In 2012, the first Hunger Games movie sparked a revolution. Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books were already bestsellers at that point, but the success of the movie adaptation cemented their cultural impact, ushering in an […]
At first blush, the notion that Dua Lipa named her comeback single after shorthand for pulling a vanishing act is a bit eyebrow-raising. Since she released her second album, Future Nostalgia, in 2020, the 28-year-old […]
‘I can’t keep on moving backwards,” Marnie Stern repeats on Plain Speak, over frenetic bursts of fretboard finger-tapping, layered vocals and urgent, scratchy rhythm guitar. This surge of forward momentum sets the tone for the […]
If you’d have predicted 15 years ago that Peckham’s Giggs and US rap mogul Diddy would one day share a stage in Shepherd’s Bush, you might have received some strange looks. Road-rap legend Giggs half-talks […]
The lineup was remarkable, with rock and folk musicians including Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Sam Lee, James Yorkston and Martin Simpson joining in on Strolling Down the Highway, from Bert Jansch’s 1965 debut album. It […]
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Original Photo by Ivan Meneses for Insomniac Events It’s been a week since Escape Halloween took over the NOS Events Center for its 12th edition, and like most things Insomniac, the festival just got bigger […]
The world’s bad-actor states are well-known from the worrying news they regularly produce. But only North Korea’s brand of isolated, propaganda-fueled tyranny seems to inspire reportage steeped in the weird — thanks in part to […]
Plenty of saxophonists learning the game in the 1950s made John Coltrane their lodestar for his famous ferment of spiritual gravitas and storming improv intensity – but his best disciples took that sound as a […]
Last October, South Korea’s biggest boyband, BTS, revealed they were going on “hiatus”. As a band who have seldom adhered to the norms of western pop, they delivered the news in suitably intriguing style. It […]
Last night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broadcast a film about the making of the “final” Beatles single, Now and Then. It was brief and rather moving, but it offered a tactfully bowdlerised version […]
Growing up as the child of Indian immigrants to the United States, I’m very used to feeling like I’m on the outside looking in. As a kid, I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere; my […]
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The elves have exited on ships bound for the west, humans are at the top of the pecking order across Middle-earth, and the dwarves are taking the opportunity to retake their greatest city, Khazad-dûm: this […]
In 2017, Sampha Sisay released his debut album Process. A troubled, sometimes harrowing, frequently beautiful response to his mother’s death, it was rapturously reviewed and a Top 10 hit. It wound up high in critics’ […]
Minimalism is usually cool, detached, frictionless and mathematical. The music made by percussionist Bex Burch is not any of these things. What she calls “messy minimalism” shares some characteristics with the music of Steve Reich […]
Anna (Jessie Buckley), a young woman at a marital crux, has just accidentally learned revealing information about her co-worker Amir (Riz Ahmed) when, from afar, she sees him dancing alone with enviable abandon, even if […]
Mondo Duplantis wins the gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Photo Credit: Joerg Oegerli The new sports film “Born to Fly” on Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis was directed by Brennan […]
Corinne Bailey Rae wanders the stage wordlessly, wafting handheld percussion instruments at amplifiers and members of her band as though burning sage to cleanse the space. All around her is the sound of more percussion […]
Swapping duties on vocals, drums and guitar, Coley and Maria have been making music as beautiful and brooding as the skies above their native Olympia, Washington for more than 10 years. At their best, the […]
By the onset of 1977, Héctor Lavoe, the Puerto Rican salsero of legend, was down and out. Lavoe, a Fania All Star who once soared in hit songs like “Mi Gente” and “Periódico de Ayer,” […]