Category: Music

Björk is in Paris, and her laptop camera isn’t working. The laptop is eight years old, she explains, and she doesn’t want to replace it, [more…]

The instruction was straightforward: “10.30am at home. Coffee and croissants.” Since timing, at least in part, is a conductor’s priority, a visitor feels the pressure [more…]

Sam Moore had put out a Christmas album in 1998, but it wasn’t until 2006 that he released his debut solo album proper. There was [more…]

The Jesus Lizard singer David Yow is not naked – which is probably for the best. It’s a cold night. But the frontman’s lack of [more…]

Brian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill is tucked away at the end of a cobbled mews, its facade a quarter of the normal size. The [more…]

A sparkling 2015 collaboration with Sparks aside, Franz Ferdinand’s career has felt like an exercise in diminishing returns, each successive album slightly less interesting than [more…]

When Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions that became jazz’s Birth of the Cool releases, the most bewitching solo voice apart from his own trumpet [more…]

Fifty years ago, the most important American underground rock band of its generation was dying. The New York Dolls, the androgynous-but-tough band who mixed the [more…]

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack [more…]

Cover art by Lulu Lin (2nd prize winner) for Romance by Fontaines DC Second place went to the artwork for Romance, the fourth album by [more…]