Lost recordings of a 1967 Ella Fitzgerald concert, including her spin on the era’s pop songs such as Alfie and Music to Watch Girls By,
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‘Music is a magic’: how David Lynch used song and sound to transcend reality
‘Music,” David Lynch said when I spoke to him for the Guardian last year, “is a magic”. We were discussing the album Cellophane Memories, which
Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial
There were people who thought Drake v Kendrick was the greatest hip-hop beef of all time, attracting a wider level of public interest and proceeding
Mobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising
Big Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy got me not
No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What the songs with a billion streams on Spotify tell us about music taste today
In 2011, Jacob Rubeck and Nick Rattigan were living in a basement in Reno, Nevada, and thinking about starting a band. One afternoon, Rubeck came
Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem album review – a sense of special occasion, all concerned believe in it
“A Requiem for human contact, solidarity and the human voice that have all become dangerous and contagious” is Rufus Wainwright’s description of his ambitious requiem,
‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Measure of a Man (ft Central Cee) (2021) An unexpected diversion. From spy action movie The King’s Man, Measure of a Man goes full
‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them
Despite the terrible box office performance, and movie theatres cancelling screenings, Americans are at least talking about the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man. “I hate
Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra
Today it is the venerable home of the English National Opera, but back in June 1914, the London Coliseum welcomed an act quite unlike anything
Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly
Mogwai’s 11th album commences with an icy electronic arpeggio enveloped in reverb. Beneath, other, deeper, darker synthesiser tones build and glide. The effect is both