The Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band
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‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance
There’s an enormous amount of pressure for couples choosing the right song to soundtrack their wedding’s first dance. It’s not just that it’s three minutes
Every One Direction album returns to UK Top 40 as fans grieve Liam Payne
The whole of One Direction’s five-album back catalogue has charted in this week’s Top 40, as fans revisit their songs in the wake of Liam
Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator
A forest in Ecuador could be recognised as the co-creator of a song under a groundbreaking legal proposal. A petition is to be submitted to
The return of Hope of the States: ‘There will be no tantrums. I’m a grown man now’
“Let the healing begin,” says Sam Herlihy the moment I turn on my tape recorder. He’s joking, but not entirely. In December, Herlihy’s band Hope
Lady Gaga: Disease review – a return to form, and to her classic sound
Thus far, 2024 has proved a decidedly mixed bag for Lady Gaga. On the plus side, her duet with Bruno Mars, Die With a Smile
Kate Bush: Little Shrew review – this devastating film will make you weep at war’s violence against children
All of Kate Bush’s sense of wonder, and how she tempers it with not just melancholy but outright sorrow, is threaded through her devastatingly moving
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: The Old Country review – a delightful return to a cherished jazz venue
When he first played the Deer Head Inn, a romantic 1840s clapboard hotel on the edge of a Delaware national park, Keith Jarrett was 16,
Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes review – teetering song-towers that never quite topple
Halfway through the Dr Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, our young protagonist bursts out of a dull cul-de-sac and into a Technicolor tent
‘Who am I voting for? America!’ Chris Stapleton on patriotism, politics and being country’s great crossover star
Chris Stapleton has played five arenas in the UK over the past week, on a tour dubbed the All-American Road Show. Posters depicted his grandly