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 … […]

Don Letts’ forever fashion: ‘When I wear this shirt now, how do I feel? Slimmer than I ought to be’ | Fashion

Don Letts in the 80s

I knew the late designer Scott Crolla a bit, because we moved in the same circles in London. He had a shop in the early 80s. I got three or four of these shirts. His […]

Songs by Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, More Enter Library of Congress

Songs by Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, More Enter Library of Congress

Madonna’s ’80s bop “Like a Virgin,” John Lennon’s classic hit “Imagine,” and the Queen of Xmas Mariah Carey’s holiday staple “All I Want for Christmas Is You” are officially inducted into the Library of Congress National […]

Up all night to get jeté! Thomas Bangalter on hanging up his Daft Punk helmet – and leaping into ballet | Music

‘I multitasked for 20 years’ … Bangalter, in the silver helmet, in Daft Punk.

On 1 January 2000, childhood friends Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided to become robots. For the release of their second album, Discovery, the Daft Punk duo enlisted Hollywood effects designer Tony Gardner to […]

Coachella 2023: What you need to know about this year’s fest

People in festive clothing hold up their hands at Coachella

The 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is only a few days away. And you may be among the hundreds of thousands of people who will converge on the desert city of Indio, packing […]

6 Disney Movies That You Can’t Watch Anywhere Now — Best Life

Still from Song of the South

The Walt Disney company has been around for a century and making movies for almost as long—enough to populate an entire streaming service with them. But surprisingly, there are a handful of Disney movies you […]