“Before Elvis,” John Lennon famously said, describing the cultural landscape of the 1950s, “there was nothing.” And if you were a young aspiring musician looking for an escape from your suburban existence, then that must have been how the decade seemed. Post-war austerity. Scant...
Haim have announced their return to the stage with two shows in Los Angeles next week. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Haim live in London: sisters make huge return to spiritual home The sister trio are due to play at The Bellwether –...
An unheard song by Avicii is set to feature on a new compilation dedicated to the late Swedish DJ and producer. The track ‘Let’s Ride Away’ featuring Elle King will appear on ‘Avicii Forever’, along with 19 songs from the artist’s back catalogue. Advertisement...
This is Josh Tillman’s debut at the Royal Albert Hall – or, as he tells the audience, the first time he’s ever even been in a room this distinguished – but it feels like the venue that Father John Misty was born to play....
Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon has revealed that Taylor Swift‘s ‘Folklore’-era collaborations with him and Aaron Dessner originally stemmed from Big Red Machine demos. READ MORE: Bon Iver – ‘SABLE fABLE’ review: a creative rebirth In 2020, Taylor Swift released two folk-inspired albums, ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’....
Billy Nomates has shared a new single, ‘Plans’, and announced an autumn UK and European tour – get tickets here. READ MORE: Billy Nomates: “I’m a woman in the modern world, of course I’m angry!” ‘Plans’ is the second single from Nomates’ – real name Tor...
Some musicians get their first glimpse of celebrity, flinch in the glare of the spotlight, and quickly burrow their way back underground. But Duncan Sumpner, you suspect, knew from the beginning that fame – even fame on a very small and grassroots indie level...
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, heroic challenger to male authority, has stamped her identity on Western culture over millennia, the subject of ancient Greek tragedy and French drama, European operas and world cinema. In Sophocles’s play, she ends up hanging herself rather than being walled...
In 2022, Neil Young embarked on his first concert tour in almost four years, 15 shows that never strayed too far from the Californian coastline. For Young – subjected, like all of us, to lockdown restrictions – this was the longest period he’d been...
Noddy Holder is recounting the colourful discussions that led to Slade In Flame, the 1975 feature film that stalled the band’s career but has been subsequently hailed (by critic Mark Kermode) as “the Citizen Kane of British pop movies”, poised for a plush 50th...
