https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/en-ukCopyright (C) 2026 newslocker.comFri, 16 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100 Recommend if you like Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Shabaka Hutchings’s flute music, the Coltranes
Up next Debut album And So It Is released 13 FebruaryFor woodwind players, breath is everything: the lifeforce of artistry, the thing that furnishes sound with personality. But a few years ago, the Los Angeles saxophonist Aaron Shaw realised he was becoming increasingly breath]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-dark-fog-of-los-angeles-saxophonist-aaron-shaw-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-dark-fog-of-los-angeles-saxophonist-aaron-shaw-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/ Now a father of three and burgeoning actor, Rocky finally comes back to music with his strongest album since his 2013 debut – though there’s plenty of flabIt has been eight years since A$AP Rocky, once and future king of New York rap, released an album. In the world of hip-hop, where even A-list stars such as Rocky’s friend and collaborator Tyler, the Creator are prone to releasing multiple albums a year, this is a lifetime. In the time since Rocky relea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aap-rocky-dont-be-dumb-review-a-charismatic-playful-return-but-its-no-slam-dunk/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aap-rocky-dont-be-dumb-review-a-charismatic-playful-return-but-its-no-slam-dunk/ The composers’ first collaborative album ebbs from epic, cinematic heights to delicate and dreamy lullabiesAfter years of touring together, Los Angeles-based composers Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have developed what the former refers to as a “musical telepathy”. Tragic Magic, the pair’s first collaborative album, evidences this bond: born out of a short series of improv sessions in Paris, it’s a wonderfully immersive set of new age and ambien]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julianna-barwick-and-mary-lattimore-tragic-magic-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julianna-barwick-and-mary-lattimore-tragic-magic-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julio-iglesias-denies-sexual-abuse-claims-of-two-former-female-employees/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julio-iglesias-denies-sexual-abuse-claims-of-two-former-female-employees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bts-named-their-new-album-arirang-what-is-so-striking-about-their-choice/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bts-named-their-new-album-arirang-what-is-so-striking-about-their-choice/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-wouldnt-still-be-playing-if-wed-got-stinking-rich-the-damned-celebrate-50-years-of-punk-goth-and-holy-grail-hunting/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-wouldnt-still-be-playing-if-wed-got-stinking-rich-the-damned-celebrate-50-years-of-punk-goth-and-holy-grail-hunting/ Framed as the music Williams wanted to make post-Take That, Britpop surpasses pastiche and swerves unpredictably. Homoerotic paean to Morrissey, anyone?The arrival of Robbie Williams’s 13th album has been a complicated business. It was announced in May 2025 and was supposed to come out in October, when its title would have chimed with the 90s nostalgia sparked by the Oasis reunion. Williams spent the summer engaging in promotion, unveiling fake Britpop-themed blue plaques around]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/robbie-williams-britpop-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/robbie-williams-britpop-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-dylan-to-disco-beyonc-to-bob-marley-the-30-best-live-albums-ever-ranked/Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-dylan-to-disco-beyonc-to-bob-marley-the-30-best-live-albums-ever-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-executive-la-reid-settles-sexual-assault-lawsuit-on-day-civil-trial-was-due-to-begin/Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-executive-la-reid-settles-sexual-assault-lawsuit-on-day-civil-trial-was-due-to-begin/ Coming off the back of a rough period, the Scottish band find reconnection, renewal and purpose in their singular mix of pop, rock and metal‘With a little love, we can conquer all,” Simon Neil croons on Biffy Clyro’s opening song A Little Love, over its huge, infectious arena-rock chorus. It’s a line that feels like a mantra for the Scottish band 30 years and 10 albums in: they’re currently touring 2025’s Futique having come throug]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/biffy-clyro-review-triumphant-set-marks-a-thunderous-renewal/Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/biffy-clyro-review-triumphant-set-marks-a-thunderous-renewal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/matt-kwasniewski-kelvin-guitarist-for-rock-band-black-midi-dies-aged-26/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/matt-kwasniewski-kelvin-guitarist-for-rock-band-black-midi-dies-aged-26/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-inspired-by-a-snog-in-a-photo-booth-how-thompson-twins-made-hold-me-now/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-inspired-by-a-snog-in-a-photo-booth-how-thompson-twins-made-hold-me-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-rampb-star-jill-scott/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-rampb-star-jill-scott/ • Alexis Petridis: ‘Bob Weir was the chief custodian of the Dead’s legacy’
• Aaron Dessner: ‘I’ll never forget playing with him’The Dead’s love for the road is in evidence on this segme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/truckin-on-bob-weir-of-the-grateful-deads-10-best-recordings/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/truckin-on-bob-weir-of-the-grateful-deads-10-best-recordings/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/andrew-clements-guardians-classical-music-critic-dies-aged-75/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/andrew-clements-guardians-classical-music-critic-dies-aged-75/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-remained-completely-in-touch-with-the-grateful-deads-wild-wonder-ill-never-forget-playing-with-him-aaron-dessner/Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-remained-completely-in-touch-with-the-grateful-deads-wild-wonder-ill-never-forget-playing-with-him-aaron-dessner/ • Bob Weir: a life in pictures
• Aaron Dessner: ‘Bob Weir remained completely in touch with the Grateful Dead’s wild wonder. I’ll never forget playing with him’For most of their career, the other members of t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-was-a-songwriting-powerhouse-for-the-grateful-dead-and-the-chief-custodian-of-their-legacy/Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-was-a-songwriting-powerhouse-for-the-grateful-dead-and-the-chief-custodian-of-their-legacy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-more-productive-than-doomscrolling-film-maker-ben-wheatley-on-his-secret-life-as-musician-dave-welder/Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-more-productive-than-doomscrolling-film-maker-ben-wheatley-on-his-secret-life-as-musician-dave-welder/ • Aaron Dessner: ‘Bob Weir remained completely in touch with the Grateful Dead’s wild wonder. I’ll never forget playing with him’Bob Weir, the veteran rock musician who helped guide the legendary band the Grateful Dead through decades]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78/Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-weir-co-founder-of-rock-group-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-age-78/ The Beirut-born producer’s masterly second album revels in dark tension to cinematic effect, finding beauty in ruinous soundArabic electronic experimentalism is thriving. In recent years, diaspora artists such as Egyptian producer Abdullah Miniawy, singer Nadah El Shazly and Lebanese singer-songwriter Mayssa Jallad have each released records that combine the Arabic musical tradition of maqam and its slippery melodies with granular electronic sound design, rumbling bass and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/toni-geitani-wahj-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/toni-geitani-wahj-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/ In Jenny Hollingworth’s first solo venture, her singular songwriting powers shine in swooping vocals and transcendent pop melodiesOver the past decade, 27-year-old Jenny Hollingworth’s musical output has become steadily less strange. As half of Let’s Eat Grandma, the Norwich native started out making freaky synth-folk the arch syrupiness of which chimed with the then-nascent hyperpop scene: I, Gemini, the duo’s 2016 debut, was outsiderish juvenilia of the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jenny-on-holiday-quicksand-heart-review-lets-eat-grandma-innovators-knowing-new-wave-reinvention/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jenny-on-holiday-quicksand-heart-review-lets-eat-grandma-innovators-knowing-new-wave-reinvention/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theres-serendipity-to-my-story-emmylou-harris-on-gram-parsons-her-garlanded-career-and-her-dog-rescue-centre/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theres-serendipity-to-my-story-emmylou-harris-on-gram-parsons-her-garlanded-career-and-her-dog-rescue-centre/ When I wrote [2019’s] Watch Me Get Married, I thought maybe people would have that as their wedding song. But mostly it&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singer-songwriter-bill-callahan-im-not-a-craftsman-im-more-of-a-drunk-professor-who-likes-coincidence-and-mistakes/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singer-songwriter-bill-callahan-im-not-a-craftsman-im-more-of-a-drunk-professor-who-likes-coincidence-and-mistakes/ The Jarman brothers’ ninth album adds a little 80s pop sheen to their distorted guitars and confident songwriting, while always sounding exactly like the indie stalwartsLast summer, the BBC broadcast an eight-part podcast called The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze. Its third episode heavily featured the Cribs’ bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman talking about his band’s first flush of mid-00s fame. It centred on their 2005 single Hey Scenesters!, from which the episode also t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cribs-selling-a-vibe-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cribs-selling-a-vibe-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ Recommended if you like Rhythm and Sound, Ricardo Villalobos, Vladislav Delay
Up next Double LP from Topdown Dialectic released in springFalse Aralia disappears into a misty gulch somewhere between record label and artist project. It’s ostensibly a label, where each EP has a different named artist, and each sleeve, designed by Nick Al]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-mysterious-chillout-milieu-of-false-aralia-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-mysterious-chillout-milieu-of-false-aralia-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/ My earliest memory is walking into a room at nursery school where they were playing Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. I was captivated by the sound effects, and Lennon shouting: “Full speed ahead!” When it got to the chorus, I remember thinking: “This must be music!”The first single I bought
When]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-inexplicably-detest-mr-brightside-john-simms-honest-playlist/Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-inexplicably-detest-mr-brightside-john-simms-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/songs-about-new-beginnings-ranked/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/songs-about-new-beginnings-ranked/ The standout act in the sprechgesang wave, the four-piece’s newly expansive sound carries singer Florence Shaw’s distinctive tales of mundane lives spiralling out of controlDry Cleaning’s third album features a lot of strikingly odd lyrics. Take your pick from “alien offshoot mushroom, going the gym to get slim”; “my dream house is a negative space of rock”; or, indeed, “when I was a child I wanted to be a horse, eating onions, carrots, celer]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dry-cleaning-secret-love-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dry-cleaning-secret-love-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-songs-of-2025-you-may-not-have-heard/Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-songs-of-2025-you-may-not-have-heard/ • The 50 best albums of 2025
• More on the best culture of 2025Towards the end of Tether, there is a song called Silk and Velvet; its sound is characteristic of Annahstasia’s debut album. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar and her extraordinary vocals – husky, expressive, elegant – are front and centre. The arrang]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-baring-ballads-alt-rock-fury-and-neon-lit-techno-five-star-albums-you-may-have-missed-this-year/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-baring-ballads-alt-rock-fury-and-neon-lit-techno-five-star-albums-you-may-have-missed-this-year/ • The 50 best albums of 2025
• More on the best culture of 2025UK saxophonist, composer and bandleader Tom Smith was dropping clues to his distinctively contemporary take on jazz traditions as a BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist in 2014 and 2016, and later as a leader of groups including the sax trio Gecko]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2025/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2025/ • The 50 best albums of 2025
• More on the best culture of 2025I grew up listening to the Mamas and the Papas’ hits but had never heard their albums before this year. I had no idea anything as creepy as Mansions lurked within their sunny oeuvre. Its sound is ominous, its mood one of stoned paranoia, its subject rich hippies sequestered]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-old-music-we-discovered-this-year/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-old-music-we-discovered-this-year/ • Chris Rea – a life in picturesBritain isn’t a great island for road songs. It’s not big enough, really, for you to hit the road and drive. And if you try, you may just end up stuck in traffic on the A1, where the late Chris Rea found himsel]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-reas-driving-home-for-christmas-is-an-evergreen-everyman-anthem-that-captures-the-seasons-true-spirit/Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-reas-driving-home-for-christmas-is-an-evergreen-everyman-anthem-that-captures-the-seasons-true-spirit/ Playing a mix of traditional folk and radically rearranged acoustic Led Zeppelin classics, the former Zep frontman is in fine voice – but also happy to step out of the spotlightBetween songs, Robert Plant describes his latest project, Saving Grace, as hailing “from the west side of common sense”. It’s a self-effacing remark but he has a point. Most rock stars of his vintage and stature (78 next year, somewhere between 200m and 300m albums sold]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/robert-plants-saving-grace-review-self-effacing-superstar-still-sounds-astonishing/Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/robert-plants-saving-grace-review-self-effacing-superstar-still-sounds-astonishing/ With additional sets from Dru Hill and Joe, this revue is a little too nostalgic and lacks the advertised festive spirit – but the vocal prowess on show is undeniableAll of the artists on the lineup for the second annual R&B Xmas Ball – Dru Hill, Joe, Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men – have Christmas albums from the last two decades, but rather than putting a twist on carols or crooner standards, this is an evening that merely uses Christmas as an excuse for a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rampb-xmas-ball-review-ndash-toni-braxton-melts-hearts-and-boyz-ii-men-blow-minds-on-trip-back-to-the-90s/Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rampb-xmas-ball-review-ndash-toni-braxton-melts-hearts-and-boyz-ii-men-blow-minds-on-trip-back-to-the-90s/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/witness-1-hope-by-roots-manuva-gives-me-some-bad-girl-energy-eliza-roses-honest-playlist/Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/witness-1-hope-by-roots-manuva-gives-me-some-bad-girl-energy-eliza-roses-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nick-caves-veiled-world-the-starry-tale-of-how-sometimes-the-devil-doesnt-have-the-best-tunes/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nick-caves-veiled-world-the-starry-tale-of-how-sometimes-the-devil-doesnt-have-the-best-tunes/ Rap’s ‘swamp princess’ had the audience in the palm of her hand before Lamar dazzled with pyrotechnics and Drake dissesAside from the immediate delight that comes from seeing two of the biggest names in rap in one show, there is a pleasing asymmetry in Doechii and Kendrick Lamar performing together. Fame is still new enough for Doechii, rap’s “swamp princess” and most rapidly ascending star, that her rapid-fire lyrics mostly revel in the p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-review-with-doechii-revving-up-the-crowd-this-is-an-extraordinary-show-for-the-ages/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-review-with-doechii-revving-up-the-crowd-this-is-an-extraordinary-show-for-the-ages/ Enraging, thoroughly depressing, but entirely necessary, Mood Music offers a timely, forensically researched demolition of Spotify. In Pelly’s account, the music streaming giant views music a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/five-of-the-best-music-books-of-2025/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/five-of-the-best-music-books-of-2025/ The violinist sets out on her darkest exploration of yuletide yet, giving a murky and melancholy twist on familiar Christmas standardsTraditional music finds its popular, cosy home in the carol, despite the uncanniness that surrounds the nativity story, and the fraying thread back to the past that each winter brings. A veteran explorer of the season (in 2020’s sparkling Winter Rituals EP with cellist Kate Ellis, and 2022’s starker New Christmas Rituals, with amplified fiddle-]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-cannell-brightly-shone-the-moon-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-cannell-brightly-shone-the-moon-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/ One half of Water From Your Eyes re-records songs from the back catalogue of his other band, resulting in acoustic fare touched with regret and darknessAs one half of Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes, Nate Amos makes left-field pop that feels hypermodern: wry, memey lyricism; post-ironic genre-hopping; the kind of jilted chaos and tonal jumble that characterises a social media feed. Yet the band had actually been plugging away for seven years before their 2023 break]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-is-lorelei-holo-boy-review-sweet-sad-songs-from-a-new-pearl-of-the-us-alt-scene/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-is-lorelei-holo-boy-review-sweet-sad-songs-from-a-new-pearl-of-the-us-alt-scene/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/constant-stimulation-dopamine-overload-how-esdeekid-and-uk-underground-rap-exploded-on-a-global-scale/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/constant-stimulation-dopamine-overload-how-esdeekid-and-uk-underground-rap-exploded-on-a-global-scale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-otis-redding-to-booker-t-steve-cropper-was-a-strong-yet-subtle-force-that-shaped-so-many-soul-classics/Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-otis-redding-to-booker-t-steve-cropper-was-a-strong-yet-subtle-force-that-shaped-so-many-soul-classics/ The novelty headgear tally is high and frontman Jay Kay is in impressive voice – but strong material is smothered by polished playing and flashy productionBy the look of the crowd, there aren’t many fluffy, oversized or sparkly hats left on the shelves in Glasgow. Among the originators of the quintessentially 90s acid-jazz genre, Jamiroquai are now a legacy act worthy of their own themed dress-up. Tonight, sole founding member and noted headgear enthusiast Jay Kay]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jamiroquai-review-hat-sporting-acid-jazz-superstars-are-slick-but-lack-substance/Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jamiroquai-review-hat-sporting-acid-jazz-superstars-are-slick-but-lack-substance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-20-best-songs-of-2025/Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-20-best-songs-of-2025/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cameron-winter-review-geese-wunderkind-whittles-confident-rearrangements-in-an-intimate-show/Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cameron-winter-review-geese-wunderkind-whittles-confident-rearrangements-in-an-intimate-show/ With 70s rock references, tinselly backdrop and some full-on cabaret-theatre vibes, the four-piece have undergone their most fun and complete reinvention yet‘If I want to wear my sparkly knickers, I will!” Ellie Rowsell giggles into the mic as she struts into The Sofa, a stylish 70s slow-burner about making guilt-free decisions and watching “reruns on the TV” without judgment. Tonight there is no sign of a settee-induced slumber, as the sparkling singer w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wolf-alice-review-indie-chameleons-sparkle-on-a-glam-rock-bender/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wolf-alice-review-indie-chameleons-sparkle-on-a-glam-rock-bender/ So many songs hit me as a child, they were like windows opening up new worlds. But the first I truly loved was Did I Hear You Say You Love Me, by Stevie Wonder, which I remember clearly when I was around two years old.The first single I bought
I bought an iTunes single by Take 6 when I was 13. They are]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-sang-karaoke-with-novak-djokovic-a-surreal-experience-jacob-colliers-honest-playlist/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-sang-karaoke-with-novak-djokovic-a-surreal-experience-jacob-colliers-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-has-made-me-live-life-more-jessie-j-on-cancer-comebacks-and-cracking-china/Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-has-made-me-live-life-more-jessie-j-on-cancer-comebacks-and-cracking-china/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/an-engineering-feat-the-26-year-old-australian-making-costumes-for-lady-gaga/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/an-engineering-feat-the-26-year-old-australian-making-costumes-for-lady-gaga/ Recommended if you like John Grant, Scott Walker, Father John Misty
Up next A cover of Duran Duran’s The Chauffeur is out now, with another single due in FebruaryAfter several years of perseverance, things are happening for Storefront Church. The audience at this month’s sellout gig at St Pancras Old Church in London included Perfume]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-storefront-churchs-cinematic-baroque-pop-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-storefront-churchs-cinematic-baroque-pop-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/ The dancefloor producer weaves seductive and steely lyrics with their trademark production in a convincing embrace of popSad represents a total reinvention for Ikonika, the producer, songwriter and singer also known as Sara Chen. Putting their own vocals at the forefront of their music for the first time, Chen becomes a charismatic and haunting pop presence. Sometimes, they play the role of warm R&B vocalist (Listen to Your Heart); at other times, such as on the nervy, hypnotic Wh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ikonika-sad-review-vocal-led-new-direction-is-a-hit-for-the-hyperdub-veteran/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ikonika-sad-review-vocal-led-new-direction-is-a-hit-for-the-hyperdub-veteran/ Sharon Van Etten, Stephen O’Malley, Perila and more transform the duo’s gloomy, sensual songs on an album of covers and remixesHTRK have been making their gloomy, sensual brand of music, at the intersection of electronic pop and noise rock, for 22 years. To mark the milestone comes String of Hearts, a collection of covers and remixes featuring an all-star cast of friends and collaborators, from next-gen underground favourites like Coby Sey to fellow old-school]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/htrk-string-of-hearts-songs-of-htrk-review-friends-from-liars-to-kali-malone-rework-their-noisy-gems/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/htrk-string-of-hearts-songs-of-htrk-review-friends-from-liars-to-kali-malone-rework-their-noisy-gems/ I’ve been very busy – touring, working with dance troupes, performance art, sculptures, playing the lead role in a production of Bertol]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peaches-we-need-lube-to-smooth-out-the-friction-of-the-world/Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peaches-we-need-lube-to-smooth-out-the-friction-of-the-world/ The delicate experimentation of the band’s debut may not have chimed with the post-punk 1980s, but its durability makes this deluxe reissue thoroughly deservedThe Durutti Column’s debut album does not have an auspicious origin story. The band whose name it bore had split acrimoniously just before they were supposed to record it. Their guitarist Vini Reilly was so poleaxed by depression that he was virtually unable to leave his house: 12 different attempts were made to sectio]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-durutti-column-the-return-of-the-durutti-column-review-fragile-classic-that-echoes-far-beyond-its-time/Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-durutti-column-the-return-of-the-durutti-column-review-fragile-classic-that-echoes-far-beyond-its-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-watched-him-doing-fools-gold-and-thought-hows-he-playing-that-new-orders-peter-hook-on-his-friend-mani/Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-watched-him-doing-fools-gold-and-thought-hows-he-playing-that-new-orders-peter-hook-on-his-friend-mani/ The US pop-rapper is a ferocious and cheeky stage presence, backed by a fantastically tight band who bring an 80s funk to her biting songsWhen Doja Cat’s Ma Vie world tour kicked off in Auckland last week, some fans immediately complained – not about her voice (pristine) or her band (ferociously funky), but about the lack of costume changes. This is the way of modern pop stardom: spectacle, not music, is what gets phones in the air, with footage that then g]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doja-cat-review-ignore-the-headlines-this-is-a-pop-provocateur-at-the-top-of-her-game/Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doja-cat-review-ignore-the-headlines-this-is-a-pop-provocateur-at-the-top-of-her-game/ Earplugs safely distributed, the band proceed to rattle ribcages with a two-hour show that showcases their unique ability to mesh the dreamlike with the apocalypticWhen every entrant is handed earplugs it begs the question: why not just turn things down? Lessening their legendary volume, though, would reduce the impact of the My Bloody Valentine live show as a multi-sensorial, physical and musical experience. You wouldn’t experience every bass drum like a heartbea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-bloody-valentine-review-shoegaze-pioneers-find-prettiness-in-pulverising-noise/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-bloody-valentine-review-shoegaze-pioneers-find-prettiness-in-pulverising-noise/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jimmy-cliffs-charisma-and-fearless-creativity-expanded-the-horizons-of-reggae-lloyd-bradley/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jimmy-cliffs-charisma-and-fearless-creativity-expanded-the-horizons-of-reggae-lloyd-bradley/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/inseparable-sensuous-and-confident-the-kessler-twins-were-pioneers-of-variety-show-culture/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/inseparable-sensuous-and-confident-the-kessler-twins-were-pioneers-of-variety-show-culture/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manis-writhing-relentless-bass-was-the-stone-roses-secret-sauce-it-taught-indie-kids-how-to-dance-alexis-petridis/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manis-writhing-relentless-bass-was-the-stone-roses-secret-sauce-it-taught-indie-kids-how-to-dance-alexis-petridis/ Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overloadIt should come as no surprise that the new album by Oneohtrix Point Never comes with a concept attached. They usually do. When not composing film soundtracks, or producing an eclectic range of other artists – the Weeknd, Anohni, Charli xcx, Soccer Mommy – Daniel Lopatin has released a string of acclaimed works,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oneohtrix-point-never-tranquilizer-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oneohtrix-point-never-tranquilizer-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ My mum gave me money to go and buy Feels Just Like It Shou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anastacia-is-a-big-inspiration-for-me-raspy-raw-and-heartfelt-ella-eyres-honest-playlist/Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anastacia-is-a-big-inspiration-for-me-raspy-raw-and-heartfelt-ella-eyres-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guitar-hero-at-20-how-a-plastic-axe-bridged-the-gap-between-rock-generations/Sat, 08 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guitar-hero-at-20-how-a-plastic-axe-bridged-the-gap-between-rock-generations/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grammy-awards-2026-kendrick-lamar-leads-nominations-with-nine-nods/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grammy-awards-2026-kendrick-lamar-leads-nominations-with-nine-nods/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-the-only-out-queer-guy-in-rock-faith-no-mores-roddy-bottum/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-the-only-out-queer-guy-in-rock-faith-no-mores-roddy-bottum/ The latest themed album from John Darnielle’s band – with some help from Lin-Manuel Miranda – takes them on a sumptuously crafted and surprisingly upbeat voyage to a desert islandJohn Darnielle’s penchant for a concept album has already produced the likes of Beat the Champ (about wrestling), Bleed Out (action movies) and Goths (alternative music in his teens). Now, the 23rd Mountain Goats album tackles – but of course – the story of a small crew]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-mountain-goats-through-this-fire-across-from-peter-balkan-review-shipwreck-songs-from-a-master-storyteller/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-mountain-goats-through-this-fire-across-from-peter-balkan-review-shipwreck-songs-from-a-master-storyteller/ The Ume Sámi vocalist and British folk duo complete their four-part cycle with a dark, dazzling finale that blends ancient song with fearless improvisationJust released at a fittingly ghoulish time of year is the final part of this collaboration between Ume Sámi vocalist Sara Ajnnak and British folk-improv duo the Ciderhouse Rebellion. The artists’ joint Landscapes of the Spirit project, delivered in four releases over 2025, has cycled through life from Ge&aum]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sara-ajnnak-and-the-ciderhouse-rebellion-landscapes-of-the-spirit-parts-1-4-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sara-ajnnak-and-the-ciderhouse-rebellion-landscapes-of-the-spirit-parts-1-4-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-impossible-not-to-have-contradictions-in-a-contradictory-world-catalan-pop-visionary-rosala-on-critics-crisis-and-being-hot-for-god/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-impossible-not-to-have-contradictions-in-a-contradictory-world-catalan-pop-visionary-rosala-on-critics-crisis-and-being-hot-for-god/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hatchie-liquorice-review-dizzying-dreampop-with-welcome-flashes-of-depravity/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hatchie-liquorice-review-dizzying-dreampop-with-welcome-flashes-of-depravity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-shot-of-adrenaline-readers-pass-on-90s-club-classics-to-new-generations/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-shot-of-adrenaline-readers-pass-on-90s-club-classics-to-new-generations/ Almost 10 years have passed since Radiohead released a new record, and more than seven since they were last seen on stage. Living through that period has felt like moving further and faster into the future that their songs often sounded so worried about. Animal-borne diseases a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/radiohead-review-bards-of-the-apocalypse-return-for-a-brutal-bacchanal/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/radiohead-review-bards-of-the-apocalypse-return-for-a-brutal-bacchanal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/donna-jean-godchaux-supplied-steel-and-soul-to-the-grateful-dead-in-their-prime/Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/donna-jean-godchaux-supplied-steel-and-soul-to-the-grateful-dead-in-their-prime/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-want-to-ride-out-on-a-unicorn-every-night-swordsnsorcery-heavy-metal-band-castle-rat/Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-want-to-ride-out-on-a-unicorn-every-night-swordsnsorcery-heavy-metal-band-castle-rat/ The Chicago musician’s fans are delighted by her alt-R&B, but for all the adventurous new songs tonight’s show does not quite live up to its ambitionChicago-born Ravyn Lenae has been a cult darling of alt-R&B since the mid-2010s, an art-school dreamer whose whimsical, pop-tinged sound first drew notice when indie-slacker wunderkind Steve Lacy produced her Crush EP back in 2018. Tonight in Manchester, her kooky on-stage persona is mirrored by a surprisi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-review-art-school-dreamer-at-ease-with-her-own-melancholy/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-review-art-school-dreamer-at-ease-with-her-own-melancholy/ The Catalan star’s monumental fourth LP features lyrics in 13 languages, references to female saints, the London Symphony Orchestra – and Björk on ‘divine intervention’Last week, Rosalía appeared on a US podcast to discuss her fourth album. At one juncture, the interviewer asked if she didn’t think that Lux was demanding a lot from her listeners: a not entirely unreasonable question, given that it features a song cycle in four “movements]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rosala-lux-review-a-demanding-distinctive-clash-of-classical-and-chaos-that-couldnt-be-by-anyone-else/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rosala-lux-review-a-demanding-distinctive-clash-of-classical-and-chaos-that-couldnt-be-by-anyone-else/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-ashcroft-why-not-sir-liam-and-sir-noel/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-ashcroft-why-not-sir-liam-and-sir-noel/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-took-mushrooms-before-my-audition-smiths-drummer-mike-joyce-on-wild-gigs-marrs-jim-jams-and-morrisseys-genius/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-took-mushrooms-before-my-audition-smiths-drummer-mike-joyce-on-wild-gigs-marrs-jim-jams-and-morrisseys-genius/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/romesh-ranganathan-i-want-your-soul-by-armand-van-helden-is-so-relentlessly-catchy-im-sick-of-it/Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/romesh-ranganathan-i-want-your-soul-by-armand-van-helden-is-so-relentlessly-catchy-im-sick-of-it/ Recommended if you like Shirley and Dolly Collins; Efficient Space’s Sky Girl compilation
Up next Fire of God’s Love reissued by Freedom to Spend on 14 NovemberAs any nun worth her salt might tell you, revelation can come from the most unlikely places. Such is the case with Fire of God&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-long-lost-lo-fi-pop-of-australian-nun-sister-irene-oconnor-and-the-weeks-best-tracks/Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-the-long-lost-lo-fi-pop-of-australian-nun-sister-irene-oconnor-and-the-weeks-best-tracks/ On her self-deprecating, viscera-flecked sixth record, Florence Welch picks apart the compulsions and contradictions of fameThe title track of Everybody Scream provides a suitably striking opening for Florence + the Machine’s sixth album. A sinister organ and a choir of voices harmonise in the style of a horror theme, replaced in short order by the sound of screaming and a stomping glam rock rhythm; instead of the shouts of “Hey!” that traditionally punctuated a glitt]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/florence-the-machine-everybody-scream-review-alt-rock-survivor-surveys-her-kingdom-with-swagger/Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/florence-the-machine-everybody-scream-review-alt-rock-survivor-surveys-her-kingdom-with-swagger/ The Swedish experimental musician pivots from drones to spectacular pop melodies, with guest spots from Iggy Pop and Ethel CainAnna von Hausswolff’s sixth studio album is being trailed as the 39-year-old Swede’s pivot towards pop, which you could say is all relative. For the last decade, Von Hauswolff has dealt in music that is solemn, echo-laden, heavy on the drone of her beloved pipe organ and fully deserving of the adjective gothic.Her work has elicited comparisons to N]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anna-von-hausswolff-iconoclasts-review-exhilarating-euphoric-goth-songcraft/Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anna-von-hausswolff-iconoclasts-review-exhilarating-euphoric-goth-songcraft/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-dejohnette-was-more-than-a-jazz-drummer-his-staggering-range-made-him-a-superhuman-force-in-music/Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-dejohnette-was-more-than-a-jazz-drummer-his-staggering-range-made-him-a-superhuman-force-in-music/ Pop’s lost prodigy returns for the first time in 23 years with a dazzling, genre-hopping show – and a falsetto that still floors the crowdThe 63-year-old American on stage tonight was one of the biggest stars in the firmament at the end of the 1980s. Back then, his debut album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby went multiple-platinum, he was seen as the new Prince and told the world he was a genius. However, D’Arby’s car]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sananda-maitreya-review-the-former-terence-trent-darby-returns-in-astonishing-vocal-form/Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sananda-maitreya-review-the-former-terence-trent-darby-returns-in-astonishing-vocal-form/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-review-perfectly-paired-talents-at-the-peak-of-their-powers/Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-review-perfectly-paired-talents-at-the-peak-of-their-powers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dave-ball-was-not-some-bloke-in-the-background-of-soft-cell-he-drove-their-startling-subversive-sound/Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dave-ball-was-not-some-bloke-in-the-background-of-soft-cell-he-drove-their-startling-subversive-sound/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dangelos-music-was-imbued-with-the-influence-of-black-women/Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dangelos-music-was-imbued-with-the-influence-of-black-women/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-brown-charged-with-gbh-over-alleged-bottle-attack-in-nightclub/Fri, 16 May 2025 00:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-brown-charged-with-gbh-over-alleged-bottle-attack-in-nightclub/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cassie-ventura-grilled-about-explicit-messages-on-day-four-of-sean-diddy-combs-trial/Fri, 16 May 2025 00:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cassie-ventura-grilled-about-explicit-messages-on-day-four-of-sean-diddy-combs-trial/ When I was 60 the thought of touring when I was 70 was anathema and the thought of touring at 90 seemed dreadful! The hardest part is sitting in the car. We’re gonna be away six weeks and I’m a walking hospital case. I have meds, a step stool so]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/climate-change-is-going-to-cull-us-as-a-species-folk-hero-peggy-seeger-on-bob-dylan-the-ultimate-love-song-and-touring-at-90/Thu, 15 May 2025 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/climate-change-is-going-to-cull-us-as-a-species-folk-hero-peggy-seeger-on-bob-dylan-the-ultimate-love-song-and-touring-at-90/ Six years on from her acclaimed ‘fast house’ debut, the UK singer-producer invites listeners into a sunlit space between night out and morning afterNo one could accuse Shanti Celeste of being a dance producer who indulges in lofty conceptualising about their music. Not for her, the album that represents the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been made yet, or a sci-fi-influenced cosmic opera, or a globe-spanning travelogue inspired by the peripatetic life]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shanti-celeste-romance-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 15 May 2025 13:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shanti-celeste-romance-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ The Boss and his E Street Band pluck hope from the depths of despair with a fiery show that hits out at the US administration but ends with loveBefore Bruce Springsteen sings a word on the opening night of his European tour, he has something to get off his chest. “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock’n’roll in dangerous times,” he says.“The America I love is currently in the hands]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bruce-springsteen-review-a-roaring-rousing-show-that-imagines-a-better-america/Thu, 15 May 2025 12:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bruce-springsteen-review-a-roaring-rousing-show-that-imagines-a-better-america/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lord-buffalo-drummer-removed-from-plane-and-detained-by-us-border-control/Wed, 14 May 2025 22:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lord-buffalo-drummer-removed-from-plane-and-detained-by-us-border-control/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bye-bye-banana-wolves-is-social-media-ruining-eurovision/Wed, 14 May 2025 16:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bye-bye-banana-wolves-is-social-media-ruining-eurovision/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-terribly-wanted-to-be-liked-still-do-status-quos-francis-rossi-on-money-worries-his-deepest-neuroses-and-sounding-like-nellie-the-elephant/Wed, 14 May 2025 11:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-terribly-wanted-to-be-liked-still-do-status-quos-francis-rossi-on-money-worries-his-deepest-neuroses-and-sounding-like-nellie-the-elephant/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guy-garvey-on-elbows-one-day-like-this-every-week-someone-tells-me-they-got-married-to-it/Mon, 12 May 2025 15:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guy-garvey-on-elbows-one-day-like-this-every-week-someone-tells-me-they-got-married-to-it/ On his first solo tour in seven years, Wilson transports a rapt audience through three hours of prog, bubbling electronica and time-bending post-rock blissA few feet above Steven Wilson’s head, the universe expands and contracts. His attention, though, is on a bank of equipment, from which he’s attempting to pull sounds that match the interstellar scope of the visuals spread across the gargantuan screen that hangs over him. Across the course of almost three hours, he d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/steven-wilson-review-an-interstellar-sound-voyage-with-floydian-grandeur/Mon, 12 May 2025 11:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/steven-wilson-review-an-interstellar-sound-voyage-with-floydian-grandeur/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maren-morris-i-never-said-im-leaving-country-music/Sun, 11 May 2025 11:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maren-morris-i-never-said-im-leaving-country-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ive-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-lady-gaga-john-lydons-honest-playlist/Sun, 11 May 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ive-always-had-a-soft-spot-for-lady-gaga-john-lydons-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ich-komme-the-smutty-eurovision-songs-that-dodge-the-censors/Sat, 10 May 2025 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ich-komme-the-smutty-eurovision-songs-that-dodge-the-censors/ Recommended if you like Playboi Carti, 2hollis, YT Up next New music soonSecond in the league table of unfairly maligned British accents behind Brummie, nothing sounds like scouse, consonants rolling around at the back of the mouth while vowels wheedle their way to the front. Delivering the accent at its most potent is rapper E]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-merseyside-rapper-esdeekid-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/Fri, 09 May 2025 14:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-merseyside-rapper-esdeekid-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thats-me-in-the-spotlight-michael-shannon-on-swapping-hollywood-for-an-rem-covers-band/Fri, 09 May 2025 11:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thats-me-in-the-spotlight-michael-shannon-on-swapping-hollywood-for-an-rem-covers-band/ The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityGolliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are sampled throughout; every so often, an ominous drone will fill a song to the point of overwhelm. On that level alone, New York underground icon Billy Woods’ latest album would be a feat of so]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billy-woods-golliwog-review-one-of-the-most-engrossing-unnerving-records-youll-hear-this-year/Fri, 09 May 2025 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billy-woods-golliwog-review-one-of-the-most-engrossing-unnerving-records-youll-hear-this-year/ Inspired by the music of Luboš Fiser and Catholic requiem mass, the instrumentals are deft and surprising, but Pimienta’s captivating, flawless vocals steal the showFive years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, singer and producer Lido Pimienta has taken a radical shift in direction. On Miss Colombia, Pimienta combined sprightly electro pop with cumbia rhythms and soaring vocals to critique racism and misogyny – now, her fourth album La Belle]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lido-pimienta-la-belleza-review-gregorian-chant-meets-dembow-rhythm-in-a-work-of-remarkable-depth/Fri, 09 May 2025 08:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lido-pimienta-la-belleza-review-gregorian-chant-meets-dembow-rhythm-in-a-work-of-remarkable-depth/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/djo-review-joe-keery-mixes-genres-in-an-endearing-if-uneven-brooklyn-set/Thu, 08 May 2025 19:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/djo-review-joe-keery-mixes-genres-in-an-endearing-if-uneven-brooklyn-set/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ready-or-not-here-she-comes-lauryn-hills-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 08 May 2025 15:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ready-or-not-here-she-comes-lauryn-hills-20-best-songs-ranked/ Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feel
