How Conexión Divina got its first Latin Grammy nomination

Liz Trujillo and Sandra Calixto of Conexión Divina play the guitar during their show.

The idea first came to Sandra Calixto in 2021. Upon finishing high school, she would start her own regional Mexican band made up only of women. She would recruit two artists she‘d befriended on TikTok, […]

Pinkpantheress: ‘I don’t think I’m very brandable. I dress weird. I’m shy’ | Music

PinkPantheress

PinkPantheress no longer cares what people think of her. When she released her lo-fi breakout tracks Break it Off and Pain on TikTok in early 2021, aged just 19, she did so anonymously, partly out […]

David Salle Has a Headline in Mind for This Interview

David Salle

David Salle, photographed by Frenel Morris. All artwork images courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. David Salle’s assistant greets me at the door of his studio in […]

‘Our music didn’t build. We were anti-catharsis’: the glacial pleasures of slowcore | Music

Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang and Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500.

‘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 […]

Blur: The Ballad of Darren review – mature melancholia spiked with adventure | Blur

Blur - The Ballad of Darren

Nine albums in, Blur do not owe anyone any bangers. They are a four-piece very much in the post-urgent stage of their career, reaping the rewards of their long musical life at a pair of […]

Shed Seven’s first album in 6 years features Pete Doherty and Happy Mondays star Rowetta – Music News

Shed Seven's first album in 6 years features Pete Doherty and Happy Mondays star Rowetta - Music News

Britpop rockers Shed Seven’s first studio album in six years, ‘A Matter of Time’, features Pete Doherty and Rowetta from Happy Mondays. Ahead of the album’s release on January 12, the band have shared the […]

Childish Gambino’s Swarm Cut “Sticky” Is Our Song of the Week

Childish Gambino's Swarm Cut "Sticky" Is Our Song of the Week

Song of the Week delves into the newest songs we just can’t get out of our heads. Find these tracks and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist, and for our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out […]

Vicky Krieps explains why making ‘Corsage’ was ‘a mistake’

A woman in Victorian evening dress smokes a cigarette in the movie 'Corsage.'

Vicky Krieps brings a sense of spontaneity and live-wire unpredictability to every role she plays, from her breakout performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” opposite Daniel Day-Lewis to her new, celebrated part in Marie […]

Stop laughing at the back: why shouldn’t Joker 2 be a musical? | Movies

Lady Gaga on stage this summer.

The history of Hollywood comic-book musicals is not a long and garlanded one. Comic books that have become stage musicals, well yes – there are quite a few of those. Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, […]

Japanese rockers Kikagaku Moyo: ‘Watching people board a train – that’s psychedelic!’ | Psychedelia

Frontman and drummer Go Kurosawa.

When we think of psychedelic music, we think of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the 13th Floor Elevators, blurry images from Woodstock. But for Japanese band Kikagaku Moyo, psychedelia is exemplified by their nation’s countercultural heroes […]

20 best movies on Amazon Prime Video to watch: February 2022

The 12 Angry Men of 12 Angry Men sit at a table

Shared from www.polygon.com We’ve all been there: Flipping through Amazon Prime Video’s movie offerings, but stuck wondering Uh, what’s good? The commercial giant’s streaming service has quietly collected a giant archive of films, and since […]