Every time I go through a breakup, I’m compelled to rewatch the noughties classic High Fidelity, in which OG softboi John Cusack mournfully chronicles a
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‘If I lost this flute, it would be pretty tragic’: Shabaka, Corinne Bailey Rae and Nilüfer Yanya on their favourite instruments
Shabaka on his shakuhachi: ‘The way it makes you feel is unsurpassed by any other instrument’ A central figure of the London jazz scene, Shabaka
Liam Gallagher review – Oasis frontman delivers Definitely Maybe in all its 90s glory
‘I haven’t got any fucking new ones for you, so it’s going to have to be an old one, all right?” proclaims Liam Gallagher at
Charli XCX: ‘Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong’
You used to get one shot in the music business: the wrong marketing, the wrong song and you’d never be heard from again. This was
‘I’m a fan of chaos’: Blondie’s Chris Stein on Bowie, Debbie Harry and 50 years in rock’n’roll
In the late 1970s, in downtown Manhattan, the musician Chris Stein became friendly with a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both men were a long way
‘She dominates our age’: how Taylor Swift became the greatest show on Earth
How to write about the biggest, most written-about star in the world as summer 2024 approaches, and with it the arrival of Taylor Swift’s Eras
‘I’m bringing his music back to life’: the singer whose grandfather was silenced by the Holocaust
My family has a piano. Its keys are weathered from touch. It has tiny marks on the top right corner where my dad used to
Maya Hawke: I’m OK with having a life I don’t deserve due to nepotism
The Stranger Things star Maya Hawke has said she is “comfortable with not deserving” the kind of life she has. The American actor and singer,
Thank you for the music: Abba members get Swedish knighthoods
Abba have received one of the most prestigious Swedish knighthoods after being awarded an order of chivalry last handed out almost 50 years ago. The
Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 review – magnetic Afrobeats
Beninese-Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr has fast become one of the biggest musicians to come out of west Africa. Her debut, 19 and Dangerous, was gutsy,