Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O: ‘The one thing I hold in sacred regard is rockers’ hairstyles’ | Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2006, from left: Brian Chase, Karen O and Nick Zinner.

After almost a decade away, the American rock trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with an urgent, electrifying album, Cool It Down. Front and centre as always is Karen O, 43-year-old Karen Orzolek, the band’s […]

‘A nonconformist with a conservative’s regard for tradition’: Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150 | Ralph Vaughan Williams

The composer with his second wife and muse Ursula Vaughan Williams.

When encountering an unfamiliar composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams, I find myself asking the same questions: where have I heard this before? Do I know this already or am I simply imagining it? Clear answers […]