Pat Metheny is pretty much everywhere. For the past four decades, the 70-year-old guitarist has been crisscrossing the globe, playing an average of 150 shows
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Actress: Дарен Дж Каннінгем review – elegant mixtape leans into abstraction
A self-titled record can be significant, signalling a reset or autobiographical candour. Neither quite applies here, if only because UK electronic producer Darren J Cunningham
Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis’s contemporary album of the month
Musical invocations of Englishness can mean anything from Elgar to Davey Graham to the Sex Pistols. They can be nostalgic and pastoral, mournful or dystopian.
Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit
Patti Smith – Pissing in a River (1976) Chosen by Phoebe Lunny, singer/guitarist of Brighton duo Lambrini Girls This is so beautiful and heartfelt, but
Three people charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina
Three people have been charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina for supplying narcotics and the abandonment of a person followed by death.
Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Across the Universe (1998) You could easily fill a Top 20 with Apple’s original compositions, but this Beatles cover deserves recognition for arguably besting
Linkin Park: From Zero review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
In September, Linkin Park’s comeback single The Emptiness Machine entered the UK singles chart at No 4. You could see that as an extraordinary state
Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego
Pharrell Williams’s life … only it’s Lego. A fun idea – like Muhammad Ali in Etch-a-Sketch or Harry and Meghan with Thunderbirds puppets. This is
Deep Purple review – age cannot wither these pogoing rock elders
There are certain things that have to be factored into life: Boris Johnson will self-promote; Five Guys is overpriced; and Deep Purple (and their spinoff
‘It’s shocking no-one’s done this before’: the 13-hour gig digging up the African roots of global pop
‘Can you own a rhythm?” asks British-Egyptian historian Dr Hannah Elsisi. She points out that pop charts around the world are infused with Africa-rooted music,