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Teddy Swims: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) review – retro soul with a retro lyrical attitude
While Brat summer grabbed the headlines as 2024’s defining musical movement, a straighter, more masculine, less lurid green development was rumbling in the background. Defined
Irish-language cinema has bright future despite Oscars snub, says Kneecap director
Hollywood may not have been quite ready to see Kneecap “walking down the red carpet smoking a joint” but the makers of the comedy biopic
Perfume Genius: ‘I want to feel extremes – but I’m not as self-destructive now’
Mike Hadreas feels that he had self-destructive tendencies as young as seven. “I saw a white van with no windows go by,” he says. “And
10cc’s Graham Gouldman: ‘Every West Indian person I’ve spoken to loves Dreadlock Holiday – but I wouldn’t write certain lines now’
Do 10cc deserve more recognition for their contribution to forward-thinking music in the 70s? In my mind, you were up there with Sparks and Roxy
Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic
In a world where august artists’ back catalogues have become big business, the music industry has become impressively adept at convincing people to shell out
‘Completely staggering’: how Shirley Henderson mastered Like a Rolling Stone
Todd Almond (actor in Broadway transfer): The song Like a Rolling Stone arrives at the end of Act One of Girl from the North Country,
‘You have to get behind the song’: singer Sam Amidon on fronting Bon Iver, schooling Paul Mescal and the new folk revival
Sam Amidon grew up in the 1980s, but his Vermont childhood was “almost like a refuge” from the gaudiest decade. His hippy parents were folk-singer
Lloyd Cole review – still causing a gentle commotion
Lloyd Cole is singing songs of love and pain, and singing them very well. But, ach, you can’t please everyone. “Lost Weekend!” shouts a fan
Garth Hudson, founder member of the Band and Bob Dylan collaborator, dies aged 87
Garth Hudson, the last remaining founder member of the Band, has died aged 87. The multi-instrumentalist, who played keyboards and saxophone for the bestselling 1960s