Anyone unfamiliar with Amyl and the Sniffers could learn a lot about them from the fact that when an acoustic guitar appears nine songs and
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‘Maybe I am bizarre to some people …’ The unique, underrated mind of 70s singer Dory Previn
Julia Greenberg was in a friend’s car, driving through New England, when a playful ballad about a Hollywood down-and-out came on the stereo. Who is
The Cult review – hard rock survivors blast through a beefy 40th birthday party
Ian Astbury is annoyed. There are hurt feelings, perhaps the makings of a fight, among some fans at the lip of the stage and the
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – still blowing minds after 50 years
Bruce Springsteen fans get liner notes of the most luxurious, informed and immersive kind with this documentary by longtime Springsteen chronicler Thom Zimny, who charts
‘Young women from the ghetto were taken advantage of’: the power and pain of R&B’s ‘new jill swing’ era
A flash of Technicolor fills the screen, as four women spin and glide in perfect unison. The bouncy crunch of drum machines collides with slick,
‘There’s vomit on my sweater already!’ Barack Obama raps Eminem’s Lose Yourself at Detroit rally
Barack Obama rapped Eminem’s signature hit Lose Yourself to a crowd in Detroit during a campaign rally for Kamala Harris. He was preceded by Eminem
A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out
I was visiting my brother at RAF Chivenor in 1994, where he was based as an armourer. My parents and I had driven from Glasgow
‘It romanticised my night!’ The R&B slow jam events making Black British clubbers swoon
It’s just past 5pm in West Silvertown, a random-feeling stop on the DLR line in east London’s docklands. It’s not the sexiest time or location,
Composer Oliver Coates on the cello, chaos and connection: ‘The best music is out there in nature’
When Oliver Coates was 19 or so, he got a job playing cello on a cruise ship. “Quite a bow tie, buttoned-up kind of space,”
‘We were banging our heads against a wall – the wall won’: the genius pop and tragic demise of Boys Wonder
The song begins with a barrage of power chords, brazenly stolen from the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again. The opening lyrics are mewled out in