Kevin Parker remembers the first time he ever splurged on an item of clothing: he was out shopping with his girlfriend, now wife, and bought
Category: Music
James Martin’s honest playlist: ‘I learned to play guitar so I could perform Don’t Stop Believin’ every night’
The first song I remember hearing I grew up in a farmhouse in Welburn, a little village in North Yorkshire. My mother had an old
Toumani Diabaté obituary
The Malian musician Toumani Diabaté, who has died aged 58 after a short illness, was the undisputed master of the kora, the stately and stirring
Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desir review – heartache all the way
The offbeat pseudonym belongs to Sturgill Simpson, American country’s most singular star, for whom five albums under one name is enough (he has actually issued
Megan Thee Stallion review – positivity bootcamp with a rapper on fire
Most pop stars are minted through trial by fire: are you really an A-lister if you haven’t weathered some kind of scandal, tragedy or faux-cancellation?
‘I puked virtually every morning’: inside the stressful life of a festival organiser
Fiona Stewart, the owner and managing director of Green Man festival in Wales, compares launching a festival to opening your own restaurant. You love eating
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’
Born in Nottinghamshire, Dickinson, 65, became lead singer of the band Iron Maiden in 1981. In 1982, The Number of the Beast became the first
Post your questions for Interpol
Of all the buzz bands to emerge from early 00s New York, Interpol have been one of the most distinctive and enduring – and as
Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review – immaculately polite, Coldplay-lite pop-rock
How do you follow up the biggest international hit by a British artist since the mid-1990s? That was the conundrum facing Oxford four-piece Glass Animals
Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol 2 review – annoyingly irresistible
Sometimes it’s unclear why an artist calls one collection of songs a mixtape and another an album. There’s little confusion here. Rapper Curry’s last album,