Is it possible for a rickroll to go too far? Twenty-six-year-old rapper Yung Gravy may be about to find out. Born Matthew Hauri, the musician – from Rochester, Minnesota – had a viral hit last […]
Long ago, I wrote in the Guardian that a 1980 London performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Lester Bowie (trumpet), Joseph Jarman (saxes), Malachi Favors Maghostut (bass), Roscoe Mitchell (sax and composition) and […]
Identifiable by the bright front doors on their covers, domestic noir novels have become an established genre in recent years. But we don’t yet have a term for their office counterpart. And yet there is […]
Photo Credit: MTV International / CC by 3.0 The Madonna biopic is no longer in development at Universal Pictures, according to reports. Variety reports the biopic is “taking an indefinite holiday” after multiple sources spoke […]
Wynonna Judd knew touring without her late mother would bring up a lot of feelings, but she didn’t know that it would also help her through the grief. Judd’s mother, Naomi Judd, died by suicide April […]
Jessica Chastain urged extras in one of her George & Tammy concert scenes to ignore Tammy Wynette’s Run, Woman, Run lyrics. The Oscar-winning actress plays the country singer alongside Michael Shannon as her famous musician […]
Roman Abramovich is one of many Russian billionaires who saw his fortune diminish significantly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resultant sanctions from the UK and the European Union. Now, The Guardian reports […]
In a studio in Kigali, Rwanda, Michael Makembe sits down at his laptop and starts playing some traditional vocals he recorded in the street. The music producer adds a layer of Afrobeat and drums, and […]
The surviving members of the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have paid tribute to singer David Crosby, who died Wednesday evening at age 81. Hours after Graham Nash and Stephen Stills poured their […]
By all accounts, including his own, David Crosby could be a tricky and difficult character. His career was regularly punctuated by angry arguments, bitter fallings-out, sackings, general discord. Joni Mitchell once waspishly suggested he was […]
Where there are families there are stories and where there are stories there are always secrets. It’s ripe crop for a writer. In literature, these are a staple of the coming-of-age novel. Family secrets seem […]
It is the nationwide network of weekly regional radio programmes and festival stages that has helped launch the careers of British superstars such as Ed Sheeran, Florence + the Machine, Celeste and Little Simz. But […]
Listening to composer Kali Malone’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy is like watching weather move across a landscape. Sinewaves and strings swell gently, like a calm dawn; electric guitar overwhelms like clouds blocking the sun. […]
Mel C has denied a rumour suggesting the Spice Girls are set to perform at Glastonbury in Somerset, England later this year. The beloved ’90s girl group has been rumoured as a contender for a […]
With a Netflix Top 10 that, in the UK at least, features Ginny & Georgia, Vikings: Valhalla and Emily in Paris, you might be forgiven for wondering if there is much left on the streaming […]
Following a well-received cinema release in December, Anonymous Club – the ‘inspirational’ (MOJO), ‘deeply intimate’ (The Guardian) and ‘bruisingly candid’ (The Observer) portrait of enigmatic Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, streams in the UK and Ireland […]
Cate Blanchett’s new film role as an imposing orchestral conductor is earning her a shot at another top acting award. But it has already given the Oscar-winner the skills to lead a real orchestra through […]
Pharrell Williams says he doesn’t have the “mental endurance” to create film scores. The N.E.R.D. singer, 49, considers movie composing a “marathon” and thinks his speciality is the “three- to five-minute” song “race”. He told […]
Flo arrive at the central London restaurant where our interview is taking place, in this order: first comes 21-year-old Stella Quaresma, arriving before we’ve been shown to our table; then Renée Downer, aged 20, once […]
A common feature of the early Neptunes sound was the clavichord. Did you or Chad Hugo introduce this, and can you recall the first song you made using it? Rochase Man, you’ve put me on […]