Fifty years on, the footage of Abba performing Waterloo at the 1974 Eurovision song contest is very familiar indeed: the conductor dressed as Napoleon, Agnetha’s
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‘This is an art form – and we’re losing it’: is the music video dying?
In increasingly turbulent times for the music industry, one aspect has remained steadfast: its passion for stats. At the start of the decade – with
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – their most adventurous set yet
When Vampire Weekend emerged in the mid-00s they sounded like nothing else around, quoting unfashionable sources such as Minutemen and west African guitar sounds (via
Sananda Maitreya: ‘I hypnotised myself into believing I was a genius’
Do you stand by your claim that [debut album] Introducing the Hardline … is as significant as Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? VerulamiumParkRangerI said
Fran and Flora: Precious Collection review – strings, shimmer and siren song whip up a desirous mood
Yiddish, klezmer and eastern European traditional music are the energetic inspirations for Fran and Flora’s second album together, their first on Stroud-based new music label
‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy
Bobby Vylan attended his first pro-Palestine protest at the age of 15, escorted by a friend’s mother. He remembers the “feeling of people coming together
‘Blue Monday is one of the 20th century’s greatest artworks’: Wolfgang Tillmans on swapping his camera for a microphone
Wolfgang Tillmans never had any intention of releasing music and certainly no intention of playing it live. This is an intriguing thing for the noted
Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino review – sublime 80s pop innovation meets 21st-century chaos
Describing debut albums as long-awaited is par for the course, but in Fabiana Palladino’s case it’s also perfectly true. It’s been 13 years since she
Kanye’s back – labels might care about his misdeeds, but the public doesn’t seem to | Shaad D’Souza
Over the course of about a month in late 2022, Kanye West seemingly blew up his career for ever. Weeks of increasingly erratic behaviour culminated
Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay
An Ethiopian cultural surge – including a first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the rise of stars such as Ruth Negga and The