Foo Fighters secret Glastonbury set review – a band who have learned to fly again | Foo Fighters

Dave Grohl.

It’s one of the cruel rules of love and attraction that the more you try to impress someone, the less you’ll succeed; no-one likes a try-hard. And so it proves with rock’n’roll: heavily produced, overthought […]

Kim Petras: Feed the Beast review – a missed opportunity for a groundbreaking figure | Kim Petras

The artwork for Feed the Beast.

These are high times for Kim Petras. Previously a marginal figure in the world of pop – she attracted a degree of notoriety for 2022’s spectacularly potty-mouthed EP Slut Pop – she was catapulted into […]

‘We’ve only played in a pub to 50 parents!’: meet Askew, one of Glastonbury’s youngest ever bands | Glastonbury 2023

‘Music is a form of therapy’ … Crossley.

At this time of the year, most British 16-year-olds are focused on GCSE revision and how to spend their long summers. But for Eli Crossley, who alongside Alfie Lewis, Freddie Wormleighton, Jay Guru-Murphy and Will […]

Windrush at 75: How Caribbean culture dominated British music – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph | Society

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Archive: Station Noailles Marseille, Thames News, Rinse FM ContributorsLloyd Bradley – music journalistSandra Cross – singer and songwriterD Double E – Grime artist MusicLord Invader – Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back The Old Cat-O-Nine) (1992, […]

‘I’ve never been so productive’: the composer who wrote a concerto during 12 lots of chemo | Music

Part of the repertoire … War Horse.

Mortality. Nothing quite like the prospect of it to bring laser focus to the mind. I wrote previously of how my incurable cancer diagnosis has compelled me to plan a celebratory concert of my orchestral […]

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Broker Deals with Major News Outlets

OpenAI brokers data deals with news outlets

Photo Credit: Gonzalo Poblete OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are brokering data deals with news outlets. Are music companies next? Reports from major news outlets like the Financial Times suggests these companies are meeting with news […]

Christine and the Queens review – phantasmagoric drama and musical transcendence | Christine and the Queens

Manifesting life … Chris.

“This is going to get more dramatic than I anticipated,” Chris proclaims after his drummer showers him with roses midway through the show. But it’s hard to tell how much of the dialogue between songs […]

All hail Darth Shannon – the Star Wars villain we’ll never get to see | Movies

Michael Shannon as General Zod in Man of Steel in 2013.

And so it comes to pass: Michael Shannon, that steely eyed princeling of the scene-stealing character actors’ guild, has become the latest figure to say he does not much like modern superhero movies. Or, more […]

Apple Martin Wears Gwyneth Paltrow’s Most Hated Dress, Proving It Was Always Chic

Apple Martin shows off her mom Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2002 Oscar dress.

It seems Gwyneth Paltrow was feeling a bit goth while doing a Q&A on her Instagram Stories Thursday night because she decided to resurrect a controversial dress from the dead. When a fan asked the […]

From cultural cringe to clogged charts: why aren’t Australians listening to Australian music? | Australian music

The Kid Laroi performing at O2 Academy, London.

Last month, US rapper Azealia Banks published an Instagram story in which she labelled the Australian music industry “ever dwindling”, “insignificant” and “culturally stale”. In her posts – which also contained allegations about dealings she […]

‘People thought they knew the story’: the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli | Documentary films

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You could argue that, at least in the realm of pop music, the year 1989 belonged to Milli Vanilli. The German-French pop duo, formed barely a year earlier by the German producer Frank Farian, had […]

Joseph Fiennes says it was ‘wrong’ to play Michael Jackson

Joseph Fiennes says it was 'wrong' to play Michael Jackson

Joseph Fiennes says “people are absolutely right to be upset” that he played Michael Jackson for a British comedy sketch in 2016. For the series “Urban Myths,” the white British actor donned dark aviator sunglasses, […]

Sabrina Carpenter review – pop’s next big thing is best when she lets loose | Pop and rock

Revitalised … Sabrina Carpenter.

Framed by a huge heart-shaped mirror, as if she’s one of Greta Gerwig’s Barbies, Sabrina Carpenter steps into the spotlight. “Back then I didn’t know who I was, not even in the slightest,” she sighs […]

‘I like to slag off the headliner’: what is it like to do standup at a music festival? | Comedy

‘Take yourself out of the mayhem’ … Glastonbury in 2022.

You’re in a massive tent. People are walking in and out, chatting, spilling drinks. A mishmash of music pounds in the background. The crowd is wildly hungover or laying the foundations for tomorrow’s comedown. Perfect […]

Indiepop veterans Heavenly: ‘We saw the world of grownups and we didn’t like that very much’ | Indie

Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher as their recent project the Catenary Wires.

Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey met a little under 40 years ago, when they were both students at Oxford. Fletcher (later awarded the CBE for her services to the economy) and her friend Elizabeth Price […]

‘Work is therapy’: synth-pop icon Johnny Jewel on David Lynch, Chromatics and near-death experiences | Music

Johnny Jewel.

“Art is not a hobby, it’s a necessity,” says Johnny Jewel. “I have an unquenchable thirst for sound and tone.” Jewel has been thirsty for two decades. He has produced shimmering and dreamy synth-pop, slick […]