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Taylor Swift fans given ‘urgent warning’ as £1m lost in ticket scams
via theguardian.comLloyds Bank says more than 600 of its customers have been tricked by fraudsters so farA rise in fraud cases involving Taylor Swift fans desperate to buy tickets to her sold-out UK shows has prompted Lloyds Bank to issue an “urgent warning” after more than 600 of its customers were scammed.With the superstar due to arrive in Europe next month, the high street bank said its data suggested that UK fans had lost more than £1m to fraudsters so far. Continue reading... -
Country star Lainey Wilson on her long road to Grammy glory: ‘Maybe I wasn’t as crazy as people thought!’
via theguardian.comAfter slogging through poverty, indifference and Hannah Montana impersonations, the US singer is an award-winning sensation and selling out a UK tour. She explains why her genre is going mainstream like never beforeYou get the sense the country music establishment really had no choice but to embrace Lainey Wilson: that she wasn’t going anywhere until they did. When the singer-songwriter arrived in Nashville in 2011, she parked her 20-foot bumper pull trailer on a studio’s lawn and an -
John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single
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Tantrums of the rich and famous: nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur
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‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’: musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy
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Coachella 2024: women save the day as festival suffers an identity crisis
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‘It’s really saying you’re not gorgeous at all’: how Babybird made You’re Gorgeous
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Doja Cat at Coachella review – an electrifying tour de force
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Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life review – down the rabbit hole with a musical maverick
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Akon’s honest playlist: ‘The best song to have sex to? Smack That by Akon’
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I don’t know if it’s the first song I remember hearing, but the first song I remember singing was No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley. I grew up in Senegal and I would sing it on my way to and from school.The song I stream the most
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Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat review – a freewheeling, joyous listen
via theguardian.com(Anti-)
The American multi-instrumentalist combines a wide range of Black musical traditions on her beautifully crafted fifth solo albumMulti-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla was exploring the Black legacies of country music and Americana long before Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter made the idea mainstream. As a member of the group Our Native Daughters, she has highlighted the presence of Black female banjo players, while her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops explored the Black songbook f -
Bodega: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life review – uneven railing against the evils of capitalism
via theguardian.com(Chrysalis)
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Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace review – an elegant rebirth
via theguardian.com(Impulse!)
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‘I spend less time self-sabotaging’: Robbie Williams and Joe Lycett on making art
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All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckraker
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Sunday with Eddy Grant: ‘I’m surrounded by the best cooks in the world’
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Romy review – a masterclass in bittersweet feeling
via theguardian.comRoundhouse, London
Showcasing her debut solo album, last year’s Mid Air, the xx frontwoman escapes the elegant restraint of her band with a set full of euphoric rhythms and unambiguous hymns to her wifeRomy Madley Croft, sometimes of the band the xx, is somewhere on stage, veiled in a thick fog of dry ice. Amniotic beats throb in the distance. We’re nearing the end of the first night of her two London Club Mid Air sets in which Romy’s celebrated solo debut album of last year, M -
Big Zuu: ‘Music and cooking make me feel euphoric’
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via theguardian.comShe had to go her own way to get her 90s indie-infused drum’n’bass bangers heard. Now, after opening for Beyoncé, the performer is about to release her first album, a ‘quintessentially British record’Nia Archives is a loud and proud junglist. When you dive deep into the West Yorkshire DJ, producer and singer’s discography, you might assume she was around during the genre’s mid-90s golden era. But being born in 1999 hasn’t stopped her from being no -
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via theguardian.comWhether you want to ask the Latin music legend and groundbreaking drummer about learning to play on pots and pans, paradiddles or Prince, now’s your chanceIn such an illustrious career, you might think there are few “firsts” left for Sheila E to conquer. She started performing age five and played with her father’s band. She joined the George Duke Band in 1977, the same year she met Prince, who would become perhaps her greatest collaborator. She’s toured with the lik -
Still House Plants: If I Don’t Make It, I Love U review – inspiringly fearless and free art rock
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Powered by Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach’s astonishing singing, the British trio explore Dilla-time funkiness and math-rock detailFrom the album title onwards, unstoppably ardent feeling fills this awe-inspiring album from the British art-rock trio, whose music swells your heart and fizzes your mind. Creeping ever further out of the underground since forming at Glasgow School of Art in 2015, you’d need a whiteboard to triangulate the various acts that come to mind listening to th -
Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio review – emotional, ecstatic Morricone homage
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Harmonica star Maret and pianist/composer Collin pay homage to Ennio Morricone with drifting church-echo and trancelike soundsOrnette Coleman once told the BBC’s Jazz on 3 that when his mother Rosa gave him his first saxophone, but couldn’t afford lessons, he thought it was a toy and played it without realising “you have to learn something to find out what the toy does”. Maybe it’s an extreme case, but not an unfamiliar jazz story. Collisions of improvisers&rs -
Girl in Red: I’m Doing It Again Baby! review – ambitious alt-pop overshadows candid lyrics
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Fresh from a support slot on Taylor Swift’s Era tour, the Norwegian singer-songwriter pivots from lo-fi indie to full-blown widescreen popGirl in Red often seems fearless. From her raw first single I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend, Marie Ulven has laid everything bare in desperately romantic queer love songs and blunt, honest lyrics about depression. Her full-band live shows are almost reckless: at her 2022 Glastonbury performance, she plunged into the mosh pit, mic still on.Since tha -
‘They said I was worse than the Sex Pistols!’: folk legend Linda Thompson on trashing dressing rooms and losing her voice
via theguardian.comHer struggles with spasmodic dysphonia has led her to write an album for a bevy of other stars to sing. She talks about trauma, ageing and stealing an audience member’s carThe photo on the front of Linda Thompson’s new album, Proxy Music, is nothing if not striking. It features Thompson posing in an identical outfit to that worn by the model Kari-Ann Moller on the cover of Roxy Music’s eponymous 1972 debut, although her expression is noticeably different: in place of Moller&rsq -
Deep listening: the haunting sonic world of Cassandra Miller
via theguardian.comHer intimate compositions take existing melodies that she refracts, rethinks and expands into compelling new pieces. Ahead of the premiere of a new work for guitarist Sean Shibe, Cassandra Miller talks about process, pleasures and sleep chanting“I steal people’s souls”, says Cassandra Miller. The 47-year old Canadian composer sits in her light-filled living room at the top of a London block of flats, looking tranquil and as unlike a master of the dark arts as it is possible to -
Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud review – bold, fresh jungle unbound by tradition
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The Bradford producer confidently tethers her breakbeats to a pounding four-to-the-floor kick drum – which would have been unheard of in the 90s – on a pop-facing, innovative recordJudging by the cameraphone footage, Nia Archives’ support slot at the last of Beyoncé’s 2023 London gigs was not an unqualified success. Archives has suggested she “got a lot of hate for playing jungle” at the show: the audience certainly look like it’s -
‘The spirits of my ancestors empower me’: jazz great Idris Ackamoor on Afrofuturism, activism and André 3000
via theguardian.comA musical seeker since childhood, the 73-year-old’s journeys have taken himfrom lessons with Cecil Taylor to a formative tour of Africa and now work with the Outkast star. He explains why he’s still chasing the next chapterThe greatest music by spiritual jazz maestro and acclaimed saxophonist Idris Ackamoor suggests a swirling symbiosis between the living and the dead. Take his 2020 song When Will I See You Again?, in which his unfeigned croak of the words “we’ll all be f
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