While current global events would seem more likely to inspire dark or depressed music, the Tennessee-based, Grammy-nominated, Bob Dylan-favoured Americana singer-songwriter Valerie June is pushing
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‘My players are Olympians’: meet Bradford legends the Black Dyke Brass Band
It’s the smell that hits you first. One hundred and seventy years of slide grease and valve oil hang pungent in the air. Outside, it’s
‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record
Justin Vernon would rather not be doing any of this. Releasing a new Bon Iver album, promoting it. He absolutely isn’t going to tour it.
Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming
It seems weirdly fitting that Pulp have premiered their first album in 24 years with a song that appears to fret about the validity of
Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads
Ryan Coogler is the film-maker and hit-maker who started in social realism with his debut Fruitvale Station, became the Wakandan emperor of super heroism with
She’s got the Midas touch: Shirley Bassey songs – ranked!
20. Moonraker (End Title) (1979) Shirley Bassey apparently hated this Bond theme, protesting that the lyrics were nonsensical. She never performed it live. It’s certainly
Sherelle: With a Vengeance review | Album of the week
Like turning up the radio to drown out the sound of a jackhammer, a lot of the dance music that is resonating right now is
One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream
Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in
Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop
It all started as an unsolicited Facebook message, which may have been the first sign of foul play – and led to Wolfgang Flür, ex-member
Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels
Patti Smith has written a memoir that her publishers are describing as her “most intimate and visionary work” yet, which is due out this autumn.