On 1 January 2000, childhood friends Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided to become robots. For the release of their second album, Discovery, the Daft Punk duo enlisted Hollywood effects designer Tony Gardner to […]
Doja Cat is officially entering her emcee era. Over the weekend, the Grammy-winning performer took to Twitter to tease possible track titles from her upcoming fourth album, “Hellmouth.” She posted a screenshot of the song […]
I began playing harp at 11 and the traditional path to follow with the instrument was the classical music one, where all the players I saw or studied were white. I found it quite an […]
When “Praise This” plays the opening chords of “Money,” Koryn Hawthorne lifts her microphone and debuts a special version of the hit song: When things so bad, my God’s so realI praise His name like […]
It was hard not to notice a tone of amazement about the glowing reviews of Eddie Chacon’s debut solo album, Pleasure, Joy and Happiness. Whatever musical highlights people expected 2020 to bring, a warped soul […]
Neil Young is the latest artist to hit out at the ludicrous prices music fans are paying for concert tickets. After The Cure’s frontman Robert Smith said he was “sickened” by the inflated prices, leading […]
Singer/actress gives first look at her villain in Folie a Deux sequel Lady Gaga gave her Monsters and cinephiles the first look at her Harley Quinn character in new set photos from Joker: Folie a […]
U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom with the same missionary zeal: they seldom made any bones about wanting to be the biggest band […]
HBO It’s been almost three years since we last checked in on Perry Mason (season 2 premieres tonight on HBO at 9pm EST) and nearly as long since Matthew Rhys‘ face was on our screens […]
Since her 2015 debut Bird Under Water, Pakistani American singer Arooj Aftab has honed the delicate cadence of her voice in increasingly minimal settings. On that album, she embellished yearning Urdu poetry with traditional instrumentation […]
What is folk music? Is it music specific to a region and embodying particular cultural traditions, or could there be a more open-ended definition? Perhaps it’s a product of the imagination that can be rooted […]
Here’s a sobering thought for anyone old enough to recall the early 00s first-hand: Cracker Island arrives 22 years on from Gorillaz’s debut single, Clint Eastwood. Founded by Damon Albarn, an alt-rock star apparently dabbling […]
“Breaking” America has been the goal of young British musicians since the days of Beatlemania, but that dream is being dashed. Hundreds of emerging artists could be affected by plans to hike visa fees by […]
“Which is not what you should say in front of a bunch of kids, oops!” the actress said of an awkward moment with her Ant-Man co-star. Evangeline Lilly is recalling an NSFW conversation she had […]
In the past few years, a wave of documentary films have revisited the lives of famous (or infamous) women of the 90s, examining how their careers exploded under the weight of misogyny and undue media […]
When he started the Reytons in Rotherham in 2017, singer Jonny Yerrell wrote the song On the Back Burner about his dashed ambitions on the South Yorkshire open mic scene. “I can vividly remember the […]
The move from physical media to a more streaming-based entertainment world has left us suffering some losses. Prominent among those is the decline in the special features that used to be available for us to […]
As Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, and the rest of the streaming services vie for attention, new hooks for the home-entertainment viewing experience have emerged, from high-definition picture to deluxe sound […]
On a February morning in Brixton, old friends Yvonne Taylor and Eddie Lockhart are laughing about their first forays into London’s lesbian nightlife – and how they eventually went on to transform it. In 1984, […]
Things are getting pissy on the set of the upcoming “Joker” sequel … we’re told extras are angry over the lack of bathroom access, causing tension with production. Sources on set tell TMZ … extras […]