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
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Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!
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
‘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