As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming
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Marianne Faithfull: posthumous EP to be released for Record Store Day
Four new songs recorded by Marianne Faithfull in the year prior to her death are to be released for Record Store Day on 12 April.
Everybody dance: Nile Rodgers’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!
20. Johnny Mathis – Fall in Love (I Want To) (1981) It was criminal that Mathis’s label cancelled the release of his Chic-produced album, I
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film
Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will oversee a film documenting Oasis’s 2025 reunion tour. Knight is described as the creator of the film and
Annie & the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
The saga of Annie and the Caldwells’ debut album is lengthy and convoluted. The record probably wouldn’t have existed at all had crate-digging record collectors
‘Johnny Rotten tore my record off the deck’: the superfan at the centre of disco and punk
In the mid-70s, Alan Jones was performing a particularly exquisite balancing act. A habitué both of Vivienne Westwood’s London boutique Sex and the gay clubs,
‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win
Daniel Blumberg hands me his Oscar, as surprised as he is chuffed. Bloody hell, it’s heavy. Is it real gold? “I wish it was,” says
Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving
Since 2021, Spotify has published its Loud & Clear report, corralling data points to show how much money is being earned by artists on the
‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’
The journalist Andrey Sapozhnikov of Novaya Gazeta Europe, the independent Russian newspaper that now operates from Latvia in order to avoid censorship by Putin’s regime,
‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh
Joost Klein is arguably the first artist to triumph at the Eurovision song contest without actually performing in the final. In May last year, the