There’s something telling about the fact that PinkPantheress launched the first single from her second mixtape with a video boasting that it was 2:57 long. “Ion [I don’t] wanna see no more song length jokes,” ran the caption accompanying a brief video of her dancing to Tonight, a track that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pinkpantheress-fancy-that-review-sharp-minded-bops-hop-across-pops-past-and-present/Thu, 08 May 2025 13:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pinkpantheress-fancy-that-review-sharp-minded-bops-hop-across-pops-past-and-present/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-folk-music-legend-peggy-seeger/Sun, 04 May 2025 12:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-folk-music-legend-peggy-seeger/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everything-we-built-gone-how-the-wildfires-decimated-las-music-scene/Sun, 04 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everything-we-built-gone-how-the-wildfires-decimated-las-music-scene/ Tana Mana by my dad, Ravi Shankar. In the late 80s he was experimenting with synthesisers and released an album called Tana Mana, an anomaly in his discography. I remember my imagination would light up with the title song – I would picture a village dance, and I’d be acting it out in my liv]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-the-only-person-who-didnt-know-the-words-to-coldplay-anoushka-shankars-honest-playlist/Sun, 04 May 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-the-only-person-who-didnt-know-the-words-to-coldplay-anoushka-shankars-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/who-is-behind-the-great-rocknroll-ripoff-how-ticketmaster-swallowed-the-live-entertainment-scene/Sun, 04 May 2025 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/who-is-behind-the-great-rocknroll-ripoff-how-ticketmaster-swallowed-the-live-entertainment-scene/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-lived-his-whole-life-in-that-fire-the-tragic-story-of-lost-singer-jackson-c-frank/Fri, 02 May 2025 11:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-lived-his-whole-life-in-that-fire-the-tragic-story-of-lost-singer-jackson-c-frank/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-is-never-fixed-in-me-cellist-sheku-kanneh-mason-on-surviving-a-volcano-of-racism/Fri, 02 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-is-never-fixed-in-me-cellist-sheku-kanneh-mason-on-surviving-a-volcano-of-racism/ The Norwegian experimentalist’s ninth album is a personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten momentsCigarette smoke is Jenny Hval’s Proustian madeleine. An acrid, earthy scent drifts through the Norwegian experimentalist’s ninth album as she recalls childhood memories and beloved pets, and retreads the stages of past performances. On vampy lead single To Be a Rose, with restless drum machine and jazzy brass, Hval transfor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jenny-hval-iris-silver-mist-review-intoxicating-tribute-to-the-emotive-pull-of-memory/Fri, 02 May 2025 10:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jenny-hval-iris-silver-mist-review-intoxicating-tribute-to-the-emotive-pull-of-memory/ Ideas of migration and self-discovery inspire the latest album from Hong and her imaginative band, entwined with harmonies and delicate effectsDrummer/composer Sun-Mi Hong didn’t get to where she is now without a struggle for independence. She was born in Incheon, South Korea, to a conservative family and earmarked for a teacher’s life, but her teenage dream was to become a drummer. At 19, as the only woman in a not-overly respectful percussion class, she got wind of the Am]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sun-mi-hong-fourth-page-meaning-of-a-nest-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 02 May 2025 09:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sun-mi-hong-fourth-page-meaning-of-a-nest-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-want-to-die-in-a-hotel-room-somewhere-black-sabbath-on-reconciling-for-their-final-gig-and-how-ozzy-is-living-through-hell/Fri, 02 May 2025 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-want-to-die-in-a-hotel-room-somewhere-black-sabbath-on-reconciling-for-their-final-gig-and-how-ozzy-is-living-through-hell/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jill-sobule-i-kissed-a-girl-singer-dies-in-minneapolis-house-fire-aged-66/Fri, 02 May 2025 04:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jill-sobule-i-kissed-a-girl-singer-dies-in-minneapolis-house-fire-aged-66/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-need-to-get-out-there-wrongfully-identified-in-drill-music-video-and-jailed-he-now-wants-to-study-law/Thu, 01 May 2025 16:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-need-to-get-out-there-wrongfully-identified-in-drill-music-video-and-jailed-he-now-wants-to-study-law/ I wasn’t expecting to do music for a job. I was into social activism in college, and I just had music as a hobby. My boyfriend managed a bunch of blues artists and I asked if I could open for some of them – just to have fun and hang out with]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/do-something-with-your-actions-dont-just-write-a-cheque-bonnie-raitt-on-activism-making-men-cry-and-38-years-of-sobriety/Thu, 01 May 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/do-something-with-your-actions-dont-just-write-a-cheque-bonnie-raitt-on-activism-making-men-cry-and-38-years-of-sobriety/ Inspired by Mariah and Kylie but full of jackhammer rhythms and noise, the quartet’s second album could attract a big followingYou can see why Model/Actriz’s 2023 debut album Dogsbody attracted a lot of approving critical attention. In an era when rock music largely leans towards familiarity – where originality has essentially come to mean rearranging recognisable sounds from the past in a relatively fresh way – here was a band who genuinel]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/modelactriz-pirouette-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 01 May 2025 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/modelactriz-pirouette-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jazz-isnt-about-perfection-drummer-billy-cobham-on-miles-davis-massive-attack-and-still-learning-at-80/Thu, 01 May 2025 10:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jazz-isnt-about-perfection-drummer-billy-cobham-on-miles-davis-massive-attack-and-still-learning-at-80/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-and-sza-review-powerhouse-duo-make-their-mark-in-atlanta/Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-and-sza-review-powerhouse-duo-make-their-mark-in-atlanta/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-review-ever-evolving-star-kicks-off-electrifying-cowboy-carter-tour/Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-review-ever-evolving-star-kicks-off-electrifying-cowboy-carter-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mark-knopfler-on-dire-straits-money-for-nothing-i-wrote-it-in-the-window-display-of-a-new-york-appliance-store/Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mark-knopfler-on-dire-straits-money-for-nothing-i-wrote-it-in-the-window-display-of-a-new-york-appliance-store/ Recommended if you like Luke Combs, Tony Joe White, Charles Bradley
Up next Supporting Leon Bridges in the USKashus Culpepper’s story has something of the Hollywood movie about it. A former firefighter who went on to enlist in the US Navy, he only picked up a guitar five years ago to entertain his fellow troops when the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-kashus-culpeppers-southern-sounds-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/add-to-playlist-kashus-culpeppers-southern-sounds-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks/ The Irish artist’s folk-inflected sound is both unnerving and alluring on her luxuriant second albumMaria Somerville’s second album of folk-tinged shoegaze arrives at an apposite time. TikTok has turned the genre into a lifestyle for alt teens, while the internet radio station NTS has made itself synonymous with hazy, deadpan underground pop. But the Irish musician’s sound feels distinctive: both slightly alienating – cool to the touch, unnervingly atmospheric &ndas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maria-somerville-luster-review-a-vivid-and-vital-entry-in-the-shoegaze-revival/Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maria-somerville-luster-review-a-vivid-and-vital-entry-in-the-shoegaze-revival/ The Dublin-based French-American singer and guitarist’s heart is in the Appalachian mountains – but her songs swim from country to blues and French chansonBookended with canonical traditional songs and sung in eerily bright a cappellas, Gamble is a confident, self-produced debut by an exciting new voice. This is Zoé Basha, a Dublin-based French-American singer and guitarist whose folk music swims deftly around country, jazz, French chanson and the blues.This is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zoeacute-basha-gamble-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zoeacute-basha-gamble-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girl-so-inspiring-lordes-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girl-so-inspiring-lordes-20-best-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/harnessing-chaos-and-charm-pere-ubus-david-thomas-rewrote-rocknroll/Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/harnessing-chaos-and-charm-pere-ubus-david-thomas-rewrote-rocknroll/ After her big breakthrough and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new album – to fascinating and confusing effectLast week, London’s Duke of York’s theatre played host to an elaborate four-night live staging of Self Esteem’s third album. Devised by Self Esteem herself – Rebecca Lucy Taylor – along with Tony award-winning theatrical director and designer Tom Scutt, it was rapturously received by critics, a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/self-esteem-a-complicated-woman-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/self-esteem-a-complicated-woman-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ Cycling through a set of stiff hand gestures, the rapper sometimes seems unsure what to do on stage. But when mediated through screens, his connection to his fans is palpableCentral Cee has exported UK rap like no one else before, by sculpting UK drill for TikTok with fast-paced, bite-sized packaging that often remixes a recognisable hit, all sealed with his steely demeanour. An influential fashion figure and Gen Z icon, his success is global and previously inconceivable.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-review-uk-rap-superstar-tentatively-enjoys-stadium-success/Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-review-uk-rap-superstar-tentatively-enjoys-stadium-success/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/self-esteem-review-straight-outta-gilead/Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/self-esteem-review-straight-outta-gilead/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-jane-paknia/Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-jane-paknia/ The Nigerian superstar’s vocal prowess and smooth beats have their moments on his latest album, but at 17 tracks it could use an editOne of the lodestars turning Afrobeats into an international phenomenon, Nigerian supernova David Adedeji Adeleke isn’t as famous in the UK as Burna Boy, Wizkid or Rema – he’s yet to have a hit such as Last Last, One Dance or Calm Down. Also, as his fifth album hints, his appeal may simply not be as global as theirs.Davido’s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/davido-5ive-review-flashes-of-afropop-excellence/Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/davido-5ive-review-flashes-of-afropop-excellence/ The 80s label released hundreds of oddball DIY recordings. Their final compilation, now repressed, jerks from folk to punk to ambient – with moments worthy of great kids’ TVIn 1980, a group of friends in Japan started DD Records, a platform for amateur musicians to share bizarre homespun recordings across their network. The label released an impressive 222 cassettes and a handful of vinyl records in five years, then disbanded and faded into relative obscurity. Their la]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-artists-disk-musik-ndash-a-dd-records-compilation-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-artists-disk-musik-ndash-a-dd-records-compilation-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/ Drawing on folk, jazz, ambient, post-rock and doom, the quartet’s new album shrouds cryptic, literate lyrics behind rumbling bass blasts and writhing stringsListening to The Foel Tower feels like tuning a weathered old radio – you’ll be rewarded for applying patience and concentration. On this second album, experimental Bristol four-piece Quade make a virtue of the slow build; Barney Matthews’ bassy, cryptic vocals are buried beneath shivering cymbals, gut-rumblin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/quade-the-foel-tower-review-twisted-bristol-band-tap-into-the-tensions-between-industry-and-nature/Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/quade-the-foel-tower-review-twisted-bristol-band-tap-into-the-tensions-between-industry-and-nature/ The two deep south songwriters ditch country’s rhinestones for a personal, defiant reframing of the genre’s tropesThe origins of Send a Prayer My Way stretch back nearly a decade. The partnership between US singer-songwriters Mackenzie “Torres” Scott and Julien Baker germinated in 2016, when the pair performed together in Chicago. Scott subsequently suggested, in a text sent during the pandemic, that they make a country album. Accusations that the pair are jumpi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julien-baker-and-torres-send-a-prayer-my-way-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julien-baker-and-torres-send-a-prayer-my-way-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/max-romeo-was-a-great-social-commentator-railing-against-inequality-and-discord/Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/max-romeo-was-a-great-social-commentator-railing-against-inequality-and-discord/ The multi-talented six-piece soar on their most accomplished album yet, led by the exceptional fiddle-playing of Peter Knight With six members, the Gigspanner Big Band is not particularly big, though their collective elan has a forceful presence unmatched in British folk: a little classical, a little jazzy, highly inventive while their material remains almost entirely traditional. Founded by fiddle player Peter Knight, once of Steeleye Span, the ensemble contains two duos and a trio as well]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gigspanner-big-band-turnstone-review-an-elegance-unmatched-in-british-folk/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gigspanner-big-band-turnstone-review-an-elegance-unmatched-in-british-folk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-at-coachella-review-a-thrilling-all-timer-of-a-performance/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-at-coachella-review-a-thrilling-all-timer-of-a-performance/ The singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans“I’m all about playful subversion,” declares Olly Alexander with a grin on the final night of his UK tour. Clad in a series of outfits whose shiny buttons nod towards London’s pearly kings and queens and the dressing-up box – there’s one handily located on the left side of the stage &ndash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olly-alexander-review-part-night-creature-part-light-entertainer/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olly-alexander-review-part-night-creature-part-light-entertainer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-pozer/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-pozer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pauline-black-my-most-unappealing-habit-bluntness/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pauline-black-my-most-unappealing-habit-bluntness/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coachella-2025-desert-festival-balances-the-new-and-the-nostalgia/Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coachella-2025-desert-festival-balances-the-new-and-the-nostalgia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-on-the-radios-tunde-adebimpe-i-remember-thinking-i-never-want-to-do-this-again/Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-on-the-radios-tunde-adebimpe-i-remember-thinking-i-never-want-to-do-this-again/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/have-the-courage-to-walk-away-bon-iver-on-romance-retirement-and-his-rapturous-new-record/Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/have-the-courage-to-walk-away-bon-iver-on-romance-retirement-and-his-rapturous-new-record/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-wrote-it-while-bored-on-a-health-farm-how-mike-and-the-mechanics-made-all-i-need-is-a-miracle/Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-wrote-it-while-bored-on-a-health-farm-how-mike-and-the-mechanics-made-all-i-need-is-a-miracle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dies-aged-69/Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dies-aged-69/ I’ve been lucky enough to play Wish You Were Here both when Pink Floyd were ind]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/goths-dont-have-sex-we-just-stare-into-the-black-sun-billy-corgans-honest-playlist/Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/goths-dont-have-sex-we-just-stare-into-the-black-sun-billy-corgans-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amadou-bagayoko-obituary/Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amadou-bagayoko-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/opera-director-netia-jones-ai-is-not-going-away-either-you-batten-down-the-hatches-or-you-ride-the-wave/Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/opera-director-netia-jones-ai-is-not-going-away-either-you-batten-down-the-hatches-or-you-ride-the-wave/ There are hits and misses as 15 performers including Dodie, Mxmtoon and Ezra Collective’s Ife Ogunjobi give their personal take on Baker’s unique soundPossessing a whisper-soft voice and sweetly melodic trumpet tone, Chet Baker (1929-1988) had a sound that is often imitated yet almost impossible to master. For the latest edition of Blue Note’s Re:imagined series, in which the jazz label invites artists to produce cover versions of its back catalogue, 15 R&B, pop]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-chet-baker-reimagined-review-ndash-new-reworkings-by-rampb-pop-soul-and-jazz-artists/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-chet-baker-reimagined-review-ndash-new-reworkings-by-rampb-pop-soul-and-jazz-artists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tom-ravenscroft-i-always-wanted-a-shell-suit-but-my-mum-wouldnt-let-me-have-one/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tom-ravenscroft-i-always-wanted-a-shell-suit-but-my-mum-wouldnt-let-me-have-one/ The laser-focused spoken-word performer returns to the musical stage with new tracks focusing on their identity – but wider concerns are never far away“This has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,” jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae Tempest as a keyboard player and a technician wrestle with malfunctioning equipment. We’re just two tracks in; Tempest assures us that if the electronics are]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kae-tempest-review-a-brave-intimate-set-where-the-personal-is-political/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kae-tempest-review-a-brave-intimate-set-where-the-personal-is-political/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-modelactriz/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-modelactriz/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amadou-bagayoko-of-music-duo-amadou-amp-mariam-dies-aged-70/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amadou-bagayoko-of-music-duo-amadou-amp-mariam-dies-aged-70/ In a dazzling performance, the jazz saxophonist draws out tracks from his latest album into giddy extemporisations, ceding the floor to a series of awesome soloists‘I don’t need to be from here to tell you I love you,” Kamasi Washington says, teeing up the velvet soul of Lines in the Sand. From the back of the room comes a voice, propelled as much by the convivial brilliance that has lit up the stage for the past half an hour as it apparently is b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kamasi-washington-review-hip-hop-and-p-funk-inform-an-outrageously-joyful-set/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kamasi-washington-review-hip-hop-and-p-funk-inform-an-outrageously-joyful-set/ The British star and the US country artist spur each other on in this tuneful, swinging set with poignant momentsIn the twilight years of his career, Elton John has been anointing the next generation with a keener ear than most, championing new stars from Chappell Roan to Wet Leg via his Rocket Hour radio show and collaborating with artists as genre-diverse as Britney Spears, Gorillaz and Young Thug. Who Believes in Angels?, however, feels like a genuine meeting of minds. Created al]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elton-john-and-brandi-carlile-who-believes-in-angels-review-a-true-meeting-of-minds/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elton-john-and-brandi-carlile-who-believes-in-angels-review-a-true-meeting-of-minds/ An underground phenomenon since his teenage years, Hollis Frazier-Herndon feels like a male Charli xcx about to take off2hollis looks like an avatar dreamed up in a K-pop factory: elven, almost CGI-generated. His fourth album, his first for a major, sounds like the internet: a pummelling mashup of hyperpop, post-Playboi Carti trap and tweaky club music also indebted to underground Swedes Drain Gang. Which is to say, the 21-year-old LA-raised singer-producer feels something like a ma]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/2hollis-star-review-sounds-like-the-internet-and-bound-for-stardom/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/2hollis-star-review-sounds-like-the-internet-and-bound-for-stardom/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-hurley-hero-of-the-us-folk-underground-dies-aged-83/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-hurley-hero-of-the-us-folk-underground-dies-aged-83/ Backed by pianist Marcin Wasilewski’s group, the US sax elder plays freely around a song-rooted approach, resulting in sparkling, spontaneous exchangesJoe Lovano, that giant American elder of jazz reeds-playing, nowadays seems – rather like the equally eminent saxophone master Charles Lloyd – to be simmering all his decades of timeless tunes and exquisite passing phrases down to essences. The 72-year-old Ohio-born sax star and occasional drummer’s partners here are]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joe-lovano-homage-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joe-lovano-homage-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/ Appealingly rough around the edges, the Hamburg DJ’s fourth album voyages from a Damon Albarn amapiano track to harsh 90s drum’n’bassIt’s almost surprising that DJ Koze is only now, decades into his career, releasing an album titled Music Can Hear Us. The Hamburg-based producer has long advocated for the idea that music is a living, breathing organism: his dance tracks may be able to whip 70,000-strong crowds into a frenzy, but they’re also oozy, globular th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dj-koze-music-can-hear-us-review-party-starting-nostalgist-is-as-playful-as-ever/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dj-koze-music-can-hear-us-review-party-starting-nostalgist-is-as-playful-as-ever/ After a couple of earthy, rootsy albums, Sheeran emphatically returns to pop with another of his indelible hooks, surrounded by Middle Eastern instrumentationEd Sheeran’s new single arrives at an interesting point in his career. His last albums, 2023’s Subtract and Autumn Variations, felt not unlike a riff on Taylor Swift’s pandemic-era Folklore and Evermore: two albums released in the same year, produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, a littl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ed-sheeran-azizam-review-a-cross-cultural-persian-experiment-which-sounds-incredibly-english/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ed-sheeran-azizam-review-a-cross-cultural-persian-experiment-which-sounds-incredibly-english/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-weird-dream-just-keeps-going-wet-leg-on-overnight-success-sexual-epiphanies-and-facing-fears/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-weird-dream-just-keeps-going-wet-leg-on-overnight-success-sexual-epiphanies-and-facing-fears/ After losing their frontman, the band’s third studio album shows how resilient and adaptable they are, with luscious melodies, fantastical lyrics and lots of recordersThe last time Black Country, New Road released a studio album, in 2022, it was accompanied by a strange feeling. Their debut the previous year had reached No 4 in the UK charts, and Ants from Up There was an even greater breakthrough, the sound of the UK septet pulling confidently away from the serried ranks of s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/black-country-new-road-forever-howlong-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/black-country-new-road-forever-howlong-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-would-never-be-able-to-sing-a-song-that-a-robot-wrote-lucy-dacus-on-her-new-albums-themes-of-artistry-and-intimacy/Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-would-never-be-able-to-sing-a-song-that-a-robot-wrote-lucy-dacus-on-her-new-albums-themes-of-artistry-and-intimacy/ From rollerskating around the stage wearing a union jack suit to feeding cocktail cherries to women in the audience, Usher wears middle age incredibly wellEarly on during the first show of Usher’s London residency, the audience is treated to the sight of the teenaged singer fantasising about playing London and “thousands of people shouting my name”. It’s presumably been flammed together for the occasion via the miracle of AI, but the point it’s making]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/usher-review-glitzy-vegas-style-spectacle-is-completely-preposterous-and-preposterously-entertaining/Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/usher-review-glitzy-vegas-style-spectacle-is-completely-preposterous-and-preposterously-entertaining/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sex-pistols-steve-jones-i-like-to-fart-in-front-of-people-you-can-tell-if-someones-cool-from-their-reaction/Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sex-pistols-steve-jones-i-like-to-fart-in-front-of-people-you-can-tell-if-someones-cool-from-their-reaction/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-george-the-poets-cultural-highlights/Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-george-the-poets-cultural-highlights/ Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desireDeath stalks the seventh studio album by feted US singer-songwriter Perfume Genius, nom de plume of Mike Hadreas – but stealthily, not so you’d recognise its presence at first. Here are 11 tracks that sound very much alive – songs that hum with universal emotion and queer carnality, everyday anxieties and high drama, from an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/perfume-genius-glory-review-full-of-energy-and-biting-nuance/Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/perfume-genius-glory-review-full-of-energy-and-biting-nuance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bryn-terfel-id-stand-on-a-table-and-sing-elvis-at-the-drop-of-a-hat/Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bryn-terfel-id-stand-on-a-table-and-sing-elvis-at-the-drop-of-a-hat/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-heard-he-won-the-oscar-but-he-had-to-give-it-back-will-smith-gets-jiggy-with-the-slap/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-heard-he-won-the-oscar-but-he-had-to-give-it-back-will-smith-gets-jiggy-with-the-slap/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/with-a-little-help-from-my-friend-john-paul-and-the-romance-that-transformed-culture/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/with-a-little-help-from-my-friend-john-paul-and-the-romance-that-transformed-culture/ Considering water as balm and curse, life and storm: the fabulous Greek singer and collaborators transport us across centuries and countriesSavina Yannatou is a fabulous Greek singer whose work over the last five decades hasn’t stood still. Her CV includes interpretations of early music, throat singing, composing for video art and improvisations with Can’s Damo Suzuki. Her new album with Greek jazz ensemble and long-term collaborators Primavera en Salonica and Tunisian singer L]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/savina-yannatou-primavera-en-salonico-and-lamia-bedioui-watersong-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/savina-yannatou-primavera-en-salonico-and-lamia-bedioui-watersong-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raw-romantic-and-radical-joan-baezs-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raw-romantic-and-radical-joan-baezs-20-greatest-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-so-politically-loaded-marlon-williams-on-finding-the-gall-to-write-an-album-entirely-in-mori/Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-so-politically-loaded-marlon-williams-on-finding-the-gall-to-write-an-album-entirely-in-mori/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-not-a-boyband-micky-dolenz-on-the-madness-of-being-in-the-monkees/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-not-a-boyband-micky-dolenz-on-the-madness-of-being-in-the-monkees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theyre-still-under-there-they-never-got-out-the-futureheads-barry-hyde-commemorates-his-mining-heritage/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theyre-still-under-there-they-never-got-out-the-futureheads-barry-hyde-commemorates-his-mining-heritage/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-sebastian-schub/Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-sebastian-schub/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-review-an-eye-popping-extravaganza-of-dancing-and-demons/Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-review-an-eye-popping-extravaganza-of-dancing-and-demons/ The betrothed pop star and pop producer’s PDA pulls in big names including Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, but it’s strangely anonymous for such a personal projectI Said I Love You First makes few bones about its raison d’etre. It comes with cover art that features the betrothed Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco snuggling in bed, the photograph apparently shot through a keyhole, as if its prospective audience is spying on an intimate moment. Should you not get the gist,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/selena-gomez-and-benny-blanco-i-said-i-loved-you-first-review-besotted-but-bland/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/selena-gomez-and-benny-blanco-i-said-i-loved-you-first-review-besotted-but-bland/ The south-east Londoner’s second album pairs a refreshed musical palette with streamlined, introspective lyricsThe primary message of Tell Dem It’s Sunny – the second studio album from south-east London’s Greentea Peng – might come penultimate track, I Am (Reborn). , what could have been cliched sentiment becomes reasonable truth. A riff-heavy swagger of a song that repeats its central mantra, “I am not who I was yesterday”, with increasing force,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/greentea-peng-tell-dem-its-sunny-review-a-musical-rebirth-with-swagger/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/greentea-peng-tell-dem-its-sunny-review-a-musical-rebirth-with-swagger/ Matriarch Annie Caldwells’s soaring voice steals the show in this Mississippi band’s spiritual, soulful debutMultigenerational gospel soul group Annie and the Caldwells are the rarest of things: a genuinely homespun family band. Formed in the 1980s as a way for matriarch Annie to keep her four children out of trouble, the group have spent the past four decades honing their richly melodic sound in their home town of West Point, Mississippi.Their debut album, Can’t Lo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/annie-and-the-caldwells-cant-lose-my-soul-review-a-joyous-gospel-family-affair/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/annie-and-the-caldwells-cant-lose-my-soul-review-a-joyous-gospel-family-affair/ There’s no slowing down for the avant art-rock octogenarian as he forgoes predictability to showcase the staggering breadth and depth of his songcraftJohn Cale is 83 years old. Live, it would be more than understandable to find a musician of that age in a period of slowing down and winding up, cranking out the hits to please old fans. John Cale is absolutely not doing that. An early outing of Captain Hook, a sprawling avant art-rock deep cut from a 1979 live album, se]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-cale-review-83-years-old-and-still-forging-deeper-underground/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-cale-review-83-years-old-and-still-forging-deeper-underground/ Michelle Zauner addresses big themes on her band’s fourth album, but her sharp writing isn’t best served by wistful arrangementsNow probably more famous as the author of Crying in H Mart, her bestselling 2021 memoir about food, identity and grief, Michelle Zauner’s fourth album as Japanese Breakfast feels simultaneously assured and a little unsatisfying.The sounds are largely on point. In response to the Korean American’s last outing, 2021’s bouncier,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/japanese-breakfast-for-melancholy-brunettes-amp-sad-women-review-ndash-a-bit-too-tasteful/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/japanese-breakfast-for-melancholy-brunettes-amp-sad-women-review-ndash-a-bit-too-tasteful/ Of a piece with the off-kilter pop of Astrid Sonne and Tirzah, Raisa K builds a striking debut out of hazy melodies, unaffected vocals and observations of everyday loveIn recent years, there’s been a real appetite for a certain strain of hazy, quietly off-kilter pop made by classically trained musicians who favour a more DIY approach. Think Astrid Sonne, ML Buch or Tirzah, all of whom have put out records that are simultaneously cosy and jarring. Affectionately, the debut album b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raisa-k-affectionately-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raisa-k-affectionately-review-safi-bugels-experimental-album-of-the-month/ Scene-stealing fills from drummer Sam Pickard send you toppling through the foursome’s thrilling, fresh debutThe spirit of funky, far-out post-punkers such as This Heat, A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo charges through the thrilling debut album by this New York quartet, knocking over furniture and ruffling everyone’s hair up. But amid the chaos, YHWH Nailgun (pronounced Yahweh Nailgun) evade easy comparisons with a genuinely fresh and singular sound.Their MVP is drummer Sam Pick]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yhwh-nailgun-45-pounds-review-a-singular-spin-on-funky-nyc-post-punk/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yhwh-nailgun-45-pounds-review-a-singular-spin-on-funky-nyc-post-punk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/emotions-theyre-no-big-thing-man-jeff-bridges-on-satisfaction-silver-linings-and-his-secret-life-in-music/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/emotions-theyre-no-big-thing-man-jeff-bridges-on-satisfaction-silver-linings-and-his-secret-life-in-music/ Veering from the standard heritage-artist playbook, Ferry pairs unearthed demos from across his career with cool narration from Barratt, to beautiful, unsettling effectThere comes a point in every august artist’s career where they’re forced to make an accommodation with their own past, a tacit acknowledgment that anything new they release exists in the shadow of their own back catalogue. In recent years, Bryan Ferry has done just that, tending his legacy via vast box s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bryan-ferry-and-amelia-barratt-loose-talk-review-alexis-petridis-album-of-the-week/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bryan-ferry-and-amelia-barratt-loose-talk-review-alexis-petridis-album-of-the-week/ From scorned lovers to campfire heartbreak and outlaw vengeance, the charmingly tipsy singer takes the crowd on a JD-swigging journey through the Old WestIt’s hard to think of an artist whose fortunes changed as abruptly as Shaboozey’s did last year. Featured on two tracks on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter (which he only found out on the album’s release), he became the poster boy of a revolution in country music overnight – one disrupting Nashville with]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaboozey-review-viral-country-superstar-finds-comfort-in-intimacy/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaboozey-review-viral-country-superstar-finds-comfort-in-intimacy/ Featuring whips, chains, swords and dragons, this versatile three-act extravaganza showcases the singer’s unique catalogue of abstract popAt Manchester’s sold-out Aviva Studios, smoke curls around a giant, ominous black box that resembles a freshly landed spaceship. It’s the perfect warm-up act for Cheltenham-born experimentalist FKA twigs, whose abstract take on pop has always felt inscrutably alien: from 2012’s dark, trip-hoppy debut EP1 to her]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-review-a-stunning-surprise-filled-spectacle/Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-review-a-stunning-surprise-filled-spectacle/ Already staggeringly popular since its long-awaited release on Friday, the Atlantan rapper shows off his almost mystical level of vocal range on his jaded, narcotised third LPAlmost no album in rap history has been quite so anticipated as Music, the third album by Atlanta’s Playboi Carti. The harsh, extreme-bass sound of his second, 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, took him to a new level of fame and acclaim – it was canonised as the second best album this decade by Pi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/playboi-carti-music-review-the-most-anticipated-rap-album-this-decade-was-worth-the-wait/Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/playboi-carti-music-review-the-most-anticipated-rap-album-this-decade-was-worth-the-wait/ Touring his understated latest album, Small Changes, the Mercury prize-winner amplifies his gossamer grooves with no loss of charm or sophisticationWe are in a drawing room, although it’s a more ample, rock’n’roll version than your great-aunt’s. Persian rugs litter the wide stage floor, while vintage lampshades cast a halogen glow over Michael Kiwanuka and his 10-strong band.The singer-songwriter might be playing ever-grander venues since he won the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-kiwanuka-review-big-sounds-from-the-quiet-maestro/Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-kiwanuka-review-big-sounds-from-the-quiet-maestro/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-oklou/Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-oklou/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-the-giver-review-saddle-up-theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-the-giver-review-saddle-up-theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everybody-dance-nile-rodgers-20-greatest-tracks-ranked/Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everybody-dance-nile-rodgers-20-greatest-tracks-ranked/ Sealing years of collaboration with their first official duo album, the singer and producer fuse folklore and the everyday with dazzling directnessSince her 2007 debut, Wild and Undaunted, Londoner Lisa Knapp has blazed an impressive trail at the avant edge of British folk, her bravura vocals lighting up self-penned songs and well-loved standards, while the inventive arrangements of partner and producer Gerry Diver – now credited as co-creator – have helped captur]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lisa-knapp-and-gerry-diver-hinterland-review-folk-at-its-most-exalted/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lisa-knapp-and-gerry-diver-hinterland-review-folk-at-its-most-exalted/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-review-rocknroll-showman-makes-believers-of-us-all/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-review-rocknroll-showman-makes-believers-of-us-all/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rizzle-kicks-look-back-because-of-how-fast-it-went-we-became-delusional-about-how-easy-it-was-to-get-successful/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rizzle-kicks-look-back-because-of-how-fast-it-went-we-became-delusional-about-how-easy-it-was-to-get-successful/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-joke-about-whos-getting-their-knees-done-the-rock-veterans-still-touring-into-their-late-70s/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-joke-about-whos-getting-their-knees-done-the-rock-veterans-still-touring-into-their-late-70s/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everybody-loves-the-sunshine-is-just-one-point-of-perfection-in-roy-ayers-truly-ubiquitous-legacy-alexis-petridis/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everybody-loves-the-sunshine-is-just-one-point-of-perfection-in-roy-ayers-truly-ubiquitous-legacy-alexis-petridis/ How do you describe a Gracie Abrams concert in one word? Bows. There are thousands and thousands of them at the O2 Arena tonight, most of them pale pink, and therefore starkly visible among the floor crowd even from seats high-up. Bows are Abrams fans’ Swiftian friendship bracelets – a clear identi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gracie-abrams-review-telling-references-tied-together-in-a-big-bland-bow/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gracie-abrams-review-telling-references-tied-together-in-a-big-bland-bow/ In her first performance since 2019, Lennox’s rare charisma makes her the star attraction during a fundraiser that also includes Nadine Shah, Beverley Knight and CelesteWhen the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst stood up at the Albert Hall in 1912 and declared, “I incite this meeting to rebellion”, she probably didn’t imagine her name would be hailed on the same stage by feminist performers more than a century later.Pankhurst was later banned from t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/annie-lennox-and-friends-review-a-euphoric-celebration-of-female-solidarity/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/annie-lennox-and-friends-review-a-euphoric-celebration-of-female-solidarity/ The US artist segues from industrial metal to radio-friendly pop most memorable for its vividly relatable lyricsSasami Ashworth’s gentle indie rock debut, Sasami (2019), felt reasonably familiar to fans of her previous band, Cherry Glazerr; the bracingly industrial metal of 2022’s Squeeze less so. Now the California musician has moved into sprightly, shiny pop for her third solo album, picking over matters of the heart. And the groin – apparently, Lana Del Rey-alike No]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-review-a-quirky-move-to-the-mainstream/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-review-a-quirky-move-to-the-mainstream/ On her seventh album, delayed by personal tragedy, the US producer calls in collaborators aplenty on a high-energy set interspersed with tender momentsGrammy-nominated American producer Tokimonsta, real name Jennifer Lee, postponed the release of this seventh album, originally due out last autumn, so she could care for her best friend in her final days. It followed Lee’s own health scare – in early 2016 she underwent two brain surgery operations following her diagnosis wi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tokimonsta-eternal-reverie-review-a-life-affirming-journey-through-dance-music/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tokimonsta-eternal-reverie-review-a-life-affirming-journey-through-dance-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wretch-32-its-a-difficult-ride-for-black-people-in-this-country/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wretch-32-its-a-difficult-ride-for-black-people-in-this-country/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/brian-james-founding-guitarist-of-the-damned-dies-aged-70/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/brian-james-founding-guitarist-of-the-damned-dies-aged-70/ After some noteworthy musical and cinematic misfires, Gaga gets back to her core themes of sex, sleaze and celebrity on an album that sounds not retro, but relevantLady Gaga’s single Abracadabra is enjoying its fifth consecutive week in the UK Top 10. You can imagine a collective sigh of relief chez Gaga: she has been experiencing what you might call a case of career sea sickness, in which unadulterated commercial triumphs have been followed by very public flops. In the credit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-mayhem-review-a-fabulous-return-to-her-freaky-first-principles/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-mayhem-review-a-fabulous-return-to-her-freaky-first-principles/ It was Grace’s choice [Grace Maxwell, his wife and musical collaborator]. Up in Helmsdale [in the Scottish Highlands], in my studio, I have an art deco radiogram speaker which has a sort of sunburst thing with that phra]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/edwyn-collins-could-an-orange-juice-reunion-ever-be-on-the-cards-no/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/edwyn-collins-could-an-orange-juice-reunion-ever-be-on-the-cards-no/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/how-mj-the-musical-sanitised-michael-jacksons-story-can-we-really-sit-in-a-theatre-and-pretend/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/how-mj-the-musical-sanitised-michael-jacksons-story-can-we-really-sit-in-a-theatre-and-pretend/ While some listeners might baulk at the earnest spoken-word incantations, you can’t argue with DePlume’s outstanding melodies, played with tremulous vibratoAlabaster DePlume’s seventh album comes with a statement of purpose. “What is it FOR?” asks the accompanying blurb, written by the artist, born Angus Fairbairn. “To inspire and facilitate our independent healing … Recently I told everyone to ‘go forward in the courage of]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/alabaster-deplume-a-blade-because-a-blade-is-whole-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/alabaster-deplume-a-blade-because-a-blade-is-whole-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dj-funk-trailblazing-chicago-ghetto-house-producer-dies-aged-54/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dj-funk-trailblazing-chicago-ghetto-house-producer-dies-aged-54/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roy-ayers-jazz-funk-pioneer-behind-everybody-loves-the-sunshine-dies-aged-84/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roy-ayers-jazz-funk-pioneer-behind-everybody-loves-the-sunshine-dies-aged-84/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-2025-the-1975-neil-young-and-olivia-rodrigo-to-headline/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-2025-the-1975-neil-young-and-olivia-rodrigo-to-headline/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-palace-called-and-i-heard-myself-saying-yes-how-errollyn-wallen-went-from-top-of-the-pops-to-master-of-the-kings-music/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-palace-called-and-i-heard-myself-saying-yes-how-errollyn-wallen-went-from-top-of-the-pops-to-master-of-the-kings-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/indian-rock-sensations-bloodywood-whats-more-metal-than-standing-up-for-people-you-love/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/indian-rock-sensations-bloodywood-whats-more-metal-than-standing-up-for-people-you-love/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/together-in-creativity-for-peace-sain-the-indie-label-pushing-welsh-music-forward-for-56-years/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/together-in-creativity-for-peace-sain-the-indie-label-pushing-welsh-music-forward-for-56-years/ An endearing shambles between songs but a powerfully versatile and emotional singer during them, the TikTok star is cool but relatable all at onceThe subject of Lola Young’s single Messy – No 1 for four weeks this year – hates the apparent contradictions in her character, and punishes her by behaving unpredictably in kind. Judging by how furiously attentive Young’s fans are, as her biggest London show vaults from rawness to raucousness, that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lola-young-review-soulful-londoner-finds-magic-in-the-messy/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lola-young-review-soulful-londoner-finds-magic-in-the-messy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jay-z-sues-woman-over-allegedly-falsifying-rape-allegation/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jay-z-sues-woman-over-allegedly-falsifying-rape-allegation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/power-of-music-steel-pan-bands-foster-joy-and-resilience-at-trinidad-and-tobago-carnival/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/power-of-music-steel-pan-bands-foster-joy-and-resilience-at-trinidad-and-tobago-carnival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hakeem-review-musicians-journey-from-prison-to-glastonbury-exudes-warmth-and-sincerity/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hakeem-review-musicians-journey-from-prison-to-glastonbury-exudes-warmth-and-sincerity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/s9-ep3-pete-tong-dj/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/s9-ep3-pete-tong-dj/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/carl-dean-dolly-partons-husband-of-nearly-60-years-dies-aged-82/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/carl-dean-dolly-partons-husband-of-nearly-60-years-dies-aged-82/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-want-to-retreat-any-more-william-tyler-on-grief-alcoholism-and-his-healing-new-album/Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-want-to-retreat-any-more-william-tyler-on-grief-alcoholism-and-his-healing-new-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-spent-100000-doing-a-gig-in-a-scout-hut-the-beta-band-on-debt-disastrous-decisions-and-their-defiant-comeback/Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-spent-100000-doing-a-gig-in-a-scout-hut-the-beta-band-on-debt-disastrous-decisions-and-their-defiant-comeback/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-can-spit-hot-fire-on-baby-got-back-sterling-k-browns-honest-playlist/Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-can-spit-hot-fire-on-baby-got-back-sterling-k-browns-honest-playlist/ Impeccable production and propulsive moments led by Jimi Goodwin brighten the Manchester trio’s somewhat lethargic latestThe Universal Want was a satisfying return for the Manchester trio in 2020 after a decade-long hiatus, better than most of their 90s peers’ reunion projects. This time, with Jimi Goodwin still unable to return to his frontman role full time, the Williams brothers are more prominent on vocals. Sensible given an ongoing tour, although not always successfu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doves-constellations-for-the-lonely-review-prog-poetry-for-gloomy-days/Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doves-constellations-for-the-lonely-review-prog-poetry-for-gloomy-days/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/angie-stone-was-a-wise-singer-who-deeply-understood-the-power-of-love-and-lust/Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/angie-stone-was-a-wise-singer-who-deeply-understood-the-power-of-love-and-lust/ • Gallery – David Johansen: a life in picturesNick Kent’s fabled 1974 NME piece about New York Dolls, Dead End Kids on the Champs-Élysées, is packed with characters and incident. The band have arrived in France after a showcase gig at London]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wild-waspish-and-whip-smart-there-are-few-rock-stars-as-great-as-david-johansen-alexis-petridis/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wild-waspish-and-whip-smart-there-are-few-rock-stars-as-great-as-david-johansen-alexis-petridis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jeremy-pelt-woven-review-accessible-post-bop-with-a-touch-of-electric-miles/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jeremy-pelt-woven-review-accessible-post-bop-with-a-touch-of-electric-miles/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-richard-russells-cultural-highlights/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-richard-russells-cultural-highlights/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-erin-lecount/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-erin-lecount/ The Blackpink singer’s high-energy debut solo album, astutely timed to coincide with her role in The White Lotus, is packed with styles and stars that only highlight her lack of musical identityIt must feel pretty damn good to be Lisa right now. Alter Ego, the debut solo album by the Thai rapper and singer, is arriving at a germane time: HBO is airing the third season of its venomous satirical hit The White Lotus, in which she stars as one of the titular resort’s receptionists.