Win Jamie Cullum ‘Twentysomething’ Vinyl – Music News

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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 […]

Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025 | Music

V&A East under construction in 2022, with the new London College of Fashion behind it.

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 […]

‘Earliest known film of the Beatles’ to feature in Peter Jackson-directed music video | Music

A scene from Get Back.

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 […]

From mini Mars bars to matters of life or death: Errollyn Wallen on becoming a composer | Classical music

Errollyn Wallen

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. […]

Claptone Says It's "Unnecessary" for Electronic Music Artists to Embrace the Album Format

Claptone Says It's "Unnecessary" for Electronic Music Artists to Embrace the Album Format

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 […]

The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology | The Beatles

Ed Ruscha’s artwork for Now and Then.

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 […]

Baby Animal Cam: ‘It really is just a live stream of some tiny animals. And I love it’ | Television

Slow TV … Baby Animal Cam

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 […]

‘It’s difficult to look upon yourself as an icon’: Abba’s Agnetha Fältskog on fame, family and her secret songs | Abba

Abba performing live in 1977.

Agnetha Fältskog’s recent single, Where Do We Go From Here?, came with an animated video. It depicted the cartoonish version of the Abba singer that is permanently burned into the collective memory: blond hair, blue […]

Elvis Presley’s ‘Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite’ turns 50

The album cover for "Elvis Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite" shows the singer superimposed on planet Earth.

While Elvis Presley was an American icon, the rest of the world worshipped him too. But Presley never experienced that global adulation in person. His manager Colonel Tom Parker, born in the Netherlands and residing […]

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter: ‘When we started I was 18 and when we ended Daft Punk I was 46’ – Music News

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter: 'When we started I was 18 and when we ended Daft Punk I was 46' - Music News

BBC Radio 6 Music has broadcast The First Time With… Thomas Bangalter. In this rare and exclusive interview with one half of Daft Punk, Matt Everitt asks Thomas about the origins of the electronic duo, […]

RAYE, Young Fathers , Ezra Collective and J Hus on 2023 Mercury Prize list – Music News

RAYE, Nova Twins, Gregory Porter, Adam Lambert and N-Dubz all Silver Clef Award winners - Music News

The 2023 Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’ have just been announced today on Thursday 27 July 2023. The 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW ‘Albums of the Year’ are: Arctic Monkeys ‘The Car’Ezra Collective ‘Where […]

Arctic Monkeys and RAYE among 2023 Mercury Prize Albums of the Year shortlist – Music News

Arctic Monkeys and RAYE among 2023 Mercury Prize Albums of the Year shortlist - Music News

Arctic Monkeys, RAYE and Jessie Ware’s albums are shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW. Alex Turner and co have the chance to win their second Mercury Prize of their career with 2022’s ‘The […]