Even seasoned aficionados of avant-garde music are unlikely to have witnessed a musician playing a mini concerto for bubble wrap. But that’s what the composer
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Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’
The last time I was in Los Angeles, in February 2020, I had told a white lie. My taxi driver asked me what I was
Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure | Stewart Lee
The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths
On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
Jacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952, the son of the prolific screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He began writing films in the mid-1970s
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’
The Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band
‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance
There’s an enormous amount of pressure for couples choosing the right song to soundtrack their wedding’s first dance. It’s not just that it’s three minutes
Every One Direction album returns to UK Top 40 as fans grieve Liam Payne
The whole of One Direction’s five-album back catalogue has charted in this week’s Top 40, as fans revisit their songs in the wake of Liam
Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator
A forest in Ecuador could be recognised as the co-creator of a song under a groundbreaking legal proposal. A petition is to be submitted to
The return of Hope of the States: ‘There will be no tantrums. I’m a grown man now’
“Let the healing begin,” says Sam Herlihy the moment I turn on my tape recorder. He’s joking, but not entirely. In December, Herlihy’s band Hope
Lady Gaga: Disease review – a return to form, and to her classic sound
Thus far, 2024 has proved a decidedly mixed bag for Lady Gaga. On the plus side, her duet with Bruno Mars, Die With a Smile