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lisa-alter-ego-review-a-focus-group-tested-attempt-at-megastar-success/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lisa-alter-ego-review-a-focus-group-tested-attempt-at-megastar-success/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/justin-hawkins-lsquothe-worst-thing-anyonersquos-said-to-me-ldquoi-would-love-to-go-on-a-date-with-you-but-irsquod-be-too-embarrassedrdquorsquo-the-qampa/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/justin-hawkins-lsquothe-worst-thing-anyonersquos-said-to-me-ldquoi-would-love-to-go-on-a-date-with-you-but-irsquod-be-too-embarrassedrdquorsquo-the-qampa/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bdrmm-microtonic-review-hull-shoegazers-nod-towards-the-dancefloor/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bdrmm-microtonic-review-hull-shoegazers-nod-towards-the-dancefloor/ The cult Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album, inspired by the Ryukyu islands, is like a powerfully soothing sound bathIn a recent interview with the Guardian, Kyoto-raised Ichiko Aoba stated that she saw herself less as a conventional musician and more like a conduit of textures and atmospheres: “I just love sound.” Across the immersive, celestial landscape of the hugely prolific Aoba’s eighth studio album (she has also released numerous live records, soundtr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ichiko-aoba-luminescent-creatures-review-nurturing-music-for-bleak-times/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ichiko-aoba-luminescent-creatures-review-nurturing-music-for-bleak-times/ Anders Hana, Olva Christer Rossebø and Åshild Vetrhus take inspiration from Norway’s rugged Rogaland in these tracks sourced from early-to-mid 20th century recordingsA new Norwegian folk label, Krets, arrives with an arresting debut release – an “anarchistic” set of songs, dances, ballads and psalms from the rugged south-western county of Rogaland.Malmin, a duo of experimental musician Anders Hana and folk-rock and cajun-pop instrumentalist Olav Chris]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/malmin-med-aringshild-vetrhus-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/malmin-med-aringshild-vetrhus-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/ Tala’s mellow, unsensational debut ruminates on friendship, faith and family over fine, honeyed production but with a tad too much similarity‘I’ve forgotten how I used to write my name,” Hope Tala winces, in the diaristic opening bars to her debut album. Seeking clarity through her pen, the soulful west Londoner is wrestling with growing pains and writer’s block – but then it all flows out. Over a honeyed mix of bossa nova, R&B and pop, and in her go]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hope-tala-hope-handwritten-review-even-tempered-vocal-gorgeousness/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hope-tala-hope-handwritten-review-even-tempered-vocal-gorgeousness/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gracie-abrams-the-years-biggest-pop-star-trump-has-only-been-in-office-a-month-and-everybody-is-more-at-risk/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gracie-abrams-the-years-biggest-pop-star-trump-has-only-been-in-office-a-month-and-everybody-is-more-at-risk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nuthing-ta-f-wit-wu-tang-clans-greatest-albums-ranked/Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nuthing-ta-f-wit-wu-tang-clans-greatest-albums-ranked/ Noah Lennox’s powerful and adventurous album has plenty of playlistable psych-pop, but then turns introspective: it’s a striking emotional arcThe last time the world heard from Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, he was in the company of Pete Kember, better known as Sonic Boom, co-founder of Spacemen 3 – the latest in a string of musical left-turns that have made Lennox the most prolific and intriguing member of Animal Collective. Solo, he has variously spawned an en]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/panda-bear-sinister-grift-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/panda-bear-sinister-grift-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ The former Marillion singer was on rousing form as he delivered power ballads and intricate rock anthems spanning a career of more than four decadesIn 1985 Derek William Dick, the Scottish singer known as Fish, was locked into an intense, vivid and kaleidoscopic LSD experience which provided him with the inspiration for a concept album Misplaced Childhood, which would go on to be hugely successful and spawn multiple hits. Forty years later, the closest thing to hallucinat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fish-review-euphoric-opening-to-a-prog-heros-farewell-tour/Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fish-review-euphoric-opening-to-a-prog-heros-farewell-tour/ The twentysomething singer-songwriter brings classic Motown rhythms with a touch of hip-hop to a resounding set of anti-anxiety anthemsJoy Crookes is only 26, but the south Londoner’s music already feels omnipresent. One song in particular, at least: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now seems to be absolutely everywhere. I hear it in cafes and bars, trendy boutiques and grimy off-licences and, when I forget to turn it off, the autoplay function on my streaming app o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joy-crookes-review-an-enthralling-intimate-set-from-this-rising-london-soul-star/Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joy-crookes-review-an-enthralling-intimate-set-from-this-rising-london-soul-star/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-late-gwen-mccrae-brought-emotion-to-dance-music-like-no-one-else/Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-late-gwen-mccrae-brought-emotion-to-dance-music-like-no-one-else/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stormzy-denies-he-compromised-beliefs-with-mcdonalds-partnership/Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stormzy-denies-he-compromised-beliefs-with-mcdonalds-partnership/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jerry-butler-soul-hitmaker-and-illinois-politician-dies-aged-85/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jerry-butler-soul-hitmaker-and-illinois-politician-dies-aged-85/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/working-class-creatives-dont-stand-a-chance-in-uk-today-leading-artists-warn/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/working-class-creatives-dont-stand-a-chance-in-uk-today-leading-artists-warn/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/betrayed-by-the-system-chappell-roan-sparks-debate-over-pay-and-healthcare-in-pop/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/betrayed-by-the-system-chappell-roan-sparks-debate-over-pay-and-healthcare-in-pop/ After releasing her long-awaited debut, the Irish artist’s committed performance is better suited to swaggering dance tracks than more chilled-out numbersSatin bomber jacket slipping from her shoulders, Biig Piig is going all out – she’s shimmying left, shimmying right, flipping her hair, pogoing at the mic stand. Opening track 4AM, with its muted, just-left-the-club vibe, doesn’t really call for such a full-throttle show, but the Irish alt-pop musician &nda]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/biig-piig-review-charismatic-alt-popper-struggles-to-find-her-rhythm/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/biig-piig-review-charismatic-alt-popper-struggles-to-find-her-rhythm/ After time away, the homegrown R&B star’s ethereal voice shines equally on uptempo tracks and slower groovesSince her 2016 debut, For All We Know, London singer-songwriter Neo Jessica Joshua, AKA Nao, has made gossamer-light R&B that soars on the power of her distinctive high-lying voice. Grammy award- and Mercury prize-nominated for her electronic-influenced second album, Saturn (2018), and finding joy post-Covid on 2021’s acoustic-leaning And Then Life Was Beautiful,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nao-jupiter-review-an-upbeat-welcome-return/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nao-jupiter-review-an-upbeat-welcome-return/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-music-industry-is-as-cold-blooded-as-scrooge-mcduck-the-return-of-rapper-yasiin-bey/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-music-industry-is-as-cold-blooded-as-scrooge-mcduck-the-return-of-rapper-yasiin-bey/ The North Shields singer-songwriter wrestles with how far life has propelled him away from his roots on his musically adventurous third albumOver two albums, Sam Fender has cast an increasingly astute eye over the working-class struggles of his native North Shields while wrangling with his own parallel narrative. But after his acclaimed 2019 debut, Hypersonic Missiles, and its hugely successful follow-up, Seventeen Going Under (2021), the 30-year-old clearly feels the weight of other p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-people-watching-review-a-lonely-yet-brilliant-document-of-fame/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-people-watching-review-a-lonely-yet-brilliant-document-of-fame/ Backed by skeletons, cheerleaders and chainsaw-wielders, Chris Cerulli and co reject heavy metal menace in favour of a charming sense of funMotionless in White have the commendable quality of a stadium-headlining band playing a 2,000-capacity theatre. Formed almost 20 years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the metalcore five-piece lay it on thick from the off, with dancing girls, pyrotechnics and a wall of Blade Runner visuals to match the colossal riffs of recent single Meltdo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/motionless-in-white-review-gothically-glam-us-metalcore-will-put-a-grin-on-your-face/Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/motionless-in-white-review-gothically-glam-us-metalcore-will-put-a-grin-on-your-face/ They may not have created any true rock touchstones, but they still have the powerhouse vocals and guitar skills to get the audience on their feetFormed in London in 1969, progressive heavy rock institution Uriah Heep have survived death threats, a shooting, an attack with a stiletto, and a reviewer stating: “If Uriah Heep are successful, I’ll commit suicide.” They’ve even being spoofed in Spın̈al Tap – the calamitous air force sc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/uriah-heep-review-after-56-years-progressive-heavy-rockers-bid-a-blistering-live-farewell/Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/uriah-heep-review-after-56-years-progressive-heavy-rockers-bid-a-blistering-live-farewell/ On his third album, produced by the War on Drugs, the North Shields singer-songwriter shows just how gifted he is at pairing stadium choruses with sharp, bleak vignettesSam Fender’s third album ends with a track called Remember My Name. It’s clearly a very personal song, about its author’s late grandfather – even revealing the address of his council house, 11 Wark Avenue. The northern British references – “Chasing a cross in from the wing / Our boy&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-people-watching-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-people-watching-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-righteous-brothers-bill-medley-ive-had-some-real-downs/Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-righteous-brothers-bill-medley-ive-had-some-real-downs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rick-buckler-drummer-of-the-jam-dies-aged-69-after-short-illness/Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rick-buckler-drummer-of-the-jam-dies-aged-69-after-short-illness/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-wasnt-my-intention-to-shock-jean-claude-vannier-on-working-with-serge-gainsbourg-and-setting-his-new-album-in-the-gutter/Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-wasnt-my-intention-to-shock-jean-claude-vannier-on-working-with-serge-gainsbourg-and-setting-his-new-album-in-the-gutter/ The Stargazing streaming sensation gives his young fans what they want, but there’s evidently more to him than earworm singalongsAt 26 years of age, Luton singer-songwriter Myles Smith is a seemingly overnight sensation that isn’t. He spent his teens on the open mic circuit and first broke ground during the pandemic when his TikTok covers went viral, before last year’s Stargazing notched up over half a billion streams on Spotify. No surprise, then, that his fi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/myles-smith-review-brits-rising-star-award-winner-clearly-has-hidden-depths/Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/myles-smith-review-brits-rising-star-award-winner-clearly-has-hidden-depths/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-id-written-happy-birthday-i-wouldnt-be-in-comedy-josh-widdicombes-honest-playlist/Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-id-written-happy-birthday-i-wouldnt-be-in-comedy-josh-widdicombes-honest-playlist/ The first stop on Kylie’s biggest tour in two decades reminds us that Australia’s queen of pop has always been a genius at reinventionIt is hard to believe anyone was ever a snob about Kylie. To stand in the screaming crowds (possibly the loudest I have ever heard) at Perth’s RAC Arena, on the first stop on what will be her biggest world tour in two decades, is a reminder of what a genius of reinvention she is. This is a show stuffed with preposterously catchy]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kylie-minogue-review-tension-world-tour-kicks-off-with-euphoric-show-stuffed-with-hit-after-hit/Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kylie-minogue-review-tension-world-tour-kicks-off-with-euphoric-show-stuffed-with-hit-after-hit/ This nightingale-inspired collaboration is a perfect fit for the singer-songwriter and the kora virtuosoMalian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and British Italian songwriter Piers Faccini are both inveterate collaborators (and labelmates) who have previously guested on each other’s records. Here they deliver a full-blown album as a duo, taking the migration of nightingales as their inspiration and following one’s calling as their theme. It’s a gentle, captivatin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/piers-faccini-amp-ballakeacute-sissoko-our-calling-review-ndash-voice-and-kora-duorsquos-gorgeous-songs-of-longing/Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/piers-faccini-amp-ballakeacute-sissoko-our-calling-review-ndash-voice-and-kora-duorsquos-gorgeous-songs-of-longing/ With producer-to-the-stars Jack Antonoff on board, the anarchic American rocker offers glimpses of inspiration but fails to follow throughChaos, nihilism, rulebreaking – all best avoided when governing a country, yet prized in pop. Nothing lasts forever though. Maybe we’re already in a bizarro era of war as peace and ignorance as strength. It may explain why Bartees Strange, the queer American rocker known for anarchic, genre-mashing indie, is now produced by Jack Antonoff, who]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bartees-strange-horror-review-frustratingly-timid-genre-mashing-experiment/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bartees-strange-horror-review-frustratingly-timid-genre-mashing-experiment/ From allotment highs to Holly and Phil, the Newcastle singer-songwriter mines life’s daily stresses and joys as only he canNo stranger to big concepts – his last album, The Ruby Cord, was built around a 41-minute opener, and 2017’s Peasant was sung from the perspectives of inhabitants of the north-east in the dark ages – Britain’s best modern-day folk singer has a tighter focus for his eighth solo album. End of the Middle concentrates the Newcastle artist&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-dawson-end-of-the-middle-review-a-unique-snapshot-of-ordinary-british-life/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-dawson-end-of-the-middle-review-a-unique-snapshot-of-ordinary-british-life/ Her fourth album sees Ahmed collaborate with singers including Natacha Atlas to play jazz-influenced songs best when they are fast and freeSince the release of her 2011 debut album, Finding My Way Home, British Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed has been exploring her heritage through jazz improvisation. Using Arabic quarter-tone scales with guitar, horns and traditional percussion such as the darbuka drum, Ahmed’s music is a fiery blend of instinctive soloing with melodic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yazz-ahmed-a-paradise-in-the-hold-review-british-bahraini-trumpeters-fiery-blend-of-instinct-and-improv/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yazz-ahmed-a-paradise-in-the-hold-review-british-bahraini-trumpeters-fiery-blend-of-instinct-and-improv/ With Cate Le Bon as producer, the Chicago indie trio’s second album is a quantum leap, full of poignant restraint and lyrical clarityOn Horsegirl’s 2022 debut, Versions of Modern Performance, three Chicagoan gen Z musicians robed themselves in the noise of gen X indie-rock, their chaotic carapace of distortion and dynamics housing soft-centred pop and bruised melodies. But its fuzzy charms are eclipsed by this quantum leap of a second album, a masterpiece of intention and p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/horsegirl-phonetics-on-and-on-review-a-minimalist-indiepop-masterpiece/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/horsegirl-phonetics-on-and-on-review-a-minimalist-indiepop-masterpiece/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-was-like-dog-years-youd-be-over-by-your-third-album-de-la-soul-on-grief-gorillaz-and-never-giving-up/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-was-like-dog-years-youd-be-over-by-your-third-album-de-la-soul-on-grief-gorillaz-and-never-giving-up/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-wanted-a-hit-lcd-soundsystems-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-wanted-a-hit-lcd-soundsystems-20-best-songs-ranked/ She frames herself as an alien visitor, and sure enough, this ideas-packed album at the edges of rap doesn’t sound like anyone else right now – you’ll be repeating it again and againYou could easily read Steady As I Am, from John Glacier’s debut album, as a mission statement. “I’m sticking to the plan, not the game,” the British rapper offers. “Think I’m crazy, ’cause you’re all the same.” In a genre characterised by]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-glacier-like-a-ribbon-album-review-this-otherworldly-british-voice-is-in-a-class-of-her-own/Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-glacier-like-a-ribbon-album-review-this-otherworldly-british-voice-is-in-a-class-of-her-own/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/comedy-and-art-should-push-up-against-a-line-rich-peppiatt-on-class-controversy-and-kneecap/Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/comedy-and-art-should-push-up-against-a-line-rich-peppiatt-on-class-controversy-and-kneecap/ Also channelling Elvis and Scott Walker, the charismatic singer’s character softens as he moves from bold songs from latest album A Firmer Hand to older tracksOn new album A Firmer Hand, Hamish Hawk traded the easy, early Scott Walker-indebted indie of previous albums – 2021’s Heavy Elevator and 2023’s Angel Numbers – for a darker, grittier, more sexually forthright evaluation of who the Edinburgh artist really is. The contrast gets turn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hamish-hawk-review-jarvis-cocker-esque-scot-shows-why-hes-at-the-edge-of-the-big-time/Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hamish-hawk-review-jarvis-cocker-esque-scot-shows-why-hes-at-the-edge-of-the-big-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/terror-danjah-was-the-gregarious-heart-of-the-grime-scene-and-its-greatest-producer-joe-muggs/Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/terror-danjah-was-the-gregarious-heart-of-the-grime-scene-and-its-greatest-producer-joe-muggs/ There’s still no-one else like the 71-year-old star: she gives rambling speeches and accidentally hits someone with a recorder, but her voice punches through the chaosWithin 10 minutes of appearing on stage, Cyndi Lauper has sung about masturbation, played a tuneless recorder solo, accidentally hit a crew member with said instrument, and given a rambling speech about wrestlers, the Goonies and how, after more than 40 years in music, this will be her last tour. &ldquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cyndi-lauper-review-still-showing-her-true-colours-in-fun-farewell-tour/Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cyndi-lauper-review-still-showing-her-true-colours-in-fun-farewell-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-faces-new-sexual-assault-lawsuits-as-he-awaits-trial/Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-faces-new-sexual-assault-lawsuits-as-he-awaits-trial/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/into-the-heart-of-the-whirlwind-how-led-zeppelin-were-sweet-talked-into-making-a-new-film/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/into-the-heart-of-the-whirlwind-how-led-zeppelin-were-sweet-talked-into-making-a-new-film/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/killer-mike-sues-security-firm-over-grammys-arrest-alleging-public-humiliation/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/killer-mike-sues-security-firm-over-grammys-arrest-alleging-public-humiliation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/what-if-you-never-come-down-the-90s-clubbers-who-wouldnt-let-the-night-end-a-picture-essay/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/what-if-you-never-come-down-the-90s-clubbers-who-wouldnt-let-the-night-end-a-picture-essay/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/over-the-moon-billie-eilish-sports-188-year-old-yorkshire-wool-brand-at-grammys/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/over-the-moon-billie-eilish-sports-188-year-old-yorkshire-wool-brand-at-grammys/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-announces-cowboy-carter-stadium-tour-with-dates-in-us-uk-and-france/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-announces-cowboy-carter-stadium-tour-with-dates-in-us-uk-and-france/ • Grammy awards 2025: list of winnersIt’s the kind of stress dream that pop stars tell their therapists about: “My artistic rival won record and song of the year at the Grammys for a track attacking me, and everyone was dancing and singing along. Even Beyoncé.” And so it came to pass for Drake, seeing Ke]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-drakes-humiliation-to-doechiis-coronation-the-talking-points-from-the-2025-grammys/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-drakes-humiliation-to-doechiis-coronation-the-talking-points-from-the-2025-grammys/ • Grammy awards 2025: list of winners
• Gallery: Taylor Swift, Charli xcx, Chappell Roan and moreLike all major awards ceremonies, the Grammys spawn a mini-industry in predictions: in the weeks before the winne]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-2025-grammys-celebrated-pop-being-back-to-its-agenda-setting-best/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-2025-grammys-celebrated-pop-being-back-to-its-agenda-setting-best/ Anton Newcombe and co rummage through the rock history books, but lack the danger and unpredictability their reputation was built onThe Brian Jonestown Massacre arrive in the UK just before the documentary that effectively made them famous, Dig!, returns to cinemas: a “reimagined 20th anniversary edition”, which brings the story of the rivalry between the band and their frenemies the Dandy Warhols up to date. On release, you would have watched cert]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-brian-jonestown-massacre-review-psych-rock-survivors-play-it-safe/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-brian-jonestown-massacre-review-psych-rock-survivors-play-it-safe/ My mum had Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet on LP. I can remember hearing Habanera: L’Amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle, but apparently I took the record off the record player and smashed it, which might have said something about my musical taste at the time.The first s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-care-what-they-play-at-my-funeral-im-not-going-to-be-there-ross-kemps-honest-playlist/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-care-what-they-play-at-my-funeral-im-not-going-to-be-there-ross-kemps-honest-playlist/ Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter - WINNER
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ SweetCharli xcx – BratJacob Collier – Djesse Vol 4Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and SoftChappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest PrincessTaylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department Continue reading...]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grammy-awards-2025-list-of-winners/Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grammy-awards-2025-list-of-winners/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/boyzone-no-matter-what-review-the-scenes-about-stephen-gately-are-truly-poignant/Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/boyzone-no-matter-what-review-the-scenes-about-stephen-gately-are-truly-poignant/ Corinne Bailey Rae’s vampingand Laura Mvula’s whispering pain steal the show as five vocalists deliver their own interpretationsNina Simone is a tough singer to take on. Possessed of a mighty voice and virtuosic piano skills, her repertoire spans jazz standards to civil rights anthems, sweeping orchestrations and storytelling balladry. Yet, to do Simone justice, it isn’t simply a case of performing vocal acrobatics and keyboard technique. The task in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mississippi-goddamn-a-celebration-of-nina-simone-review-singers-capture-stars-emotional-spirit/Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mississippi-goddamn-a-celebration-of-nina-simone-review-singers-capture-stars-emotional-spirit/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sharon-van-etten-weirdest-thing-i-have-done-for-love-i-started-watching-sports/Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sharon-van-etten-weirdest-thing-i-have-done-for-love-i-started-watching-sports/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kehlani-review-ndash-rampb-tonic-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kehlani-review-ndash-rampb-tonic-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-honeyglaze/Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-honeyglaze/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-was-a-little-bit-of-the-devil-in-her-damon-albarn-and-rufus-wainwright-remember-marianne-faithfull/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-was-a-little-bit-of-the-devil-in-her-damon-albarn-and-rufus-wainwright-remember-marianne-faithfull/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-trying-standup-is-no-joke-shes-a-natural-comedian-and-genuine-kook/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-trying-standup-is-no-joke-shes-a-natural-comedian-and-genuine-kook/ The huge-voiced Atlantan behind last year’s megahit Lose Control is back, and in love, on this unignorable, playlist-pleasing follow-upTeddy Swims’s Lose Control has become a generational, unavoidable hit. Billboard declared it the top single of 2024; it refuses to leave the UK charts after 14 months. Impressively, his 2023 album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) backed up its promise, testament to the 32-year-old Atlantan’s skill at crafting sympathetic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-ive-tried-everything-but-therapy-part-2-review-extra-size-emotion/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-ive-tried-everything-but-therapy-part-2-review-extra-size-emotion/ • Alexis Petridis: ‘Faithfull was not just a muse’
• Peter Bradshaw: ‘Faithfull was a magnet for film-makers’Marianne Faithfull’s 60s releases were wildly variable, perhaps becaus]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/melancholy-morphine-and-the-baader-meinhof-group-marianne-faithfulls-10-best-recordings/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/melancholy-morphine-and-the-baader-meinhof-group-marianne-faithfulls-10-best-recordings/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nao-on-fame-motherhood-and-living-with-me-ive-had-to-work-a-lot-on-what-my-idea-of-success-is/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nao-on-fame-motherhood-and-living-with-me-ive-had-to-work-a-lot-on-what-my-idea-of-success-is/ The Welsh rockers’ 15th album finds them in thought-provoking moodHaving rather lost their way for a decade, the Manics rediscovered their fire on Send Away the Tigers (2007) and then 2009’s magnificent Journal for Plague Lovers, and the albums since – while never quite reaching those heights – have been consistently impressive, offering minor variations rather than full-scale revolution. In that respect, Critical Thinking, their 15th album, doesn’t repre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-critical-thinking-review-older-and-wiser/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-critical-thinking-review-older-and-wiser/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bonnie-prince-billy-the-purple-bird-review-will-oldham-goes-country-but-darkly/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bonnie-prince-billy-the-purple-bird-review-will-oldham-goes-country-but-darkly/ These fleeting fragments of the rapper-producer’s itinerant life, delivered in a lackadaisical yet focused style, prove he deserves all the acclaim he getsAfter a life spent bouncing between the UK and US – and, now, endlessly touring – New York rapper Mike’s delivery has the hazy fug of waking up from a jetlag nap. Over mostly self-produced beats, his lyrics, often written freely in streams of consciousness, sit in cosy corners of cut-and-stitched samples, comparab]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mike-showbiz-review-a-master-rap-craftsman-building-his-own-world/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mike-showbiz-review-a-master-rap-craftsman-building-his-own-world/ Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in WelshIn the tiny kiln rooms of west Walian mills over a century ago, farmers would tell stories, read verse and sing songs through the night as their oats baked around them. This gathering was a shimli, a Welsh word that falls from the tongue with a similar softness to Carmarthenshire folk singer Owen Shiers’s deli]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cynefin-shimli-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cynefin-shimli-review-jude-rogerss-folk-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/womens-rage-is-real-mostly-we-turn-it-on-ourselves-neko-case-on-songwriting-survival-and-her-mothers-faked-death/Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/womens-rage-is-real-mostly-we-turn-it-on-ourselves-neko-case-on-songwriting-survival-and-her-mothers-faked-death/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-sermonising-and-wrestling-satan-james-browns-20-best-albums-ranked/Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-sermonising-and-wrestling-satan-james-browns-20-best-albums-ranked/ Fronting a brand new band, the singer-songwriter dives into the dark side, with confusion and foreboding creeping through 80s moods, big choruses and fine melodiesThe last time the world heard from Sharon Van Etten, it was 2022. She was pictured on the cover of her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, standing in front of a house while wildfires raged worryingly close by. The songs lurking inside were informed not just by the environmental catastrophe unfolding]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sharon-van-etten-and-the-attachment-theory-album-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-month/Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sharon-van-etten-and-the-attachment-theory-album-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-month/ Behind the impressive Grace Jones-esque stage outfits, the US singer is blessed with both lung power and sensitivitySometimes it takes a while to get to where you need to be. Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe has been around the block, having spent the early years of her career dabbling in alt-rock, R&B, Christian music, hotel covers bands and session singing. None of it got her very far.She found her mojo in 2020 when a simultaneously stark yet sultry cover of Nina Sim]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-blackbird-review-flamboyance-and-nuance-from-late-blossoming-jazz-soul-star/Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-blackbird-review-flamboyance-and-nuance-from-late-blossoming-jazz-soul-star/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-job-was-making-hits-clive-langer-on-taking-bowie-dexys-and-madness-to-no-1-and-why-he-turned-madonna-down/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-job-was-making-hits-clive-langer-on-taking-bowie-dexys-and-madness-to-no-1-and-why-he-turned-madonna-down/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/luther-never-too-much-review-the-mystery-and-brilliance-of-love-doctor-vandross/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/luther-never-too-much-review-the-mystery-and-brilliance-of-love-doctor-vandross/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-chaps-brat-or-rap-spats-what-will-and-should-win-at-the-2025-grammys/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-chaps-brat-or-rap-spats-what-will-and-should-win-at-the-2025-grammys/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-said-if-i-divorced-him-hed-kill-us-all-candi-staton-on-abuse-alcohol-and-the-story-of-young-hearts-run-free/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-said-if-i-divorced-him-hed-kill-us-all-candi-staton-on-abuse-alcohol-and-the-story-of-young-hearts-run-free/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ozzy-osbourne-shocked-as-birmingham-votes-to-honour-black-sabbath/Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ozzy-osbourne-shocked-as-birmingham-votes-to-honour-black-sabbath/ The veteran rockers turn back the clock on the dual anniversary of their breakthrough albums, with the south Wales band playing a conquering heroes’ returnAs the final notes of Rain die out, Trivium’s Matt Heafy raises both hands towards the rafters in twin devil horns, his tongue all the way out. In most contexts, watching someone spend their 39th birthday doing the same things they did when they were 19 would be a profound bummer, but the opening night of the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/trivium-and-bullet-for-my-valentine-review-glorious-exchange-of-skull-crushing-riffs-and-deafening-roars/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/trivium-and-bullet-for-my-valentine-review-glorious-exchange-of-skull-crushing-riffs-and-deafening-roars/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hugh-jackman-from-new-york-with-love-review-the-showman-hits-broadway-again/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hugh-jackman-from-new-york-with-love-review-the-showman-hits-broadway-again/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-triggered-by-a-fellini-esque-woman-who-pulled-a-knife-on-someone-how-the-only-ones-made-another-girl-another-planet/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-triggered-by-a-fellini-esque-woman-who-pulled-a-knife-on-someone-how-the-only-ones-made-another-girl-another-planet/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elton-john-backs-paul-mccartney-in-criticising-proposed-overhaul-to-uk-copyright-system/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elton-john-backs-paul-mccartney-in-criticising-proposed-overhaul-to-uk-copyright-system/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-dress-as-judy-garland-and-scare-my-parents-rufus-wainwrights-honest-playlist/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-dress-as-judy-garland-and-scare-my-parents-rufus-wainwrights-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/alex-kapranos-it-took-me-a-few-years-to-realise-that-i-didnt-have-to-drink-everything-on-the-rider/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/alex-kapranos-it-took-me-a-few-years-to-realise-that-i-didnt-have-to-drink-everything-on-the-rider/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-the-band-feels-like-something-you-can-go-into-battle-with-against-the-world/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-the-band-feels-like-something-you-can-go-into-battle-with-against-the-world/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-gay-clubs-to-maga-anthem-the-absurd-contested-history-of-the-village-peoples-ymca/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-gay-clubs-to-maga-anthem-the-absurd-contested-history-of-the-village-peoples-ymca/ The US musician leads an accomplished yet slightly bland living room session spanning traditional numbers and songs by Lou Reed, Yoko Ono and moreRaised in a Vermont folk family, and a fiddle prodigy at age three, Sam Amidon has built a substantial career by “relocating” folk music to unusual contexts, working with jazz and classical musicians in partnerships stretching from Bill Frisell to the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Salt River is a collaboration with producer and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-amidon-salt-river-review-an-eclectic-if-erratic-affair/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-amidon-salt-river-review-an-eclectic-if-erratic-affair/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-alison-goldfrapps-cultural-highlights/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-alison-goldfrapps-cultural-highlights/ On the first of a three-night London residency, British dance producer Sam Shepherd conjures up a transcendent set that’s equal parts body-jacking rave and harp-laced, retina-melting art show
Most people would not bring a harp to a rave. But UK producer Floating Points – Sam Shepherd – is emphatically not most people: an uncommon artist as au fait with acoustic instruments and spiritual jazz as he is DJing to a delirious club.There are a great many peop]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/floating-points-review-an-unclassifiable-triumph/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/floating-points-review-an-unclassifiable-triumph/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-heartworms/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-heartworms/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chesney-hawkes-looks-back-its-only-now-i-can-appreciate-that-the-one-and-only-is-a-great-record/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chesney-hawkes-looks-back-its-only-now-i-can-appreciate-that-the-one-and-only-is-a-great-record/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/skunk-anansies-skin-i-was-nearly-swept-out-to-sea-a-very-strong-naked-dude-saved-me/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/skunk-anansies-skin-i-was-nearly-swept-out-to-sea-a-very-strong-naked-dude-saved-me/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-mike-scott-of-the-waterboys/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-mike-scott-of-the-waterboys/ Conceived in troubled circumstances, the Glasgow band’s follow-up to their 2021 chart-topper As the Love Continues is compelling balmAfter the triumph of scoring an unlikely pandemic UK No 1 album with As the Love Continues, things quickly turned very difficult for Glasgow four-piece Mogwai, with the daughter of multi-instrumentalist Barry Burns taken seriously ill. Thankfully, she is “going to be fine”, but the title of their 11th album (it’s a Glaswegian t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mogwai-the-bad-fire-review-a-flame-that-still-burns-bright/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mogwai-the-bad-fire-review-a-flame-that-still-burns-bright/ The British rapper gathers his bangers and chart-toppers together with less impactful work on this 17-track recordSince 2020, London rapper Central Cee has proven himself a hitmaker. His early singles Day in the Life and Loading have been streamed more than half a billion times, drawing listeners in with a combination of high-energy verses and drill-influenced beats, while 2022’s tongue-in-cheek Doja became a TikTok hit thanks to its bravado-laden R&B feel; 2023’s anth]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-cant-rush-greatness-review-a-tantalising-debut-of-hits-and-misses/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-cant-rush-greatness-review-a-tantalising-debut-of-hits-and-misses/ Coining a word to describe a particular state of euphoria, twigs effortlessly juggles left-field digitals and club pop tunes on album No 3It’s a slippery concept, but FKA twigs’s third album title roughly translates as an instance of feeling perfectly at one inside oneself, the Cartesian mind-body split healed over. An example might be diving unselfconsciously into a rave in Prague, as twigs did while filming The Crow in 2022. Alternatively, it might be the moment be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-eusexua-review-a-hymn-to-the-healing-power-of-the-dancefloor/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fka-twigs-eusexua-review-a-hymn-to-the-healing-power-of-the-dancefloor/ The Pittsburgh composer moves between soporific light and dissonant shade on this plant-inspired meditative journeyIn 1976, composer Mort Garson released Mother Earth’s Plantasia, an album of early electronic ditties designed to help listeners’ house plants grow. Though its horticultural facility is questionable, it became a cult classic among record collectors, beloved for its sweet, jaunty music as much as its concept. Propagation is also the raison d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/davis-galvin-prism-review-shape-shifting-soundscapes-for-the-horticulturally-minded/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/davis-galvin-prism-review-shape-shifting-soundscapes-for-the-horticulturally-minded/ Traditional instruments, drones and repetitive lyrics make for some epic listening, possibly more suitable for a medieval TV romp Inspired by the heartbeat of a hibernating bear – a mere 9bpm – Wardruna use grand, lumbering drones, played on traditional stringed instruments such as the talharpa, to evoke a cinematic sense of centuries passing. Birna (“she-bear” in Old Norse) follows the Nordic-folk group’s previous Kvitravn (white raven) in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wardruna-birna-review-numbing-norse-nature-metal-better-suited-to-netflix-scores/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wardruna-birna-review-numbing-norse-nature-metal-better-suited-to-netflix-scores/ The debut album from the British star finds him rapping rings around even high-profile guest stars as he asserts his place at hip-hop’s high tableThe business of reviewing the debut album by Central Cee entails a level of security you seldom encounter in 2025: no information is provided beyond the tracklist. His record label seems at a loss to tell you who produced it, there are no lyrics to clarify the knottier moments of the rapper’s famously torrential flow; the details]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-cant-rush-greatness-review-conflict-and-contradiction-underpin-justly-confident-rap-debut/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/central-cee-cant-rush-greatness-review-conflict-and-contradiction-underpin-justly-confident-rap-debut/ The soft-alpha streaming sensation behind Lose Control returns with more of the same Motown and Stax pastiches, with the odd diversion into soft rockWhile Brat summer grabbed the headlines as 2024’s defining musical movement, a straighter, more masculine, less lurid green development was rumbling in the background. Defined by American men with big voices, big emotions and big streaming numbers, it gave the world Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things (1.7bn streams on Spo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-ive-tried-everything-but-therapy-part-2-review-retro-soul-with-a-retro-lyrical-attitude/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-ive-tried-everything-but-therapy-part-2-review-retro-soul-with-a-retro-lyrical-attitude/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/perfume-genius-i-want-to-feel-extremes-but-im-not-as-self-destructive-now/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/perfume-genius-i-want-to-feel-extremes-but-im-not-as-self-destructive-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tina-turner-hot-for-you-baby-review-shes-in-fine-voice-but-this-lost-1984-song-is-no-classic/Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tina-turner-hot-for-you-baby-review-shes-in-fine-voice-but-this-lost-1984-song-is-no-classic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thin-lizzy-and-whitesnake-guitarist-john-sykes-dies-aged-65/Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thin-lizzy-and-whitesnake-guitarist-john-sykes-dies-aged-65/ A very unconventional set of instruments brought a touch of chaos to this esteemed venue as it hosted the London contemporary music festival’s finale‘A home for the promiscuous music lover” is how the London contemporary music festival (LCMF) describes itself, but in fact it is a festival that has no permanent home of its own. Over the past 12 years it has led a peripatetic life around some unlikely London venues. The 2024 festival last month was based in H]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orchestra-of-futurist-noise-intonersensemble-klang-review-anarchic-energy/Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orchestra-of-futurist-noise-intonersensemble-klang-review-anarchic-energy/ The Los Angeles musician is developing a heavier, rockier sound than before, but her astonishing voice and intuitive melodies are as strong as ever Sat with her back to the audience, Madison Cunningham is performing an eerie, unreleased ballad, her white dress mirrored in a glossy black upright piano. The theatre is pin-drop silent as the California singer-songwriter’s astonishing voice, classic and characterful, pours into a heavily reverbed microphone.