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Musical bliss: the London jazz festival pays tribute to Alice and John Coltrane
via theguardian.comTen years after her death, the LJF climaxed with concerts recreating the ecstatic, devotional music heard in Alice Coltrane’s ashram, and the cosmic free jazz of her saxophonist husband It seems astonishing now, but Alice Coltrane’s music was not always taken seriously. Jazz histories didn’t mention her, and the gatekeepers of the jazz canon would often sneer at what they regarded as her patchouli-scented, orientalist exotica; her soft-headed dabbling in Indian and African them -
Bruce Springsteen becomes first non-Brit inducted into Ivors Academy
via theguardian.comThe Boss says he is proud to become a fellow after being recognised for his ‘impact on the UK’s cultural landscape’There is perhaps nobody in the US’s short history who is better-known for describing blue-collar American life.But Bruce Springsteen is to be recognised by the most British of institutions when he becomes the first foreigner to be inducted as a fellow of the Ivors Academy. Continue reading... -
‘Translation changes the original meaning’: how 70s psych rockers Happy End ended the ‘Japanese rock controversy’
via theguardian.comIn 1969, Takasshi Matsumoto and Haruomi Hosono opted to defy rock trends by singing in Japanese, not English – paving the way for ‘city pop’ and J-popTakashi Matsumoto and Haruomi Hosono faced a choice when starting a rock band in 1969: should the lyrics be sung in English, the genre’s lingua franca at the time, or Japanese? After a debate, the pair opted for their native tongue, and totally changed the course of their country’s music.Their group Happy End – w -
Federal agents raid multiple properties of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
via theguardian.comWhile the musician faces several lawsuits alleging sexual assault, it was not clear if he was the target of the investigationThe Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Monday that agents have raided properties in Los Angeles, Miami and New York that local news outlets have reported are tied to rapper and mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.NBC News and local stations in Los Angeles and Miami first reported the activity at Combs’s properties on Monday. Federal Homeland Security Inves -
Concert arenas urged to add £1 ticket levy to help small UK venues
via theguardian.comIndustry leaders say crisis-hit grassroots spaces are struggling to stay open as costs riseConcert arenas should impose a £1 levy on gig tickets to create a fund that helps prop up grassroots live music, with industry figures telling MPs that rising costs are creating a “crisis” for smaller venues.The culture, media and sport committee heard from promoters, artists and representatives from industry bodies, nearly all of whom backed the call for a levy to be placed on tickets, w -
James Blake’s music subscription model is a fantasy that disadvantages fans and musicians
via theguardian.comWith unrealistic costs, the inability to share music and the pressure of consumer expectations, the producer’s collaboration with Vault doesn’t add upAs a recording artist and designer, I’ve spent years thinking about digital music platforms and how they could be better for artists and fans. The current all-you-can-eat subscription model of Spotify, Apple Music and co is disenfranchising artists – the outcome a diminishing of value for music-makers and subconsciously for -
‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers
via theguardian.comThe surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screamingof their early daysNudity, raging fires, belching smoke, blinding strobes, nightmare-inducing surgical videos, fights and firearms: these are some of the things you may have encountered at a Butthole Surfers show while being pummelled by a squealing cacophony of acid-fried psychedelic noise-rock, as a man tripping wildly in his underpants -
Air review – a wild, jawdropping, widescreen extravaganza
via theguardian.comColiseum, London
The strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgia The languid opening notes of La Femme d’Argent are a musical madeleine that elicits a collective gasp from the Coliseum. God only knows how many late nights and fuzzy dawns Air’s album Moon Safari soundtracked when it came out in 1998. It seemed to be everywhere, like an essential utility, and triggered a deluge of chill-out music, none of which -
‘It’s sunny, with music bumping, and everyone in ripped clothing’: how Tyla set a new pop mood
via theguardian.comHer song Water made the South African a global star, while her undulating dance moves inspired TikTok challenges. Now the 22 year old is ready to take her ‘popiano’ sound to the next levelTyla may have 4.3 million followers on Instagram (called the Tygers), but she isn’t yet used to the equivalent real-world level of fame. For instance, she was recently approached by TikTok troll Harry Daniels. “There’s this guy that finds celebrities and sings to them,” she e -
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes review – the Reid brothers get their mojo back
via theguardian.com(Fuzz Club)
Forget the odd longueur – their first album in seven years rekindles the Scottish indie band’s gift for mixing melody and dissonanceGiven the weakness of so much of the brothers Reid’s post-1992 output, last autumn’s comeback single, Jamcod, was an unexpected triumph – the sound of a band rediscovering the combination of melody and dissonance that made their 1980s records so thrilling. That it’s the standout track on their first album since 2017&rs -
Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves review – the best track is the simplest
via theguardian.com(Domino)
Found sounds and touches of jazz enliven the American singer-songwriter’s woozy evocation of being present in changing timesCelebrated LA-based composer Julia Holter’s last outing, 2018’s 90-minute Aviary, tried to reproduce the cognitive dissonance of living in recent times, harnessing medieval Occitan, bagpipes and a polyphony of other instruments to capture the restlessness of the mind. Six years on, Something in the Room She Moves is no less ambitious in its intent -
Carrie Brownstein on aliens, sandwiches and bad outfits: ‘Big hats are my most recurring fashion crime’
via theguardian.comAhead of an Australian tour, the Sleater-Kinney frontwoman responds to 10 randomly selected questions – sharing her party trick and the best advice she ever gotIf you had a sandwich named after you, what would be in it?Peanut butter, banana and honey and a little bit of cinnamon. That is a pretty dessert-like sandwich but literally, before we started speaking, I ate one. Often when I’m working or traveling, I’ll eat at least one peanut butter sandwich a day. It is good protein! -
Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – the Latin queen is back on top
via theguardian.com(Sony)
Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgenceStreaming and AI may yet destroy music for ever – don’t be sad, we had a good run – but one of the sweeter morbid symptoms of this era is the revealed popularity of non-anglophone music. In 2023, Shakira split messily from her long-term partner, Gerard Piqué, and was fined more than £6m for tax fraud. Yet str -
Norah Jones: ‘When I met Ray Charles I couldn’t stop crying’
via theguardian.comThe singer, 44, talks about her earliest memories, awkward teenage years, thrill-seeking days and her chance to make music with her childhood heroMy earliest memory is of a dream I had aged three: standing in the park near my New York daycare, I bit my lip, and it came straight off like Play-Doh. Weird, right?Mum raised me – she was a fierce, strong woman. She worked a lot, so I was always in classes: diving, piano, art and pottery. Mum often said she wanted to give me the childhood she wi -
Gossip: Real Power review – a welcome return that could be braver and weirder
via theguardian.com(Columbia)
The first album in 12 years from Beth Ditto’s US dance-punk trio feels strongly personal and political. Musically, though, it pulls its punchesGossip – the trio made up of singer Beth Ditto, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Howdeshell and drummer Hannah Blilie – were never just a one-hit wonder. Originally released in 2006, Standing in the Way of Control, the US band’s breakout hit, always had plenty of good company: workouts honed to maximum bounce throughout Goss -
One to watch: Balming Tiger
via theguardian.comA tight unit with a riotous party spirit, K-pop collective are bringing their culture to the massesBalming Tiger are a many-headed beast. Formed in 2018, this 11-strong K-pop collective boasts a rotating cast of rappers, vocalists, writers, producers and cinematographers. Despite the mass of personalities involved, they’re a tight unit. In interviews they deliver neat slogans about their mission to bring Korean culture to the masses, like executives readying themselves for a product launch -
‘When I was younger I was arrogant’: Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on fatherhood and growing up
via theguardian.comThey were initially dismissed as the acme of upper-class preppiness, but the band’s new album Only God Was Above Us is its grittiest yet. Has their frontman finally exorcised past demons?On its surface, Only God Was Above Us, the fifth album from Vampire Weekend, has a darkly fatalist point of view. Over some of the band’s loudest, grittiest production to date, frontman and songwriter Ezra Koenig sings of curses, missed connections and imagined wars, airing plangent anxieties ab -
The Veronicas on making music and mistakes: 'I don’t know why people didn’t take Twitter away from me'
via theguardian.comAfter 20 years of ups and downs in the industry, the Australian pop duo have a new album out. This time, they’re doing it their wayAs the Veronicas see it, there is a thread connecting every mistake they’ve made in their nearly 20-year career: surrendering control. Across their two decades in music, they say others have pushed them in certain directions, sometimes against their own gut feelings. And it’s rarely gone well.“The only regrets we have are the times that we hav -
Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – intimate Americana tackling life’s great tangle
via theguardian.com(Anti)
Katie Crutchfield’s sixth album refines the breezy country of her 2020 breakthrough Saint Cloud and finds her as compelled by the complexities of life as its easesThe evolution of Waxahatchee is one of modern music’s most satisfying journeys. From 2013’s rickety, wispy Cerulean Salt to Saint Cloud, her full-bodied shift to Americana in 2020, Katie Crutchfield has chronicled the ups and downs of existence in intimate but sweeping songs that needle at the point of it all. -
‘I would love to not be underrated’: pop experimentalist Empress Of on vulnerability, fame and fun
via theguardian.comThe musician Loreley Rodriguez gained a cult following for songs about heartbreak and anxiety – now her new album pays tribute to pleasure. She talks about her pop inspirations, social media and enjoying her ‘single era’The musician Empress Of, real name Loreley Rodriguez, is trying to tell me about her new album, but there is a problem. A Los Angeles native, she’s in London for a week of press, with starry trappings: a show at the Jazz Cafe; an appearance on Radio 1; din -
