On the same day that he earned his first Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, Noah Kahan has recruited Hozier for a new version of his smash single “Northern Attitude.” Regarding the release, Kahan wrote […]
First We Feast’s Hot Ones Louis Theroux is a BAFTA Award-winning documentarian and journalist who has immersed himself in some of the most dangerous, complicated, and controversial aspects of the human experience. And this fall, […]
At first blush, the notion that Dua Lipa named her comeback single after shorthand for pulling a vanishing act is a bit eyebrow-raising. Since she released her second album, Future Nostalgia, in 2020, the 28-year-old […]
‘All The Bees’ are Kirsty McGee and Gitika Partington, two highly experienced writer-musicians who have who have created an exciting new album of gentle yet deep, pastoral alt-folk that brings together their distinctive styles into […]
‘Simple Minds: Acoustic In Concert’ Cover Art – Photo: Courtesy of Mercury Studios Mercury Studios will reissue a classic concert from Simple Minds, when Simple Minds: Acoustic In Concert is released on Blu-ray+CD on December […]
Sean Dickson, vocals, guitar, arrangement The early Soup Dragons were a psychedelic punk rock band, but by 1988 there was more energy in the underground acid house scene than the indie scene. We used to […]
Elton John teased a new album while inducting his collaborator Bernie Taupin into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on Friday, November 3. During the speech, John said, “We’ve just finished an album in […]
British singer/songwriter Holly Humberstone has announced her much awaited, first-ever North American headlining tour. Kicking off on May 5, the run of shows will include stops at New York’s Brooklyn Steel, Los Angeles’ The Bellwether, […]
John Lennon’s murder in 1980 and George Harrison’s succumbing to cancer in 2001 were – and please pardon the mixed (and clumsily redundant) metaphors – the very last nails in the coffin that is The […]
Plenty of saxophonists learning the game in the 1950s made John Coltrane their lodestar for his famous ferment of spiritual gravitas and storming improv intensity – but his best disciples took that sound as a […]
Last night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broadcast a film about the making of the “final” Beatles single, Now and Then. It was brief and rather moving, but it offered a tactfully bowdlerised version […]
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release Jamie Cullum has re-released critically acclaimed breakthrough album Twentysomething. Critically-acclaimed musician and songwriter Jamie Cullum has today re-released his multi-million selling, 2003 album Twentysomething, available on vinyl […]
From jazz to calypso, dub poetry to UK drill lyrics, drum’n’bass raves to grime freestyles, the brilliance and cross-cultural richness of Black British music will be the focus for the inaugural exhibition at the V&A’s […]
Following his acclaimed documentary Get Back, director Peter Jackson is continuing his relationship with the Beatles by directing his first ever music video for the band’s final song, Now and Then. It will feature unseen […]
As a student at Goldsmiths I was out practically every night attending concerts and was at nearly every important premiere – Ferneyhough, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Boulez, Reich, LeFanu – mostly male composers, it is true. […]
At this year’s record-breaking Amsterdam Dance Event, the enigmatic Claptone delivered his first live interview and shared his perspective on current best practices for artists. Speaking with BBC Radio 1‘s Danny Howard, Claptone’s most eye-opening […]
Now and Then, the long-awaited “final” Beatles song featuring all four members, is to be released next week thanks to the same AI technology that was used to enhance the audio on Peter Jackson’s documentary […]
Brainfeeder will release a new deluxe edition of Austin Peralta’s 2011 album, Endless Planets. Endless Planets was, and remains, a landmark album in the Brainfeeder catalog, marking the label’s first foray into jazz. It pre-dated […]
Davido recently confirmed welcoming a “beautiful” set of twins with his wife Chioma Rowland one year after the tragic passing of their son. Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty The double baby blessings come after one […]
On Thursday, unheralded and largely unnoticed, Netflix quietly released what may well go down as its most revolutionary piece of programming yet. Using the same groundbreaking live technology that Chris Rock trialled when he dropped […]