Britney Spears has known the highs and lows of how the US treats its celebrities, traveling from Mickey Mouse club child actor to teen pop
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Warren Ellis on Steve Albini, Mad Max and the best sandwich: ‘Whipped cream and banana on white bread’
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? There was no worst, really. If you have to work, you have to work. I needed money. So
Olivia Rodrigo review – shiny pop-punk with real guts
Pop music made by child actors doesn’t often feature axe duels and headbanging. But tonight, during a song called Obsessed, gen-Z phenomenon Olivia Rodrigo, wielding
Will Oldham on Steve Albini: ‘He elevated the quality of the human experience’
I met Steve Albini in 1985, when I was 15 years old. Me and some friends had driven up to northern Kentucky to see Big
Martin and Roman Kemp look back: ‘I didn’t want a parent v kid relationship. I wanted us to be equal’
Born in 1961, Martin Kemp is an actor and musician, best known as the bassist for Spandau Ballet. His son, Roman, 31, is a TV
Beabadoobee: ‘I don’t have time for death threats. I’ve got a mortgage to pay’
About a year ago, Beatrice Laus, AKA Beabadoobee, started taking ballet lessons. The acclaimed, perpetually TikTok-viral indie rock musician had been touring hard in 2022,
Chaka Khan: ‘Someone said there were too many black people in our band. He put some white guys on stage with us’
Born in Illinois, Chaka Khan, 71, joined the funk band Rufus in her teens and had hits with Tell Me Something Good and Ain’t Nobody.
Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF review – New York post-punk oddballs make restrained return
A thrilling live proposition since the late 1990s, due in large part to the stage magnetism of frontman Tim Harrington, the New York-based post-punk five-piece
Dehd: Poetry review – a sparkling dialogue with rock’n’roll history
Chicago rock band Dehd’s music is two things: mercilessly catchy and meticulously camp. The trio’s biggest hit to date – 2022’s Bad Love – was
Smith and Myers review | John Fordham’s jazz album of the month
In the 1960s, Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) became a beacon for artists seeking to play a new jazz that could