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 […]
Ed Sheeran is very aware of the contradictions at the heart of his superstardom. The first line of his new Disney+ documentary, The Sum of It All, finds the multi-platinum songwriter declaring: “I’m speccy, ginger […]
“Hello Liverpool!” came the enthusiastic greeting from Vlad Yaremchuk, one of the organisers of a dance event livestreaming to the UK from behind the decks in the free-spirited Kyiv club HVLV. “I really hope you […]
Few records in the 21st century have divided a band’s fans as much as Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories. While the reviews were largely positive, a significant swathe of the band’s fanbase […]
When the soprano Grace Bumbry projected the single word “Guardie!” (“Guards!”) as Amneris at the beginning of Act 4 of Verdi’s Aida, it was the kind of order that brooked no opposition, and was typical […]
Ed Sheeran famously keeps one eye on the numbers. A decade ago, he established his trademark, a pop take on the sensitive singer-songwriter trope with a healthy relationship to rap and R&B that has allowed […]
South African music is a confluence of paths; a plethora of hands, feet and voices crossing and moving ever forward, yet still interconnected. For that reason, attempting to unravel those strands and arrive at some […]
When it comes to Australia, Azealia Banks isn’t feeling the love. In a series of Instagram Stories shared yesterday (May 7), Banks wrote about how her recent single “New Bottega” was handled in Australia, claiming […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature OK, here we go. The coronation concert is about to begin. Everyone strap in, because this is going to be something. […]
10 Star Wars: Squadrons (2020) The unlikeliest project to emerge from Electronic Arts’s decade-long oversight of the Star Wars video game franchise, Squadrons is a spiritual successor to the much-loved X-Wing series of space combat […]
Does anyone still working at Marvel Studios have any personal passion about Adam Warlock, the big golden guy played by Will Poulter in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? There haven’t been a whole lot […]
Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights with a soft, sensuous sound. His is the gently radiating electric piano or […]
It has often been noted that George Lucas’s 1977 film Star Wars was greatly influenced by Frank Herbert’s Dune. The desert-covered central planet; the blending of religion and magic to the point where they are […]
Duncan James was feeling quietly confident, and perhaps with good reason. “All the bookies were behind us,” he says. “Paddy Power had us as favourites to win.” It was 2011, and Blue – one of […]
K-pop often appears to be thriving in the UK: prior to their hiatus, BTS had back-to-back No 1 albums and acts such as boyband Ateez fill arenas, while girl group Blackpink are gearing up to […]