Dancing to music is one thing; music making you move is another. This abstract hour by Benjamin Millepied, in the 10th anniversary year of his LA Dance Project, subtly explores the difference between the two. […]
Pixar and Disney have hyped director Angus MacLane’s Lightyear up by making it out as a mysterious reworking of Toy Story’s canon that reveals all-new details about Andy Davis’ favorite space explorer. Though a new […]
Beyoncé — who invented the surprise album when her self-titled set dropped out of nowhere in 2013 — decided to spare us the endless anxiety by revealing on Thursday that her much-anticipated seventh studio album, […]
Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park is an animated adaptation of Hamish Steele’s DeadEndia graphic novel series, but the new show’s first season is also a shining example of the magic queer creators can work when […]
Sometimes, the best art is born out of adversity, struggle and strife. Look at some of the greatest creative movements in history, for example. The protest songs of the ‘60s, the Harlem Renaissance — they […]
It’s the first date of this UK leg of Elton John’s valedictorian Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which began in 2018 and concludes next year after being delayed by the pandemic. As well as the […]
Tuesday’s performance felt like a gift: a thoroughly engrossing outpouring of roots music and folk-soul balladry, with Dylan in richly expressive voice. Share This Article
The most apparent truth about Mike Paradinas’s glitchy, skittering music is that it doesn’t like to sit still. As μ-Ziq, Paradinas established himself in the arena of 90s experimental, abstract and tweaked-out electronica, his sense […]
With her green roots, Tourette syndrome and black tears, the LA pop rebel Billie Eilish is an uncommon star. She has made mainstream culture out of the stuff of nightmares and therapist’s offices; in a […]
Since his emergence in Chick Corea’s trio in 1997, the Israeli-born double bassist Avishai Cohen has become a global star for his bass sound that joins cello-like purity to percussive drama, and for original compositions […]
Mick Jagger recently said rock’n’roll “isn’t supposed to be done in your 70s”, but he seems determined to prove this wrong. While Abba have returned as digital avatars of their young selves, the Stones’ frontman […]
“Neptune Frost” — the mesmerizing Afrofuturist musical brainchild of multihyphenate poet-rapper-writer-musician Saul Williams and his wife, Rwandan artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman — opens with a cacophony of color and sound, both digitized and natural. […]
Neneh Cherry’s creative and critical resurgence over the past 10 years has been hugely pleasing. She has made challenging new albums that speak volumes about her restless musical spirit, enjoyed the retrospective glow of seeing […]
Dr Disrespect finally completed the iconic single-player game ‘The Last Of Us’ nearly 10 years after its original release and he shared his highly-anticipated review of the game with fans. Streaming star Dr Disrespect is […]
The last time the exterior of Buckingham Palace and the Mall was turned into a concert venue – for the Gary Barlow-curated diamond jubilee celebration in 2012 – the Queen arrived midway through: a canny […]
It starts with The Visitors, an icy, electronic track in which authoritarian agents hammer on the door of a fearful dissident – not the Abba you expected to come calling in this trailblazing, retro-futurist extravaganza […]
In one of the loveliest sequences in “The Tsugua Diaries,” a sly, summery delight from Portugal, two men and a woman raise a series of wooden beams. As they work together — patiently, intuitively, almost […]
Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance album cover. Horsegirl are three Chicago teens – Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein and Gigi Reece – here to prove that being born in the 21st-century is no barrier to indulging […]
At the start of this year, George Ezra gave an interview to the Observer. It was filled with talk of “drawing a line in the sand”, the possibility of giving up touring and his willingness […]
We’ve romped most of the way through Life With You, the title track from the Proclaimers’ seventh album, when the lead actors fade out of view and hand the stage to the musicians. Six of […]