Robert Fripp and Toyah Return with Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation”

Robert Fripp and Toyah Return with Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation"

After taking a month off from their “Sunday Lunch” performances, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back with a rendition of the Joan Jett classic “Bad Reputation.” The King Crimson guitarist and his vocalist wife […]

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha review – South African singer in his own lane | Music

Bongeziwe Mabandla: amaXesha album artwork

Over the past decade, South African singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla has been reimagining Xhosa folk music. His 2012 debut album, Umlilo, was a largely acoustic effort, combining the genre’s yearning choral harmonies with finger-strumming guitar and […]

YouTube Unveils AI-Powered Music Ad Solutions to Target Gen Z

Youtube music ad solutions

Photo Credit: Christian Wiediger As a growing number of tech companies invest heavily in recent explosive advances in AI, YouTube introduces two new AI-powered music ad solutions focused on targeting Gen Z. YouTube has announced two new […]

Little Richard: King & Queen of Rock n Roll on BBC iPlayer – Music News

Little Richard: King & Queen of Rock n Roll on BBC iPlayer - Music News

Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock’n’Roll – is now streaming on BBC iPlayer. The 90 minute feature length film gives a really wonderful insight into this legend of rock ‘n’ roll. Would you be […]

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! review – 21st-century disco packed with personality | Jessie Ware

The artwork for That! Feels Good!

In the wave of glitterball-dazzled pop-dance albums that sparkled a little light into 2020’s gloom, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia was the world-beating monster smash – No 1 in 15 countries, 10bn streams and counting on […]

Chet Baker: Blue Room review – gorgeous unreleased sessions by maestro of drowsy jazz | Music

Blue Room by Chet Baker album cover

In 1988, the Vogue photographer and occasional film-maker Bruce Weber made Let’s Get Lost, a lingeringly homoerotic but revealing documentary homage to “the white Miles”, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Like Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic […]

Celebrity cemeteries and haunted libraries: how musician Lael Neale channels Hollywood’s dark side | Music

Lael Neale

In the video for Lael Neale’s recent single, In Verona, she takes us on a woozy walk through the streets of Hollywood. Alongside grainy footage of the Walk of Fame, we find her drifting through […]

Ahmad Jamal, influential pianist and composer, has died

Ahmad Jamal, influential pianist and composer, has died

Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his bestselling interpretation of “Poinciana,” has died, according […]

RICHIE FAULKNER’s ELEGANT WEAPONS Shares Second Single, ‘Do Or Die’

RICHIE FAULKNER's ELEGANT WEAPONS Shares First Single, 'Blind Leading The Blind'

The official Lief Thomason-directed music video for “Do Or Die”, the second single from ELEGANT WEAPONS, the new project featuring guitarist Richie Faulkner (JUDAS PRIEST) and singer Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW, MSG),can be seen below. The […]

Metallica: 72 Seasons review – a poignant if protracted nostalgia kick | Metallica

The artwork for 72 Seasons.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has said their 11th studio album is rooted in the past, its title a reference to “the first 18 years of our lives, that form our true or false selves … […]