“That was a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madison-cunningham-review-complex-new-tunes-from-a-folk-singer-with-a-knack-for-a-twist/Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madison-cunningham-review-complex-new-tunes-from-a-folk-singer-with-a-knack-for-a-twist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bonnie-prince-billy-with-music-we-give-ourselves-up-its-when-were-allowed-to-be-ourselves/Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bonnie-prince-billy-with-music-we-give-ourselves-up-its-when-were-allowed-to-be-ourselves/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-complete-unknown-review-timothe-chalamet-radiates-charisma-in-evocative-dylan-biopic/Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-complete-unknown-review-timothe-chalamet-radiates-charisma-in-evocative-dylan-biopic/ Guitarist Kieran Gunter and pianist Chris Bland and co embrace prog-rock, synth and velvety vocals on this Pat Metheny-inspired setGarlanded graduates of Leeds College of Music (now Conservatoire), where they met, guitarist Kieran Gunter and pianist Chris Bland draw plentiful inspiration from American fusioneer Pat Metheny on this group debut, which features, among others, reeds player Dom Pusey on most cuts. There’s a similar willingness to embrace assorted styles on this set]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glebe-gaud-review-a-bold-british-jazz-fusion-debut/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glebe-gaud-review-a-bold-british-jazz-fusion-debut/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nils-frahm-using-a-chainsaw-gave-me-strength-in-my-fingers-for-piano/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nils-frahm-using-a-chainsaw-gave-me-strength-in-my-fingers-for-piano/ This latest iteration of Lan McArdle and Owen Williams’s Joanna Gruesome turns their lush vocals, guitar heroics and recent heartbreaks into melodic goldAlmost exactly a decade ago, I reviewed a tremendous band playing live in a basement in Dalston, east London; a venue so off-piste that condensation ran down the exposed light fittings. The band were called Joanna Gruesome – the name a snarky pun on that of the US baroque pop singer Joanna Newsom. Even then, its members had]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ex-vid-in-love-again-review-all-of-indie-rock-is-here/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ex-vid-in-love-again-review-all-of-indie-rock-is-here/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-brooke-combe/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-brooke-combe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singer-songwriter-betty-boo-looks-back-i-was-very-naive-in-the-90s-it-was-only-years-later-i-realised-people-were-on-loads-of-drugs/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singer-songwriter-betty-boo-looks-back-i-was-very-naive-in-the-90s-it-was-only-years-later-i-realised-people-were-on-loads-of-drugs/ The Chris Martin-feted Spanish American singer-songwriter delivers a debut album that is mainstream pop fare but packed with variety and nuanceWith two Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and a mentorship from Chris Martin that landed her on the Pyramid stage last year during Coldplay’s record-breaking Glastonbury set, Victoria Canal’s inaugural steps have come co-signed to the hilt. Her debut is an accomplished justification of the early praise – an album that pit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/victoria-canal-slowly-it-dawns-review-a-musical-promise-fulfilled/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/victoria-canal-slowly-it-dawns-review-a-musical-promise-fulfilled/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/she-couldnt-walk-she-couldnt-talk-music-therapy-helped-joni-mitchell-recover-from-a-stroke-could-it-ward-off-depression-and-dementia-too/Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/she-couldnt-walk-she-couldnt-talk-music-therapy-helped-joni-mitchell-recover-from-a-stroke-could-it-ward-off-depression-and-dementia-too/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-is-a-magic-how-david-lynch-used-song-and-sound-to-transcend-reality/Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-is-a-magic-how-david-lynch-used-song-and-sound-to-transcend-reality/ Thirty years on from their album The Infamous, and seven years after the death of founder member Prodigy, Havoc teams up with Big Noyd for a breathlessly-paced setBig Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy got me not knowing how to act!” He and Havoc of Mobb Deep have not lost a coulomb of their electric, heart-racing energy.The first night of the New Yorkers’ European tour b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mobb-deep-review-new-york-rap-duo-can-still-keep-the-temperature-rising/Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mobb-deep-review-new-york-rap-duo-can-still-keep-the-temperature-rising/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/in-her-own-out-there-world-fka-twigs-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/in-her-own-out-there-world-fka-twigs-20-greatest-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/prison-is-not-a-place-for-rehabilitation-jailed-rapper-marnz-malone-on-confronting-inmate-suicide/Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/prison-is-not-a-place-for-rehabilitation-jailed-rapper-marnz-malone-on-confronting-inmate-suicide/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linda-nolan-obituary/Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linda-nolan-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/our-computer-sampler-cost-more-than-a-house-how-the-korgis-made-everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime/Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/our-computer-sampler-cost-more-than-a-house-how-the-korgis-made-everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/musical-duo-baba-stiltz-and-okay-kaya-basically-our-musics-for-losers/Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/musical-duo-baba-stiltz-and-okay-kaya-basically-our-musics-for-losers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-be-tempted-to-have-sex-to-ernie-the-fastest-milkman-in-the-west-david-baddiels-honest-playlist/Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-be-tempted-to-have-sex-to-ernie-the-fastest-milkman-in-the-west-david-baddiels-honest-playlist/ The sex-positive South African trailblazer deserves to break into the mainstream with the fullest expression so far of her wit and sheer verveMoonchild Sanelly’s teal-blue hairdo is trademarked in her native South Africa, where her sex-positive rhymes and body-positive stances divide the generations. But this party-starter is long overdue more mainstream international acclaim. Until now, the rapper and singer, sometimes in her mother tongue, Xhosa, has often appeared as an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/moonchild-sanelly-full-moon-review-hustle-energy-and-smut-aplenty/Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/moonchild-sanelly-full-moon-review-hustle-energy-and-smut-aplenty/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-like-to-break-the-rules-bjrk-on-comedy-darkness-and-the-most-flamboyant-tour-of-her-career/Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-like-to-break-the-rules-bjrk-on-comedy-darkness-and-the-most-flamboyant-tour-of-her-career/ The inventive English six-piece deliver another slice of whimsy, wit and gentle musical experimentationThe arrival of Tunng 20 years back was a gamechanger for British folk, allying its pastoral themes with gentle electronica and an often surrealist sense of humour. Sometimes it was folk horror on the high street as people were changed into hares; at others it became tripped-out domesticity. The group are still at it – a six-piece reunited around the core duo of Mike Lind]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tunng-love-you-all-over-review-a-delightfully-quirky-return-from-the-folktronica-pioneers/Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tunng-love-you-all-over-review-a-delightfully-quirky-return-from-the-folktronica-pioneers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-moore-was-more-than-a-soul-man-he-was-one-of-the-20th-centurys-great-live-performers/Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-moore-was-more-than-a-soul-man-he-was-one-of-the-20th-centurys-great-live-performers/ Force of nature David Yow and band tour their superb first album in 26 years with a growling, spit-flecked fusion of pummelling songs and acerbic witThe Jesus Lizard singer David Yow is not naked – which is probably for the best. It’s a cold night. But the frontman’s lack of nudity is pretty much the only key element missing from tonight’s ear-ringing encounter with the reunited US band, touring their late-career album Rack (2024). Clad in a black shi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-jesus-lizard-review-us-rockers-relive-past-glories-with-added-phlegm/Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-jesus-lizard-review-us-rockers-relive-past-glories-with-added-phlegm/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-jasmine4t/Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-jasmine4t/ The Scottish art rockers’ sixth album benefits from an infusion of fresh blood, but can’t maintain the standards of the first few songsA sparkling 2015 collaboration with Sparks aside, Franz Ferdinand’s career has felt like an exercise in diminishing returns, each successive album slightly less interesting than its predecessor. Seven years on from the paradoxically titled Always Ascending, their sixth set finally bucks that trend. Part of that could be down to an infus]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franz-ferdinand-the-human-fear-review-morerevitalisation-than-reinvention/Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franz-ferdinand-the-human-fear-review-morerevitalisation-than-reinvention/ Played by world-class personnel including Bill Frisell and the late, great alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, this 2014 set is full of subtle, spontaneous ideasWhen Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions that became jazz’s Birth of the Cool releases, the most bewitching solo voice apart from his own trumpet was that of a little-known 21-year-old called Lee Konitz. The alto saxophonist’s quietly captivating work still shimmers as a central feature of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jakob-bro-taking-turns-review-lost-masterpiece-from-great-danes-understated-jazz-supergroup/Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jakob-bro-taking-turns-review-lost-masterpiece-from-great-danes-understated-jazz-supergroup/ Championed by Iggy Pop and riot grrrl royalty, the Brighton duo pile on the jagged riffs, scabrous humour and swearing for their politically charged debutFor the most part, Lambrini Girls’ debut album barrels along in roughly the style that’s hoisted the Brighton duo to cult success over the last few years. There are huge, distorted basslines courtesy of Lily Macieira and equally distorted guitar playing from Phoebe Lunny that flits between post-punk angularity and occas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lambrini-girls-who-let-the-dogs-out-review-stomps-straight-to-the-top-of-british-punks-table/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lambrini-girls-who-let-the-dogs-out-review-stomps-straight-to-the-top-of-british-punks-table/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peter-yarrow-obituary/Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peter-yarrow-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wayne-osmond-obituary/Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wayne-osmond-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/forget-all-your-troubles-forget-all-your-cares-petula-clarks-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/forget-all-your-troubles-forget-all-your-cares-petula-clarks-20-best-songs-ranked/ Having struggled with the obsessive fandom drawn to her widescreen pop-Americana, Cain returns with 90 minutes of collapsing songs and confrontational power electronicsIn 2023, the Guardian interviewed Hayden Anhedönia, who records as Ethel Cain. She was, in theory, riding high on the critical success of her self-released debut album, Preacher’s Daughter, and the cult following that sprung up in its wake, entranced by its macabre lyrics, drifting, gothy sound &ndas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ethel-cain-perverts-review-pink-noise-and-punishment-as-cult-star-heads-underground/Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ethel-cain-perverts-review-pink-noise-and-punishment-as-cult-star-heads-underground/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/phish-review-spiraling-jams-and-communal-bliss-at-madison-square-garden/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:56:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/phish-review-spiraling-jams-and-communal-bliss-at-madison-square-garden/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/weve-been-through-the-wringer-doves-on-addiction-breakdowns-and-touring-without-singer-jimi-goodwin/Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/weve-been-through-the-wringer-doves-on-addiction-breakdowns-and-touring-without-singer-jimi-goodwin/ Wild Wood by Paul Weller, when I was in the National Youth Theatre of Wales, staying away from home for the first time, spotting dolphins in the sea in Aberystwyth.The first single I bought
My grampa bought me Joanna by Kool & the Gang and Mickey by Toni Basil from Woolworths in Swansea. When I got olde]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-turn-that-off-if-i-was-having-sex-joanna-pages-honest-playlist/Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/id-turn-that-off-if-i-was-having-sex-joanna-pages-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/snoop-dogg-and-dr-dre-sample-song-by-london-learning-disabilities-charity/Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/snoop-dogg-and-dr-dre-sample-song-by-london-learning-disabilities-charity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/what-music-stars-were-really-listening-to-in-2024-i-appear-on-my-own-top-10-three-times-every-stream-helps/Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/what-music-stars-were-really-listening-to-in-2024-i-appear-on-my-own-top-10-three-times-every-stream-helps/ Recommended if you like Throbbing Gristle, Boy Harsher, Pelada
Up next Headline London show in MayDame Area aren’t bothered about making hits – in fact, when the Spanish-Catalan electro-punk duo see a song catching on in their live shows, they might remove it from the set list. “We never wan]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barcelona-electro-punk-duo-dame-area-seeing-other-women-playing-weird-stuff-made-me-want-to-try/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barcelona-electro-punk-duo-dame-area-seeing-other-women-playing-weird-stuff-made-me-want-to-try/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-taste-of-ibiza-in-grotty-kings-cross-memories-of-closed-uk-nightclubs/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-taste-of-ibiza-in-grotty-kings-cross-memories-of-closed-uk-nightclubs/ Recommended if you like Kate Bush, Astrid Sonne, Julia Holter
Up next Performing at the ICA, London, 19 February; album three in the worksEvery Christmas, Clarissa Connelly rewatches Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, waiting for the scene in which Ismael shows Alexander a mummy and their faces turn in unison. &l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-is-magic-in-the-world-theres-something-bigger-the-ecstatic-visions-of-musician-clarissa-connelly/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-is-magic-in-the-world-theres-something-bigger-the-ecstatic-visions-of-musician-clarissa-connelly/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-songs-of-2024-that-you-havent-heard/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-songs-of-2024-that-you-havent-heard/ • More on the best culture of 2024Who could read the description “truck stop concrète” and not be intrigued? The San Diego sound collagist Phil Geraldi’s two-track cassette for Not Not Fun sketches a journey across the American plains in which the glow of a gas station canopy is as integra]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/desi-rap-deep-jungle-and-truck-stop-concrte-five-star-albums-you-may-have-missed-this-year/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/desi-rap-deep-jungle-and-truck-stop-concrte-five-star-albums-you-may-have-missed-this-year/ Recommended if you like Dean Blunt, Nine Inch Nails, Suicide
Up next Debut single in 2025Most London bands are so predictable. Oh, you make “jagged post-punk”? And reflect “the malaise and ridiculousness of life online”? Cool. Join the pile. Have fun playing Wide Awake fest]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/too-many-people-try-to-over-intellectualise-music-rip-magic-londons-buzziest-buzz-band/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/too-many-people-try-to-over-intellectualise-music-rip-magic-londons-buzziest-buzz-band/ Recommended if you like The Harlem Gospel Travelers, DJ Greg Belson’s Divine Disco compilations
Up next Single, Wrong, on 28 January. As-yet untitled debut album to followOn Instagram, you can find a clip of Annie and the Caldwells’ recent appearance at Le Guess Who? fe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wherever-he-sends-us-were-willing-to-go-annie-and-the-caldwells-on-god-gospel-and-a-debut-album-40-years-in-the-making/Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wherever-he-sends-us-were-willing-to-go-annie-and-the-caldwells-on-god-gospel-and-a-debut-album-40-years-in-the-making/ Recommended if you like Drake, Bryson Tiller, Cash Cobain
Up next New music anticipated in early 2025Standing among legends such as Beyoncé, Future, the Weeknd and Erykah Badu in the nominees for this year’s best melodic rap performance Grammy is Jordan Adetunji (pictured above), a 25-year-old from Belfast. W]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/attention-spans-are-short-people-want-that-dopamine-hit-jordan-adetunji-the-belfast-boy-gunning-for-grammys-glory/Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/attention-spans-are-short-people-want-that-dopamine-hit-jordan-adetunji-the-belfast-boy-gunning-for-grammys-glory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-nfl-half-time-show-review-country-ho-ho-ho-down-live-streamed-on-netflix-is-playful-and-infectious/Thu, 26 Dec 2024 02:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beyonc-nfl-half-time-show-review-country-ho-ho-ho-down-live-streamed-on-netflix-is-playful-and-infectious/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/french-flirting-flute-fusion-and-love-flowin-free-the-best-old-music-we-discovered-this-year/Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/french-flirting-flute-fusion-and-love-flowin-free-the-best-old-music-we-discovered-this-year/ • More on the best culture of 2024I often feel overwhelmed by the lengths some people will go to literally watch the world burn. Chat Pile seem to understand this. Cool World demonstrates the rage we should all feel towards]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-charli-xcx-to-chat-pile-guardian-readers-favourite-albums-of-2024/Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-charli-xcx-to-chat-pile-guardian-readers-favourite-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dirty-three-amyl-and-the-sniffers-and-emily-wurramara-the-best-australian-albums-of-2024/Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dirty-three-amyl-and-the-sniffers-and-emily-wurramara-the-best-australian-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-take-karaoke-seriously-ive-got-a-good-falsetto-asim-chaudhrys-honest-playlist/Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-take-karaoke-seriously-ive-got-a-good-falsetto-asim-chaudhrys-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ramones-family-row-puts-the-skids-on-us-punk-pioneers-biopic/Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ramones-family-row-puts-the-skids-on-us-punk-pioneers-biopic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-kitty-empires-10-best-albums-of-2024/Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/music-kitty-empires-10-best-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peaches-who-should-play-me-in-the-biopic-amy-taylor-from-amyl-and-the-sniffers/Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peaches-who-should-play-me-in-the-biopic-amy-taylor-from-amyl-and-the-sniffers/ An eras tour of a different kind finds the 82-year-old former Beatle on tremendous form, packing a three-hour show with hits, flashbacks and real emotionTowards the end of Come on to Me – a song about sexual chemistry from the near-end of the Paul McCartney solo catalogue – the 82-year-young musician whips off his blue jacket, displaying its elegant patterned lining. The reaction is wildly appreciative, if not quite the one that once met this former teenybopper idol]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-review-a-dizzying-bittersweet-life-encompassing-journey-through-time/Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-review-a-dizzying-bittersweet-life-encompassing-journey-through-time/ • More best music of 2024
• More on the best culture of 2024*** Continue reading...]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024/Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-and-i-are-gonna-live-forever-why-2024s-pop-was-all-about-sharing-the-moment/Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-and-i-are-gonna-live-forever-why-2024s-pop-was-all-about-sharing-the-moment/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-slim-dunlap-guitarist-in-the-replacements-dies-at-73/Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-slim-dunlap-guitarist-in-the-replacements-dies-at-73/ Why does anyone go on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!? Sometimes there’s an obvious reputation-washing agenda, which annoyingly seems to work – people who are really hated come out more popular (Matt Hancock, for example). Other times it looks as if they need the money. For Tulisa,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-deal-in-nonsense-tulisa-on-revenge-porn-tabloid-stings-celibacy-success-and-survival/Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-deal-in-nonsense-tulisa-on-revenge-porn-tabloid-stings-celibacy-success-and-survival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/move-over-mariah-the-cheesiest-weepiest-silliest-booziest-european-christmas-bangers/Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/move-over-mariah-the-cheesiest-weepiest-silliest-booziest-european-christmas-bangers/ Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fansThe near transcendentally awful cover art of this 38-track compilation, released with little fanfare this week, will already be familiar to hardcore Aphex Twin fans. Intrigued by a crappy southern hip-hop-style knockoff T-shirt flooding Etsy, team AFX simply made its own “meme top” to sell at recent festival app]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aphex-twin-music-from-the-merch-desk-2016-2023-review-santas-sack-overspills-with-afx-bounty/Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aphex-twin-music-from-the-merch-desk-2016-2023-review-santas-sack-overspills-with-afx-bounty/ • More on the best culture of 2024‘It’s all I really want,” Clairo sighs on Sexy to Someone, Charm’s lead single. Accompanied by ditzy Mellotron and wide-eyed flute, the song verges on romcom territory, with singer-songwriter Claire Cottrill as the unluc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024-no-4-clairo-charm/Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024-no-4-clairo-charm/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/matt-goss-on-love-loss-and-his-brother-luke-i-dont-want-to-lie-any-more-were-completely-estranged/Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/matt-goss-on-love-loss-and-his-brother-luke-i-dont-want-to-lie-any-more-were-completely-estranged/ • More on the best culture of 2024With Welsh traditional music flourishing in experimental arrangements and settings thanks to artists such as Cerys Hafana and Lleuwen, Peiriant’s second album (its title means returning) adds to that thrilling sense of motion. Rose Linn-Pearl&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-folk-albums-of-2024/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-folk-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thats-the-christmas-no-1-how-east-17-made-festive-favourite-stay-another-day/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thats-the-christmas-no-1-how-east-17-made-festive-favourite-stay-another-day/ • More on the best culture of 2024Beyoncé weaves Cowboy Carter’s origin story into the album’s opening track, Ameriican Requiem. Against a psychedelic country-gospel backdrop that unfolds with both determination and frustration, she establishes her southern roots – Alabama, Texas, Louisiana &ndash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024-no-5-beyonc-cowboy-carter/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-50-best-albums-of-2024-no-5-beyonc-cowboy-carter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/uptown-funk-makes-me-want-to-move-it-makes-me-happy-lorraine-braccos-honest-playlist/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/uptown-funk-makes-me-want-to-move-it-makes-me-happy-lorraine-braccos-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zakir-hussain-legendary-indian-tabla-musician-dies-aged-73/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zakir-hussain-legendary-indian-tabla-musician-dies-aged-73/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-review-extraordinarily-sublime-and-humblingly-beautiful/Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-review-extraordinarily-sublime-and-humblingly-beautiful/ Heads bang, moshpits burst into life and riffs eviscerate every corner of the room as the band tear through their debut album 1999 in a visceral sensory hazeUntil you’ve tried it, don’t knock the singular joys of watching a grown man in a horned gimp mask whack a steel keg with a baseball bat. Comical stage antics and horror theatricality have always been a part of Slipknot’s nucleus, but their exhilarating concert spectacle is no joke.Celebrating its]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/slipknot-review-metal-mammoths-deliver-exhilarating-sonic-brutality/Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/slipknot-review-metal-mammoths-deliver-exhilarating-sonic-brutality/ As saxophonist and band leader Marshall Allen turns 100, his evergreen outfit effortlessly draw on their rich history, as classics meet the cosmicOne way to celebrate your 100th birthday is with a new album, which is Marshall Allen’s response to his centenary. A distinctive and often wild alto saxophonist, Allen has dedicated his creative life to the Arkestra, the group founded by “cosmic jazz” pioneer Sun Ra (born Herman Blount), which he joined in 1957 and which he h]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sun-ra-arkestra-lights-on-a-satellite-review-fitting-tribute-to-a-century-of-jazz/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sun-ra-arkestra-lights-on-a-satellite-review-fitting-tribute-to-a-century-of-jazz/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-on-the-radio-review-us-indie-rockers-roll-back-the-years/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-on-the-radio-review-us-indie-rockers-roll-back-the-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-nia-smith/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-nia-smith/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/whams-andrew-ridgeley-looks-back-fame-or-anonymity-i-choose-famous-anonymity/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/whams-andrew-ridgeley-looks-back-fame-or-anonymity-i-choose-famous-anonymity/ Producer Felix Weatherall adopts another guise, swapping lo-fi analogue for a disorienting burst of alternative dance musicFelix Weatherall, the London producer best known as Ross From Friends, has spent much of his career escaping other people’s preconceptions. He emerged in the mid-2010s as the most popular face of the so-called “lo-fi house” or “YouTube house” scene – not really a scene, as much as a collection of producers making analog-sou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bubble-love-bubble-love-review-ross-from-friends-high-energy-pop-club-side-project/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bubble-love-bubble-love-review-ross-from-friends-high-energy-pop-club-side-project/ The Chvrches singer’s debut album skips from punk to pop, wilfully unbothered about current notions of coolAfter more than a decade at the helm of synth-pop success story Chvrches, Lauren Mayberry has spoken of wanting her solo project to be a retort to being reduced to “a girl in a band”; an opportunity to indulge in the femininity and play that operating in a male-dominated environment never allowed her.The best bits of this debut solo LP are where this sense of fun and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature-review-a-solo-statement-of-intent/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature-review-a-solo-statement-of-intent/ Five rising artists each perform one of their songs, then the US singer-songwriter covers another one of their tracks in a set of woebegone eleganceAngel Olsen’s last album was 2022’s country-tinged, grief-wrought Big Time; a stopgap EP, Forever Means, came out in 2023. Cosmic Waves Volume 1 feels like the work of an artist buying more time, but in a good way – investing in community via her own bijou label. This compilation amplifies five lesser-known artist]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/angel-olsen-cosmic-waves-vol-1-review-intriguing-half-compilation-half-covers/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/angel-olsen-cosmic-waves-vol-1-review-intriguing-half-compilation-half-covers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lennie-de-ice-british-producer-who-pioneered-sound-of-jungle-has-died/Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lennie-de-ice-british-producer-who-pioneered-sound-of-jungle-has-died/ • More on the best culture of 2024The South Korean former pop singer and jazz composer Jihye Lee woke up the wider jazz world with a daring and sophisticated debut, 2021’s Daring Mind. This superb successor invites contemporary trumpet maestro Ambrose Akinmusire to add his own magic, as Lee mingl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2024/Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/god-save-the-king-makes-me-sick-bobby-gillespies-honest-playlist/Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/god-save-the-king-makes-me-sick-bobby-gillespies-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-human-league-review-immaculate-electro-pop-as-radiant-now-as-it-was-40-years-ago/Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-human-league-review-immaculate-electro-pop-as-radiant-now-as-it-was-40-years-ago/ Even when the entire crowd of 23,000 are bellowing his ‘whoah-oh-ohs’, understated Fender quips ‘got some singers here, haven’t we?’ as if performing in a local boozerThe tiny venues he started out in were never going to hold Sam Fender. Five years after his debut, the 30-year-old has conquered major festivals, packed Newcastle United’s football ground and announced more stadium dates for next year, which makes this first of two nights a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-review-cathartic-songs-delivered-with-passion-and-a-humble-presence/Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-fender-review-cathartic-songs-delivered-with-passion-and-a-humble-presence/ Harpist Marilu Donovan and violinist Adam Markiewicz strip back their ornamentation and deliver an ambient experience that is both startling and unsettling Leya are a New York duo comprising harpist Marilu Donovan and violinist Adam Markiewicz, who seem to occupy a space roughly equidistant from ambient music, avant garde composition and drone-based electronica. They’ve soundtracked (and starred in) a porn film directed by rapper Brooke Candy; they’ve collaborated on show]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leya-i-forget-everything-review-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leya-i-forget-everything-review-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ambitious-and-acid-powered-olivia-tremor-controls-will-cullen-hart-was-a-genius-of-lo-fi/Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ambitious-and-acid-powered-olivia-tremor-controls-will-cullen-hart-was-a-genius-of-lo-fi/ Having left her mark on every high street and the Collins dictionary, the Brat star commands the stage alone in a joyful arena show that feels more like a warehouse raveCharli xcx is smoking a cigarette and surveying her disciples from an elevated platform. Most are clad in the ubiquitous slime green that adorned the cover of June’s culture-swallowing Brat album, while some sport the same wraparound glasses as their unapologetic idol. Everyone is dancing in unison to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-review-a-magnificent-one-woman-triumph/Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-review-a-magnificent-one-woman-triumph/ In support of the release of his 10th studio album The Mighty Several, Paul Heaton hits the arenas of the UK with his new sidekick, Rianne Downey. Alongside new material, the pair promise an array of Housemartins and Beautiful South hits, mapping the territories of British heartland p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/let-it-show-find-an-event-for-every-day-until-christmas-with-our-culture-advent-calendar/Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/let-it-show-find-an-event-for-every-day-until-christmas-with-our-culture-advent-calendar/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/band-aid-40-fails-to-reach-uk-top-40-in-opening-week/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/band-aid-40-fails-to-reach-uk-top-40-in-opening-week/ Fresh from his feud with Drake, the US hip-hop star’s latest album finds him on imperious formAppositely named after a vintage model car that’s dear to his heart, Kendrick Lamar’s sixth album would sound great with the top down and a back seat full of friends nodding in sync to this album’s taut Sounwave productions and bullish self-belief. Lamar ropes in just three famous pals – SZA, Kamasi Washington and, notably, ubiquitous pop producer Jack A]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-gnx-review-amply-backed-up-grandstanding/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-gnx-review-amply-backed-up-grandstanding/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kneecap-uk-government-acted-illegally-in-withholding-funding-from-irish-rap-trio/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kneecap-uk-government-acted-illegally-in-withholding-funding-from-irish-rap-trio/ Brian d’Souza’s genre-crossing curiosity takes him from propulsive disco to nursery-rhyme melodies and Tiësto-worthy tranceBrian d’Souza has always had a wandering ear. Since the 2011 release of his debut single as Auntie Flo, the DJ and producer has released four albums that traverse everything from South African kwaito to Ghanaian highlife, Ugandan pop and Afro-Cuban jazz. In 2020, he launched an online radio station playing exclusively ambient e]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/auntie-flo-in-my-dreams-im-a-bird-and-im-free-review-global-album-of-the-month/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/auntie-flo-in-my-dreams-im-a-bird-and-im-free-review-global-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-just-had-to-rejoice-the-brilliance-and-tragedy-of-fifth-beatle-billy-preston/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-just-had-to-rejoice-the-brilliance-and-tragedy-of-fifth-beatle-billy-preston/ The Scottish star’s solo debut is about ‘empowering myself to listen to my own intuition’ – leading her to alternately clumsy and deft songs influenced by Y2K popBy her own account, Lauren Mayberry’s debut solo album has been a long time coming. She first mooted the idea of striking out on her own after the release of her band Chvrches’ third album, 2018’s Love Is Dead, when the trio were apparently in a state of disarray: instead, Covid happened,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature-review-chvrches-singer-writes-her-own-pop-gospel/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature-review-chvrches-singer-writes-her-own-pop-gospel/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-gnx-review-stunning-surprise-from-a-rapper-determined-to-be-the-greatest/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kendrick-lamar-gnx-review-stunning-surprise-from-a-rapper-determined-to-be-the-greatest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charles-had-just-bought-a-mean-looking-chevrolet-how-war-made-low-rider/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charles-had-just-bought-a-mean-looking-chevrolet-how-war-made-low-rider/ On this special night, Anohni reveals her rarely heard talents as a covers artist as she expands the boundaries and musicality of beloved – and obscure – Reed songsBlessed with a voice you might imagine perfectly suited to interpreting others’ material, Anohni has largely shied away from recording covers. A couple of songs by Dylan, Lennon and Yoko Ono, an amazing take on Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love – and that’s been about it ove]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anohni-review-uniquely-gifted-interpreter-pays-homage-to-mentor-lou-reed/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anohni-review-uniquely-gifted-interpreter-pays-homage-to-mentor-lou-reed/ Malik sips tea and hesitantly delivers an intimate, accomplished set – and pays tribute to former One Direction bandmate Liam PayneWatching Zayn Malik perform tonight, it’s hard to picture him in One Direction, a band whose lively performances once filled stadiums all over the world. Of course, Malik was always the shy one, so much so that he eventually quit the group in order “to be a normal 22-year-old”. He ventured out as a solo artist and secured]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zayn-review-shy-star-lets-his-hypnotic-vocals-do-the-talking/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zayn-review-shy-star-lets-his-hypnotic-vocals-do-the-talking/ Showcasing new album Manning Fireworks, the North Carolina indie rising star seals his reputation as a slacker guitar hero who knows exactly what he’s doingA pedal steel guitar is weeping in one corner of the stage, comforted by a keyboard countermelody coming from the opposite end. Centre stage is up-and-coming guitarist of the moment MJ Lenderman, a study in slackerish nonc muels freewheels by his side, flinging lots of hair around.This modern-day, if sepia-tinted tabl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-review-a-shooting-star-from-the-american-south/Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-review-a-shooting-star-from-the-american-south/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-yoo-doo-right/Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-yoo-doo-right/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/experimental-queer-and-kind-of-magical-sade-and-sam-smith-feature-on-46-track-album-for-trans-rights/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/experimental-queer-and-kind-of-magical-sade-and-sam-smith-feature-on-46-track-album-for-trans-rights/ The collective and their artistic director’s classy multimedia project highlights the lives lost and land snatched away in building the US transcontinental railroadEver since her days with folk revivalists Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has championed the marginalised or suppressed elements of American musical tradition. Now artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, a multi-ethnic, 13-strong troupe founded in 2000, Giddens has overseen a history of America’s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/silkroad-ensemble-with-rhiannon-giddens-american-railroad-review-homage-to-a-forgotten-army-of-workers/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/silkroad-ensemble-with-rhiannon-giddens-american-railroad-review-homage-to-a-forgotten-army-of-workers/ Five years on from his self-titled Mercury winner, the singer-songwriter scales things down to potent effectAs an artist, entertainment is the purpose of your work – or the result of it. If you’re Coldplay, it’s all purpose. Michael Kiwanuka is different. It feels as though whenever he entertains us with the songs ripped from his yearning heart, it’s just a happy coincidence. His last, self-titled album was an instant classic in 2019, a revelatory work perfectly]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-kiwanuka-small-changes-review-an-exquisite-return/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/michael-kiwanuka-small-changes-review-an-exquisite-return/ The Pixies and Breeders musician’s distinctive touch is ever present on a set that spans heartbreak, good times and strident guitars
A decade and more in the making, Kim Deal’s first solo album under her own name more than repays the wait. Nobody Loves You More distils the cult American musician’s strengths – previously flexed in the Pixies and her own bands, the Breeders and the Amps – into a tight 11 tracks that span heartbreak, good times and strident guita]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kim-deal-nobody-loves-you-more-review-a-solo-debut-worth-waiting-for/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kim-deal-nobody-loves-you-more-review-a-solo-debut-worth-waiting-for/ Bassist Danielsson, guitarist Parricelli and trumpeter Pohjola combine folksy melodies, Latin grooves and free-roaming improv on this lustrous albumWhen the three European musicians who created this glowing collage of folksy melodies, Latin-grooving and freely roaming improvisations were asked to name their three favourite jazz records, they all included one by Keith Jarrett. These singular artists aren’t Jarrett mimics, but see the piano giant as a transitional bridge]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lars-danielssonverneri-pohjolajohn-parricelli-trio-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lars-danielssonverneri-pohjolajohn-parricelli-trio-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-didnt-intend-to-create-outrage-huggy-bear-on-radical-politics-riot-grrrl-and-causing-chaos-on-live-tv/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-didnt-intend-to-create-outrage-huggy-bear-on-radical-politics-riot-grrrl-and-causing-chaos-on-live-tv/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/poppy-ajudha-poppy-review-frank-lyrics-elevate-soulful-funky-love-songs/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/poppy-ajudha-poppy-review-frank-lyrics-elevate-soulful-funky-love-songs/ The singer-songwriter sticks to apocalyptic first principles on his sixth album, couching contemporary chaos in soaring ballads and discofied yacht rock Nine years after his breakthrough album I Love You, Honeybear turned Josh Tillman from a minor indie singer-songwriter (and the former drummer of Fleet Foxes) into a critical cause célèbre, most people with any interest know broadly what to expect from a new release under the Father John Misty name. There will be blac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/father-john-misty-mahashmashana-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/father-john-misty-mahashmashana-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/two-bee-gees-drummers-die-within-days-of-one-another/Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/two-bee-gees-drummers-die-within-days-of-one-another/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-was-three-of-them-waiting-like-play-this-track-or-else-dj-ez-the-reality-bending-maestro-of-the-decks/Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/there-was-three-of-them-waiting-like-play-this-track-or-else-dj-ez-the-reality-bending-maestro-of-the-decks/ The North Carolina musician and his band comfort the crowd with a set of smart, beguiling songs played with skill and camaraderieThere’s a sense of solace and welcome to MJ Lenderman’s music, a warmth that runs counter to a wet and biting Monday night in mid-November, and carries all the way to the back wall of a packed London Garage. Its affability lies partly in a certain familiarity – songs carried with the gait of Pavement or Guided By Voices, while Lende]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-review-songs-of-solace-and-goofy-poetry-from-lauded-indie-darling/Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-review-songs-of-solace-and-goofy-poetry-from-lauded-indie-darling/ The Aussie rockers led by the magnetic Amy Taylor showcase new album Cartoon Darkness with an explosive set that just keeps giving and givingPart of the appeal of the Roundhouse, a famous north London venue, is that if a gig ever becomes boring, you can gaze at its vaulted, jointed ceiling – a marvel of the industrial age. It’s a safe bet that no one checks the architecture tonight, or on the other two nights of this sold-out residency. Because punk crossover stars]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amyl-and-the-sniffers-review-nonstop-fireworks/Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amyl-and-the-sniffers-review-nonstop-fireworks/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-manwomanchainsaw/Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-manwomanchainsaw/ The trio bring gorgeous vocals and spiky attitude to 90s-facing songs – but they need a little more of that era’s oddball invention, as well as an undeniable hitYou don’t have to be particularly keen-eared to spot Flo’s musical influences. They announce them in the opening seconds of their debut album – or rather actor Cynthia Erivo does. Her guest spot is the latest in a series of high-profile co-signs the London trio has attracted. SZA is apparently a fan]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/flo-access-all-areas-review-ndash-8203skilful-rampb-revivalists-need-to-get-their-freak-on-a-bit-more/Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:45:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/flo-access-all-areas-review-ndash-8203skilful-rampb-revivalists-need-to-get-their-freak-on-a-bit-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roy-haynes-jazz-drummer-whose-career-spanned-nine-decades-dies-aged-99/Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roy-haynes-jazz-drummer-whose-career-spanned-nine-decades-dies-aged-99/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lou-donaldson-obituary/Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lou-donaldson-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-pem/Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-pem/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/top-of-the-pips-fiona-apples-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/top-of-the-pips-fiona-apples-20-greatest-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mkgee-review-is-this-the-worlds-most-exciting-young-guitarist/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mkgee-review-is-this-the-worlds-most-exciting-young-guitarist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-forest-of-questions-take-our-quiz-on-the-cure/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-forest-of-questions-take-our-quiz-on-the-cure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-marling-review-gently-transcendent-songs-of-motherhood-and-domesticity/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-marling-review-gently-transcendent-songs-of-motherhood-and-domesticity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/these-were-tough-dudes-and-notoriously-romantic-why-lowrider-soul-las-music-and-car-subculture-still-thrives/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/these-were-tough-dudes-and-notoriously-romantic-why-lowrider-soul-las-music-and-car-subculture-still-thrives/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-search-for-meaning-review-slick-reminder-of-radical-rockers-placebo/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-search-for-meaning-review-slick-reminder-of-radical-rockers-placebo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-mysterious-world-of-two-shell-our-pranks-dont-mean-were-not-sincere/Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-mysterious-world-of-two-shell-our-pranks-dont-mean-were-not-sincere/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-history-of-violence-how-has-chris-brown-survived-so-much-controversy/Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-history-of-violence-how-has-chris-brown-survived-so-much-controversy/ Emmy award-winning puppeteers Manual Cinema occasionally pull focus from Sam Beam’s rich songwriting, but mostly enhance it with eerie and intricate stagingSam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man musical project, Beam is joined by seven collaborators tonight: there are the musicians – covering strings, keys and drums – and then there are the puppeteers: two artist]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/iron-amp-wine-review-ndash-shadow-puppets-and-folk-pop-combine-in-singular-gig/Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/iron-amp-wine-review-ndash-shadow-puppets-and-folk-pop-combine-in-singular-gig/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julian-cope-told-me-youre-unemployable-in-the-real-world-david-wrench-the-welsh-studio-wizard-behind-pops-a-list/Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/julian-cope-told-me-youre-unemployable-in-the-real-world-david-wrench-the-welsh-studio-wizard-behind-pops-a-list/ Gabriel Prokofiev’s avant garde record label marked its 20th birthday with an engaging and energetic scaled up showcaseEven seasoned aficionados of avant-garde music are unlikely to have witnessed a musician playing a mini concerto for bubble wrap. But that’s what the composer Tonia Ko is playing tonight. She’s at the front of the stage, miked up, rhythmically rubbing and rustling various sizes of plastic packaging while the string section of the London S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nonclassical-at-20-review-synths-screams-and-bubble-wrap-as-record-label-celebrates-with-the-lso/Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nonclassical-at-20-review-synths-screams-and-bubble-wrap-as-record-label-celebrates-with-the-lso/ Gleefully raucous anthems give way to heartfelt goodbyes on the Canadian band’s triumphant farewell tour ‘God knows, Sum 41 have had our share of ups and downs,”, frontman Deryck Whibley observes with a grin. The Canadian pop-punks’ 28-year history has seen near fatal car crashes, assaults, alcoholism and even pneumonia. Meanwhile, their fortunes have veered from platinum sales to struggling to fill smaller venues before a triumphant return to ar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sum-41-review-hugs-and-lasers-as-emotional-pop-punks-go-out-with-a-bang/Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sum-41-review-hugs-and-lasers-as-emotional-pop-punks-go-out-with-a-bang/ The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop bangerThe Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band is serenely defied – maybe due to a diet rich in red wine, combined with a dogged aversion to modernity. Band leader Robert Smith does not own a smartphone; the band’s consumption of polyphenols in the 1980s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-as-promised-very-very-doom-and-gloom/Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-as-promised-very-very-doom-and-gloom/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-kofi-stone/Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-kofi-stone/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-return-of-hope-of-the-states-there-will-be-no-tantrums-im-a-grown-man-now/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-return-of-hope-of-the-states-there-will-be-no-tantrums-im-a-grown-man-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-disease-review-a-return-to-form-and-to-her-classic-sound/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-disease-review-a-return-to-form-and-to-her-classic-sound/ The Boston band’s slide towards mediocrity continues, with the high point a song about a headless chickenIs there an act that has had a second coming as underwhelming, yet at the same time as long-lasting as that of the Pixies? The astonishing run of albums from 1987’s Come On Pilgrim to 1990’s Bossanova still stand as one of the cornerstones of modern-day indie rock. Yet the records released over the past decade – of which this is the fifth – have been notewo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pixies-the-night-the-zombies-came-review-an-echo-of-an-echo-of-past-glories/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pixies-the-night-the-zombies-came-review-an-echo-of-an-echo-of-past-glories/ Domestic contentment radiates through the singer-songwriter’s eighth album celebrating the circle of life
