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 […]
Matthew Broderick knows his decades-long legacy as an actor will be summed up in two words. No, not “Tony Award.” Not “Emmy nominee.” Not even “SJP’s husband.” No, when cinephiles look back on the career […]
Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey Hepburn is widely regarded as one of the most iconic actresses of all time. Despite only appearing in 34 films, Hepburn’s talent and natural beauty made her a true […]
In its short existence, Euphoria – Sam Levinson’s wild, often gruesome HBO melodrama about wayward teens in suburban California – has been memed and mocked, often for its outlandish plot elements and self-indulgent tone. It […]
As far as American actresses go, Alicia Witt is as talented as they come, but she also happens to be a talented singer and pianist. She rose to fame when she was quite young, starring […]
‘We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 […]
A select group of films has qualified for Academy Award consideration after winning prizes at the 27th LA Shorts Film Festival, the longest-running shorts festival in the movie capital. Nowhere, directed by L.A.-based filmmaker Gavin […]
In a crowded festival marketplace that nevertheless often cleaves to a relatively timid and tight crop of British, European and American artists, Womad provides a vital yearly reminder of the breadth of the planet’s music. […]
During the kaiju boom of the 1960s in Japan, Godzilla undoubtedly reigned supreme. But he was by no means the only giant creature tromping around Tokyo. Toho had other heavy hitters like Mothra and Ghidorah; […]
Devendra Banhart is finally embracing being a “freak folk” hero. The Venezuelan American singer’s whimsical tunes and eccentric looks led to him being crowned one of the leaders of the ‘genre’ by fans, and the […]
In the season three finale of “The Kardashians,” Tristan Thompson paid tribute to his late mother, Andrea Thompson, who died suddenly on Jan. 5. In the July 27 episode, Khloé and the Kardashian family reacted […]
Arctic Monkeys, Jessie Ware and J Hus have been nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize. The Brianstorm hitmakers have been shortlisted for the coveted award, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the […]