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 […]
Matthew Perry would still have merited TV immortality if he’d never appeared in anything after Friends: 99.9% of actors spend their careers failing to land a role like Chandler Bing. Just as James Gandolfini can […]
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 […]
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 […]
Todd Eckert is explaining, in circuitous yet joyous fashion, how he first fell in love with the work of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. It’s a conversation that meanders through Eckert’s teenage visit to Preston, […]
For years, actor Jeremy Piven was best known for playing second banana to childhood friend John Cusack, accompanying him to roles in One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, Serendipity, and more movies. After Piven found bigger […]
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. […]
In 2017, Sampha Sisay released his debut album Process. A troubled, sometimes harrowing, frequently beautiful response to his mother’s death, it was rapturously reviewed and a Top 10 hit. It wound up high in critics’ […]
Bar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band, as well as its most enigmatic – are very much […]
Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are indistinct within a looming ring of keyboards, drum machines, laptops and mixers. It isn’t clear, through darkness and dry ice, what precisely they are doing to conjure the mesmeric […]
In his 2010 history of protest music, 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Guardian writer Dorian Lynskey makes a bold claim about Billy Bragg: “If you ask someone to name a British protest singer,” he writes, “there […]
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 […]
Photo courtesy of Haley Sacks. Last week, when I asked Haley Sacks—better known as Mrs. Dow Jones, the “Zillennial Finance Expert”—how much money she thought I’d spent that day, she was only two dollars off. […]
Foo Fighters The Band That Dave Made by Stevie Chick Released 30 November 2023 – Hardback £25 Paying homage to the band’s enduring longevity, this updated edition of Foo Fighters: The Band That Dave Made […]
Tom Hulce, played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I’d really wanted the part of Younger Brother in Miloš Forman’s previous film Ragtime and had had a couple of disastrous meetings with him. When I met him for […]
The Middle-Eastern guitar melody in Blackpink’s How You Like That. The whistle at the very beginning of S-Class by Stray Kids. The sax melodies in Money and Lalisa by Lisa. The crowd chants at the […]
‘Can you just move that Ricky?” says Johnny Marr, gesturing towards the jetglo Rickenbacker 330 guitar resting on the stand next to me, as we rearrange the room for a photoshoot. This Rickenbacker? The one […]
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 […]
Iceland’s fish farming industry is “a couple of wild guys who want to make money quick and sacrifice nature”, the Icelandic singer Björk has said before the release of a “lost” song to help fight […]
Political prisoner, exiled psych-rock idol, reggae pioneer, cabinet minister, reality TV star … the English-speaking world really doesn’t have an equivalent of the Brazilian polymath Gilberto Gil. Aged 81, he has declared that this show […]