Patterns in Repeat is not the first time Laura Marling has written music for her child, but it is the first time she’s done so as a mother. 2020’s Song for Our Daughter was directed at an idea, and as such rippled with possibility. Its successor is a far more grounded thing, recorded in snatched half hours and imbued with considered, lived experience.Fr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-marling-patterns-in-repeat-review-a-tender-love-letter-to-motherhood/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/laura-marling-patterns-in-repeat-review-a-tender-love-letter-to-motherhood/ The techno giants’ 11th album finds them ranging from cut-up dancefloor fillers to gentle experimentationAfter 2019’s 52-week audiovisual creative marathon, Drift, recent tunes with Irish producer Kettama and a busy touring schedule, the implacable Underworld return with a more conventional album – their 11th. Of course, Strawberry Hotel defies easy definition, veering from Born Slippy-indebted bangers to a simple closing guitar track via Ottavia]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/underworld-strawberry-hotel-review-sweet-bangers-and-sad-laments/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/underworld-strawberry-hotel-review-sweet-bangers-and-sad-laments/ Full of blistering bebop and entrancing swing, this 1992 recording showcases the pianist’s love of the Deer Head Inn, the clapboard 1840s hotel where he cut his teeth
When he first played the Deer Head Inn, a romantic 1840s clapboard hotel on the edge of a Delaware national park, Keith Jarrett was 16, just out of high school and making $48 a week as a shipping clerk. But he was also a piano prodigy from the age of three, a classical recitalist before he was 10 and an intuitive improv]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/keith-jarrettgary-peacockpaul-motian-the-old-country-review-a-delightful-return-to-a-cherished-jazz-venue/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/keith-jarrettgary-peacockpaul-motian-the-old-country-review-a-delightful-return-to-a-cherished-jazz-venue/ Brilliant melodies, poetic lyrics and quick-change time signatures elevate this quirky jazz-pop release to a level all its ownHalfway through the Dr Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, our young protagonist bursts out of a dull cul-de-sac and into a Technicolor tent of music “where boom bands are playing”. You get a similar feeling listening to this album by surrealist US-Belgian duo Fievel Is Glauque, a jazz-pop LP that yanks you into its own world, full]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fievel-is-glauque-rong-weicknes-review-teetering-song-towers-that-never-quite-topple/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fievel-is-glauque-rong-weicknes-review-teetering-song-towers-that-never-quite-topple/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/who-am-i-voting-for-america-chris-stapleton-on-patriotism-politics-and-being-countrys-great-crossover-star/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/who-am-i-voting-for-america-chris-stapleton-on-patriotism-politics-and-being-countrys-great-crossover-star/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/just-like-heaven-the-cures-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/just-like-heaven-the-cures-20-greatest-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-most-important-dj-in-the-uk-live-streamer-takes-music-to-streets/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-most-important-dj-in-the-uk-live-streamer-takes-music-to-streets/ With their swearing and flashing, Amy Taylor and co’s return might seem like business as usual – but new melodic depths and lyrical concerns reveal themselvesAnyone unfamiliar with Amyl and the Sniffers could learn a lot about them from the fact that when an acoustic guitar appears nine songs and 20 minutes into their third album, it feels genuinely jolting. Thus far, the Australian quartet have dealt in a brand of punk that carries with it the distinct whiff of the pub]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amyl-and-the-sniffers-cartoon-darkness-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/amyl-and-the-sniffers-cartoon-darkness-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maybe-i-am-bizarre-to-some-people-the-unique-underrated-mind-of-70s-singer-dory-previn/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maybe-i-am-bizarre-to-some-people-the-unique-underrated-mind-of-70s-singer-dory-previn/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-the-heady-rise-and-tragic-death-of-a-one-direction-star-podcast/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-the-heady-rise-and-tragic-death-of-a-one-direction-star-podcast/ Displaying the lean mean belligerence of artists half their age, the band bring a brutish level of distortion and energy to a tight 90 minute setIan Astbury is annoyed. There are hurt feelings, perhaps the makings of a fight, among some fans at the lip of the stage and the Cult’s frontman isn’t having it. “This is a celebration,” he sneers. “If you can’t handle that, go sit in the OAP section, and I fuckin’ mean that.”There is no sugg]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cult-review-hard-rock-survivors-blast-through-a-beefy-40th-birthday-party/Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cult-review-hard-rock-survivors-blast-through-a-beefy-40th-birthday-party/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lsquoyoung-women-from-the-ghetto-were-taken-advantage-ofrsquo-the-power-and-pain-of-rampbrsquos-lsquonew-jill-swingrsquo-era/Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lsquoyoung-women-from-the-ghetto-were-taken-advantage-ofrsquo-the-power-and-pain-of-rampbrsquos-lsquonew-jill-swingrsquo-era/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theres-vomit-on-my-sweater-already-barack-obama-raps-eminems-lose-yourself-at-detroit-rally/Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theres-vomit-on-my-sweater-already-barack-obama-raps-eminems-lose-yourself-at-detroit-rally/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/composer-oliver-coates-on-the-cello-chaos-and-connection-the-best-music-is-out-there-in-nature/Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/composer-oliver-coates-on-the-cello-chaos-and-connection-the-best-music-is-out-there-in-nature/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-were-banging-our-heads-against-a-wall-the-wall-won-the-genius-pop-and-tragic-demise-of-boys-wonder/Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-were-banging-our-heads-against-a-wall-the-wall-won-the-genius-pop-and-tragic-demise-of-boys-wonder/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-had-pink-cocaine-in-his-system-at-time-of-death-reports/Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-had-pink-cocaine-in-his-system-at-time-of-death-reports/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-timeline-of-allegations-and-charges-sean-diddy-combs-faces/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-timeline-of-allegations-and-charges-sean-diddy-combs-faces/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-dianno-early-frontman-for-iron-maiden-dies-aged-66/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-dianno-early-frontman-for-iron-maiden-dies-aged-66/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/every-fear-youre-supposed-to-have-as-a-new-yorker-lin-manuel-miranda-on-rebooting-cult-movie-the-warriors/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/every-fear-youre-supposed-to-have-as-a-new-yorker-lin-manuel-miranda-on-rebooting-cult-movie-the-warriors/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-dylan-was-an-endearing-young-scallywag-barbara-dane-the-singer-who-burned-a-path-through-folk-blues-and-activism/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bob-dylan-was-an-endearing-young-scallywag-barbara-dane-the-singer-who-burned-a-path-through-folk-blues-and-activism/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-prodigys-leeroy-thornhill-on-fame-raves-and-his-late-best-mate-keith-flint-i-love-him-and-i-always-will/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-prodigys-leeroy-thornhill-on-fame-raves-and-his-late-best-mate-keith-flint-i-love-him-and-i-always-will/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/composer-max-richter-im-a-low-key-raver-i-love-all-kinds-of-music/Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/composer-max-richter-im-a-low-key-raver-i-love-all-kinds-of-music/ Kylie Minogue’s follow-up to 2023’s euphoric Tension – and smash hit Padam Padam – fluctuates between sparkle and self-doubt, generic pap and two stone-cold bangersIt is impossibly easy to root for Kylie Minogue. The Australian pop princess is funny in interviews – see her dry, casual dismissal of the idea that Kylie Jenner could trademark their shared first name. She is also remarkably private – rarely, if ever, whipping up hokey, pseudo-emotional backs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kylie-tension-ii-review-more-of-the-same-is-much-much-less/Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kylie-tension-ii-review-more-of-the-same-is-much-much-less/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-ruthven/Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-ruthven/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/boybands-let-girls-fall-in-love-for-the-first-time-so-grief-for-liam-payne-is-heartbreakingly-painful/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/boybands-let-girls-fall-in-love-for-the-first-time-so-grief-for-liam-payne-is-heartbreakingly-painful/ The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyrics’ emotional impactThe latter-day history of the Cure is a peculiar thing. They ended the 90s in apparent disarray – the disappointing Wild Mood Swings drew their peak commercial years to a close, and a series of festival shows degenerated into drunken farce – yet the 21st century found them more revered than ever. You couldn’t move for]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-dark-personal-and-their-best-since-disintegration/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-dark-personal-and-their-best-since-disintegration/ Blossomsmania is in full force at this cheery, beery gig, which has something of the atmosphere of an indie Last Night of the PromsIn the 11 years since they began rehearsing in the bass player’s grandfather’s scaffold yard, Blossoms have completed a metamorphosis from bowl-cutted indie psychedelic types to dewy-eyed keyboard-driven bouncing pop. The Stockport quintet’s four No 1 albums position them somewhere between early Arctic Monkeys and a poppier New]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/blossoms-review-funky-indie-pop-singalongs-and-a-6ft-gorilla-send-the-crowd-wild/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/blossoms-review-funky-indie-pop-singalongs-and-a-6ft-gorilla-send-the-crowd-wild/ The young American taps into generational memory with assorted guest vocalists and a rich, rewarding palette of styles and moodsThe first two albums from American alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins showed him a force to be reckoned with; a fluent player steeped in tradition (with Kenny Garrett a touchstone) who is also an inventive conceptualist committed to “sacred music”. Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, Blues Blood underscores the lofty ambitions of the 27-year-old P]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/immanuel-wilkins-blues-blood-review-alto-sax-players-hugely-ambitious-meditation-on-his-roots/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/immanuel-wilkins-blues-blood-review-alto-sax-players-hugely-ambitious-meditation-on-his-roots/ Emotions run high on the Brighton band’s fourth album as frontwoman Dana Margolin exorcises past relationshipsThere comes a point in many Porridge Radio songs when the intensity ramps up, repetition of a key line or chorus thunders in and the Brighton quartet unleash fury with their jagged, weirdly euphoric indie rock. Frontwoman Dana Margolin has spoken recently about how the band’s work takes a toll on her. Still, she continues to scour her recent relationships]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/porridge-radio-clouds-in-the-sky-they-will-always-be-there-for-me-review-exquisite-euphoria-through-repetition/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/porridge-radio-clouds-in-the-sky-they-will-always-be-there-for-me-review-exquisite-euphoria-through-repetition/ Accompanied by a 53-piece orchestra and 14-strong choir, the pop superstar forsakes many of her biggest hits to perform the entirety of her coolly received new albumAfter an opening medley of End of an Era and Houdini, Dua Lipa starts telling the audience about the many legendary performers who have preceded her on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall. There’s certainly plenty of pivotal moments in musical history to choose from – it was here that Bob Dylan an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-review-orchestral-special-boasts-elton-john-but-tips-into-old-fashioned-eurovision/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-review-orchestral-special-boasts-elton-john-but-tips-into-old-fashioned-eurovision/ Featuring Kylie Minogue, Jacob Lusk and more, the American producer and DJ’s solo debut offers something for everyoneFor the best part of the past decade, Chicago DJ Marea Stamper, AKA the Blessed Madonna, has built a reputation for whipping dancefloors into a euphoric frenzy with her crate-digging mixes of house, techno and disco. As a producer, she has channelled this high-octane sensibility into remixes for the likes of Dua Lipa and Robyn. Now, on her debut album, Godspeed, Stamp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-blessed-madonna-godspeed-review-a-sprawling-dancefloor-odyssey/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-blessed-madonna-godspeed-review-a-sprawling-dancefloor-odyssey/ Singer Rose Connolly expands the pre-Christian Irish grieving tradition with synthesisers, distortion and drone in an arresting setRose Connolly is Róis, a startling singer from County Fermanagh, whose first release explores the pre-Christian Irish tradition of caoineadh (keening). Here, a woman would “keen” a lamenting wail at a graveside to release the intensity of her grief and relinquish her fear of death. Largely improvised and rhythmically free, somewhat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roacuteis-mo-leacutean-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/roacuteis-mo-leacutean-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/ • Alexis Petridis: ‘After One Direction, Liam Payne was just getting started. His death is a heartbreaking end’When I met Liam Payne five years ago, he was 26 years old and riding high. He was about to release his debut solo album and buoyed by th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-seemed-unsure-of-who-he-was-but-the-brutality-of-fame-denied-him-the-chance-to-find-out/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-seemed-unsure-of-who-he-was-but-the-brutality-of-fame-denied-him-the-chance-to-find-out/ Brian King and David Prowse’s guitar-drums combo enjoys one last hurrah with tracks ranging from bluesy epics to rock romcom Fate & Alcohol is the reunion that Japandroids fans have been hoping for – and the farewell they’ve long feared. The Canadian duo’s fourth and final album arrives six years after guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse played their last show. With Springsteen-influenced storytelling fuelled by some of the punk intensity from their b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/japandroids-fate-amp-alcohol-review-ndash-canadian-duorsquos-bittersweet-breakup-record/Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/japandroids-fate-amp-alcohol-review-ndash-canadian-duorsquos-bittersweet-breakup-record/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grief-and-shock-at-buenos-aires-hotel-where-liam-payne-died-i-came-to-say-goodbye/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/grief-and-shock-at-buenos-aires-hotel-where-liam-payne-died-i-came-to-say-goodbye/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billie-eilish-review-a-bravura-arena-set-offers-both-energy-and-intimacy/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billie-eilish-review-a-bravura-arena-set-offers-both-energy-and-intimacy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-had-all-the-stuff-you-need-to-be-a-pop-star-how-liam-payne-helped-one-direction-to-global-glory/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-had-all-the-stuff-you-need-to-be-a-pop-star-how-liam-payne-helped-one-direction-to-global-glory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ice-t-anybody-that-thinks-controversy-is-a-way-to-make-money-its-not-you-need-lawyers/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ice-t-anybody-that-thinks-controversy-is-a-way-to-make-money-its-not-you-need-lawyers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/confidence-man-3am-la-la-la-review-joyous-escape-into-the-gen-x-club-era/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/confidence-man-3am-la-la-la-review-joyous-escape-into-the-gen-x-club-era/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-former-one-direction-singer-dies-aged-31/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-payne-former-one-direction-singer-dies-aged-31/ The Welsh producer’s latest handbrake turn takes her from dark-hued ambience to hypnotic euphoria on her poppiest record to dateIn a world where artists are often cautioned to stay in their lane – to maintain a recognisable brand so you don’t get lost in a crowded, confusing market – there’s something impressive about Kelly Lee Owens. For the last seven years, her career has constituted a series of handbrake turns, fuelled by a disinclination to make the same]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kelly-lee-owens-dreamstate-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kelly-lee-owens-dreamstate-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ History-focused band brings live magic to heartfelt songs about the lost aviator and other spirits from a more hopeful ageCorduroy suit, spotted bow-tie, professorial spectacles: J Wilgoose Esq takes to the Barrowland stage dressed as the sort of chap who comes to a sticky end in an MR James ghost story. Which is apt as his band, Public Service Broadcasting, are in the business of raising the dead. In this case, Amelia Earhart, the aviator whose life, achievements an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/public-service-broadcasting-review-amelia-earhart-tribute-soars/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/public-service-broadcasting-review-amelia-earhart-tribute-soars/ An unexpected army of cowboys are treated to the country superstar’s remarkable range and expertly crafted songs, which make up in soul what he lacks in showmanship‘Do we have any truck drivers here tonight?” is not a question you hear at many gigs in Manchester. But when Chris Stapleton asks, countless cheers go up from a sea of cowboy hats. It’s emblematic of just how vastly popular the US country singer now is: he’s collaborated with everyon]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-stapleton-review-bringing-southern-comfort-to-the-manchester-drizzle/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chris-stapleton-review-bringing-southern-comfort-to-the-manchester-drizzle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-empowering-my-song-to-go-and-make-love-with-different-people-imogen-heap-on-how-her-ai-twin-will-rewrite-pop/Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-empowering-my-song-to-go-and-make-love-with-different-people-imogen-heap-on-how-her-ai-twin-will-rewrite-pop/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rfs-du-sol-dom-dolla-flume-fisher-inside-australian-dance-musics-global-boom/Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rfs-du-sol-dom-dolla-flume-fisher-inside-australian-dance-musics-global-boom/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ka-brooklyn-rapper-and-new-york-firefighter-dies-aged-52/Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ka-brooklyn-rapper-and-new-york-firefighter-dies-aged-52/ It was always somewhere to let rip until dawn, but seven editions in, No Bounds lives up to its name by expanding across cathedrals, castles and moreEast African industrial metal, head-popping techno, walloping bassline, filthy jungle, improvised minimalism and experimental pop. With DJ sets, gigs, art installations and exhibitions stretched across Sheffield and Rotherham, this year’s No Bounds festival feels, and sounds, weightier than ever.It begin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/no-bounds-review-from-clubs-to-chapels-this-sheffield-fest-is-dizzyingly-daring/Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/no-bounds-review-from-clubs-to-chapels-this-sheffield-fest-is-dizzyingly-daring/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-five-year-old-could-play-this-how-razorlight-made-golden-touch/Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-five-year-old-could-play-this-how-razorlight-made-golden-touch/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/morrisseys-lyrics-are-untouchable-but-i-dont-want-to-think-about-him-lauren-mayberrys-honest-playlist/Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/morrisseys-lyrics-are-untouchable-but-i-dont-want-to-think-about-him-lauren-mayberrys-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/becky-hill-review-ultimate-slow-burn-pop-star-has-the-crowd-on-her-side/Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/becky-hill-review-ultimate-slow-burn-pop-star-has-the-crowd-on-her-side/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/scottish-dj-jack-revill-aka-jackmaster-dies-aged-38/Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/scottish-dj-jack-revill-aka-jackmaster-dies-aged-38/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-faux-real/Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-faux-real/ The foursome channel their blistering, rage-fuelled energy into a mature second album with hints of Foo Fighters and Olivia RodrigoWhen a video of four girls shredding guitars and screaming about a “racist, sexist boy” in the LA public library went viral in 2021, it proved a powerful launchpad for the Linda Lindas. Combining chugging drums with sludgy guitars, pop hooks and emphatic punk vocals, the quartet’s 2022 debut record, Growing Up, skewered the awkward angst o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-linda-lindas-no-obligation-review-viral-la-teen-punks-are-here-to-stay/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-linda-lindas-no-obligation-review-viral-la-teen-punks-are-here-to-stay/ Chris Martin parks his sense of humour as he communes with the stars and sky on the band’s melody-light, feebly produced latest recordChris Martin clearly feels a responsibility to use his bully pulpit to spread positivity. Nothing wrong with that. One of the reasons Coldplay are the biggest ticket-shifters in rock history is that Martin is an amazing frontman, both for his witty, engaging personality and his heartfelt delivery. Yet only the latter ever makes it on to Coldplay]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-moon-music-review-a-cloyingly-upbeat-ride-to-the-heavens/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-moon-music-review-a-cloyingly-upbeat-ride-to-the-heavens/ The first album since the early 70s from the politically radical US band recalls past glories – in placesArguably the world’s first punk band, Detroit’s MC5 burned incandescently across three albums in the late 60s and early 70s before imploding. With three of the classic lineup long dead, it had been left to guitarist Wayne Kramer to carry the flame, and this first MC5 album since 1971’s High Time is in effect a solo album, although original drummer Dennis &ld]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mc5-heavy-lifting-review-an-enjoyable-coda-for-detroits-punk-pioneers/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mc5-heavy-lifting-review-an-enjoyable-coda-for-detroits-punk-pioneers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/being-alive-is-kind-of-painful-the-bleak-vision-of-noise-rockers-chat-pile/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/being-alive-is-kind-of-painful-the-bleak-vision-of-noise-rockers-chat-pile/ Sat between jazz, ambient and devotional music, the California artist evokes a pastoral wonderland – but disrupts it with surprising, volatile bursts of soundWhen Surya Botofasina was growing up on an ashram in California, he had no idea that his mentor, a woman he knew as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, was also known by millions around the world as Alice Coltrane. As a teenager on a visit to Los Angeles, he was astonished to see devoted fans greeting her like a rock star, rhapso]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/surya-botofasina-ashram-sun-review-alice-coltrane-inspired-expression-of-natures-glory/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/surya-botofasina-ashram-sun-review-alice-coltrane-inspired-expression-of-natures-glory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-like-wow-i-was-really-deranged-stars-and-repentant-stans-on-the-terror-of-toxic-fandom/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-like-wow-i-was-really-deranged-stars-and-repentant-stans-on-the-terror-of-toxic-fandom/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-book-of-abba-by-jan-gradvall-review-dark-backstories-and-new-revelations/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-book-of-abba-by-jan-gradvall-review-dark-backstories-and-new-revelations/ Big-name guests abound on a thrilling remix album that takes a glimpse into celebrity’s heart of darkness but makes it transcendently fun and coolOn Brat, Charli xcx’s zeitgeist-lassoing sixth album, its creator brooded on her chronically underrated status. Over the sickly sweet deconstructed UK garage of Rewind, she worried about her lack of presence on the Billboard charts, unsure “whether I think I deserve commercial success”. During the jagged synthpop of S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-brat-and-its-completely-different-but-also-still-brat-review-her-lime-green-imperial-phase-is-unstoppable/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-brat-and-its-completely-different-but-also-still-brat-review-her-lime-green-imperial-phase-is-unstoppable/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-sex-trafficking-trial-to-start-in-may-judge-decides/Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-sex-trafficking-trial-to-start-in-may-judge-decides/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dance-into-the-fire-duran-durans-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dance-into-the-fire-duran-durans-20-greatest-songs-ranked/ As the gravel-voiced singer achieves mainstream success, his music is moving further from his back-country roots – but the grit in his lyrics lifts it above standard pop fareJust past the halfway mark on country artist Jelly Roll’s new 22-track album lies a sequence of songs in which he grapples with his celebrity. They offer sagas of homesickness for Tennessee while he’s out on the road “doin’ what I gotta”, and of friends who suggest f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jelly-roll-beautifully-broken-review-countrys-newest-superstar-grapples-with-fame-and-addiction/Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jelly-roll-beautifully-broken-review-countrys-newest-superstar-grapples-with-fame-and-addiction/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/synthesisers-can-convey-emotion-too-zaho-de-sagazan-reinvents-the-french-love-song-despite-never-falling-in-love/Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/synthesisers-can-convey-emotion-too-zaho-de-sagazan-reinvents-the-french-love-song-despite-never-falling-in-love/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-chowning-godfather-of-digital-pop-my-wife-told-me-i-didnt-think-id-have-to-compete-with-a-computer/Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-chowning-godfather-of-digital-pop-my-wife-told-me-i-didnt-think-id-have-to-compete-with-a-computer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/look-at-this-we-are-back-the-impossible-return-of-french-touch-titans-cassius/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/look-at-this-we-are-back-the-impossible-return-of-french-touch-titans-cassius/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yasmin-williams-folks-fantastical-fingerpicker-guitar-hero-shaped-my-experimental-approach/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yasmin-williams-folks-fantastical-fingerpicker-guitar-hero-shaped-my-experimental-approach/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cissy-houston-grammy-winner-and-mother-of-whitney-houston-dies-at-91/Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cissy-houston-grammy-winner-and-mother-of-whitney-houston-dies-at-91/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/squeeze-review-slick-pop-perfection-that-refuses-to-show-its-age/Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/squeeze-review-slick-pop-perfection-that-refuses-to-show-its-age/ The musician’s emotional fourth album borrows liberally from the past but the themes are modern and the sound utterly timelessWhen poet of the pillowcase Leon Bridges was promoting his Gold-Diggers Sound album in 2021, he told the Guardian he wanted to become one of the few black artists making country music. “All I need is time,” he said. Well, time is always running away, and black country has since gone mainstream without Bridges’s input.Black country star S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leon-bridges-leon-review-deliciously-soulful-confection-with-added-country/Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leon-bridges-leon-review-deliciously-soulful-confection-with-added-country/ Filled with chaotic sounds and infectious melodies, there’s a ferocious pace to the mysterious figure’s first European headline – a ribcage-reverberating successDrinks are flying, items of clothing are whizzing through the air, smoke cannons are billowing and the bass is thunderous. “It’s fucking mental in there, I had to get out,” says one sweat-drenched man, crawling out of the crowd. He’s only two songs into his first ever s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yeat-review-us-rapper-brings-exploding-sweat-drenched-pandemonium/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yeat-review-us-rapper-brings-exploding-sweat-drenched-pandemonium/ The trio’s second album this year is full of foreboding but the drumming of Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner continues to provide a different dynamicAlthough their other band, Radiohead, may not have released anything in eight years, Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke – alongside Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – seem to have struck a rich vein of form as the Smile. Cutouts, their second album of 2024, was recorded during the same sessions as January’s impressive Wall]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-smile-cutouts-review-as-intricately-crafted-as-radiohead-but-with-added-groove/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-smile-cutouts-review-as-intricately-crafted-as-radiohead-but-with-added-groove/ With their best work for two decades, the Canadian post-rockers have made an urgent soundtrack for an uncertain and dangerous worldEver since they first appeared, fully formed, with 1997’s stunning F♯ A♯ ∞, Montreal’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor have been at their most potent when embellishing apocalyptic post-rock soundscapes with incongruous flashes of vulnerability and beauty. So it perhaps isn’t hugely surprising that their first album in t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/godspeeed-you-black-emperor-no-title-as-of-13-february-2024-28340-dead-review-powerfully-brilliant/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/godspeeed-you-black-emperor-no-title-as-of-13-february-2024-28340-dead-review-powerfully-brilliant/ With guests including Tortoise’s Jeff Parker, the LA bassist’s second solo album is cerebral, groovy and beyond categorisationAustralian-born Anna Butterss is a working LA bassist, who’s added low end to artists such as Jason Isbell, Phoebe Bridgers and Jenny Lewis (opening for Harry Styles, no less). They are really an upright and electric jazz player, collaborating with searching artists such as guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Isotope 217°) and dru]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anna-butterss-mighty-vertebrate-review-jazz-meets-post-rock-on-shape-shifting-delight/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/anna-butterss-mighty-vertebrate-review-jazz-meets-post-rock-on-shape-shifting-delight/ This exhilarating compilation pushes from K-pop to trance, hardstyle techno, budots and beyond – and is at its best when artists rachet up the intensityLondon-based independent label Eastern Margins’ 2021 debut compilation Redline Legends was a joyous, high-energy documentation of the burgeoning electronic music being produced in the cities of east and south-east Asia. From the kitsch melodies of the Filipino budots style to the uptempo house of Indonesian funkot an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-artists-redline-impact-review-thrilling-dive-into-east-asian-hyper-electronics/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/various-artists-redline-impact-review-thrilling-dive-into-east-asian-hyper-electronics/ Also featuring Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly, the quality and variety of songwriting on this self-titled debut album raises it above a stoner jam sessionAn indie/alt-rock supergroup-of-sorts featuring Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, the Jicks), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf), Jim White (Dirty Three) and Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang, Ty Segall), the Hard Quartet’s debut has an audible vibe of four guys enjoying hanging out, sharing vocals and playing together.There’s ple]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-hard-quartet-review-cosmically-trippy-joy-from-stephen-malkmus-supergroup/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-hard-quartet-review-cosmically-trippy-joy-from-stephen-malkmus-supergroup/ Evidently running out of ideas, the Canadian musician has used AI to alter his voice into rappers and singers – a dismally insular style of working that produces little of noteEver since Beethoven dismissed the newly invented metronome – “Whoever has the right feeling, needs none” – musicians have reacted against the advent of technology. The Musicians’ Union voiced alarm when Wurlitzer organs became appended with a drum machine in 1959, cal]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/caribou-honey-review-this-ai-aided-album-is-dubious-on-so-many-levels/Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/caribou-honey-review-this-ai-aided-album-is-dubious-on-so-many-levels/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kris-kristofferson-10-of-his-greatest-songs/Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kris-kristofferson-10-of-his-greatest-songs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-frankie-archer/Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-frankie-archer/ Arguably south Asia’s biggest pop star, Dosanjh delivers a joyful two hours in which traditional influences and contemporary sounds collide in a colossal productionDescribing actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh as a trailblazer is no act of hyperbole: after 13 studio albums and more than 40 singles, very few south Asian artists have crossed over into the global mainstream like he has. In 2023 he became the first Punjabi artist to perform at Coachella, and earlier this year the f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/diljit-dosanjh-review-bhangra-and-beats-ignite-an-arena-sized-punjabi-party/Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/diljit-dosanjh-review-bhangra-and-beats-ignite-an-arena-sized-punjabi-party/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/still-casting-a-spell-broadcasts-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/still-casting-a-spell-broadcasts-20-best-songs-ranked/ Birds fall from the sky, broken voices call us home and youthful dreams are dashed against the transience of life in the band’s first new song in 16 yearsAs every Cure fan knows, the band’s albums exist somewhere on a sliding scale between two extremes. At one end lurk the albums on which Robert Smith gives free rein to his natural facility for pop songwriting: The Head on the Door, Wish, the oft-reviled Wild Mood Swings. At the other are the albums on which one ima]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-alone-review-majestically-wreathed-in-misery-and-despair/Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-alone-review-majestically-wreathed-in-misery-and-despair/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-isnt-endorsing-kamala-harris-shes-taking-a-stand-for-critical-thinking-instead/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-isnt-endorsing-kamala-harris-shes-taking-a-stand-for-critical-thinking-instead/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cat-glover-was-princes-thrillingly-sexy-sidekick-and-brought-out-the-best-in-him/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cat-glover-was-princes-thrillingly-sexy-sidekick-and-brought-out-the-best-in-him/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dual-lingo-why-uk-rappers-like-central-cee-and-dave-are-embracing-the-eu/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dual-lingo-why-uk-rappers-like-central-cee-and-dave-are-embracing-the-eu/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/benny-golson-obituary/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/benny-golson-obituary/ Back on the road with vocalist Emily Armstrong making their back catalogue her own, the hybrid metallers have found a new audience and a reinvigorated sense of purposeLinkin Park laid the foundations for modern metal with their 2000 debut Hybrid Theory. They weren’t the first band to bring together rock, hip-hop, electronic music and a whole lot of angst – but they were the most successful. Throughout the 2000s and beyond, the band continued to toy with genre and pack]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linkin-park-review-monster-hits-perfectly-reshaped-for-a-fresh-chapter/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linkin-park-review-monster-hits-perfectly-reshaped-for-a-fresh-chapter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-and-wings-one-hand-clapping-review-restored-rockumentary-is-pure-pleasure/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-mccartney-and-wings-one-hand-clapping-review-restored-rockumentary-is-pure-pleasure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-and-troye-sivans-sweat-tour-review-a-pop-triumph/Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-and-troye-sivans-sweat-tour-review-a-pop-triumph/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-announces-13-song-joker-companion-album-harlequin/Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lady-gaga-announces-13-song-joker-companion-album-harlequin/ The British sax star rekindles her love for scoring strings on her second solo album, with the help of Chineke! Orchestra, Esperanza Spalding and moreTenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia is one of the top-line names to emerge from the past decade’s explosion of young London jazz talent. Her second solo album foregrounds Garcia’s deepening compositional and arranging skills, as well as bravura performances from some longtime associates – keys player Joe Armon-Jones (Ezr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nubya-garcia-odyssey-review-a-rich-orchestral-journey-of-self-discovery/Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nubya-garcia-odyssey-review-a-rich-orchestral-journey-of-self-discovery/ Portico Quartet saxophonist Jack Wyllie teams up with three percussionists for a thunderous, west African-influenced second albumLondon jazz outfit Portico Quartet have been a launch pad for side projects since their 2008 Mercury prize-nominated debut. Hang drum player Nick Mulvey departed in 2011 to become a successful singer-songwriter, while saxophonist Jack Wyllie is part of two projects: experimental electronica trio Szun Waves and the west African-influenced Paradise Cinema.The]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paradise-cinema-returning-dream-review-walking-a-fine-balance-between-chaos-and-euphoria/Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paradise-cinema-returning-dream-review-walking-a-fine-balance-between-chaos-and-euphoria/ Two years on from his viral summer hit Ku Lo Sa, the Nigerian singer’s debut album showcases his free-floating, mellifluous styleNigerian prospect Oxlade landed a huge viral hit in 2022 with Ku Lo Sa, an addictive summer love song. In taking two years to follow it with his debut album, the 27-year-old singer has probably lost a little momentum, but OFA (Oxlade from Africa) is extremely likable, delicate pop. Stars such as Dave and Popcaan feature, but Oxlade’s imploring vocal,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oxlade-ofa-oxlade-from-africa-review-an-extremely-likable-debut/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oxlade-ofa-oxlade-from-africa-review-an-extremely-likable-debut/ On her first collection of originals since 2018, Joan Wasser lets loose with an album of slinky vocals and live instrumentationIt’s been six years since US multi-instrumentalist Joan Wasser released Damned Devotion, her last album of new material. There have been stopgaps along the way – 2020’s playful Cover Two, featuring reworkings of songs by the likes of Prince and the Strokes, and a live album – but Wasser seemed to be playing for time. On this 12]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joan-as-police-woman-lemons-limes-and-orchids-review-stripped-back-songs-of-love-and-loss/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joan-as-police-woman-lemons-limes-and-orchids-review-stripped-back-songs-of-love-and-loss/ With their golden voices, fertile soundworlds and evocative influences from across Europe, the Sheffield duo’s fifth album is admirably confrontationalAn infernal, harrowing scrape begins Rowan and Anna Rheingans’ first album in four years: a bow gnashed against a tambourin à cordes (a traditional Pyrenean strung drum) joined by a distorted and octave-pedalled viola, creating a frightening undertow. The song is Devils, inspired by singer Frankie Armstrong&rsquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-rheingans-sisters-start-close-in-review-a-radical-leap-into-darkness/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-rheingans-sisters-start-close-in-review-a-radical-leap-into-darkness/ Pierson’s mellifluous vocals radiate positivity in a dozen bouncy tracks that skip giddily between electro-pop, rock, dance and discoFor nearly 50 years, Kate Pierson has been best-known as the mellifluous voice, mega-bouffant and keyboard player of the B-52s, as well as popping up on REM’s Shiny Happy People and Ramones’ Chop Suey or singing with Iggy Pop on Candy. She’s always sounded as if she’s enjoyed every minute, and says this second solo album is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-pierson-radios-amp-rainbows-review-ndash-bops-balls-and-belles-from-b-52s-singer/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-pierson-radios-amp-rainbows-review-ndash-bops-balls-and-belles-from-b-52s-singer/ Following disastrous comeback singles and videos prompting environmental investigation, Perry’s seventh album isn’t the calamity expected – but it isn’t good, eitherThe video for Katy Perry’s recent single Woman’s World concluded with the artist being hoisted aloft, clinging to a helicopter’s door frame with one hand, brandishing a ring light in the shape of the medical pictogram for “female” and bellowing “I’M KATY PERR]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/katy-perry-143-review-wan-europop-revival-falls-short-of-total-catastrophe/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/katy-perry-143-review-wan-europop-revival-falls-short-of-total-catastrophe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fame-is-like-going-through-puberty-chappell-roan-on-sexuality-superstardom-and-the-joy-of-drag/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fame-is-like-going-through-puberty-chappell-roan-on-sexuality-superstardom-and-the-joy-of-drag/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nelly-furtado-flames-shot-out-of-the-speaker-when-i-started-making-maneater/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nelly-furtado-flames-shot-out-of-the-speaker-when-i-started-making-maneater/ With songs either maximalist or stripped back, there’s not much subtlety during this 25th anniversary tour for the once-ubiquitous Play – but there are some head-rush thrills‘I’m a little vegan, I’m sober, bald, maybe inbred, and I am a raver,” announces Moby tonight. It’s the first time he has toured in over a decade, as he marks the 25th anniversary of Play, the monstrously successful album that no doubt helped to put him in a positio]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/moby-review-full-of-teenage-energy-on-first-tour-in-over-a-decade/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/moby-review-full-of-teenage-energy-on-first-tour-in-over-a-decade/ Filled with guest stars from his xx bandmates to Robyn, this long-gestating second solo album picks up where In Colour left off, and deepens its dancefloor devotionIf your exposure to Jamie xx was largely via the band who gave him his pseudonym, his debut solo album might have come as a shock. You doubtless knew he had a parallel career as a DJ and dance producer, but even so, the mood of 2015’s In Colour was at odds with that reliably conjured by the xx.Where the band of childhood]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jamie-xx-in-waves-review-bright-blissful-bangers-for-3am-on-big-speakers/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jamie-xx-in-waves-review-bright-blissful-bangers-for-3am-on-big-speakers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hendrix-jagger-bowie-and-me-terry-reid-the-british-pop-outlier-adored-by-the-greats/Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hendrix-jagger-bowie-and-me-terry-reid-the-british-pop-outlier-adored-by-the-greats/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-love-it-when-things-get-out-of-hand-the-return-of-outrageous-90s-rockers-the-jesus-lizard/Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-love-it-when-things-get-out-of-hand-the-return-of-outrageous-90s-rockers-the-jesus-lizard/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/only-three-more-songs-till-i-kick-your-ass-rocknrolls-biggest-onstage-bust-ups/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/only-three-more-songs-till-i-kick-your-ass-rocknrolls-biggest-onstage-bust-ups/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frankie-beverly-obituary/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frankie-beverly-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-ice-t/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-ice-t/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/donald-trump-loses-legal-fight-over-using-eddy-grant-song-without-permission/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/donald-trump-loses-legal-fight-over-using-eddy-grant-song-without-permission/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tito-jackson-jackson-5-member-and-brother-to-michael-dies-aged-70/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tito-jackson-jackson-5-member-and-brother-to-michael-dies-aged-70/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-not-a-singer-but-i-can-just-about-do-sweet-dreams-at-karaoke-eves-honest-playlist/Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-not-a-singer-but-i-can-just-about-do-sweet-dreams-at-karaoke-eves-honest-playlist/ From YMCA-style dance to thrashing guitars, a queer take on Aerosmith to Kate Bush cosplay, Roan’s DIY approach maintains her humanityOver the last few months, Chappell Roan has been through it. The breakout star of 2024 has shared stories of intrusive fan behaviour, being stalked and expressed her anxiety about her newfound level of fame. “I’ve pumped the brakes on anything to make me more known,” she said during a podcast interview in July. “It&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-review-having-the-time-of-her-life/Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chappell-roan-review-having-the-time-of-her-life/ White and his band sound like a hooligan Rage Against the Machine or a basement-dwelling AC/DCFair play to Jack White. After the White Stripes dissolved in 2011 he really did move on: country rock, synths, Q-Tip collaborations. Only now, with his sixth solo album, No Name, has he returned to the well of raw and riotous blues-rock delivered in the style of a possessed carny, and bagged his best reviews in years. Even his hair has regressed from an aqua-blue quiff t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-review-virtuoso-noisemaker-delivers-in-riotous-style/Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-review-virtuoso-noisemaker-delivers-in-riotous-style/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-devout-agnostic-but-like-nick-cave-i-hunger-for-meaning-in-our-chaotic-world-john-harris/Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-devout-agnostic-but-like-nick-cave-i-hunger-for-meaning-in-our-chaotic-world-john-harris/ Harlem rapper’s raw and eclectic performance has the whole venue bouncingThe balcony at Brixton Academy is shaking with the volume of 5,000 people screaming “IMMA RUIN YOU CUNT” at the tops of their lungs. It’s the second date of Azealia Banks’s first UK tour in more than five years, and the Harlem rapper has the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand like she’s working a basement club.
