Judith Durham, who gained worldwide notoriety as the lead singer of The Seekers, died Friday at age 79. The Australian folk-pop pioneer died as the result of complications due to an extended battle with lung […]
Conan Doyle likely regretted having Holmes tumble off of a waterfall rather than, say, getting unambiguously disemboweled by a grizzly bear because fans immediately demanded that the writer bring Holmes back. They wore black armbands […]
Albums that sidestep familiar repertoire always deserve attention. The Irish Baroque Orchestra’s The Hibernian Muse (Linn), with the vocal group Sestina, is shaped around music played at festivals at the turn of the 18th century, […]
Samson singer Nicky Moore has died. The heavy metal pioneer passed away aged 75 on Wednesday (03.08.22) morning after battling Parkinson’s Disease. A statement on the veteran rocker’s website read: “It is with immense sadness […]
The band are hard at work on the follow-up to ‘After Laughter’ Paramore‘s Hayley Williams has revealed that Bloc Party have been a key influence on the band’s upcoming new album. In the latest episode […]
The UK Parliament has shut down its TikTok account after MPs raised concerns about the risk of data being passed to the Chinese government. It’s been just over a week since the launch of the […]
In the 1970s and 80s, dance music was born from minorities – the LGBTQ+ communities and Black and Brown people in Chicago, New York and Detroit – as a means of escapism and freedom from […]
Are men 10 times better at painting than women? You might think so if you listened to the German artist Georg Baselitz, who famously told the Guardian in 2015 that “women don’t paint very well. […]
The England football anthem Three Lions could be “put to bed” after the Lionesses’ triumph in the Euro 2022 final, David Baddiel has said. “The women have reset the clock,” Baddiel, one of the trio […]
The summer hiatus is the time to sample star players of the past and hear how performance styles have changed. The latest release on the Biddulph label, specialists in historic string players, is Nathan Milstein: […]
With a stirring rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem, the first concert of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra came to an end in Warsaw late on Thursday evening amid thunderous applause from a packed house at […]
Happy Mondays have released the charity EP ‘Tart Tart’ in memory of late bassist Paul Ryder. The 58-year-old musician – the younger brother of founding member Shaun Ryder, 59 – was found dead just before […]
Rina Sawayama has released a new song called “Hold the Girl.” The title track from her upcoming album, the single premiered on Clara Amfo’s BBC Radio 1 show Future Sounds, and the vocalist sat down […]
Kate Moss was one of the most in-demand supermodels of the ’90s, so of course, she has many stories from her time on set. And they aren’t all positive ones. In fact, one famous 1992 […]
Film Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma) took a break from his burgeoning Hollywood career to capture lightning in a bottle with Y Tu Mamá También, a Spanish-language road drama set against the backdrop of Mexico’s political […]
Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse has announced his permanent departure from the band. Morse previously went on hiatus in April to look after his wife, Janine, as she battled cancer. At he time, he had […]
Ask people about Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year, and you might be told either that he is hands down Britain’s favourite composer or a parochial embarrassment whose music sounds like […]
Ethel Smyth’s music features prominently in this year’s Proms, and the centrepiece of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s concert with their chief conductor designate, Kazuki Yamada, was her Concerto for Violin and Horn, written […]
Model Kate Moss is opening up about a Calvin Klein photo shoot that happened almost twenty years ago in 1992. In the black-and-white ad, Moss is completely shirtless, showing only her bare back to the […]
Harry Styles has earned his first-ever Mercury Prize with FREE NOW nomination. The former One Direction star’s third solo album, ‘Harry’s House’, has been shortlisted for the prestigious music prize, making its top 10 Albums […]