Step inside a shopping centre in Catalonia or walk around a Christmas market in the Ruhr valley right now and you’ll find it impossible to
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Amazon push may help Tom Grennan beat Wham! to UK Christmas No 1
Alexa, can you make a Christmas No 1? As this year’s battle for the most played and bought track of the festive season reaches its
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 3 – Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft
As with Billie Eilish’s last album, 2021’s Happier Than Ever, Hit Me Hard and Soft opens with a state of the nation that reflects her
Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty
The near transcendentally awful cover art of this 38-track compilation, released with little fanfare this week, will already be familiar to hardcore Aphex Twin fans.
The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024
10. Ezra Feinberg – Soft Power Feinberg emerged about 20 years ago as the leading member of a San Francisco psych rock band called Citay.
‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM
In Düsseldorf in 1978, you might think Kraftwerk would be considered royalty in the local music scene. However, for a new era of kids coming
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 4 – Clairo: Charm
‘It’s all I really want,” Clairo sighs on Sexy to Someone, Charm’s lead single. Accompanied by ditzy Mellotron and wide-eyed flute, the song verges on
From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020) View image in fullscreen For a time, it looked as if Dylan might be settling into the
‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?
“Madame is the greatest star of them all.” The words are spoken by Max Von Mayerling, butler to the fading star Norma Desmond, in the
Matt Goss on love, loss and his brother Luke: ‘I don’t want to lie any more. We’re completely estranged’
It’s not hard to spot the pop star in the restaurant – fabulous highlights, diamond rings on his fingers and a sheepskin coat that could