The last time Sam Taylor-Johnson directed a movie about drugs it was A Million Little Pieces in 2019, based on James Frey’s notoriously inauthentic memoir
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‘I wrote it in a bedsit on Nick Drake’s guitar’: how Dream Academy made Life in a Northern Town
Nick Laird-Clowes, singer, songwriter I was a part-time presenter on the first series of The Tube, with Jools Holland and Paula Yates. That was filmed
I couldn’t imagine doing festivals without drinking. Pulling it off filled me with relief – and pride | Laura Snapes
Twenty years ago this August, I went to my first music festival. My best friend’s mum kindly – bravely – drove us two 15-year-olds from
‘Anger compels me forward’: Drive My Car composer Eiko Ishibashi on evil, experimentation and exploding genre
Whether it’s Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams or latterly Villeneuve and Zimmer, film directors often get into a glorious feedback loop with a preferred
Charlie Pyne Quartet: Nature Is a Mother review – soaring, effervescent jazz
British jazz is currently blessed with vocal talents. Bandleader Charlie Pyne is just one sample from a spectrum that embraces big band fan James Hudson,
On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights
Born in 1945 and raised in London, singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970, inspired by a trip around
Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review – takes country music by its plaid collar and sets it on fire
Ever since Beyoncé – to quote the lady herself – “changed the game with that digital drop” via her self-titled fifth album, released without warning
The Ed Sheeran decade: how the everyman megastar remade music in his own image
Ed Sheeran is popular because he is a generational talent. Ed Sheeran is popular because his output is generic and bland. Ed Sheeran is popular because
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs named in lawsuit accusing his son of sexual assault
The music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and his 26-year-old son Christian “King” Combs are both named in a lawsuit that accuses the younger man of
The Guide #133: Why is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter so long?
Have you listened to Cowboy Carter yet? No, but I mean all of it? All 27 tracks? All 78 minutes and 21 seconds? Don’t be