by The Guardian | May 1st, 2022 | Reviews |
Kate Nash signed her first record deal at just 19 – and her 2008 song, ‘Foundations’, is a generation’s anthem. Then her world unravelled. Here, the musician reveals how...
by The Guardian | May 1st, 2022 | Reviews |
Nabil Ayouch’s grittily authentic tale of a rapper turned teacher helping his students find their creative voices is a class actThe Arabic title of Franco-Moroccan director Nabil...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
Jonny Trunk began collecting record shop bags about five years ago. “I was nostalgic about Woolies and Our Price, so I asked record dealers and collectors if they had a bag...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
(Anti-)The Haitian-American musician explores the troubled history of creole-language Radio Haiti on her rewarding fourth albumBorn in New York to Haitian parents and now based...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
The Warpaint musician on the latest Batman film, relaxing with a solitaire app and the joys of homemade pizzaBorn in Nevada in 1981, Jenny Lee Lindberg is a founding member of...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
Koko, LondonReturning with strong new material after five years away, the Canadian indie rockers are a joyous throng of irrepressible humanityArcade Fire: ‘America is rotten, but...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
The singer, 35, on stunning Scottish nature, music in Zambia, meeting her partner and receiving an MBEThe 80s weren’t easy for my parents. My mum is English and Dad is from...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
Manchester AcademyAfter a TikTok hit brought her out of early retirement, the US songwriter reaches deep into her back catalogue for a taut, artful and intense setDressed in a...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
After the high-concept hijinks around their last record turned off fans, the indie troubadours have gone back to basics with a rousing new album about Trump and togetherness...
by The Guardian | April 30th, 2022 | Reviews |
The Berlin Phil, Tredegar Band and at least two great viola players are among the highlights of the first full Proms season since 2019, announced last weekProms 5 and Prom 6 BBC...
by SPIN | April 29th, 2022 | Reviews |
When we first met Melody Prochet, the Paris-based singer-songwriter wasn’t mourning love lost; she was patiently feeding lost love to a sonic kaleidoscope and minting a DayGlo,...
by The Guardian | April 29th, 2022 | Reviews |
(Bureau B)A compilation of DIY releases smuggled out of 1980s East Berlin on cassette includes glistening minimalism, pulsating grooves and wonky technoCassette culture may now...
by The Guardian | April 29th, 2022 | Reviews |
(Spinefarm)The Gothic, operatic metallers deliver hook after hook on an album so streamlined and efficient you can almost hear the pyro cuesRammstein fill stadiums around the...
by The Guardian | April 29th, 2022 | Reviews |
A profoundly mournful classical work, written by one of Poland’s leading avant-garde composers, vied with REM and Paul McCartney to become a huge bestseller in 1992. Those...
by The Guardian | April 29th, 2022 | Reviews |
Now one of the UK’s biggest bands, the trio talk about the impact of losing two founder members, fighting pandemic gloom with a euphoric seventh album, and why the climate crisis...
by The Guardian | April 28th, 2022 | Reviews |
My son Finley Scholefield, who has died unexpectedly in his sleep aged 24, was an industrious young man who was always creating, be it music, art, apps, or some random wire...