With a career spanning 16 years and just one]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/azealia-banks-review-thundering-bare-bones-set-almost-brings-down-the-building/Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/azealia-banks-review-thundering-bare-bones-set-almost-brings-down-the-building/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-whole-lifes-interconnected-neneh-cherry-on-the-relationships-that-inspire-her-leaving-home-at-15-and-the-joy-of-a-trashy-box-set/Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-whole-lifes-interconnected-neneh-cherry-on-the-relationships-that-inspire-her-leaving-home-at-15-and-the-joy-of-a-trashy-box-set/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nic-cester-from-jet-i-wrote-the-majority-of-get-born-while-sitting-on-the-toilet/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nic-cester-from-jet-i-wrote-the-majority-of-get-born-while-sitting-on-the-toilet/ Playing, singing and producing, the Scottish musician pays tribute to her homeland and her late mother on this powerfully moving setBorn and raised in Shetland and classically trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, Astrid Williamson was pulled back to her homeland by her mother’s turn to dementia and subsequent death. Shetland Suite, Williamson’s 10th album (including one fronting alt rockers Goya Dress), is an affecting tribute to her mother, a pian]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/astrid-williamson-shetland-suite-review-a-beautiful-enchantment/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/astrid-williamson-shetland-suite-review-a-beautiful-enchantment/ The Brit award winners keep their audience in happy shuffle mode with a plush set of disco-flecked retro bangers – albeit one short on the dance and visuals they’re renowned forBands often talk loftily about creating worlds, usually in an effort to elevate a handful of tunes into something greater. Some outfits, though, achieve something close to that aim. Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz – the erstwhile virtual band – are just one who spread out into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jungle-review-like-a-puzzle-with-a-piece-missing/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jungle-review-like-a-puzzle-with-a-piece-missing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-friedberg/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-friedberg/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/herbie-flowers-obituary/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/herbie-flowers-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zoot-money-obituary/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zoot-money-obituary/ The former Disney stars’ voices have matured nicely – and they give Taylor Swift a run for her money with this exhilarating trip through their careerWatching the Jonas Brothers’ show, it can feel like siblings Joe, Nick and Kevin asked Taylor Swift whether they could copy her homework. As with the Eras Tour, the show is a career-spanning retrospective with a set neatly partitioned by specific albums. Some might call it plagiarism. Others may call it smart]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jonas-brothers-review-epic-60-song-eras-set-is-full-of-cheesy-joy/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jonas-brothers-review-epic-60-song-eras-set-is-full-of-cheesy-joy/ Abel Tesfaye revisits his usual theme of nihilistic love and his beloved palette of 80s synths, but it’s melodically solid and there are some tweaks to the formulaWhen the Weeknd released his last album, 2022’s Dawn FM, it carried a certain sense of finality. A grand concept album filled with both starry and august special guests – Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston – and intimations of death, apocalypse and the afterlife, it was accompanied]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-weeknd-dancing-in-the-flames-review-another-apocalyptic-romance-and-another-surefire-hit/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-weeknd-dancing-in-the-flames-review-another-apocalyptic-romance-and-another-surefire-hit/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/instantly-a-very-different-vibe-the-glory-and-controversy-of-linkin-parks-explosive-comeback/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/instantly-a-very-different-vibe-the-glory-and-controversy-of-linkin-parks-explosive-comeback/ The Nirvana peers’ first album in 26 years is a masterclass in tightly controlled chaosA split single with Nirvana made feral Chicago-based punk four-piece the Jesus Lizard unlikely UK chart stars in 1993, but they suffered diminishing returns after signing to a major label a couple of years later, and had disappeared with an uncharacteristic whimper by the end of the decade. Thankfully, Rack, their first album in 26 years, has far more in common with the thrillingly out-there run]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-jesus-lizard-rack-review-chicago-punks-return-with-pyrotechnics-undimmed/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-jesus-lizard-rack-review-chicago-punks-return-with-pyrotechnics-undimmed/ The in-demand US singer-songwriter’s second album takes its cue from her Jamaican heritageAmerican singer-songwriter Brittany Fousheé’s music is often unpredictable. An in-demand collaborator, her soft-toned R&B vocals feature on singer Steve Lacy’s 2022 track Sunshine from the Grammy-winning album Gemini Rights, while her solo work spans the intimate, whispered R&B of 2021 EP Time Machine and 2022’s explosive debut album, Softcore, which harnessed ra]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/foushe-pointy-heights-review-a-caribbean-facing-new-direction/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/foushe-pointy-heights-review-a-caribbean-facing-new-direction/ In his first major solo release, the pianist and composer explores the very different sides to his musical personality across three contrasting but connected LPsSelf-taught pianist and composer Daniel Inzani has been a pivotal figure on the Bristol scene for more than a decade. He leads a neoclassical outfit, Spindle Ensemble, co-curates the excellent Hidden Notes festival in Stroud, and he’s worked with a baffling array of outfits, playing Ethiopian funk, Indones]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/daniel-inzani-selected-worlds-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/daniel-inzani-selected-worlds-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/ Instrumental interludes and unexpected shifts in pace mix with Americana and jazz, while the singer-songwriter’s distinctive guitar sound drives a song cycle like no otherI got my first pair of glasses recently – a light prescription I didn’t think I would notice, but they delivered such a sharpening of the world that I’m having to learn to look again. These experiences – how we adjust when sight is corrected; how eyes heal – are what concern]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wendy-eisenberg-viewfinder-review-insightful-jazz-voyage-into-life-after-laser-eye-surgery/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wendy-eisenberg-viewfinder-review-insightful-jazz-voyage-into-life-after-laser-eye-surgery/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/social-media-have-blurred-the-boundaries-between-fans-and-celebrities-with-disturbing-results-hannah-ewens/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/social-media-have-blurred-the-boundaries-between-fans-and-celebrities-with-disturbing-results-hannah-ewens/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singing-about-faith-was-scary-i-wanted-to-be-cool-michael-kiwanuka-on-god-fatherhood-and-his-secret-to-great-art/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/singing-about-faith-was-scary-i-wanted-to-be-cool-michael-kiwanuka-on-god-fatherhood-and-his-secret-to-great-art/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mazes-frankie-beverly-united-black-america-with-his-everyman-brilliance-alexis-petridis/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mazes-frankie-beverly-united-black-america-with-his-everyman-brilliance-alexis-petridis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/florence-and-the-machine-symphony-of-lungs-review-one-crescendo-of-ecstasy-after-another/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/florence-and-the-machine-symphony-of-lungs-review-one-crescendo-of-ecstasy-after-another/ From 70s soul to glowing strings, the cult outfit continue to illuminate the fringes of pop music, celebrating the beauty in small thingsIt’s easy to see the initial part of Tindersticks’ career as a missed opportunity. There was a brief moment, around the time of their eponymous 1995 album and its successor Curtains, where it looked as if the Nottingham band’s lushly orchestrated, emotive songs might find a wide audience: the former briefly reached the Top 20, the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tindersticks-soft-tissue-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tindersticks-soft-tissue-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/they-put-cork-on-the-map-what-the-kids-behind-rap-sensation-the-spark-did-next/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/they-put-cork-on-the-map-what-the-kids-behind-rap-sensation-the-spark-did-next/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-janitors-daughter-became-a-state-deputy-leci-brando-the-brazilian-samba-star-turned-communist-lawmaker/Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/this-janitors-daughter-became-a-state-deputy-leci-brando-the-brazilian-samba-star-turned-communist-lawmaker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-old-label-said-i-was-more-annoying-than-lucrative-painter-musician-issy-wood-on-her-singular-insular-world/Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-old-label-said-i-was-more-annoying-than-lucrative-painter-musician-issy-wood-on-her-singular-insular-world/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/holly-johnson-on-orgasmic-pop-and-his-second-coming-its-a-miracle-of-modern-science-im-still-here/Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/holly-johnson-on-orgasmic-pop-and-his-second-coming-its-a-miracle-of-modern-science-im-still-here/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-fancied-matt-goss-when-will-i-be-famous-was-an-awakening-gok-wans-honest-playlist/Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-fancied-matt-goss-when-will-i-be-famous-was-an-awakening-gok-wans-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-weeknd-review-superstar-showman-wows-on-a-monumental-scale/Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-weeknd-review-superstar-showman-wows-on-a-monumental-scale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/srgio-mendes-the-musician-who-left-brazil-to-bring-the-sounds-of-his-country-to-the-world/Sat, 07 Sep 2024 17:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/srgio-mendes-the-musician-who-left-brazil-to-bring-the-sounds-of-his-country-to-the-world/ Charismatic, scatty and ever fan-friendly, Norwegian pop-punk queen Marie Ulven turns a corner with her mainstream-facing second albumGirl in Red is nothing if not refreshingly direct. The Norwegian singer-songwriter’s breakthrough track of 2018 was I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend, a tortured plea for something more from a platonic relationship. “I don’t wanna be your friend, I wanna kiss your lips,” she sang lustfully.Another early song called Girls]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girl-in-red-review-buoyant-arena-show-marks-a-new-chapter/Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girl-in-red-review-buoyant-arena-show-marks-a-new-chapter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-sarah-kinsley/Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-sarah-kinsley/ An album of lofty intentions and muttered musings from the dance artist de jour is saved by a gift for a nagging hook and uplifting melodyIn August, Fred Gibson became the first dance artist to headline the Reading and Leeds festivals. Early on, he addressed the crowd, talking about how nervous he was. It’s the kind of thing festival headliners are wont to say, flattering the magnitude of the event, but in Gibson’s case, it didn’t seem pat: he looked genuinely, frant]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fred-again-ten-days-review-pop-house-with-unfulfilled-pretensions/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fred-again-ten-days-review-pop-house-with-unfulfilled-pretensions/ The sweary Scotswoman is a wildly amusing presence in this joyful celebration of three decades in music – even if she fails to drown out those invasive drumsWhat’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. They might have spent much of their career as the epitome of drive-time music, but you don’t get to tour your greatest hits around arenas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/texas-review-sharleen-spiteri-on-fantastic-form-in-career-spanning-set/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/texas-review-sharleen-spiteri-on-fantastic-form-in-career-spanning-set/ Featuring possibly his best track yet, the North Carolina guitarist-songwriter goes to the sparse and seamy side on this worthy successor to Boat SongsMJ Lenderman’s spit-and-sawdust alt-Americana album Boat Songs (2022) was acclaimed long before the latest country music renaissance, so expectations are elevated for its follow-up. The North Carolina singer-songwriter’s wry writing style, well suited to thumbnail character studies, still offers dry wit and pop culture referenc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-manning-fireworks-review-joyously-weird-alt-americana/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mj-lenderman-manning-fireworks-review-joyously-weird-alt-americana/ With a half-new lineup, the US rock band’s first album of new material since 2015 finds them in dreamy, reflective modeEarly Mercury Rev songs often sounded like dreams, albeit ones that were periodically quite disturbing, but with the exit of original vocalist David Baker in the early 1990s, the upstate New York band began to rein in some of their more outre tendencies. Their first album of original material in nine years – with new members Jesse Chandler and Marion Ge]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mercury-rev-born-horses-review-a-lush-and-serene-return/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mercury-rev-born-horses-review-a-lush-and-serene-return/ The eclectic British producer returns with a more dance-focused album laden with giddy modular synthsLong ago, Sam Shepherd was a neuro-epigenetics PhD student by day and a DJ by night who, like his friends Four Tet and Caribou, knew how to wax a dancefloor. As Floating Points, he released fluid, shapeshifting electro-acoustic music that played to the feet but never at the expense of the head or the heart. After two exceptional studio albums came Promises, his 2021 magnum opus with]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/floating-points-cascade-review-an-enthralling-record-of-out-and-out-bangers/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/floating-points-cascade-review-an-enthralling-record-of-out-and-out-bangers/ The late, great musician confirms his mastery of the Sufi tradition in a hitherto unheard and surprise-laden cycle that soars with spiritualityThe year 1990 was a pivotal one for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Since his appearance at Womad festival five years prior, the Pakistani qawwali singer had been gaining notoriety in the west for the raw, buffeting power of his remarkable voice and his nimble, rapid-fire vocalisations – often within the same line of ancient Sufi poetry. In 1989]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-and-party-chain-of-light-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-and-party-chain-of-light-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/ The follow-up to Space 1.8 pulses with meditative, spiritual-jazz elements, but amid soothing orchestrations, tension and surprise upend easy listeningYou might assume that you know what to expect from Nala Sinephro’s second album. Its Brussels-born, London-based author is noted for making music that exists where experimental electronica abuts the renewed interest in late-60s/early 70s “spiritual” jazz that underpinned the London jazz renaissance of recent years. A conte]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nala-sinephro-endlessness-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nala-sinephro-endlessness-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ The singer-songwriter and his Attractions sidekick roam from 1977 to today – and pay a special tribute to the venue’s historic comedy heritage‘We’re treading the boards trod by Houdini, Charlie Chaplin … and Frank Carson and Ken Dodd,” yells Elvis Costello, at Leeds’ famous 19th-century music hall, now restored, dipping between songs into the venue’s more comedic traditions. There’s the one about the difficul]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elvis-costello-and-steve-nieve-review-50-years-of-hits-only-improved-by-age/Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elvis-costello-and-steve-nieve-review-50-years-of-hits-only-improved-by-age/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/danielle-moore-lead-singer-with-crazy-p-dies-aged-52/Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/danielle-moore-lead-singer-with-crazy-p-dies-aged-52/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-hanumankind/Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-hanumankind/ Evans’ soulful and communal album explores his health condition with the help of A-list instrumentalists and vocal stars including Bilal and the legendary Lisa Fischer ‘This record is me opening the door into what I’ve lived with for years,” says the Philadelphia-raised pianist and composer Orrin Evans of his long-running Captain Black Big Band’s fifth release, Walk a Mile in My Shoe. Evans, 49, is acknowledging his neurofibromatosis, mercifully rest]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orrin-evans-and-the-captain-black-big-band-walk-a-mile-in-my-shoe-review-perseverance-and-philly-pride/Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orrin-evans-and-the-captain-black-big-band-walk-a-mile-in-my-shoe-review-perseverance-and-philly-pride/ There have been times when he’s said: “Maybe you should try reading this part,” or: “Let me hear how it sounds if you read it,” and then said: “I think the character should be older.” I don’t think he’s necessarily auditioning you. He’s aud]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jason-schwartzman-i-was-the-kid-driving-around-all-the-record-stores-buying-all-the-oasis-singles/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jason-schwartzman-i-was-the-kid-driving-around-all-the-record-stores-buying-all-the-oasis-singles/ Originally written for an installation with mind-altering intentions, the producer’s seventh album is occasionally engaging but dissolves into driftNo one could claim that Jon Hopkins has undersold his seventh album. The 45-year-old electronic producer, soundtrack composer and sometime collaborator with Brian Eno and Coldplay has described the music on Ritual as “a tool … for opening portals within your inner world”, and stated: “It doesn’t feel like]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jon-hopkins-ritual-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jon-hopkins-ritual-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-to-release-two-new-songs-on-eco-vinyl/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-cure-to-release-two-new-songs-on-eco-vinyl/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darkness-drama-and-daft-punk-the-weeknds-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darkness-drama-and-daft-punk-the-weeknds-best-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oasis-add-three-more-uk-dates-to-reunion-tour/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/oasis-add-three-more-uk-dates-to-reunion-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/so-tell-me-what-you-want-by-nicki-chapman-review-breaking-pops-glass-ceiling/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/so-tell-me-what-you-want-by-nicki-chapman-review-breaking-pops-glass-ceiling/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/swifties-for-kamala-rally-raises-nearly-140000-for-harris/Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/swifties-for-kamala-rally-raises-nearly-140000-for-harris/ The amiable star proves that he fully deserves his devoted solo fanbase with 80s-indebted guitar pop and Mumford-style balladryWhen One Direction split in 2016, it was obvious that Harry Styles would be the one to secure massive solo stardom. Less expected was the longevity of the band’s more unassuming member, Niall Horan. Having released three solo records in the subsequent eight years, two of which hit No 1, Horan has, like Styles, maintained a dedicated (if small]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/niall-horan-review-vintage-tinged-crowd-pleasing-from-former-one-directioner/Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/niall-horan-review-vintage-tinged-crowd-pleasing-from-former-one-directioner/ Over a two-and-a-half-hour set the trio turn over old songs and new from their 40-year career, unearthing surprises every time‘We put out another record; it’s our hundredth,” deadpans Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan. Last year’s This Stupid World was, in fact, their 17th LP, but it’s been 40 years since guitarist Kaplan and drummer Georgia Hubley founded the band, and 30 since bassist James McNew joined for good. Certified indie-rock royalty, this tour]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yo-la-tengo-review-indie-royalty-run-through-their-beloved-back-catalogue/Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yo-la-tengo-review-indie-royalty-run-through-their-beloved-back-catalogue/ An eclectic line-up – from Lambrini Girls to Fontaines DC and Fred Again – defied Storm Lilian to deliver a fiery, heartfelt festival2024 will go down in Leeds festival history as the year of Storm Lilian. High winds mean the Friday opening is marred by three stage closures, cancelled buses, huge queues to get in and the surreal spectacle of punters’ airborne tents landing in other people’s back gardens. With a decimated musical line-up, a vast crowd f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leeds-festival-review-lana-del-rey-and-liam-gallagher-are-sublime-after-the-storm/Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/leeds-festival-review-lana-del-rey-and-liam-gallagher-are-sublime-after-the-storm/ Mount Kimbie’s electro-acoustic jams capture the ethos of this celebration of the boundary pushing that included sets from Two Shell, Nilüfer Yanya and bar italiaRally festival’s first edition in 2023 was something of a washout. Torrential rain hammered revellers in south London’s Southwark Park, while headliners Obongjayar and Princess Nokia pulled out at the last minute, leaving post-punk group Squid to pick up the pieces with a formidable set once]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rally-festival-review-thrilling-blend-of-cult-djs-and-indie-darlings/Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rally-festival-review-thrilling-blend-of-cult-djs-and-indie-darlings/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/given-enough-wine-i-could-belt-out-i-will-survive-susie-dents-honest-playlist/Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/given-enough-wine-i-could-belt-out-i-will-survive-susie-dents-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-should-be-partying-when-you-write-party-music-pop-hedonists-confidence-man-on-their-super-sweaty-new-album/Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/you-should-be-partying-when-you-write-party-music-pop-hedonists-confidence-man-on-their-super-sweaty-new-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/all-for-you-janet-jackson-snper-bob-dylan-and-more-the-best-music-of-autumn-2024/Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/all-for-you-janet-jackson-snper-bob-dylan-and-more-the-best-music-of-autumn-2024/ The US megastar’s world-conquering Eras tour threatened to become its own sideshow in recent weeks. In the event, though, it’s almost too much fun…If the past two years of her record-grossing Eras tour has taught pop-watchers anything, it is that Taylor Swift doesn’t do things by halves. Her fond farewell to London on the eighth night of a record-breaking solo run at Wembley Stadium – besting Michael Jackson’s 1988 benchmark – is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-review-a-joyous-bravura-singathon-marks-the-end-of-an-era/Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-review-a-joyous-bravura-singathon-marks-the-end-of-an-era/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-wasia-project/Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-wasia-project/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-like-it-when-things-fall-apart-heavy-rockers-wunderhorse-on-embracing-musics-messy-side/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-like-it-when-things-fall-apart-heavy-rockers-wunderhorse-on-embracing-musics-messy-side/ The Grammy-winning UK producer’s first album on his new label is a masterclass in hardcore dancefloor and bittersweet feelingProducer Alex Crossan is both acclaimed and not feted enough. The Guernsey-born polymath won a Grammy for a 2018 Haim remix; recently, he collaborated with PinkPantheress on her hit Boy’s a Liar. But his own stuff is relentlessly above par.Crossan’s fourth album finds him on his own label, Pond, and building a physical arts hub in Peckham, south Lo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mura-masa-curve-1-review-relentlessly-above-par/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mura-masa-curve-1-review-relentlessly-above-par/ With guests including Will Oldham and Anaïs Mitchell, this record’s island setting seems to bring extra light and warmth to stories of the sea, love, work, war and migrationThe Greek island of Hydra is not the subject of this luscious, balmy album of traditional songs, but the location of their recording in an 18th-century carpet factory overlooking the Aegean sea. To mention it in the album title could be canny marketing for lovers of louche idols Leonard Cohen and H]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nuala-kennedy-and-eamon-oleary-hydra-review-sumptuous-folk-songs/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nuala-kennedy-and-eamon-oleary-hydra-review-sumptuous-folk-songs/ Disruptive, disorienting and disturbing, the trio are still making creative leaps on their fifth album, mixing up slacker indie with strange beats and plenty of screamingThe fifth album from this Philadelphia/Portugal-based trio opens, fittingly, with a track called The Disruption: this is a band known for in-song disturbances, where genres and vibes giddily supersede each other. In this instance, the sequence goes: whining guitars, lo-fi breakbeat, dour electro-indie, jacked-up r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/spirit-of-the-beehive-youll-have-to-lose-something-review-like-an-arthouse-horror-movie-in-sound/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/spirit-of-the-beehive-youll-have-to-lose-something-review-like-an-arthouse-horror-movie-in-sound/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/massive-attack-castigate-music-industry-over-climate-inaction-we-dont-need-to-talk-we-need-to-act/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/massive-attack-castigate-music-industry-over-climate-inaction-we-dont-need-to-talk-we-need-to-act/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-tyrant-pop-superstar-sabrina-carpenter-on-freakish-fame-fighting-disney-and-writing-the-song-of-the-summer/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-tyrant-pop-superstar-sabrina-carpenter-on-freakish-fame-fighting-disney-and-writing-the-song-of-the-summer/ Contemplating pain, death and suffering, rock’s former prince of darkness finds euphoria despite it all, on an album of contagious joy and thrilling melodyPerhaps the most telling moment on Wild God comes about a quarter of an hour in. A track called Joy opens in a manner characteristic of Nick Cave’s recent songs: the kind of drifting, serpentine style, beatless and uncoupled from standard verse-chorus structure, that he and chief collaborator Warren Ellis began experimenting]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nick-cave-amp-the-bad-seeds-wild-god-review-ndash-this-masterpiece-will-make-you-fall-back-in-love-with-life/Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nick-cave-amp-the-bad-seeds-wild-god-review-ndash-this-masterpiece-will-make-you-fall-back-in-love-with-life/ Named after their Nashville studio – hit by a tornado in 2020 – the duo’s first album together in 13 years picks its impeccable, old-time way through personal and social upheavalTraditional music is full of wild weather and woe. It’s discomfiting, but apt, that life should imitate art in the lives of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – two singing guitarists feted for their upholding of old musical forms.Recipients of three Grammys and numerous other gongs ov]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-woodland-review-10-exquisite-songs-of-loss-and-love/Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-woodland-review-10-exquisite-songs-of-loss-and-love/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-wishy/Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-wishy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tinashe-quantum-baby-review-playful-featherlight-90s-trap-fusion/Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tinashe-quantum-baby-review-playful-featherlight-90s-trap-fusion/ Texan ditches hip-hop for this somewhat bloated 18-track epic bolstered by big-name guests. His versatile voice can handle the genre move, but it’s all a little formulaicIf Brat summer feels a bit too reckless, a bit too heavy on strappy tops and just too damn green, then how about the equally ubiquitous country summer? Think Red Wing boots, Stetsons and chewing tobacco instead of Parliament Blues. We had country-pop crossover icon Shania Twain playing Glastonbury’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-malone-f-1-trillion-review-catchy-country-cosplay/Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-malone-f-1-trillion-review-catchy-country-cosplay/ The Australian composer’s latest offering is a mashup of electronica, minimalism, drum’n’bass and more – but it’s the orchestral tracks that really shineIn recent years, Australian composer Lance Gurisik has scored various short films and TV shows, written high-profile advertising jingles and soundscapes for an audio design agency called Song Zu, and produced dance music under the name Lancelot. Under his own name, he makes instrumental music that blends]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lance-gurisik-proffer-review-contemporary-album-of-the-month-by-john-lewis/Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lance-gurisik-proffer-review-contemporary-album-of-the-month-by-john-lewis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/getting-back-together-swifties-mobilize-to-support-kamala-harris/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/getting-back-together-swifties-mobilize-to-support-kamala-harris/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/no-longer-in-awe-of-my-own-genius-nick-cave-talks-about-how-he-changed-after-sons-deaths/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/no-longer-in-awe-of-my-own-genius-nick-cave-talks-about-how-he-changed-after-sons-deaths/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-more-the-music-press-slagged-us-the-more-copies-we-sold-kajagoogoo-on-too-shy/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-more-the-music-press-slagged-us-the-more-copies-we-sold-kajagoogoo-on-too-shy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/family-of-isaac-hayes-threaten-donald-trump-with-lawsuit-over-use-of-song-in-rallies/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/family-of-isaac-hayes-threaten-donald-trump-with-lawsuit-over-use-of-song-in-rallies/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/macklemores-honest-playlist-i-have-never-been-to-a-sex-dungeon-party/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/macklemores-honest-playlist-i-have-never-been-to-a-sex-dungeon-party/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paris-olympics-closing-ceremony-review-gallic-cool-upstaged-by-la-glitz/Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paris-olympics-closing-ceremony-review-gallic-cool-upstaged-by-la-glitz/ The British singer’s third album slinks from bossa nova to breakbeats with aplombOver the past decade, singer Rosie Lowe has become one of the most versatile artists in British soul. Possessing a soaring falsetto and raw huskiness, she debuted with the nocturnal atmospherics of 2013’s EP Right Thing before the major-label albums Control (2016) and Yu (2019) saw her touch on synth-pop and funk. Since going independent in 2020, Lowe has come into her own, releasing proje]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rosie-lowe-lover-other-review-freewheeling-styles-that-all-add-up/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rosie-lowe-lover-other-review-freewheeling-styles-that-all-add-up/ The British indie star and Taylor Swift support act’s hotly anticipated third album is a nuanced 21st-century take on 90s guitar, super-produced by Rick RubinBack in 2017, a grungy, lo-fi singer-songwriter called Beabadoobee emerged from west London, in thrall to 90s indie rock. Beatrice Laus’s breakout tune, Coffee, was an indie-folk bagatelle full of sad, hopeful charm.Laus, in common with many gen Z creatives, didn’t differentiate too much between shoegaze, strip]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beabadoobee-this-is-how-tomorrow-moves-review-a-nostalgic-gen-z-gem/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beabadoobee-this-is-how-tomorrow-moves-review-a-nostalgic-gen-z-gem/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-dua-saleh/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-dua-saleh/ The nu-metal pioneers commit entirely with hulking riffs, frenzied scatting and guttural rage as they stomp through their songs with little ceremonyIt’s not every day you see huge mosh pits erupting metres away from a family pedal boat attraction, but that’s the charm of Scarborough’s Open Air theatre. “Lemme hear you!”, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis shouts, as the Californians bring out the big guns early with Here to Stay – the G]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/korn-review-a-mosh-pit-erupting-set-drenched-in-dark-energy/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/korn-review-a-mosh-pit-erupting-set-drenched-in-dark-energy/ The Brooklyn band go all out for fun with an unashamedly catchy third album that wears its heart on its sleeveOn their first two albums – 2017’s Guppy and 2019’s Young Enough – Brooklyn’s Charly Bliss traded in various combinations of sonic sweet and savoury. Pop-punk, bubblegum-grunge, powerpop: whatever the pairing, the takeaway was of an alternative outfit with pop sensibilities, always in that order. Third album Forever comes after a period of cha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charly-bliss-forever-review-alt-rockers-put-pop-first/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charly-bliss-forever-review-alt-rockers-put-pop-first/ The US singer-songwriter’s featherlight voice and distinctive lyrics skip easily between styles on her strikingly self-assured second albumRavyn Lenae is only 25, but her blend of delicate indie-rock and muscular R&B is masterfully self-assured. The Chicago-born, LA-based artist’s 2022 debut, Hypnos, gestured at greatness, but its follow-up, Bird’s Eye, is the real deal: a breathtaking pop suite that’s fleet-footed but rock-solid in its convictions, easily]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-birdrsquos-eye-review-ndash-a-breathtaking-rampb-follow-up/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-birdrsquos-eye-review-ndash-a-breathtaking-rampb-follow-up/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-postal-services-ben-gibbard-you-write-things-when-you-were-21-that-you-wouldnt-write-today/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-postal-services-ben-gibbard-you-write-things-when-you-were-21-that-you-wouldnt-write-today/ The US rapper brings reflection as well as energising polemic to his compelling fifth studio albumSurprise-released just over a week ago, the fifth solo album by Brooklyn-born hip-hop outlier Jpegmafia (Barrington Hendricks, Peggy for short) delivers more of the scattergun brilliance last heard on 2023’s standout LP Scaring the Hoes, his outing alongside maverick rapper Danny Brown. There’s little respite from the quotes, nods, swerves and samples. Here, 90s glance-backs &ndas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jpegmafia-i-lay-down-my-life-for-you-review-scattergun-brilliance/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jpegmafia-i-lay-down-my-life-for-you-review-scattergun-brilliance/ The 81-year-old singer’s collaboration with the US jazz bassist reworks past songs in lively and expansive ways, masterfully blending their exciting voicesBrazilian singer Milton Nascimento has one of the most dextrous voices in global music. From his 60s samba-funk releases as part of the Clube de Esquina movement, where he sang with a soft, soaring falsetto, to his landmark 1975 collaboration with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer, and ensuing work with everyone from Her]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/milton-nascimento-and-esperanza-spalding-milton-esperanza-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/milton-nascimento-and-esperanza-spalding-milton-esperanza-review-ammar-kalias-global-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fame-is-like-inhaling-a-toxic-substance-the-thes-matt-johnson-on-pop-politics-and-his-death-defying-return/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/fame-is-like-inhaling-a-toxic-substance-the-thes-matt-johnson-on-pop-politics-and-his-death-defying-return/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/asake-lungu-boy-review-nigerian-superstar-trips-across-the-black-diaspora-with-help-from-stormzy/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/asake-lungu-boy-review-nigerian-superstar-trips-across-the-black-diaspora-with-help-from-stormzy/ I don’t think a lot of people realised they liked that kind of old-time mountain music until they heard it in the film. I’m proud to have brought the music of Ralph Stanley to millions more people, in his lifetime]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/americana-icon-gillian-welch-bob-dylan-walking-on-to-our-version-of-billy-put-a-smile-on-my-face/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/americana-icon-gillian-welch-bob-dylan-walking-on-to-our-version-of-billy-put-a-smile-on-my-face/ Channelling garage bands, Little Feat and more, the prolific Aussies pair nihilistic lyrics with 70s-style riffs in a darkly enjoyable rompYou may have assumed that King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are just not for you. This band of shaggy-haired Australian larrikins release records at such a furious clip – 25 in just over 10 years, and that’s before you even address the hatful of live albums they’ve dropped on Bandcamp in that time – that most casual listeners]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-flight-b741-review-album-of-the-week/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-flight-b741-review-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/techno-godfather-juan-atkins-there-were-5000-white-kids-going-crazy-to-my-music/Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/techno-godfather-juan-atkins-there-were-5000-white-kids-going-crazy-to-my-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darcus-howes-son-darcus-beese-and-his-activist-mother-barbara-he-was-imbued-with-the-spirit-of-the-struggle/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darcus-howes-son-darcus-beese-and-his-activist-mother-barbara-he-was-imbued-with-the-spirit-of-the-struggle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/new-summer-classics-playlist-15-artists-pick-sunshine-tracks/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/new-summer-classics-playlist-15-artists-pick-sunshine-tracks/ The veteran Brazilian singer and US composer-musician’s contrasting vocal styles captivate on an album that also features Paul Simon and Dianne ReevesBrazilian singer Milton Nascimento has long fascinated western musicians, in particular US jazzers such as the late sax titan Wayne Shorter, though UK yacht rockers Duran Duran also bagged him for their 1993 track Breath After Breath. American bassist, singer and jazz sprite Esperanza Spalding first worked with Nascimento in 2010 (t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/milton-nascimento-and-esperanza-spalding-milton-esperanza-review-a-quixotic-double-act/Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/milton-nascimento-and-esperanza-spalding-milton-esperanza-review-a-quixotic-double-act/ The Run the Jewels rapper follows up last year’s Grammys-sweeping Michael with an album of soulful rewinds and combative new tracks addressing a tumultuous few monthsF Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim – that there are no second acts in American lives – has not held true for some time, if ever it did. Still, the curveball third act of Michael Santiago Render’s hip-hop career has been no less surprising, nor exciting, to behold.Killer Mike is now 49 – an ol]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/killer-mike-michael-amp-the-mighty-midnight-revival-songs-for-sinners-and-saints-review-ndash-hard-won-life-lessons/Sat, 03 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/killer-mike-michael-amp-the-mighty-midnight-revival-songs-for-sinners-and-saints-review-ndash-hard-won-life-lessons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-paris-paloma/Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-paris-paloma/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-gillian-welch/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-gillian-welch/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hit-em-how-a-dream-about-raves-graves-and-slime-led-matmoss-drew-daniel-to-a-new-music-genre/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hit-em-how-a-dream-about-raves-graves-and-slime-led-matmoss-drew-daniel-to-a-new-music-genre/ Part church service, part exploration of Black identity, the Grammy-winningsinger-songwriter’s tribute to Baldwin revisits his writing in the light of Black Lives MatterAmerican polymath Meshell Ndegeocello won a Grammy for her 2023 LP The Omnichord Real Book, and this multi-voiced, jazz-adjacent theatrical opus ramps up the veteran bassist and singer’s ambitions further. Marking the centenary of the writer James Baldwin’s birth, and with its roots in a Baldwin-them]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/meshell-ndegeocello-no-more-water-the-gospel-of-james-baldwin-review-an-inspiring-homage/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/meshell-ndegeocello-no-more-water-the-gospel-of-james-baldwin-review-an-inspiring-homage/ This 2014 live recording of the saxophonist’s late-career quartet showcases one of the great modern jazz bands and the enthralling genius of their leaderWayne Shorter brought ethereally timeless beauty to the sometimes impatient soundtrack of jazz. In the months before his death at 89 in March 2023, the saxophonist/composer was curating his archives for a milestone he knew he was unlikely to witness: the 60th anniversary of his first connection with the iconic Blue Note label.