SLIPKNOT’s COREY TAYLOR Plays Acoustic Set At Florida’s SPOOKALA Horror Convention (Video)

SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Plays Acoustic Set At Florida's SPOOKALA Horror Convention (Video)

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor played a solo acoustic set Saturday (May 14) at the Spookala horror convention at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida. Fan-filmed video of his performance can be seen below. Earlier […]

The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention review – Radiohead spinoff offers no alarms, some surprises | Music

The artwork for A Light for Attracting Attention

As with any side-project or solo album by a member of a celebrated band, the first question prompted by the Smile’s debut is: why? There are plenty of reasonable stock answers: an opportunity to do […]

Top Film, Drama, and Music Schools That Can Make a Performer Out of Any of Us

Top Film, Drama, and Music Schools That Can Make a Performer Out of Any of Us

We often witness how the creative world offers us a breather from the stress and the hectic pace of the world around us. Whether it is a beautiful piano recital that drowns away the noise […]

Three things with Natalie Bassingthwaighte: ‘I thought oh, surely I won’t burn myself again’ | Life and style

The ‘super retro’ keyboard that belonged to Bassingthwaighte’s dad.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s latest TV project is, by her own description, a “heartwarming experiment”. The new ABC series Space 22, which screens Tuesdays at 8pm from 17 May, follows seven strangers who take part in an […]

Mickey Gilley, Who Helped Inspire ‘Urban Cowboy,’ Dies At 86

Loretta Lynn ad Mickey Gilley performed a duet at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 1976.

NEW YORK (AP) — Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday in Branson, […]

Mickey Gilley, who helped inspire ‘Urban Cowboy,’ dies at 86 : NPR

Mickey Gilley, who helped inspire 'Urban Cowboy,' dies at 86 : NPR

Singer Mickey Gilley in 2015 at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards. Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images Singer Mickey Gilley in 2015 at the 50th Academy of Country Music […]

Soft Cell: *Happiness Not Included review – synth-pop elders with an eye on the future | Pop and rock

Soft Cell: *Happiness Not Included album cover art.

Soft Cell: *Happiness Not Included album cover Forty-one years since their debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, and 20 since their last album, 2002’s underwhelming Cruelty Without Beauty, Soft Cell return with an album that makes […]

‘I’ve never felt this depth of love’: Emeli Sandé on coming out, race and making music again | Emeli Sandé

Emeli Sandé performs Read All About It at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

I remember, as everyone does, Emeli Sandé performing at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. She sang Abide With Me so seriously, and yet so joyfully, she looked as though there were some kind […]

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler: ‘I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe in David Bowie’ – Music News

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler: 'I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in David Bowie' - Music News

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 for an extensive conversation about the band’s sixth studio album due out this Friday. Butler details the influences and challenges of making the record, […]

Kendrick Lamar’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! | Kendrick Lamar

Lamar at the Grammys in 2018

20. Wesley’s Theory (2015) A crash course in To Pimp a Butterfly’s expansive sound – Thundercat’s bass ricochets around, George Clinton is on hand to bolster the P-funk-like chorus – and its lyrical viewpoint. It […]

85-year-old bassist Ron Carter has no plans on slowing down : NPR

85-year-old bassist Ron Carter has no plans on slowing down : NPR

Critics say Ron Carter left a big footprint in music, especially for bassists. Didier Baverel/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Didier Baverel/Getty Images Critics say Ron Carter left a big footprint in music, especially for […]

Sigrid: ‘I feel like I’m being discredited, for my talent and all the hours I’ve spent at the piano’ | Pop and rock

Northern powerhouse … Sigrid at Leeds festival in 2021.

In 2020, Sigrid had a crisis of confidence. Forced back to her parent’s house in Norway by the pandemic, she found her old teenage insecurities creeping in. As a kid, she had never considered herself […]