It’s March 2015 and a bombshell has hit the world of pop: Zayn Malik is leaving One Direction. Fans, everywhere, are in crisis. Within an
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Travis Scott review – rap’s commander puts the mosh pit through its paces
There are moments when tonight’s stop on Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus tour feels more metal gig than rap-show. It’s not just the numerous circle-pits (with
‘I hate the idea of playing music to people’: Griff on shyness, stardom and supporting Taylor Swift
In a perfect world, nobody would ever hear a Griff song. “I hate the idea of playing music to people,” says the 23-year-old, curled up in
‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music
Laura Marling is wondering whether to sacrifice her career for motherhood. The 34-year-old singer-songwriter, who first found fame with her enchanting yet earthy folk as
Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’
Why is [the Police’s 1983 album] Synchronicity being reissued [as an expanded box set] now? Dmitry-SThe Police had an epiphany courtesy of the Beatles’ documentary,
Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy
There is a moment during any music festival when I want to tear my skin off and go home. It’s not after the two-plus days
Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism
If anyone could get away with presenting a “generative documentary” rather than a bog-standard bio-doc, it would have to be Brian Eno, the high priest
Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
It’s fair to say that Cassandra Jenkins did not expect to achieve a minor commercial breakthrough with her 2021 album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature.
Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist sued for wrongful death in alleged fatal collision
Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer is being sued for wrongful death and negligence after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian earlier this year.
‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis
It’s 1.30am and the band El Guajiro y su Changüí, led by freestyling lyricist Celso Fernández, are cooking on all burners. They’re onstage at an