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wayne-shorter-celebration-volume-1-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wayne-shorter-celebration-volume-1-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/your-favourite-rappers-are-only-alive-because-of-our-sacrifices-the-secret-life-of-rap-bodyguards/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/your-favourite-rappers-are-only-alive-because-of-our-sacrifices-the-secret-life-of-rap-bodyguards/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/britney-spears-memoir-the-woman-in-me-headed-to-the-big-screen/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/britney-spears-memoir-the-woman-in-me-headed-to-the-big-screen/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-genius-of-melody-whats-left-out-of-love-songs-is-the-growth-on-the-other-side-of-a-breakup/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ravyn-lenae-genius-of-melody-whats-left-out-of-love-songs-is-the-growth-on-the-other-side-of-a-breakup/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-bit-bloody-exciting-adele-welcomes-tens-of-thousands-to-epic-munich-concert-series/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-bit-bloody-exciting-adele-welcomes-tens-of-thousands-to-epic-munich-concert-series/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-psychedelia-and-sensuality-minnie-ripertons-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/soul-psychedelia-and-sensuality-minnie-ripertons-20-best-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/meshell-ndegeocello-no-more-water-the-gospel-of-james-baldwin-review-a-fire-reignited/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/meshell-ndegeocello-no-more-water-the-gospel-of-james-baldwin-review-a-fire-reignited/ Originally handed out to customers at his record shop in an unmarked sleeve, White’s latest was bootlegged online and now gets an official release. Every one of his fans needs to track down this uncut gemOne day last month, customers at Jack White’s Third Man Record shops in London, Nashville and Detroit received a free gift with their purchases – a white-label vinyl album with a generic white sleeve, titled “no name”. The record was not the work]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-no-name-review-album-of-the-week/Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jack-white-no-name-review-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-never-stole-from-kids-just-insured-places-armand-schaubroeck-the-ex-con-muse-of-andy-warhol/Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-never-stole-from-kids-just-insured-places-armand-schaubroeck-the-ex-con-muse-of-andy-warhol/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-feel-naked-in-front-of-the-entire-world-olympics-opening-ceremony-composer-victor-le-masne/Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-feel-naked-in-front-of-the-entire-world-olympics-opening-ceremony-composer-victor-le-masne/ Six supremely talented jazz and classical instrumentalists, whose humility belies their mastery, show how malleable and moving their music can beThe weight of prodigious talent at this one-off concert, fusing legends from India’s classical and jazz fraternities, hangs heavy in the air. When the instrumentalists take to the stage, bowing with humility, they are met with rapturous applause that tapers into reverent silence. Louiz Banks, the “godfather of Ind]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maestros-in-fusion-review-virtuosic-indian-ensemble-knit-two-traditions-together/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/maestros-in-fusion-review-virtuosic-indian-ensemble-knit-two-traditions-together/ The Led Zeppelin frontman’s latest band, Saving Grace, riffs on country, folk, rock and blues, but the weekend belongs to female American singer-songwritersRobert Plant is clearly enjoying himself. He may be a rock god, but he’s also a music fan with impressively eclectic taste. Twenty-four years ago he was on this same stage at the Cambridge folk festival with Priory of Brion, reviving 1960s favourites by Them and Love. He has worked with four bands and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cambridge-folk-festival-review-robert-plant-thrills-peggy-seeger-inspires-and-oysterband-rock/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cambridge-folk-festival-review-robert-plant-thrills-peggy-seeger-inspires-and-oysterband-rock/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/womad-festival-review-wildly-entertaining-treasure-trove-for-adventurous-music-fans/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/womad-festival-review-wildly-entertaining-treasure-trove-for-adventurous-music-fans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-chills-martin-phillipps-leaves-a-legacy-of-melancholy-brilliance/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-chills-martin-phillipps-leaves-a-legacy-of-melancholy-brilliance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-invented-the-apple-dance-the-woman-behind-brat-summers-viral-choreography/Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-invented-the-apple-dance-the-woman-behind-brat-summers-viral-choreography/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/people-of-all-ages-get-very-emotional-at-our-gigs-how-trad-punk-folk-band-the-mary-wallopers-became-a-live-sensation/Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/people-of-all-ages-get-very-emotional-at-our-gigs-how-trad-punk-folk-band-the-mary-wallopers-became-a-live-sensation/ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe deliver hits and new songs with their trademark bittersweet ambivalence, theatrical staging and imperviousness to fashion“We could make five times more money playing the O2 arena for one night,” Pet Shop Boys’ singer Neil Tennant mused to an interviewer in April, on the decision to play five nights at London’s Royal Opera House. They eschewed the opportunity in favour of this intimate, refined space to stage Dreamworld]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pet-shop-boys-review-still-never-being-boring/Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pet-shop-boys-review-still-never-being-boring/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-loose-articles/Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-loose-articles/ Katie Crutchfield and her band bask in a rolling sound with smoky twangs and divine harmonies, creating affinity among her fans by leaning into the lessons of mid-30s lifeWaxahatchee’s fifth album, Saint Cloud, came out on 27 March 2020, arriving into a changed world. Having made her name on crunchy indie rock, here Katie Crutchfield embraced the country music of her Alabama youth, as well as the storytelling Americana of formative influence Lucinda Williams.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/waxahatchee-review-warm-rousing-anthems-about-embracing-change/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/waxahatchee-review-warm-rousing-anthems-about-embracing-change/ Eight years on from their last album, the Australian duo’s fabulist nostalgia-pop is a triumph of feeling over artificeThe music industry doesn’t offer participation prizes, but if it did, Australian duo Luke “Emperor” Steele and Nick “Lord” Littlemore, AKA Empire of the Sun, deserve flowers. Their work comes freighted with so much cape-swishing, astral-travelling effort. The pair’s speciality is fabulist nostalgia-pop: songs with as few sharp edge]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/empire-of-the-sun-ask-that-god-review-the-magics-still-there/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/empire-of-the-sun-ask-that-god-review-the-magics-still-there/ The fourth album from Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us producer features cloying love songs, odes to Mom and thanks to GodWhen Jesus told his followers to have “faith the size of a mustard seed” he was partly thinking ahead to the career of LA hitmaker Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, whose 2014 debut album predicted 10 Summers of chart domination. But rare is the rap producer who can stay hot for more than a few seasons. For two years Mustard’s signature sound &ndash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mustard-faith-in-a-mustard-seed-review-lacking-in-spice/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mustard-faith-in-a-mustard-seed-review-lacking-in-spice/ This searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forestNamed after a Lithuanian snake spirit that supposedly brings families health and prosperity, Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński’s hypnotic new album is filled with the heat and light of summer. His materials are the eastern European folk forms he first heard in the forests and lakes of the Poland-Lithuania borders during childhood summer holidays, and the memories formed there]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raphael-rogi324ski-381altys-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/raphael-rogi324ski-381altys-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/ The Canadian indie-garage-rockers take the mickey out of pop, punk and the stories we tell ourselves, but strong feeling outweighs the cynicismTrite metaphors, tortured similes and outright cliches are, ahem, ten a penny in today’s pop lyrics – so how refreshing to have Zach Choy, bandleader with Canadian indie curveballs Crack Cloud, writing with such wit, bite and the kind of perfectly scanning rhyme you get in the best sea shanties or children’s literature. That]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/crack-cloud-red-mile-review-aggressively-tuneful-rock-about-lifes-big-questions/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/crack-cloud-red-mile-review-aggressively-tuneful-rock-about-lifes-big-questions/ The US rapper’s subject matter is lightweight and this debut album only lasts 23 minutes, but funny, snotty lines abound and the music is often viscerally excitingIce Spice is a divisive figure in the world of rap. There are people who think her rise over the last two years is representative of all that’s wrong with rap: witness the wailing and gnashing of teeth that greeted her inclusion in Complex’s list of the 50 best New York rappers, albeit at No 50.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ice-spice-y2k-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ice-spice-y2k-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hard-rock-ambient-weirdness-and-ufos-exploring-the-greatness-of-early-70s-fleetwood-mac/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hard-rock-ambient-weirdness-and-ufos-exploring-the-greatness-of-early-70s-fleetwood-mac/ • News: John Mayall, pioneering figure of British blues, dies aged 90Eric Clapton fled the Yardbirds in the spring of 1965, dismayed by the prospect of their latest single, For Your Love, bringing commercial success and thereby compromising his musical integrity. The 20-year-old guitarist found comfort in the arms of John M]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-mayall-was-a-lightning-rod-for-the-blues-who-changed-the-course-of-british-music/Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-mayall-was-a-lightning-rod-for-the-blues-who-changed-the-course-of-british-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/james-martins-honest-playlist-i-learned-to-play-guitar-so-i-could-perform-dont-stop-believin-every-night/Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/james-martins-honest-playlist-i-learned-to-play-guitar-so-i-could-perform-dont-stop-believin-every-night/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/toumani-diabat-obituary/Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/toumani-diabat-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-the-world-explodes-the-only-survivors-will-be-cockroaches-and-cubans-the-guantnamo-musicians-defying-the-islands-crisis/Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-the-world-explodes-the-only-survivors-will-be-cockroaches-and-cubans-the-guantnamo-musicians-defying-the-islands-crisis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-band-cypress-hill-makes-1996-simpsons-joke-come-true/Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-band-cypress-hill-makes-1996-simpsons-joke-come-true/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/queens-of-the-stone-age-cancels-european-tour-for-josh-hommes-surgery/Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/queens-of-the-stone-age-cancels-european-tour-for-josh-hommes-surgery/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pixar-catholic-shame-and-urine-drinking-podcast-bros-the-mixed-up-rock-of-mj-lenderman/Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pixar-catholic-shame-and-urine-drinking-podcast-bros-the-mixed-up-rock-of-mj-lenderman/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/missy-higgins-soundtracked-my-generation-of-queer-teens-seeing-her-live-is-euphoric/Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/missy-higgins-soundtracked-my-generation-of-queer-teens-seeing-her-live-is-euphoric/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-knew-a-banjo-house-record-would-annoy-the-techno-bores-how-the-grid-made-swamp-thing/Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-knew-a-banjo-house-record-would-annoy-the-techno-bores-how-the-grid-made-swamp-thing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-folk-music-wolf-in-doom-metal-clothing-readers-favourite-albums-of-2024-so-far/Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/a-folk-music-wolf-in-doom-metal-clothing-readers-favourite-albums-of-2024-so-far/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-flash-kept-blinding-everyone-on-the-dancefloor-elaine-constantine-on-capturing-90s-northern-soul-all-nighters/Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-flash-kept-blinding-everyone-on-the-dancefloor-elaine-constantine-on-capturing-90s-northern-soul-all-nighters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glass-animals-dave-bayley-im-a-short-shorts-guy/Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glass-animals-dave-bayley-im-a-short-shorts-guy/ The flawlessly classy US singer, actor – and so much more – unleashes costumes, speeches and body-positive party tunes in a virtuoso set spanning two decades of shapeshiftingNot all superheroes wear capes. This one does, though. Janelle Monáe arrives on stage two nights into a three-show residency at Factory International’s well-appointed new(ish) home resplendent in a giant robe made entirely from fabric flowers, paired with blooming boots and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janelle-mone-review-a-masterclass-in-progressive-showbiz-spectacle/Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janelle-mone-review-a-masterclass-in-progressive-showbiz-spectacle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-berlioz/Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-berlioz/ This hugely danceable reboot of the 1950s Cuban sound features slick solos and a Palo Mayombe priest on vocals
Cuban music and its labyrinth of rhythms are never far away, though they rarely escape from the Latin scene to wider acclaim, as the veterans of Buena Vista Social Club managed 20 years back. Signed to Daptone, a label that has helped reanimate the soul music of a previous era, Orquesta Akokán have done much the same for the big-band styles of 1950s Cuba, when the likes]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orquesta-akokn-caracoles-review-joyous-cuban-dancehall/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/orquesta-akokn-caracoles-review-joyous-cuban-dancehall/ The north London rapper’s gritty honesty is his strongest suit on a guest-packed second album that juggles dance tracks with his troubled pastWhat the stony-faced Headie One lacks in charisma – he’s no Stormzy – he makes up for in first-hand reportage: one of The Last One’s 20 tracks, Recall/Why You Look So Tired, reels off a list of prisons Headie has been incarcerated in. “Eleven jails, eleven free-flows, that’s why I look so tired,” h]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/headie-one-the-last-one-review-rueful-memoir-with-party-tunes-attached/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/headie-one-the-last-one-review-rueful-memoir-with-party-tunes-attached/ The esteemed vocalist and prolific pianist weave their sounds together in an album of exquisite songs and extraordinary empathyFour and a half decades separate the birthdays of UK vocalist and lyricist Norma Winstone and pianist Kit Downes, but they converse as if they were contemporaries – which in a sense they are, sharing a language separately built from all the inspirations of the jazz tradition.Winstone is a legend for her vocal agility, quiet power, harmonic sophistication and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/norma-winstone-and-kit-downes-outpost-of-dreams-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/norma-winstone-and-kit-downes-outpost-of-dreams-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/ The Icelandic-Faroese duo follow their 2014 cult debut with a second album of meticulous, majestic, simply beautiful electronic musicKiasmos want your tears. The electronic duo – comprising Bafta-winning and Grammy-nominated Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen – make what they describe as “emotional rave”: euphorically melancholic music designed to have you crying on the dancefloor. Let the contents of their second]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kiasmos-ii-review-will-have-you-crying-tears-of-joy-on-the-dancefloor/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kiasmos-ii-review-will-have-you-crying-tears-of-joy-on-the-dancefloor/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theresa-may-made-the-whole-country-rally-against-migrants-uk-rapper-berwyn-on-poverty-perseverance-and-hostile-politics/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/theresa-may-made-the-whole-country-rally-against-migrants-uk-rapper-berwyn-on-poverty-perseverance-and-hostile-politics/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wild-hearted-hits-stevie-nicks-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wild-hearted-hits-stevie-nicks-20-best-songs-ranked/ The lad-favourites shift into neon hues on their second Serge Pizzorno-led album, as knockout choruses face off against some disappointing fillerLosing a lead singer is always going to be a tough hurdle for a band to overcome, but it seemed particularly difficult in Kasabian’s case. As has often been pointed out, they were always a far weirder band than their laddish following might have led you to believe. At the height of their fame, they were to be found playing Wembley Are]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kasabian-happenings-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kasabian-happenings-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/ Brian Johnson’s voice is frayed but Angus Young’s guitar tone is as thrilling as ever, and this show on what could be the band’s last world tour packs an emotional punch
Who would have thought that the band with a guitarist in a schoolboy’s uniform would be the one most profoundly affected by ageing? With their entire rhythm section now lost to death (Malcolm Young), retirement (Cliff Williams) and being a carer (Phil Rudd), AC/DC is now down to tw]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/acdc-review-a-poignant-lesson-on-the-power-of-rocknroll/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/acdc-review-a-poignant-lesson-on-the-power-of-rocknroll/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/to-be-totally-the-focus-of-someone-who-was-really-into-sex-was-fantastic-tracey-emin-and-billy-childish-on-their-blazing-romance/Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/to-be-totally-the-focus-of-someone-who-was-really-into-sex-was-fantastic-tracey-emin-and-billy-childish-on-their-blazing-romance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/like-an-island-separate-from-england-black-joy-at-glastonbury-photo-essay/Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/like-an-island-separate-from-england-black-joy-at-glastonbury-photo-essay/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/couples-exes-friends-and-families-how-we-all-connected-at-glastonbury-in-pictures/Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/couples-exes-friends-and-families-how-we-all-connected-at-glastonbury-in-pictures/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sleaford-mods-the-1975-fred-again-the-songs-that-sum-up-each-year-of-tory-government/Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sleaford-mods-the-1975-fred-again-the-songs-that-sum-up-each-year-of-tory-government/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ill-take-your-brain-to-another-dimension-my-classical-dj-set-at-glastonbury/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ill-take-your-brain-to-another-dimension-my-classical-dj-set-at-glastonbury/ The seven-piece’s first London show in six years sees them tear through tributes to Slayer and the Exploited, while Ice-T’s son and daughter join him on stageIce-T contains multitudes. Thirty-two years ago, the man born Tracy Lauren Marrow was one of the most righteously furious-sounding figures in music, Body Count’s breakthrough single Cop Killer having smashed the barrier between hardcore hip-hop and hardcore metal while its incendiary lyrics dr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/body-count-ft-ice-t-review-an-explosive-love-letter-to-heavy-metal/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/body-count-ft-ice-t-review-an-explosive-love-letter-to-heavy-metal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shangri-la-stetsons-and-sza-sunday-at-glastonbury-a-photo-essay/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shangri-la-stetsons-and-sza-sunday-at-glastonbury-a-photo-essay/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/should-not-be-played-indoors-writers-on-their-all-time-favourite-summertime-songs/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/should-not-be-played-indoors-writers-on-their-all-time-favourite-summertime-songs/ If someone had a headache, you would never reply: “That’s funny, my head feels great.” For some reason, any mention of insomnia will unleash a chorus of: “I slept like a baby!”; “Soon as my head hit the pillow!&rdqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/when-to-shower-who-to-hug-how-to-get-served-24-things-we-learned-about-the-world-at-glastonbury-2024/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/when-to-shower-who-to-hug-how-to-get-served-24-things-we-learned-about-the-world-at-glastonbury-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-big-glastonbury-2024-review-the-last-dinner-party-justify-the-hype-dua-lipa-nails-it-and-coldplay-go-over-the-top/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-big-glastonbury-2024-review-the-last-dinner-party-justify-the-hype-dua-lipa-nails-it-and-coldplay-go-over-the-top/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-sunday-with-sza-shania-twain-burna-boy-and-more-as-it-happened/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-sunday-with-sza-shania-twain-burna-boy-and-more-as-it-happened/ Her show may be situated in a fantastical world full of insects, swords and fallen trees, but the US singer’s lyrics are earthy and induce bedlam in her devoted fansTowards the end of her set, SZA informs the audience that she was “so nervous to be here”. You can understand why. Of all the headlining artists at this year’s Glastonbury, the announcement of SZA seemed to cause the most consternation. It wasn’t the kind of dreary what-about-indie-rock com]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sza-at-glastonbury-review-ndash-electric-eclecticism-from-todayrsquos-greatest-rampb-star/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sza-at-glastonbury-review-ndash-electric-eclecticism-from-todayrsquos-greatest-rampb-star/ The Nigerian brings an electrifying energy and prompts a mass singalong accompaniment to his signature baritoneIt’s 40 years since Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and his 20-piece band Egypt 80 took the headline Sunday slot for Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage, the second African artist to achieve such an accolade. Now Afro-fusion maestro (and fellow Nigerian) Burna Boy, who has spoken of the inspiration he’s drawn from Fela, is performing on the same stage, on the same day]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/burna-boy-at-glastonbury-review-afro-fusion-maestro-starts-pyramid-stage-party/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/burna-boy-at-glastonbury-review-afro-fusion-maestro-starts-pyramid-stage-party/ The Canadian singer plays to the biggest Other stage crowd of the weekend, all in thrall to an expertly written catalogue that has real strength and depthIf Shania Twain’s legends slot feels strangely timely given the amount of pop-country currently in the UK singles chart, you could say the same thing about Avril Lavigne’s performance, which seems a little like a legends slot in all but name. Pop punk is very much a thing again, and while you can trace the genre’s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/avril-lavigne-at-glastonbury-review-pop-punk-pioneer-still-gives-potent-teenage-kicks/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/avril-lavigne-at-glastonbury-review-pop-punk-pioneer-still-gives-potent-teenage-kicks/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-directions-louis-tomlinson-stages-impromptu-england-match-screening-at-glastonbury/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-directions-louis-tomlinson-stages-impromptu-england-match-screening-at-glastonbury/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-knees-are-as-strong-as-megan-thee-stallion-what-20-celebrities-learned-at-glastonbury-2024/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-knees-are-as-strong-as-megan-thee-stallion-what-20-celebrities-learned-at-glastonbury-2024/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/all-hail-the-food-truck-i-ate-my-way-around-glastonbury-from-cardboard-yorkshire-puds-to-a-burger-with-jam/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/all-hail-the-food-truck-i-ate-my-way-around-glastonbury-from-cardboard-yorkshire-puds-to-a-burger-with-jam/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplays-record-return-lights-up-pyramid-at-a-glastonbury-of-melodrama/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplays-record-return-lights-up-pyramid-at-a-glastonbury-of-melodrama/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-cyndi-lauper-and-the-red-arrows-saturday-at-glastonbury-2024-a-photo-essay/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-cyndi-lauper-and-the-red-arrows-saturday-at-glastonbury-2024-a-photo-essay/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-saturday-with-coldplay-little-simz-orbital-and-more-as-it-happened/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 02:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-saturday-with-coldplay-little-simz-orbital-and-more-as-it-happened/ Fireworks! Lasers! Confetti! More fireworks! Coldplay pull out every last stop for their record fifth headline performance, and you’d be churlish not to love itIt is, as Chris Martin points out, 25 years since Coldplay’s Glastonbury debut, a silver anniversary they commemorate tonight by unexpectedly dusting down an acoustic version of Sparks from their debut album Parachutes. Perhaps more pertinently, it’s the fifth time they’ve headlined the festival, and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-at-glastonbury-review-chris-martin-takes-tens-of-thousands-on-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime/Sun, 30 Jun 2024 02:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-at-glastonbury-review-chris-martin-takes-tens-of-thousands-on-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/little-simz-at-glastonbury-review-triumphant-coronation-of-a-true-uk-rap-great/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/little-simz-at-glastonbury-review-triumphant-coronation-of-a-true-uk-rap-great/ The Hollywood star brings his magnificently deep and robust voice to GlastonburyGlastonbury’s cinema tent has hosted an impressive range of A-listers this year, from Paul Mescal (whose short shorts are yet to influence the Glasto blokes who adore a practical cargo pocket) to Tilda Swinton, Florence Pugh, Simon Pegg and Cate Blanchett. All dilettantes at this music festival, though, compared with actually singing Russell Crowe at the field’s opposite tent, the Acoustic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/russell-crowe-at-glastonbury-review-droll-delivery-from-an-a-list-everybloke/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/russell-crowe-at-glastonbury-review-droll-delivery-from-an-a-list-everybloke/ The pop balladeer brings 1980s hits Time After Time and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun to a sweltering crowdThe 80s live on in Cyndi Lauper, who takes to the Pyramid stage looking every inch the rock chick of yore in her silver bustier and matching trousers and platform trainers, beneath a blue blazer also attached with streams of icy-blue tulle. There are also fingerless net gloves.It’s a big look, and Lauper has the energy to match it, making full use of the stage and making for]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cyndi-lauper-at-glastonbury-review-nostalgic-pyramid-stage-crowd-just-wants-to-have-fun/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cyndi-lauper-at-glastonbury-review-nostalgic-pyramid-stage-crowd-just-wants-to-have-fun/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/backstage-at-glastonbury-with-k-pop-sensation-seventeen-in-pictures/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/backstage-at-glastonbury-with-k-pop-sensation-seventeen-in-pictures/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-were-the-bridge-between-indie-and-dance-glastonbury-icons-orbital-on-30-years-of-breaking-barriers/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-were-the-bridge-between-indie-and-dance-glastonbury-icons-orbital-on-30-years-of-breaking-barriers/ More than merely a mutual love-in, this tour finds the two bands – and longterm friends – spurring each other on to be provocative and potentThirty years after they toured together as young men across Europe, cementing a lifelong friendship, Manic Street Preachers and Suede’s UK co-headline tour kicks off in rather more refined surroundings: a white pavilion on the edges of the pretty market town of Llangollen, launching the town&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-suede-review-co-headliners-bring-out-the-best-in-each-other/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/manic-street-preachers-suede-review-co-headliners-bring-out-the-best-in-each-other/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-festivalgoers-frustrated-by-overcrowding-at-smaller-stages/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-festivalgoers-frustrated-by-overcrowding-at-smaller-stages/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/banksy-launches-inflatable-migrant-boat-artwork-during-idles-glastonbury-set/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/banksy-launches-inflatable-migrant-boat-artwork-during-idles-glastonbury-set/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peace-love-and-k-pop-glastonbury-kicks-off-for-2024-photo-essay/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peace-love-and-k-pop-glastonbury-kicks-off-for-2024-photo-essay/ The British singer’s Friday night set underlines her claim to be one of the world’s great current pop stars, with a cast-iron hit always around the cornerAccording to the most intriguing bit of her between-song chat, Dua Lipa’s headlining Glastonbury slot came about as a result of an act of childhood manifesting. The singer claims she wrote out her desire to top the bill on the Pyramid stage in detail, up to and including what night said event should take place on]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-at-glastonbury-review-headliners-are-rarely-this-hook-laden-and-hedonistic/Sat, 29 Jun 2024 02:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-at-glastonbury-review-headliners-are-rarely-this-hook-laden-and-hedonistic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-dua-lipa-marina-abramovi-and-more-to-perform-as-main-stages-open-on-friday-live/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-live-dua-lipa-marina-abramovi-and-more-to-perform-as-main-stages-open-on-friday-live/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/increase-in-black-artists-on-glasto-bill-reflects-cultural-shift/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/increase-in-black-artists-on-glasto-bill-reflects-cultural-shift/ The feelgood fun of Hot Girl Summer and WAP has been replaced by icy tales of false friends, adultery and incessant betrayal in a broadly humourless, navel-gazing albumWhen Megan Pete found fame at the turn of the decade, it was as the bringer of fierce, frisky, feelgood fun. Though always preoccupied with spreading word of her own sex appeal and appetites, there was a light-heartedness and communality to the rapper’s early hits, whether she was teaming up with Beyoncé fo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/megan-thee-stallion-megan-review-rap-skill-showcase-is-a-sour-sermon-on-superiority/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/megan-thee-stallion-megan-review-rap-skill-showcase-is-a-sour-sermon-on-superiority/ A collection of songs recorded before the Man in Black’s 1990s Rick Rubin revival and reworked by his son has much to offerWhen Johnny Cash recorded the demos that would eventually form the basis of Songwriter, in Nashville in 1993, he would have been unaware that just around the corner lay the fruitful collaboration with Rick Rubin that was about to resurrect his career. Instead, the outlook looked bleak, after a 1980s that had seen him in and out of rehab and a di]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/johnny-cash-songwriter-posthumous-patchwork-is-a-pleasant-surprise/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/johnny-cash-songwriter-posthumous-patchwork-is-a-pleasant-surprise/ This long-awaited debut uses dancehall as a springboard into global styles, from electropop to South African amapianoIt may have been a dreary summer in the UK so far, but not on Island 54: the mythical setting for Birmingham-born rapper/singer Stefflon Don’s long-awaited debut album seems to perpetually exist at a balmy 30 degrees. It is a quintessential summer record that uses dancehall as a base from which to explore all manner of global sounds, from grime to the South A]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stefflon-don-island-54-review-seamless-summer-playlist/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stefflon-don-island-54-review-seamless-summer-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-was-greater-than-bob-marley-the-shocking-tale-of-jamaican-ska-pioneer-don-drummond/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-was-greater-than-bob-marley-the-shocking-tale-of-jamaican-ska-pioneer-don-drummond/ On their first album in 12 years, Warren Ellis and co fuse violin, guitar and drums to create wistful beauty out of distortionBoth aggressive and transcendent, Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three occupy a niche few other bands can match: they are seers with attitude, alternating periods of elevated calm with churning crescendos. Dirty Three’s 10th studio album, arriving a full dozen years after its predecessor, Toward the Low Sun (2012), ably restates the band’s co]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dirty-three-love-changes-everything-review-aggressive-and-transcendent/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dirty-three-love-changes-everything-review-aggressive-and-transcendent/ Violinist Rose Linn-Pearl and sound artist husband Dan weave their artistry into a vivid collection evoking the natural wonders of their Welsh homePeiriant pronounced pie-ree-ant) is a Welsh word for a machine or an engine, a fittingly eerie name for the atmospheric duo of violinist Rose and sound artist Dan Linn-Pearl. A couple who returned to their native Wales in recent years, and co-founded the Nawr concert series in Swansea and Hay-on-Wye (alongside free improvising harpist and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peiriant-dychwelyd-review-iridescent-soundscapes-summon-spirit-of-the-mountains/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peiriant-dychwelyd-review-iridescent-soundscapes-summon-spirit-of-the-mountains/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/can-marina-abramovi-get-glastonbury-to-be-silent-for-seven-minutes/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/can-marina-abramovi-get-glastonbury-to-be-silent-for-seven-minutes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-last-dinner-party-on-misogyny-maximalism-and-making-it-big-men-think-theyre-the-arbiters-of-rock/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-last-dinner-party-on-misogyny-maximalism-and-making-it-big-men-think-theyre-the-arbiters-of-rock/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-streets-mike-skinner-my-mid-20s-were-utterly-traumatic-everything-was-upside-down/Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-streets-mike-skinner-my-mid-20s-were-utterly-traumatic-everything-was-upside-down/ Leaving behind gooey balladry and family-friendly fare, the US star’s reinvention owes a clear debt to Charli xcx but leaves her grasping for space on her own albumThe release of I Luv It, the first single from Camila Cabello’s fourth solo album, brought with it something new for the 27-year-old singer: a degree of musical controversy. Ever since her 2017 single Havana sold a staggering 10m copies in the US alone, Cabello has made her way dealing in pleasantly undemanding,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/camila-cabello-cxoxo-review-havana-stars-bad-girl-reboot-is-totally-unconvincing/Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/camila-cabello-cxoxo-review-havana-stars-bad-girl-reboot-is-totally-unconvincing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stevie-van-zandt-my-religion-switched-right-over-to-rocknroll/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/stevie-van-zandt-my-religion-switched-right-over-to-rocknroll/ Whether she’s dancing, eulogising Kurt Cobain or covering Lana Del Rey, Smith remains such a compelling and moving live performerFour songs into her set, Patti Smith starts to cry: “First tears of the tour!” she sighs, wiping her eyes. They’re occasioned by the sound of the audience singing along to her 1978 track Ghost Dance, a sound you would assume she’s heard before in the years since she wrote it. Perhaps in Brighton they are even more reverential]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/patti-smith-review-utterly-transformed-by-the-power-of-music/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/patti-smith-review-utterly-transformed-by-the-power-of-music/ ​The Seattle band have settled handsomely into classic rock, and Vedder’s vocal struggles scarcely matter amid a set full of surprises, singalongs and showboating guitarWhen they first emerged in the Seattle grunge boom of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam’s classic rock leanings were viewed with some suspicion, but now they’re probably key to their longevity. Although they’ve long been viewed as one of the great modern American rock bands, the No 2]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pearl-jam-review-manchester-audience-rescues-a-stricken-eddie-vedder/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pearl-jam-review-manchester-audience-rescues-a-stricken-eddie-vedder/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shania-twain-i-want-to-arrive-for-glastonbury-set-on-a-horse/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shania-twain-i-want-to-arrive-for-glastonbury-set-on-a-horse/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/why-are-uk-radio-stations-ignoring-black-british-music-to-play-recycled-american-rap-elijah/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/why-are-uk-radio-stations-ignoring-black-british-music-to-play-recycled-american-rap-elijah/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-nervous-worried-insecure-i-just-didnt-feel-safe-rachel-stevens-on-her-life-in-s-club-7/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-was-nervous-worried-insecure-i-just-didnt-feel-safe-rachel-stevens-on-her-life-in-s-club-7/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-african-stars-to-british-stalwarts-glastonbury-2024-opens-gates-to-a-truly-diverse-lineup/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-african-stars-to-british-stalwarts-glastonbury-2024-opens-gates-to-a-truly-diverse-lineup/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/seventeen-who-are-the-first-k-pop-act-to-appear-on-glastonburys-main-stage/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/seventeen-who-are-the-first-k-pop-act-to-appear-on-glastonburys-main-stage/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/women-have-always-been-sidelined-so-were-radical-the-zawose-queens-go-from-tanzania-to-glastonbury/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/women-have-always-been-sidelined-so-were-radical-the-zawose-queens-go-from-tanzania-to-glastonbury/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/want-to-be-a-real-artist-keep-going-cyndi-lauper-at-71-on-self-doubt-success-and-surviving-sexual-assault/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/want-to-be-a-real-artist-keep-going-cyndi-lauper-at-71-on-self-doubt-success-and-surviving-sexual-assault/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-weather-warm-dry-and-settled-conditions-forecast-for-festival/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-weather-warm-dry-and-settled-conditions-forecast-for-festival/ The Aussie singer-songwriter is sensual and athletic, while his six-piece troupe of dancers create moments of tenderness amid all the raunchDown in the capital, Taylor Swift is slaying Wembley with songs about insecurity, coming-of-age and the emotional turmoil of dating men. But up in Manchester, another artist with the very same initials is moved to do the same. With 2023 album Something to Give Each Other, Troye Sivan’s output has veered much more risque than Swift&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/troye-sivan-review-a-performance-as-heartwarming-as-it-is-hot/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/troye-sivan-review-a-performance-as-heartwarming-as-it-is-hot/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-getting-500-dms-a-day-fish56octagon-the-dressing-gown-wearing-viral-dj-sensation/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-getting-500-dms-a-day-fish56octagon-the-dressing-gown-wearing-viral-dj-sensation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-not-calling-god-a-slob-how-joan-osborne-made-one-of-us/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-not-calling-god-a-slob-how-joan-osborne-made-one-of-us/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-orbital-at-glastonbury/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-orbital-at-glastonbury/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-volunteer-scheme-taking-first-timers-to-glastonbury-2024-were-reaching-people-who-wouldnt-get-to-go/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-volunteer-scheme-taking-first-timers-to-glastonbury-2024-were-reaching-people-who-wouldnt-get-to-go/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-coldplay-to-kmru-who-to-see-at-glastonbury-2024/Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-coldplay-to-kmru-who-to-see-at-glastonbury-2024/ Dreamlike logic and exceptional choreography make this wordless interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinois album a deserving winner of a Tony award
