupine
Every couple of years or so, a performance by NYC art-rockers TV on the Radio goes micro-viral again: Wolf Like Me on David Letterman’s chatshow [more…]
The Long Wave: The Lamar v Drake beef has gone legal – what does it say about today’s hip-hop industry?
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. Kendrick Lamar v Drake was already the biggest rap beef of the 21st century – and then it [more…]
The 10 best jazz albums of 2024
10. Jihye Lee Orchestra – Infinite Connections The South Korean former pop singer and jazz composer Jihye Lee woke up the wider jazz world with [more…]
‘The gates of heaven’: Rod Stewart to upgrade his ‘world-class’ model railway
He may have had an international hit single called Sailing, but Rod Stewart’s heart is in an altogether different mode of transport. Such is the [more…]
‘It knocked Eminem’s Stan off No 1’: how we made Can We Fix It? by Bob the Builder
Neil Morrissey, voice of Bob I’d done voices for BBC One’s stop-motion animation The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge in 1996 and, three years later, [more…]
The 50 best albums of 2024: 50-31
50-31 50 Karl D’Silva – Love Is a Flame in the Dark You expected Charli xcx to drop one of the British pop albums of [more…]
