Having rather lost their way for a decade, the Manics rediscovered their fire on Send Away the Tigers (2007) and then 2009’s magnificent Journal for
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Cynefin: Shimli review | Jude Rogers’s folk album of the month
In the tiny kiln rooms of west Walian mills over a century ago, farmers would tell stories, read verse and sing songs through the night
‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death
When the singer-songwriter Neko Case was growing up in poverty in rural Washington, it did not occur to her to question her parents or their
Rihanna appears again at A$AP Rocky’s gun assault trial as ex-friend testifies
The most important testimony at the trial of the rapper A$AP Rocky got second billing for a second day as superstar Rihanna sat quietly in
Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as
It is difficult to think of a moment in pop history less receptive to a 1960s icon relaunching their career than in 1979. At that
Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78. A spokesperson said:
Soul, sermonising and wrestling Satan: James Brown’s 20 best albums – ranked!
20. The Amazing James Brown (1961) If you want a roll call of James Brown’s formative influences, just check the covers on this album: Hank
Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the month
The last time the world heard from Sharon Van Etten, it was 2022. She was pictured on the cover of her sixth album, We’ve Been
‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down
Given that he is the producer behind some of the most cherished and idiosyncratic British pop of the 1980s, from Elvis Costello to Dexys Midnight
Luther: Never Too Much review – the mystery and brilliance of ‘love doctor’ Vandross
All of the mystery and certainty of love is carried in Luther Vandross’s radiant singing voice. On uptempo tracks he seems suffused with joy; on