So far, all things considered, 2024 has been pretty dark. Online, people are responding by embracing fecklessness and hedonism. Some are having a Brat summer,
Category: Music
Fontaines DC: Romance review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
Few debuts in recent years have boasted an opening quite as striking as Big, the first track on Fontaines DC’s 2019 album Dogrel. One minute
‘I had a walloping left hook I didn’t see coming’: ex-Girls singer Christopher Owens on his journey back from rock bottom
In 2017 Christopher Owens was at a crossroads. After a decade spent making records and touring them – initially with cult indie band Girls, then
Spanish island says Katy Perry video filmed without proper authorization
The government of Spain’s Balearic islands has said it is looking into how a Katy Perry video came to be filmed on a small, protected
Sex Pistols and Frank Carter review – rip-roaring punk rock redux
This is not the first time the Sex Pistols have reformed. Punk rock’s original shock troops reunited in 1996 for the aptly named Filthy Lucre
Lone Star review – John Sayles’s powerful crime drama is an extraordinary relic of 90s film-making
This rerelease of John Sayles’s western crime drama from 1996 is a reminder that he offered a vital but now maybe overlooked strand of indie
BTS member Suga facing possible prison sentence or fine over drink-driving e-scooter incident
Suga, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, faces a potential prison sentence or a hefty fine after a breathalyser test revealed he was over
Matt McBriar of Bicep treated for ‘large and pretty rare’ brain tumour
Matt McBriar, one half of successful Northern Irish dance music duo Bicep, has announced he is receiving treatment for a “large and pretty rare” brain
Wembley Stadium bans Taylor Swift fans without tickets as security kept tight
Taylor Swift fans congregating en masse to sing along outside open-air venues has become almost as much of a part of the Eras tour as
Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum
For his first documentary, the Australian auteur Justin Kurzel – whose oeuvre includes Snowtown, True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram – was never