Barbra Streisand’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! | Music

Barbra Streisand in Vogue, April 1975.

20. Guava Jelly (1974) Earning its place here for its WTF factor: Barbra Streisand covering a Bob Marley track (albeit one indebted to Steam’s 1969 bubblegum smash Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye) before […]

‘Exceptionally brave’: why Matthew Perry’s finest acting wasn’t as bungling Chandler Bing | Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry as Matt Albie in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Matthew Perry would still have merited TV immortality if he’d never appeared in anything after Friends: 99.9% of actors spend their careers failing to land a role like Chandler Bing. Just as James Gandolfini can […]

Sundance diaries: C.J. Obasi on ‘Mami Wata’ Oscar submission

Sundance diaries: C.J. Obasi on 'Mami Wata' Oscar submission

COTONOU, Benin —  As part of our yearlong series on Sundance filmmakers, The Independents, we asked participants to keep a diary of their working life and submit an accompanying self-portrait. Today’s diary is from C.J. Obasi […]

Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025 | Music

V&A East under construction in 2022, with the new London College of Fashion behind it.

From jazz to calypso, dub poetry to UK drill lyrics, drum’n’bass raves to grime freestyles, the brilliance and cross-cultural richness of Black British music will be the focus for the inaugural exhibition at the V&A’s […]

‘Earliest known film of the Beatles’ to feature in Peter Jackson-directed music video | Music

A scene from Get Back.

Following his acclaimed documentary Get Back, director Peter Jackson is continuing his relationship with the Beatles by directing his first ever music video for the band’s final song, Now and Then. It will feature unseen […]

‘We put his face back together again’: the groundbreaking show bringing Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life | Ryuichi Sakamoto

Optically transparent devices … the audience watches Kagami.

Todd Eckert is explaining, in circuitous yet joyous fashion, how he first fell in love with the work of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. It’s a conversation that meanders through Eckert’s teenage visit to Preston, […]

Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’: The story behind their last song

Beatles' 'Now and Then': The story behind their last song

Paul McCartney may be the only person on Earth who believes the Beatles have any unfinished business in 2023. For years, McCartney fixated upon “Now and Then,” a song John Lennon sketched in the late […]

Why Jeremy Piven Thinks Jealousy Ruined His Friendship With John Cusack

John Cusack and Jeremy Piven in 2001

For years, actor Jeremy Piven was best known for playing second banana to childhood friend John Cusack, accompanying him to roles in One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, Serendipity, and more movies. After Piven found bigger […]

Billie Eilish on her ‘Barbie’ hit ‘What Was I Made For?’

Billie Eilish on her 'Barbie' hit 'What Was I Made For?'

Billie Eilish has seen your “What Was I Made For?” TikToks, and yes, they wrecked her too. “When the song started to have a life of its own there, I spent one night staying up […]

Taylor Swift 1989 Vault: Harry Styles Fan Theory

Taylor Swift 1989 Vault: Harry Styles Fan Theory

Taylor Swift 1989 Vault: Harry Styles Fan Theory Happy 1989 day to those who celebrate! If you’ve already sunk your hungry teeth into the vault tracks, then you may have noticed that two of the […]

Sampha: Lahai review – how to make an existential crisis sound sublime | Sampha

Sampha: Lahai album art

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’ […]

12 Fan Encounters With Celebs That Are Hard To Believe

12 Fan Encounters With Celebs That Are Hard To Believe

12 Fan Encounters With Celebs That Are Hard To Believe 1. In 1968, 15-year-old Beatles’ fans Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease were among a sea of fans hanging outside Abbey Road studios when Paul McCartney […]

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce confirm relationship with PDA

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce confirm relationship with PDA

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have deigned to give us proof of their budding relationship: The couple was seen strolling, hand-in-hand, a couple of times in NYC over the weekend. Obviously, because Swift seemingly becoming […]

Review: Bad Bunny’s ‘Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana’

Review: Bad Bunny's 'Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana'

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,” […]

‘I’d rather be boring than mysterious’: Bar Italia on anonymity, originality and disliking Pulp | Pop and rock

Bar Italia.

Bar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band, as well as its most enigmatic – are very much […]