Brian Eno Doc Uses “Generative” Tech To Change Narrative Every Viewing

'Eno' director Gary Hustwit at the Deadline Portrait Studio during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2024 in Park City, Utah.

Eno is the world’s first generative feature film.  “I tell people, ‘The film is different every time,’” explains director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams). “And they always say, ‘What do you mean? I don’t understand!’ So […]

Bryan Ferry Announces Retrospective Album, Shares New Bob Dylan Cover: Listen

Bryan Ferry: Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023

Bryan Ferry is looking back on his solo career with the 81-song Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023. The huge new collection includes numerous covers, favorites from across the Roxy Music frontman’s catalog, rarities, a new track […]

Bryan Ferry Announces New Box Set, Covers Bob Dylan: Stream

Bryan Ferry has announced Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, a wide-spanning box set that celebrates 50 years of the artist’s career. To accompany the announcement, the Roxy Music member also unveiled a cover of Bob Dylan’s […]

Nineties pop star, 59, has barely aged a day in 32 years since million-selling smash hit and coming out as omnisexual

Sophie Hawkins in the music video for I Wish I Was Your Lover in 1992

SOPHIE B. Hawkins was at the heart of nineties mania thanks to smooth pop tracks I Wish I Was Your Lover, and Lay Me Down. She sold millions of cassettes and 32 years later her […]

Brian Eno on AI (he’s a fan) and the Sundance doc about him

An image of a man's face is multiplied in several frames.

Part practical problem-solver and part esoteric theoretician, Brian Eno has been involved as a musician and producer on some of the most influential music of the past 50 years, a daunting list of collaborators that […]

Win Jewel 25th anniversary set of Spirits – Music News

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CRAFT RECORDINGS CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF JEWEL’S MULTI-PLATINUM SOPHOMORE ALBUM, SPIRIT WITH EXPANDED AND REMASTERED EDITIONS CD and digital versions include hits “Hands,” “Down So Long” and “Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)” plus 23 bonus tracks, […]

‘I’m glad people call it a lesbian anthem’: how Sophie B Hawkins made Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover | Culture

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Sophie B Hawkins, singer, songwriter I was Bryan Ferry’s percussionist but got fired after two weeks. He very nicely said: “You can’t play the Cuban congas as well as so-and-so who’s coming in to replace […]

‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan

Adele performing at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 24 October 2021.

When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up […]

Roxy Music invented rock’s future. Now they’re taking a bow

A man in the 1970s stares down at a typewriter

Phil Manzanera, the 71-year-old guitarist for art-rock pioneers Roxy Music, is leaning into a computer camera backdropped by a nondescript hotel room. The band has assembled in Toronto, where they’re rehearsing for their first U.S. […]

‘Butt-shakers and toe-tappers’: Ramsey Lewis brought jazz to the people | Jazz

Lewis warming up before a taping of Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis in 2005.

For the first half of the 20th century, jazz musicians would interpret the popular music of the age, with Tin Pan Alley hits, Broadway showtunes, blues songs and Latin dance numbers providing the basis for […]

‘Whatever the zeitgeist was at the time, he was at the center’: the incredible life of Earl McGrath | Music

At the apex of his career in the freewheeling 70s, Earl McGrath headed a record company for the Rolling Stones, ran his own label distributed by Atlantic Records that featured early recordings by stars like […]

Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’ | Bryan Ferry

Roxy Music at the Royal College of Art, London, in July 1972

Fifty years down the line, what does Roxy Music mean to you? Jungtheforeman A lot. Roxy Music were the first 10 years of my career, so it’s a huge part of my life. Some of […]