Joni Mitchell follows Neil Young in returning her music to Spotify
via theguardian.comMitchell originally acted in solidarity with Young’s protest over the spread of vaccine misinformation on the platform, which he has now endedJoni Mitchell’s music has returned to Spotify more than two years after she left the streaming platform in solidarity with Neil Young’s protest over it hosting anti-vax content.Mitchell made no comment about the return of her music, though the move comes a week after Young said he was putting his music back on Spotify after the platform e -
Elbow: Audio Vertigo review – rhythmic, rousing reinvention conceals dark humour
via theguardian.com(Polydor)
The band’s 10th album incorporates African and South American rhythms and instrumentation alongside Guy Garvey’s darkest, funniest lyrics for yearsElbow have subtly reinvented themselves so many times that they’re now journeying far from their rocky guitar roots. Their 10th album features bubbling synths, playful orchestrations, African-inspired rhythms and what vocalist Guy Garvey has called “seedy, gnarly grooves”. The particularly innovative Lovers&rsqu -
Ganavya: Like the Sky, I’ve Been Too Quiet review – ornate Tamil vocals, flutes and Floating Points
via theguardian.com(Native Rebel Recordings)
The latest album in an exciting wave of experimental north Indian classical music enlists Shabaka Hutchings and Leafcutter John in its downtempo quietudeThe intricate vocal acrobatics of north Indian classical music have been fertile ground for exciting fusions in recent years. Singer Arooj Aftab’s delicate variations of Urdu poetry have provided the perfect accompaniment for ambient synth soundscapes and sweeping strings on 2021’s Vulture Prince and 2023&rs -
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark reviewed – archive, March 1974
via theguardian.com22 March 1974: The album shows how rock is growing up, gracefully, maturely, and dealing with the concern of a now slightly ageing generationFrom being the folksy best friend of anyone who was anything in the West Coast music scene, Joni Mitchell has gradually and unevenly developed into a songwriter of considerable stature. Her sixth and best album to date, Court and Spark (Asylum), is currently the top seller in America, which is mildly surprising: it is both too solemn and too good for that.L -
Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – revenge served disappointingly tepid
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Despite a hit diss track so withering it affected the stock market and enlivening turns from Cardi B and leading regional Mexican musicians, the Colombian’s wan 12th album washes out her adventurous spiritThe cover of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran features a closeup shot of Shakira crying, her tears turning into diamonds as they run down her face. It’s a neat summation of relatively recent developments in the singer’s career. Her 2023 single Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 transfo -
‘An explosion of screaming and hysteria’: US fans on how they were introduced to the Beatles
via theguardian.comFour Americans on what it felt like to be swept up in Beatlemania, and reflecting on the band’s impact on their livesWhat Janet DiGangi recalls most vividly about the day the Beatles came to town is eating cake and ice-cream with furious impatience. It was 12 September 1964, and DiGangi was 12, living in Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest of seven siblings. The Beatles were about to play Boston Garden but the family couldn’t leave until they’d celebrated her brother Peter’ -
Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph
via theguardian.com‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’In the late 1980s I was working at Sub Pop records in Seattle as a jack of all trades, and also doing in-house photography. One evening I went to see the label’s new signings, Nirvana, but I just didn’t get it. I didn’t even photograph them that night, as I wasn’t impressed. But that all changed very quickly. I heard their d -
Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children
via theguardian.comKeir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling• Charlotte Higgins: ‘Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it’Rock’n’roll is nearly 70 years old: it can just sound arcane and distant to ears trained on 21st-century pop. An effective crash course in its revolutionary importance, how it ch -
Lost in music: why piano competitions must address the gender gap
via theguardian.comAll five finalists at the last Leeds piano competition were male – a far from unique competition scenario. Now, the event’s CEO explains how they are dismantling barriers for female musiciansJust over a month ago a hard-hitting report about misogyny in music was published by the UK parliamentary women and equalities committee. The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are enduring an -
‘Don’t say: what if we did this reggae style?’ The huge yet humble lives of unofficial band members
via theguardian.comFrom Manic Street Preachers to Simple Minds, few bands are complete without their full-time touring players. They discuss the peaks and practicalities of life on the sidelinesWayne Murray has been with the same band for 18 years. He has played guitar in stadiums and arenas. He has headlined festivals. He has toured the world and felt the adulation of countless thousands. But after all that time, and all those shows, he is still not an official member of Manic Street Preachers. And that’s f
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