Four Tet’s shows have never had such a clash of audiences. Some know Kieran Hebden as the grandfather of a certain introspective strain of UK club music; others know him as part of a trio […]
Leaving Laurel have released their second album on Anjunadeep. When the Quiet Comes marks a new chapter for Leaving Laurel after Pierce Fulton, the original band member with Gordon Huntley, passed away following the release […]
Microsoft has been in the video game business for over 20 years, but its Xbox console has been the perpetual runner-up. 2020’s Xbox Series S/X console is being significantly outsold by Sony’s PlayStation 5 – […]
Warren Beatty is, of course, known for his career as an actor and director, but during his 60-plus years in Hollywood, his personal life, including the many famous women he’s dated and been linked to, […]
It’s been a while since we had a truly great movie about devious, dystopian AIs priming themselves to take over the world, in which the key choices made by mere humans will decide whether we […]
Inside Halle Bailey’s apartment, in West Hollywood, the 23-year-old singer and actor is glowing in the early morning sunlight. This is not interview hyperbole: she really looks as though she is glowing. Rob Marshall, the […]
Idris Elba started his career on British television with small bit roles before his breakout role as Stringer Bell in the critically acclaimed HBO television series The Wire. This led to numerous roles in feature […]
The creation myth of the Smiths is well-known: inspired by a South Bank Show documentary about the songwriting partnership Leiber and Stoller, Johnny Marr turns up unannounced on Morrissey’s doorstep, meets with the singer’s approval […]
Last week, Ed Sheeran secured the fastest-selling album of the year so far with his latest release, – (Subtract). The achievement comes as little surprise. Indeed, after six consecutive No 1 albums (a combined total […]
There are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the live shows – Glastonbury in 2009, a trawl around the world’s festivals in 2012, a global arena tour in 2015, an unexpected one-off performance […]
Less than two weeks after a federal jury ruled that Ed Sheeran’s 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud” did not plagiarize elements of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” the English musician has beaten a second lawsuit […]
“The energy was honestly like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” recalls the drag performer Britney Banks of her recent surprise appearance at a Lizzo concert at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Thompson-Boling arena. “The roof could have come off.” […]
Eurovision 2023 – tonight’s running order Here is your running order for tonight, which the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have handily put on a social media graphic so that I don’t have to type it […]
It is western Europe’s tallest building, and a modern staple of the 21st-century London skyline. Now the Shard will take centre stage in a “nail-biting” thriller starring Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley and directed by James […]
Fast X may not be the penultimate entry in the Fast and Furious franchise after all. During a red carpet interview at the film’s world premiere in Rome, Vin Diesel appeared to confirm that Universal Pictures is […]
Overmono take their name from a suburb of their Welsh home town. You could take that as a knowing joke from a duo steeped in wilfully urban-sounding music, who specifically intended their celebrated 2021 Fabric […]
Dolly Parton has announced a genre switch to rock music, and has tapped what will surely be the starriest supporting cast for any album this year. Her new album Rockstar – a 30-track epic with […]
The most impressive thing about Robert De Niro is how prolific he is. The man is 79 years old, and simply cannot stop. In the last 10 years alone he has made 19 films, with […]
The UK is having one of its busiest weeks in months – but while the coronation put Britain in the global spotlight last weekend, all eyes are on a very different cultural spectacle in Liverpool […]
Psychologist Daniel Levitin says that two of the main elements to making a song memorable are rhyme and clichés The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the few remaining examples of event TV – and UK […]