‘It’s schmoozing – but that’s nothing new’: how the record shop in-store gig changed touring
At one end of Banquet Records in Kingston upon Thames the Dutch indie band Personal Trainer are performing a short set next to the album
Fred Again: Ten Days review – pop house with unfulfilled pretensions
In August, Fred Gibson became the first dance artist to headline the Reading and Leeds festivals. Early on, he addressed the crowd, talking about how
Norman Spencer, David Lean’s collaborator and UK’s second oldest man, dies aged 110
Norman Spencer, who worked on some of the most acclaimed films made in Britain in the 1940s and 50s, has died at the age of
Could Hallgrímsson be an inspired choice as Ireland move on from crises? | Barry Glendenning
When the press release was finally issued eight months after Stephen Kenny’s departure, most Republic of Ireland fans expected John O’Shea to get the nod.
Texas review – Sharleen Spiteri on fantastic form in career-spanning set
What’s startling about hearing Texas play a career-spanning set is realising quite how many awfully good songs Sharleen Spiteri and Johnny McElhone have written together.
Can Travis Knight’s He-Man movie do for boys what Greta Gerwig’s Barbie did for girls?
Just a couple of years ago the advent of a Barbie movie powered by feminism might have seemed about as likely as the plaything giving
Post your questions for Nelly Furtado
Seven years since her last album, 2017’s The Ride, Nelly Furtado’s seventh album is, quite sensibly, named 7. The Canadian Portuguese musician’s return to music
‘We don’t care whether it’s cool or not’: inside the weaponised weirdness of Mermaid Chunky
“It was really surreal,” recalls Moina Moin, of the day in 2022 when DFA Records founder James Murphy invited Mermaid Chunky, the duo Moin formed
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party: Chain of Light review | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month
The year 1990 was a pivotal one for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Since his appearance at Womad festival five years prior, the Pakistani qawwali singer
Beauty and the beat: why do so many models shoot for pop stardom?
The punks said that anyone can be a musician – but for proof that this may not be true, play Kim Kardashian’s 2011 single Jam