When Laura Marling finishes her piano-led performance of No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can, a tender love song for her daughter, she claims
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The mysterious world of Two Shell: ‘Our pranks don’t mean we’re not sincere’
Two Shell, a buzzy London duo who make hyperactive yet melancholy bass music, are well known for giving people the runaround. They keep themselves anonymous,
A history of violence: how has Chris Brown survived so much controversy?
On 30 December 2020, Jane Doe, a professional dancer who had just moved to Los Angeles, was invited by a friend to a New Year’s
50,000 Oasis tickets to be cancelled for violating purchase terms
Ticketmaster will cancel about 50,000 tickets for the UK and Ireland dates of Oasis’s reunion tour for violating the company’s terms and conditions in the
‘She straddled love and illusion, a hell of a sacrifice’: Kristin Hersh on meeting Sinéad O’Connor
In 2005, Sinéad O’Connor and I sat in a dressing room in London together, people-watching and listening, eyeing the music biz swirl around us suspiciously.
Unknown waltz by Chopin found in library vault after nearly 200 years
An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia review – early midlife crisis triggers a freaked-out psychodrama
News of Tyler, the Creator’s seventh album came as something of a surprise: it arrived a matter of months after he announced on social media
‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house
Bryan Ferry, singer, songwriter I’m not a musical detective, but I’d put my money on the inspiration for Slave to Love coming from Prisoner of
Iron & Wine review – shadow puppets and folk-pop combine in singular gig
Sam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man
‘Julian Cope told me: you’re unemployable in the real world’: David Wrench, the Welsh studio wizard behind pop’s A-list
In 2009, David Wrench was close to giving it all up. He was working as an engineer in a recording studio in north Wales but