The Who review – rock operas get an orchestral uplift in a show stuffed with classics | Pop and rock

Spiky and electric … Daltrey (left) and Townshend.

‘I want what you’re taking,” Pete Townshend quips, pointing to an enthusiastic fan. “Not again,” retorts Roger Daltrey, comedically rolling his eyes. After six decades of bickering, the two original members of the Who still […]

Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – intense emotion and captivating soul | Anohni

Anohni: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross cover artwork.

You would be hard-pushed to call Anohni’s sixth studio album – her first since Hopelessness seven years ago – anything other than an unexpected departure. Whatever path you imagined her admirably peripatetic career might take […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise does it better | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Tom Cruise and Vanessa Kirby.

Already, the keynote stunt has become a legend: the one on the poster, the one he reportedly did – for real – six times in one day before he was satisfied. Tom Cruise’s compact body […]

Zeena Parkins: Lace review – delicately woven patterns of intricate beauty | Music

Zeena Parkins Lace artwork.

Detroit-born Zeena Parkins is best known as a maverick harp player, who has worked with everyone from Björk to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to John Zorn. This album, however, foregrounds her role as a composer […]

Olivia Dean: Messy review – hackneyed British soul tropes do singer a disservice | Music

Olivia Dean: Messy album art

At first, Brit school alumna Olivia Dean’s debut album Messy feels worryingly like another addition to the catalogue marked “stage school to neo-soul crooner”. There are horns, shuffling 60s rhythms and artificial vinyl crackling, just […]

PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying review – a disquieting escape into the wilds of Dorset | PJ Harvey

The artwork for I Inside the Old Year Dying.

The last time the world of music heard from Polly Harvey was more than seven years ago, in the spring of 2016. Brexit had yet to happen, Barack Obama was still president, and the 53-year-old […]

Uber Boat and Summer Europe Travel Products Review

uber boat yerin kim

POPSUGAR Photography | Yerin Kim Just in time for peak summer travel season, Uber is introducing a slew of products in popular vacation destinations across Europe, most notably in Greece. They say nothing quite compares […]

Iron Maiden review – showstopping rock theatre and tantalising live rarities | Iron Maiden

Thunderous punishing basslines … l to r, bassist Steve Harris and guitarist Janick Gers.

Tick … Tock … The lights dim and a ticking clock echoes through Glasgow’s Hydro. It heralds the arrival of Iron Maiden, theatrical stalwarts of British metal, and their new show themed on the passing […]

The Smile Kick-Off US Tour with Stellar Austin Show: Review

The Smile Kick-Off US Tour with Stellar Austin Show: Review

It’s easy to take Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood for granted. For three decades, the pair have put out consistently beautiful music as the principal songwriters of Radiohead, challenging listeners with each record on their journey […]

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 review – watching the world change, almost overnight | Photography

Jane Asher: ‘I moved in with Jane Asher at the end of the year. I often took her portrait while we were together’

First they were ours, for a brief and precious moment. Then, suddenly, they belonged to the world. Eyes of the Storm, the exhibition of Paul McCartney’s photographs at London’s newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, depicts […]

Elton John at Glastonbury review – bittersweet joy at the end of the yellow brick road | Glastonbury 2023

2023 Glastonbury Music FestivalElton John performs at the Glastonbury Festival site in Somerset, Britain, June 25, 2023. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff

Elton John’s debut at Glastonbury is also meant to be his last ever performance in the UK – though it’s by far not the first time he has sworn he’s retiring only to make a […]

Lizzo at Glastonbury review – life-affirmation 101 | Glastonbury 2023

Lizzo on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival.

There’s a real ease to this year’s Glastonbury and many of its bookings have a feelgood theme, leaning on nostalgia, familiarity and affirmation – there’s Rick Astley on the Pyramid (and playing Smiths covers with […]