Category: Music
‘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…]
Sofie Royer: Young-Girl Forever review – existential crises you can dance to
Old-school European glamour emanates from this excellent album by Austrian-Iranian pop singer Sofie Royer – the stuff of chilled rosé on an Antibes balcony or [more…]
Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit
Patti Smith – Pissing in a River (1976) Chosen by Phoebe Lunny, singer/guitarist of Brighton duo Lambrini Girls This is so beautiful and heartfelt, but [more…]
Three people charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina
Three people have been charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina for supplying narcotics and the abandonment of a person followed by death. [more…]
Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Across the Universe (1998) You could easily fill a Top 20 with Apple’s original compositions, but this Beatles cover deserves recognition for arguably besting [more…]
Linkin Park: From Zero review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
In September, Linkin Park’s comeback single The Emptiness Machine entered the UK singles chart at No 4. You could see that as an extraordinary state [more…]
