DaBaby’s New Orleans Show Called Off Due To Poor Ticket Sales

Rapper DaBaby Sued By DaniLeigh's Brother Over Alleged Assault

Rapper DaBaby’s show set to take place in New Orleans was recently canceled, possibly due to the low ticket sales recorded. The rapper has been in several controversies over the past months dating back to […]

I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good | Music

Lars Ulrich (L) of Metallica testifies before the US Senate judiciary committee on music on the internet, 11 July 2000.

It’s 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big toe. It clunks like a manual typewriter returning. […]

Good mourning Britain: how chillout music soundtracked the death of Diana | Music

Elton John singing Candle in the Wind at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997.

What was the soundtrack to Diana, Princess of Wales’s death? Surely Elton John’s Candle in the Wind 1997? After all, it’s the biggest-selling UK single of all time. But no: if you were listening to […]

‘To sing in Kashmiri is political’: Ali Saffudin, the singer-songwriter who smuggled his album to the world | Music

‘I needed someone to harness my music and get it out to the world.’

‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir, who do you think they would have supported?” Ali Saffudin asks. “The oppressed. These are my inspirations.” For Saffudin, a Kashmiri folk singer-songwriter, […]

‘People want to look like action stars’: the unstoppable rise of the Marvel body | Movies

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-Men (2000) and in The Wolverine (2013)

We’re so used to seeing the Marvel body. Muscular, yet thin; a lean package that is capable of packing a mean punch. It’s Chris Hemsworth’s glistening nudity in the latest Thor, or Natalie Portman’s much-talked […]

And … relax: film, music, art and books for chilling out | Culture

Magical … Martin Courtney.

Film Bureaucracy meets the afterlife in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, a gently paced drama concerned with a simple question: which single memory from your life would you choose to remember for eternity? Every […]

Jazz impresario Creed Taylor was one of the last of a dying breed of ‘record men’ | Music

Creed Taylor pictured in 2005.

The “record men” were a fabled breed of almost entirely American males who, across the 20th century, became famous in their own rights due to their discovering, recording, promoting and sometimes fleecing of future legends. […]

Tame Impala review – a rowdy, romping multisensory extravaganza | Tame Impala

Tame Impala.

What an unusual proposition Tame Impala are. Kevin Parker, a genial Australian with a laissez-faire look that might be described as surfer rave Jesus, started out in the late 2000s as a one-man psychedelic rock […]