Morrissey has donated £50,000 to the Salford Lads Club, the institution pictured on the inner sleeve of the Smiths’ 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.
Category: Music
Autre Ne Veut: Love, Guess Who?? review – long-awaited return is like peak Magic FM
Arthur Ashin, AKA Autre Ne Veut, emerged in 2010 with a self-titled instant classic of underground pop: think Prince had he lived alone in a
‘Somebody’s up there saying: good karma!’ Phil Manzanera on Roxy Music, Cuban grooves and making a fortune off Jay-Z and Kanye West
In the booklet that accompanies Phil Manzanera’s career-spanning, 11-CD box set, 50 Years of Music, there is a photocopied page of small ads from a
Annarella and Django: Jouer review – flute and west African lute shine in expressive new partnership
The plucked melodic twang of the ngoni, a west African lute, has long added an unexpected texture to fusion records. Jazz trumpeter Don Cherry featured
Charli xcx fans rejoice: ‘Brat’ chosen as Collins word of the year
Most have us have long moved on from “brat summer”, when, sparked by Charli xcx’s album of the same name, wearing slime green and embracing
Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug and gun charges
Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia, to gang, drug and gun charges. The 33-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose given name is Jeffery Williams,
Dolly Parton: ‘I was sorry when Dolly the sheep died – though I don’t want to be cloned’
How important were the circumstances of an often heartbreakingly hard childhood and background in rural Tennessee in the making of your career? eamonmccEverybody where we
Peter Perrett: The Cleansing review – a late-career triumph that dances in the face of death
Peter Perrett’s third solo album opens with a track called I Wanna Go With Dignity. You could suggest that’s par for the course: a certain
Fishing lines, mobile phones and Wirral wind: the oddly harmonious music of Ex-Easter Island Head
For most bands, the main perk of living in a slightly rundown mansion-cum-artistic community on the city’s edge would be having licence to make an
Marianne Faithfull: ‘I always knew I was something quite extraordinary’ – archive, 1979
It is difficult to think of anyone who has become as famous as Marianne Faithfull after having achieved so little. Fifteen years ago she recorded