A week ago, Illinoise won the Tony award for best choreography in a musical. Which felt about right. Because it is the most dancey of dance musicals. There is a book, by the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. There is even a programme booklet explaining the motivation of the central figure. But]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/illinoise-review-brilliant-story-ofloss-grief-and-reconciliation/Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/illinoise-review-brilliant-story-ofloss-grief-and-reconciliation/ Tonsorial maximalism and pyrotechnics set the scene as the uncompromising artist showcased her recent album Scarlet with blasts of bilious and bawdy hip-hopHair and fire: Doja Cat’s blistering set boasts copious amounts of both, often in worryingly close proximity. The star herself is modelling a new look tonight, a date added owing to demand. While her first night in London Doja was a blonde, tonight, she sports a long black fringed wig with rectangular glasses, giving thi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doja-cat-review-hair-raising-us-rapper-puts-on-a-fiery-display/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doja-cat-review-hair-raising-us-rapper-puts-on-a-fiery-display/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dionne-warwick-britain-has-always-been-very-good-to-me-i-feel-its-wonderful-embrace/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dionne-warwick-britain-has-always-been-very-good-to-me-i-feel-its-wonderful-embrace/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-cast-spells-at-the-audience-bat-for-lashes-on-howling-magic-and-new-documentary-on-witch-trials/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-cast-spells-at-the-audience-bat-for-lashes-on-howling-magic-and-new-documentary-on-witch-trials/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-victor-ray/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-victor-ray/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-nash-looks-back-i-trusted-the-wrong-people-with-my-money-and-had-to-move-back-in-with-my-parents-15-female-wrestlers-saved-me-/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-nash-looks-back-i-trusted-the-wrong-people-with-my-money-and-had-to-move-back-in-with-my-parents-15-female-wrestlers-saved-me-/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-and-lordes-conflict-resolution-is-the-years-most-powerful-pop-moment-alim-kheraj/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-and-lordes-conflict-resolution-is-the-years-most-powerful-pop-moment-alim-kheraj/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barbie-pink-is-out-lime-green-is-in-charli-xcxs-album-spawns-brat-summer-trend/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barbie-pink-is-out-lime-green-is-in-charli-xcxs-album-spawns-brat-summer-trend/ The newly invigorated band have a rare gift for stadium-sized rock that is refreshingly understated, delivering a 27-song set of triumphsFormed in 1999 by travelling preacher’s sons Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followill and their cousin Matthew, Kings of Leon delivered two benchmark albums of Dust Bowl garage rock Americana before losing their way among the compromises and sibling rivalries brought by huge success. However, lately Caleb has talked of a “renewed]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kings-of-leon-review-mesmeric-power-from-masters-of-the-restrained-anthem/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kings-of-leon-review-mesmeric-power-from-masters-of-the-restrained-anthem/ The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk greatAs a singer-songwriter, what do you do when you are robbed of your voice? You call in your team, your proxies, to lend their pipes – hence the title of this first album in a decade from Linda Thompson (and its cover, a spoof on Roxy Music’s 1972 debut). Celebrated for her partnership with then husband Richard on a slew of sublime albums b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linda-thompson-proxy-music-review-rueful-songs-of-love-and-ageing-with-an-all-star-cast/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/linda-thompson-proxy-music-review-rueful-songs-of-love-and-ageing-with-an-all-star-cast/ From innuendo-heavy anthems to soulful country, the Oakland singer rides the emotional rollercoaster on their fourth albumUS singer-songwriter Kehlani doesn’t believe in emotional half measures. On 2020’s lockdown soundtrack, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, unhealthy relationships were laid bare over atmospheric R&B, while its folksy follow-up, Blue Water Road, fell headfirst into love. Crash dives deep again emotionally, but adds a more playful musical framework to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kehlani-crash-review-the-perfect-sexy-summer-soundtrack/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kehlani-crash-review-the-perfect-sexy-summer-soundtrack/ The rising star covers all of pop’s bases with a refreshing scuffed charmMostly addressed to a series of disappointing exes, Lola Young’s second album doubles down on a winning combination of zingers and vulnerability. This star-in-waiting’s flippancy and passive aggression are key to her huffy charm. Both approaches work: Young, from south London and the Brit School via a series of toxic situations, doesn’t mince her wordsto others, or towards herself.The album&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lola-young-this-wasnt-meant-for-you-anyway-review-winningly-messy-mix-of-zingers-and-vulnerability/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lola-young-this-wasnt-meant-for-you-anyway-review-winningly-messy-mix-of-zingers-and-vulnerability/ From the meditative serenity of waterfalls, birdsong and pulsing animal heartbeats to galloping tribal drums and rave-like samples, this is a pleasingly random collageMusicians have long tried to incorporate the sounds of nature into their compositions. Think of Olivier Messiaen or Ottorino Respighi transcribing birdsong and arranging it for orchestra, George Crumb’s whale music, the percussionists of the Congo basin, making complex polyrhythms from splashing river surfaces, or T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/qoa-sauco-review-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/qoa-sauco-review-john-lewiss-contemporary-album-of-the-month/ Pivoting from riot grrrl to baroque ruffles, Nash nonetheless retains her trademark unvarnished lyricism on her fifth LPKate Nash is no stranger to pivots, as a kitchen-sink songwriter who later found success as an actor and with a new riot grrrl-tinged musical direction. Her fifth album is another about-face: with lush string arrangements inspired by old Hollywood and musical theatre, it feels more of a piece with Bridgerton than the boisterous wrestling ring of her Netflix sh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-nash-9-sad-symphonies-review-from-first-dates-to-crying-in-a-car-park/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kate-nash-9-sad-symphonies-review-from-first-dates-to-crying-in-a-car-park/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-complicated-avril-lavignes-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-complicated-avril-lavignes-20-best-songs-ranked/ The full-blooded and emotionally driven fourth solo album from the avant garde pop cellist is abundantly melodic, constantly surprising and unequivocally fantasticA recent magazine feature described Mabe Fratti as “the best avant garde pop cellist since Arthur Russell”. It’s hard to know whether to take that as laudatory superlative or faint praise. Russell has certainly seen his star rise in recent years: an overlooked figure at the time of his death in 1992,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mabe-fratti-sentir-que-no-sabes-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/mabe-fratti-sentir-que-no-sabes-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/are-we-in-a-new-era-of-queer-female-pop-podcast/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/are-we-in-a-new-era-of-queer-female-pop-podcast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-fans-who-sued-singer-over-late-concert-start-dismiss-their-own-lawsuit/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-fans-who-sued-singer-over-late-concert-start-dismiss-their-own-lawsuit/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wildest-streams-inside-the-fan-powered-broadcasts-of-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/wildest-streams-inside-the-fan-powered-broadcasts-of-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-killers-review-anthemic-xl-rock-goes-from-epic-to-even-more-epic/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-killers-review-anthemic-xl-rock-goes-from-epic-to-even-more-epic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-body-was-the-drums-the-brain-was-the-synthesiser-darkwave-the-gothic-genre-lighting-up-pop/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-body-was-the-drums-the-brain-was-the-synthesiser-darkwave-the-gothic-genre-lighting-up-pop/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/james-chance-key-figure-in-new-yorks-no-wave-music-scene-dies-aged-71/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/james-chance-key-figure-in-new-yorks-no-wave-music-scene-dies-aged-71/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/justin-timberlake-arrested-on-dwi-charge-in-the-hamptons/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/justin-timberlake-arrested-on-dwi-charge-in-the-hamptons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-way-theyve-been-exploited-is-obscene-the-untold-story-of-forgotten-uk-reggae-heroes-cimarons/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-way-theyve-been-exploited-is-obscene-the-untold-story-of-forgotten-uk-reggae-heroes-cimarons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/katia-and-marielle-labque-review-glasss-cocteau-trilogy-perfumes-the-air-literally/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/katia-and-marielle-labque-review-glasss-cocteau-trilogy-perfumes-the-air-literally/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joni-mitchell-and-the-me-decade-ann-powers/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/joni-mitchell-and-the-me-decade-ann-powers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-says-criticism-of-israeli-war-in-gaza-was-for-greater-good/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-says-criticism-of-israeli-war-in-gaza-was-for-greater-good/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dance-music-producer-dario-g-known-for-no-2-hit-sunchyme-dies-at-53/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dance-music-producer-dario-g-known-for-no-2-hit-sunchyme-dies-at-53/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-my-18th-consecutive-glastonbury-and-this-year-were-doing-it-as-a-three-generation-family/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-my-18th-consecutive-glastonbury-and-this-year-were-doing-it-as-a-three-generation-family/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/like-winning-a-golden-ticket-how-glastonburys-traders-thrive-off-of-good-vibes/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/like-winning-a-golden-ticket-how-glastonburys-traders-thrive-off-of-good-vibes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/get-ready-for-glastonbury-2024-11-essentials-to-pack-plan-and-download/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/get-ready-for-glastonbury-2024-11-essentials-to-pack-plan-and-download/ Plagued by rain, technical issues and boycotts – as well as by some distinctly non-metal headliners – the weekend is practically a washout, despite some virtuoso shredding and fiery melodeath lower down the billIs this the most cursed edition of Download to ever go ahead? Optimism for the 2024 edition of the heavy metal festival was at a low from the off, when the two-thirds non-metal trio of Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/download-festival-review-the-rock-fests-most-cursed-year-ever/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/download-festival-review-the-rock-fests-most-cursed-year-ever/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-is-the-new-avant-garde-john-cale-on-lou-reed-anger-and-continual-reinvention/Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-is-the-new-avant-garde-john-cale-on-lou-reed-anger-and-continual-reinvention/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/people-like-it-because-its-the-messy-truth-lily-allen-and-miquita-oliver-on-their-hit-podcast-miss-me/Sun, 16 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/people-like-it-because-its-the-messy-truth-lily-allen-and-miquita-oliver-on-their-hit-podcast-miss-me/ Folk, classical and jazz textures from a quietly stellar band back the singer’s elegant, swooping voice on an almighty debut tourEyes shut, feet bare, with the stage in virtual darkness, singer Beth Gibbons clings to her microphone stand as though to a sapling in a gale, a veil of blond hair periodically falling across her face. It’s a pose every bit as era-defining as the microphone stance of fellow 1994 alumnus Liam Gallagher. Oasis’s Definitely Mayb]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-review-an-unapologetically-intense-triumph/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-review-an-unapologetically-intense-triumph/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-aziya/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-aziya/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/vinyl-came-back-from-the-dead-and-so-did-the-bootleggers-inside-the-booming-business-of-knock-off-records/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/vinyl-came-back-from-the-dead-and-so-did-the-bootleggers-inside-the-booming-business-of-knock-off-records/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-may-have-captured-the-charts-but-charli-xcx-captured-the-zeitgeist/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-may-have-captured-the-charts-but-charli-xcx-captured-the-zeitgeist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-mike-skinner/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-mike-skinner/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barclays-suspends-sponsorship-of-download-latitude-and-isle-of-wight-festivals/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barclays-suspends-sponsorship-of-download-latitude-and-isle-of-wight-festivals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-didnt-engage-with-the-bowie-song-peter-schilling-on-major-tom-the-unofficial-anthem-of-the-euros/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-didnt-engage-with-the-bowie-song-peter-schilling-on-major-tom-the-unofficial-anthem-of-the-euros/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/foo-fighters-review-beloved-rockers-thunder-back-from-trauma-with-thrilling-intensity/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/foo-fighters-review-beloved-rockers-thunder-back-from-trauma-with-thrilling-intensity/ Oscar nominee Samantha Morton teams up with label exec Richard Russell for an unnerving, dreamy album inspired by childhood traumaWe’re in the midst of a trip-hop revival: some 30 years after Portishead released Dummy, artists such as Lolahol, a.s.o. and Avalon Emerson are waving the flag for the genre once again, refracting icy synth textures and torch-song vocals in modern ways. One of the best records of the trip-hop resurgence is by an unlikely pair: Oscar-nominated actor Samantha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-morton-daffodils-amp-dirt-review-ndash-actorrsquos-intoxicating-trip-hop-debut/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sam-morton-daffodils-amp-dirt-review-ndash-actorrsquos-intoxicating-trip-hop-debut/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-grant-the-art-of-the-lie-review-grooving-funk-odyssey/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-grant-the-art-of-the-lie-review-grooving-funk-odyssey/ The American singer’s buttery voice comes to the fore on an arresting debut in styles ranging from Kate Bush to the BossSinger-songwriter Zsela (“zhay-la”) Thompson has a husky lower register like a ripe fruit, one with few ready equivalents in 2024. Her approach on this debut album is both arrestingly old school and totally up to date, given the shake-up artists such as Beyoncé or Willow are giving to already creaking notions of genre participation.On B]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zsela-big-for-you-review-ndash-modern-rampb-with-a-leisurely-old-school-charm/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zsela-big-for-you-review-ndash-modern-rampb-with-a-leisurely-old-school-charm/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/normani-in-fifth-harmony-we-had-a-lot-of-things-taken-away-from-us/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/normani-in-fifth-harmony-we-had-a-lot-of-things-taken-away-from-us/ With his sons rocking solos and a bonkers cameo from Mick Fleetwood, Neil Finn’s band spreads harmonic happiness Sometimes all pop music needs to do is spread a little happiness. Playing a small London show to mark the release of their eighth album, Gravity Stairs, Crowded House do rather more than that. There’s comedy, with Neil Finn teasing bassist Nick Seymour – the only other constant member of the band – about his strapped knee, which le]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/crowded-house-review-raucous-spun-sugar-pop-perfection/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/crowded-house-review-raucous-spun-sugar-pop-perfection/ The latest album by Jiyane, of collective Spaza, wades into darker territory to reflect the reality of poverty in the countryThe South African jazz scene has exploded with fresh talent in recent years, from artists such as Johannesburg collective Spaza, who have developed an urgent form of social consciousness free jazz, to pianist Thandi Ntuli’s minimal and affective melodies and drummers Asher Gamedze and Tumi Mogorosi’s thrashing maximalism.At the softer e]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/malcolm-jiyane-tree-o-true-story-review-emotive-south-african-jazz-with-a-bite/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/malcolm-jiyane-tree-o-true-story-review-emotive-south-african-jazz-with-a-bite/ Cale creates a sense of hope as he sets hard-won musical wisdom alongside dreamlike reflections in songs with synths, noise and hip-hop groovesJohn Cale is now 82, but his formidable work ethic shows no sign of slowing down. His second album inside a year again originates in the 80-song creative splurge he enjoyed during lockdown. If 2023’s Mercy seemed to rage against the dying of the light – revisiting a few ghosts from his past and settling a few scores along the way &nda]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-cale-poptical-illusion-review-counterculture-icon-finds-his-fun-side/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/john-cale-poptical-illusion-review-counterculture-icon-finds-his-fun-side/ The ex-Fifth Harmony member was tipped for huge success until creative differences and personal strife set her back, but she has confidently regained her footing by leaning into R&B For six long years Normani was the most overlooked member of Fifth Harmony, a so-so girl band fused together in 2012 on the forgotten US variant of The X Factor. When they split in 2018, she quickly became the pop connoisseurs’ choice for assumed solo breakout success, a decision supported by a s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/normani-dopamine-review-pops-longest-awaited-debut-almost-defeats-the-trolls/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/normani-dopamine-review-pops-longest-awaited-debut-almost-defeats-the-trolls/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/multiple-bands-pull-out-of-download-festival-over-barclays-israel-ties/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/multiple-bands-pull-out-of-download-festival-over-barclays-israel-ties/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-albums-of-2024-so-far/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-best-albums-of-2024-so-far/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pop-singer-kevin-jonas-documents-skin-cancer-treatment/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/pop-singer-kevin-jonas-documents-skin-cancer-treatment/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franoise-hardy-frances-girlish-y-y-star-was-a-groundbreaking-musical-artist/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franoise-hardy-frances-girlish-y-y-star-was-a-groundbreaking-musical-artist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franoise-hardy-french-pop-singer-and-fashion-muse-dies-aged-80/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/franoise-hardy-french-pop-singer-and-fashion-muse-dies-aged-80/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/four-tops-singer-sues-hospital-for-assuming-mental-illness-after-he-revealed-identity/Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/four-tops-singer-sues-hospital-for-assuming-mental-illness-after-he-revealed-identity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dont-worry-about-ai-people-want-bodies-in-a-room-faithless-on-the-eternal-power-of-rave-and-the-death-of-maxi-jazz/Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dont-worry-about-ai-people-want-bodies-in-a-room-faithless-on-the-eternal-power-of-rave-and-the-death-of-maxi-jazz/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/war-disastrous-sex-and-a-lot-of-lawsuits-the-chaotic-aftermath-of-motowns-peak-years/Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/war-disastrous-sex-and-a-lot-of-lawsuits-the-chaotic-aftermath-of-motowns-peak-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nobody-believed-i-sang-it-how-move-your-body-blew-dancefloors-away/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nobody-believed-i-sang-it-how-move-your-body-blew-dancefloors-away/ The singer’s voice remains almighty in an intense and sometimes thunderous set, but ultimately what steps out of the tumult is her unswerving humanity
Beth Gibbons is visible only as a silhouette, backlit against blood red lighting. Flanked on three sides by her musicians, she stands several feet away and isolated at centre stage as an expectant hush gives way to the stark guitars, brooding drums and low clarinet of Tell Me Who You Are Today. For the rest of the show, whil]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-review-otherworldly-presence-transcends-light-and-dark/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-review-otherworldly-presence-transcends-light-and-dark/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/smashing-pumpkins-and-weezer-review-mismatched-90s-rockers-bore-and-charm/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/smashing-pumpkins-and-weezer-review-mismatched-90s-rockers-bore-and-charm/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/youre-beautiful-by-james-blunt-is-terrible-paloma-faiths-honest-playlist/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/youre-beautiful-by-james-blunt-is-terrible-paloma-faiths-honest-playlist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-our-team-euro-2024-anthem-strikes-a-chord-for-englands-diversity/Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-our-team-euro-2024-anthem-strikes-a-chord-for-englands-diversity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frothy-fun-and-hard-to-resist-is-sabrina-carpenters-espresso-the-song-of-the-summer/Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frothy-fun-and-hard-to-resist-is-sabrina-carpenters-espresso-the-song-of-the-summer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-is-history-by-questlove-review-a-soundtrack-for-the-world-from-the-sugarhill-gang-to-kanye-west/Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hip-hop-is-history-by-questlove-review-a-soundtrack-for-the-world-from-the-sugarhill-gang-to-kanye-west/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-billy-corgans-cultural-highlights/Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/on-my-radar-billy-corgans-cultural-highlights/ Noel may be absent, but so is the chaos of early Oasis, leaving Liam free to get the detail right in a volley of on-point anthems As a defining image, it’s an unexpected choice: a sizeable portrait of Burt Bacharach sits in front of the drum riser, drawing the eye as a giant digital clock counts back the years to 1994. A songwriter of classic pop who died last year at age 94, the US artist seems an unlikely totem for a band – Oasis – whose general disdain]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-gallagher-definitely-maybe-30th-anniversary-review-90s-anthems-still-shake-without-their-maker/Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-gallagher-definitely-maybe-30th-anniversary-review-90s-anthems-still-shake-without-their-maker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girls-aloud-on-public-bullying-getting-older-and-reuniting-after-the-loss-of-sarah-harding-i-keep-expecting-her-to-burst-into-the-room/Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girls-aloud-on-public-bullying-getting-older-and-reuniting-after-the-loss-of-sarah-harding-i-keep-expecting-her-to-burst-into-the-room/ ​The audience is overwhelmed by an astonishing, risk-taking, strangely intimate extravaganza – and Swift in turn is overwhelmed by themAs Cruel Summer fades away and she surveys the audience, Taylor Swift looks startled. She clasps her hand to her chest and shakes her head in disbelief. They cheer louder. “That went straight to my head!” she exclaims, apparently unable to take in the vociferousness of their reaction.Of course, this is hokum]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-review-as-all-powerful-as-a-pop-star-can-be/Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-review-as-all-powerful-as-a-pop-star-can-be/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cline-dion-says-illness-has-caused-muscle-spasms-that-broke-her-ribs/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/cline-dion-says-illness-has-caused-muscle-spasms-that-broke-her-ribs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guess-whos-back-how-eminem-is-storming-to-the-top-of-the-charts-again/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guess-whos-back-how-eminem-is-storming-to-the-top-of-the-charts-again/ Irrepressible tracks abound on the hugely popular Korean DJ-producer’s debut albumKorean DJ-producer Peggy Gou is one of the most successful women in her field. She’s about to headline a huge outdoor party in London and reckons she’s played to a million fans in the past year. As often in the dance industry, success precedes suspicion: Gou’s first break came when a promoter saw her photo rather than heard her DJ; she’s into fashion as much as music; her songs of]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peggy-gou-i-hear-you-review-sparkling-90s-inspired-dance/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/peggy-gou-i-hear-you-review-sparkling-90s-inspired-dance/ The Canadian dance producer doesn’t lack for guests on a banger-filled, club-focused albumCanadian producer and DJ Kaytranada has spent the past decade perfecting the art of the bounce. Since his dancefloor-focused rework of Janet Jackson’s 1993 track If went viral in 2013, Kaytranada – real name Louis Celestin – has released three albums characterised by a rhythmic swing that lands between the beats to produce an infectious swagger.After 2023’s funk-fuelled c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kaytranada-timeless-review-guaranteed-to-make-you-move/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kaytranada-timeless-review-guaranteed-to-make-you-move/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tems-born-in-the-wild-review-the-afrobeats-artist-levels-up-in-style/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tems-born-in-the-wild-review-the-afrobeats-artist-levels-up-in-style/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/surprise-songs-secret-guests-and-hidden-details-the-ultimate-guide-to-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/surprise-songs-secret-guests-and-hidden-details-the-ultimate-guide-to-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/ The British jazz singer pays homage to Vaughan with earthiness and spontaneity: an animated reinvention of these classicsThe great African American double bass player Richard Davis used to note that it had been “the university of Sarah Vaughan” – his life on the road from 1957-63 with the jazz singer dubbed The Divine One – that taught him everything worth knowing about timing, improvisation and making every sound count.Vaughan’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zara-mcfarlane-sweet-whispers-celebrating-sarah-vaughan-review-terrific-tribute-to-a-jazz-legend/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zara-mcfarlane-sweet-whispers-celebrating-sarah-vaughan-review-terrific-tribute-to-a-jazz-legend/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-wish-i-had-enjoyed-success-more-jon-bon-jovi-on-megahits-marriage-and-his-fears-for-his-career/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-wish-i-had-enjoyed-success-more-jon-bon-jovi-on-megahits-marriage-and-his-fears-for-his-career/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dolly-parton-announces-broadway-musical-youll-laugh-youll-cry-youll-clap/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dolly-parton-announces-broadway-musical-youll-laugh-youll-cry-youll-clap/ Beyond the sleaze, grinding bass and it-girl in-jokes, the British visionary’s sixth album is a masterpiece that understands how a hard persona can offer protectionCharli XCX’s last album was designed to reach as many people as possible. Satisfying the contract she signed with Atlantic as a teenager, 2022’s Crash was a conceptual go-for-broke by a pop star who had made her name as a refusenik, save a few uneasy youthful flirtations with the mainstream. She swapped he]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-brat-review-laura-snapes-album-of-the-week/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-brat-review-laura-snapes-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-channels-once-championed-music-why-have-they-given-up-so-completely/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tv-channels-once-championed-music-why-have-they-given-up-so-completely/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-pillowy-pop-to-foot-stomping-beats-the-supremes-20-best-songs-ranked/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-pillowy-pop-to-foot-stomping-beats-the-supremes-20-best-songs-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/inside-the-secret-kyiv-techno-club-that-does-not-exist/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/inside-the-secret-kyiv-techno-club-that-does-not-exist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-is-everywhere-could-i-avoid-her-and-her-music-for-the-whole-month-of-may/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-is-everywhere-could-i-avoid-her-and-her-music-for-the-whole-month-of-may/ The Hollywood actor may not be the world’s greatest rock star, but his committed, fan-friendly performance has charmThe first sense that this might not be the busiest show in the O2 Arena’s history comes in the concourses: no one is having to queue at the bar before the show. Inside, the top tier is closed, and the arena floor is bizarre: a packed back third, of general admission, and a vast golden circle that is barely a third full. It looks awful, and visitors to t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thirty-seconds-to-mars-review-jared-leto-gives-half-empty-arena-his-full-attention/Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thirty-seconds-to-mars-review-jared-leto-gives-half-empty-arena-his-full-attention/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/simon-cowell-launches-search-for-new-boyband-by-highlighting-potential-solo-career/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/simon-cowell-launches-search-for-new-boyband-by-highlighting-potential-solo-career/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kanye-west-sued-for-sexual-harassment-by-former-assistant/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kanye-west-sued-for-sexual-harassment-by-former-assistant/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/in-the-key-of-5g-the-dimensionalist-who-wrote-a-symphony-for-1000-phones/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/in-the-key-of-5g-the-dimensionalist-who-wrote-a-symphony-for-1000-phones/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-could-eat-that-girl-for-lunch-the-sexually-explicit-queer-female-pop-topping-the-charts/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-could-eat-that-girl-for-lunch-the-sexually-explicit-queer-female-pop-topping-the-charts/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-announces-full-2024-lineup-adding-james-tems-squeeze-and-more/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/glastonbury-announces-full-2024-lineup-adding-james-tems-squeeze-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rapper-brother-marquis-member-of-2-live-crew-dies-aged-58/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rapper-brother-marquis-member-of-2-live-crew-dies-aged-58/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-all-eco-coldplay-beats-emissions-target-for-world-tour-via-kinetic-dancefloors-and-trains/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-was-all-eco-coldplay-beats-emissions-target-for-world-tour-via-kinetic-dancefloors-and-trains/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-i-lost-this-flute-it-would-be-pretty-tragic-shabaka-corinne-bailey-rae-and-nilfer-yanya-on-their-favourite-instruments/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/if-i-lost-this-flute-it-would-be-pretty-tragic-shabaka-corinne-bailey-rae-and-nilfer-yanya-on-their-favourite-instruments/ It’s an unashamed nostalgia fest, but what could feel business-like morphs into something more considered, with strings, singalongs and even a dedication to brother Noel ‘I haven’t got any fucking new ones for you, so it’s going to have to be an old one, all right?” proclaims Liam Gallagher at one point tonight, during a set that feels like a time capsule of 1994. Performing Oasis’s classic debut Definitely Maybe in full, the backdrop]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-gallagher-review-oasis-frontman-delivers-definitely-maybe-in-all-its-90s-glory/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/liam-gallagher-review-oasis-frontman-delivers-definitely-maybe-in-all-its-90s-glory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-labels-are-desperate-for-artists-to-be-liked-otherwise-youre-bad-evil-and-wrong/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/charli-xcx-labels-are-desperate-for-artists-to-be-liked-otherwise-youre-bad-evil-and-wrong/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-fan-of-chaos-blondies-chris-stein-on-bowie-debbie-harry-and-50-years-in-rocknroll/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-a-fan-of-chaos-blondies-chris-stein-on-bowie-debbie-harry-and-50-years-in-rocknroll/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/she-dominates-our-age-how-taylor-swift-became-the-greatest-show-on-earth/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/she-dominates-our-age-how-taylor-swift-became-the-greatest-show-on-earth/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-bringing-his-music-back-to-life-the-singer-whose-grandfather-was-silenced-by-the-holocaust/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-bringing-his-music-back-to-life-the-singer-whose-grandfather-was-silenced-by-the-holocaust/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sky-ferreira-im-always-scared-im-gonna-die-all-the-time/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sky-ferreira-im-always-scared-im-gonna-die-all-the-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-charlotte-day-wilson/Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-charlotte-day-wilson/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaznay-lewis-i-asked-my-husband-to-describe-me-in-three-words-they-were-not-printable/Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaznay-lewis-i-asked-my-husband-to-describe-me-in-three-words-they-were-not-printable/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thank-you-for-the-music-abba-members-get-swedish-knighthoods/Fri, 31 May 2024 19:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thank-you-for-the-music-abba-members-get-swedish-knighthoods/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ayra-starr-the-year-i-turned-21-review-magnetic-afrobeats/Fri, 31 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ayra-starr-the-year-i-turned-21-review-magnetic-afrobeats/ The Brit-nominated south Londoner’s not quite debut album of trap and drill showboating flies byThe Brit awards feel increasingly pointless, a dripping tap in a streaming world. With successful bands at a historic low, the industry is reduced to nominating rap duos to fill the best British group category. Earlier this year it was Headie One & K-Trap, who have made one mixtape (Strength to Strength) but are very much not a group. Still, the recognition is nice, as south Lon]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/k-trap-smile-review-terse-punchy-raps-to-riches-flow/Fri, 31 May 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/k-trap-smile-review-terse-punchy-raps-to-riches-flow/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/your-defence-is-terrified-how-freed-from-desire-became-a-football-darts-and-protest-anthem/Fri, 31 May 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/your-defence-is-terrified-how-freed-from-desire-became-a-football-darts-and-protest-anthem/ Life gives more grist to the mill of the veteran singer-songwriter, whose guitar playing remains as eloquent as everIs there a surer pair of hands than Richard Thompson’s? Leading light of the 1960s folk-rock boom, solo troubadour since, his 18th solo album proffers 12 new songs resonating with oaky assurance even as they gnash and churn through the human experience, Thompson’s customary thumb to the wound.His containers, polished by his band, are never less than beautiful]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-thompson-ship-to-shore-review-another-collection-of-beautifully-gruelling-material/Fri, 31 May 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-thompson-ship-to-shore-review-another-collection-of-beautifully-gruelling-material/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-sued-for-pornography-without-warning-at-la-concert-performance/Fri, 31 May 2024 11:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/madonna-sued-for-pornography-without-warning-at-la-concert-performance/ Four powerful voices weave tender yet disquieting harmonies on a second album that honours bold womenVocal harmony is in the dense weave of so much traditional music, and it becomes a startling, golden thread in Landless’s second album. Named after an Irish word that can mean a cloak for protection, a breastplate and a hymn, Lúireach is a collection of 10 sublime songs, many of them about bold women. It also showcases four female singers (Méabh Meir, Lily Power,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/landless-luacuteireach-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/landless-luacuteireach-review-jude-rogers-folk-album-of-the-month/ Huge riffs, guttural vocals and fearsome intent create a formidable wall of sound in the US band’s maximalist, in-your-face sixth albumA caustically intense mainstay of the US underground, Thou combine cavernously sludgy riffs with raw punk energy. Theirs is a sound of stifling humidity, a near hallucinatory heaviosity. Indeed, the narcotic heat of Louisiana – the band are from Baton Rouge – seeps through every sickly pore, wedding itself to the circling riffs, l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thou-umbilical-review-one-of-the-finest-metal-albums-of-the-past-decade/Fri, 31 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/thou-umbilical-review-one-of-the-finest-metal-albums-of-the-past-decade/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rappers-delight-planted-a-seed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-questlove-on-hoarding-capturing-hip-hop-history-and-the-kendrick-drake-beef/Fri, 31 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rappers-delight-planted-a-seed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-questlove-on-hoarding-capturing-hip-hop-history-and-the-kendrick-drake-beef/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/htrk-turn-21-whenever-i-met-fans-i-could-tell-they-were-a-bit-shocked-i-wasnt-the-gothic-lord/Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/htrk-turn-21-whenever-i-met-fans-i-could-tell-they-were-a-bit-shocked-i-wasnt-the-gothic-lord/ That’s very nice of you to say. I wish you could see me right now – I look like I just came out of a dirty dishwasher. I think maybe my style icons are the different versions of myself: I live in different realms, so the version of me that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janelle-mone-i-have-to-feel-a-film-role-in-my-pubic-hairs-they-have-to-vibrate/Thu, 30 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janelle-mone-i-have-to-feel-a-film-role-in-my-pubic-hairs-they-have-to-vibrate/ Cutesy melodies, dubstep basslines, pop-punk and disco on the K-pop foursome’s debut album are outshone by their intriguing world-building, with interdimensional rifts and alien popcornIf you doubt that the world of South Korean manufactured pop is significantly different from its western counterpart, then a description of female quartet Aespa – or rather the world around them – should put you right.Their name may sound like an upmarket brand of air-freshener]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aespa-armageddon-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/Thu, 30 May 2024 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/aespa-armageddon-review-alexis-petridiss-album-of-the-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darius-rucker-on-country-music-race-and-drugs-i-dont-think-anyone-went-harder-than-us/Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/darius-rucker-on-country-music-race-and-drugs-i-dont-think-anyone-went-harder-than-us/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-did-a-90-minute-workout-at-2am-lenny-kravitz-on-sex-spliffs-and-staying-gorgeous-at-60/Thu, 30 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-did-a-90-minute-workout-at-2am-lenny-kravitz-on-sex-spliffs-and-staying-gorgeous-at-60/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sony-music-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-queens-music-catalogue-for-1bn/Wed, 29 May 2024 19:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sony-music-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-queens-music-catalogue-for-1bn/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-just-let-it-rip-jumbo-amateur-rock-band-bangs-the-drum-for-brum/Wed, 29 May 2024 15:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-just-let-it-rip-jumbo-amateur-rock-band-bangs-the-drum-for-brum/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-confident-we-will-be-adequately-bejewelled-readers-on-how-theyre-preparing-for-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/Wed, 29 May 2024 15:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/im-confident-we-will-be-adequately-bejewelled-readers-on-how-theyre-preparing-for-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/ In a sublime concert full of banter, storytelling and guitar virtuosity, the 75-year-old surrenders himself completely to each momentThere’s something surprisingly exhilarating about a band simply striding on stage without a speck of fanfare. But then it’s a walk that Richard Thompson has completed countless times, and his affiliation has always been with the song.Tonight, the revered folk-rocker – complete with red Fender Stratocaster and customary jet-black ber]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-thompson-review-a-showcase-for-decades-of-exquisite-craft/Wed, 29 May 2024 13:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-thompson-review-a-showcase-for-decades-of-exquisite-craft/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-a-hallucinatory-experience-musicians-on-the-awesome-creative-power-of-motherhood/Wed, 29 May 2024 11:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-a-hallucinatory-experience-musicians-on-the-awesome-creative-power-of-motherhood/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-denounces-israeli-genocide-in-instagram-post/Wed, 29 May 2024 11:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dua-lipa-denounces-israeli-genocide-in-instagram-post/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tell-us-what-do-you-spend-on-music-in-a-typical-month/Wed, 29 May 2024 11:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tell-us-what-do-you-spend-on-music-in-a-typical-month/ Now streaming in huge numbers long after their mid-90s years, the Californians’ nuanced yet forceful delivery punches in all the right placesAfter a near 20-year hiatus, Duster returned seemingly from nowhere in the late 2010s as newly proclaimed cult heroes. The relatively obscure Californian band who were active between 1996 and 2001 and blended indie, slowcore, and space rock, had struck a nerve with a new generation, racking up hundreds of millions of Spotify an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/duster-review-indie-rockers-impress-amid-unlikely-tiktok-renaissance/Tue, 28 May 2024 16:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/duster-review-indie-rockers-impress-amid-unlikely-tiktok-renaissance/ A feral Perry Farrell, a prowling Eric Avery and Dave Navarro making his guitar sound like a chainsaw – the alt-rock band flex their rediscovered mojoThe spectre of wasted potential has long hung over Jane’s Addiction. The Los Angelenos helped define alternative rock in the late 80s with two albums of cosmic, bohemian funk-metal, driven by mysticism, debauchery and loss, but were quickly undone by exhaustion, heroin and frontman Perry Farrell’s new role as Lo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janes-addiction-review-original-lineup-same-thrilling-riff-driven-thrashers/Tue, 28 May 2024 14:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/janes-addiction-review-original-lineup-same-thrilling-riff-driven-thrashers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/collaboration-lifts-up-the-field-electrifying-it-musician-carlos-nio-on-jams-with-andr-3000-and-more/Tue, 28 May 2024 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/collaboration-lifts-up-the-field-electrifying-it-musician-carlos-nio-on-jams-with-andr-3000-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-janelle-mone/Mon, 27 May 2024 18:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/post-your-questions-for-janelle-mone/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-woke-up-face-down-on-a-hollywood-lawn-bran-van-3000-on-drinking-in-la/Mon, 27 May 2024 16:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-woke-up-face-down-on-a-hollywood-lawn-bran-van-3000-on-drinking-in-la/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lizzo-reacts-to-south-park-storyline-on-ozempic-i-showed-the-world-how-to-love-yourself/Mon, 27 May 2024 14:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lizzo-reacts-to-south-park-storyline-on-ozempic-i-showed-the-world-how-to-love-yourself/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doug-ingle-frontman-of-rock-band-iron-butterfly-dies-aged-78/Mon, 27 May 2024 12:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/doug-ingle-frontman-of-rock-band-iron-butterfly-dies-aged-78/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nicki-minaj-says-sorry-to-fans-as-manchester-gig-cancelled-after-arrest/Sun, 26 May 2024 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nicki-minaj-says-sorry-to-fans-as-manchester-gig-cancelled-after-arrest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-sherman-songwriter-for-mary-poppins-and-the-jungle-book-dies-aged-95/Sun, 26 May 2024 15:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-sherman-songwriter-for-mary-poppins-and-the-jungle-book-dies-aged-95/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/politicians-theyre-mugs-all-of-them-paul-weller-on-music-style-and-the-state-of-the-nation/Sun, 26 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/politicians-theyre-mugs-all-of-them-paul-weller-on-music-style-and-the-state-of-the-nation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kaia-kater-strange-medicine-review-canadian-banjo-virtuoso-packs-a-powerful-punch/Sat, 25 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kaia-kater-strange-medicine-review-canadian-banjo-virtuoso-packs-a-powerful-punch/ A surging, festival-ready set from the Malian guitarist straddles desert blues, exotica-rock, tradition – and his superstar father’s legacyIt all starts with the mercurial Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré doing a little black-slope run down some scales, to whoops of anticipation from the crowd. Most of his tracks tonight begin with this offhand prelude, common to west African music – a foretaste of what’s to come. What invariably follows is a daz]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/vieux-farka-tour-review-hendrix-of-the-sahara-goes-his-own-way/Sat, 25 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/vieux-farka-tour-review-hendrix-of-the-sahara-goes-his-own-way/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-mui-zyu/Sat, 25 May 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-mui-zyu/ Despite losing a key member, the arena-filling pop-metal stars still thrill with their surprise-released new record – a masterpiece of glutted sonic mayhemIn the end, Post Human: Nex Gen – the longest-awaited, most torturously gestated album in mainstream rock today – arrived very suddenly, a gloriously corroded data dump of tens of thousands of points of sonic information dropped last night with just a few hours’ notice.The Sheffield pop-metallers’ Pos]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bring-me-the-horizon-post-human-nex-gen-review-a-defining-album-of-our-digitally-overloaded-era/Fri, 24 May 2024 17:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bring-me-the-horizon-post-human-nex-gen-review-a-defining-album-of-our-digitally-overloaded-era/ Prog legends go on dizzying adventure through sprawling, occasionally exhausting yet pristine music, with acoustic chugs, glam-like stompers and squealing wig-outsWalking into Bridgewater Hall, you are greeted with a vast stretch of moons, stars, serpents, clouds and elaborate rock formations. The dreamlike fantasy landscapes of Yes’s record covers, designed by Roger Dean, make up an eye-popping gallery in the foyer. Since the band’s 1971 album, Fragile,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yes-review-head-spinning-intensity-immaculately-delivered/Fri, 24 May 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yes-review-head-spinning-intensity-immaculately-delivered/ Melodic grooves and warm vocals unfurl on Gina Jane and Jacob Lobo’s debut album of originals contemplating new parenthood and moreSoulful influences seem to be a staple of the current British jazz scene. Artists ranging from production duo Blue Lab Beats to singer Sofia Grant and saxophonist Laura Misch all draw on soaring melodies, warm vocals and a foundational sense of soul rhythm when it comes to their jazz-referencing compositions. Bournemouth/London duo GeeJay are the l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/geejay-whats-the-sun-without-the-rain-review-charming-uk-jazz-soul/Fri, 24 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/geejay-whats-the-sun-without-the-rain-review-charming-uk-jazz-soul/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/children-of-robbie-robertson-sue-late-musicians-widow-alleging-elder-abuse/Fri, 24 May 2024 12:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/children-of-robbie-robertson-sue-late-musicians-widow-alleging-elder-abuse/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kelly-rowland-alleges-racial-profiling-in-cannes-film-festival-usher-incident/Fri, 24 May 2024 12:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kelly-rowland-alleges-racial-profiling-in-cannes-film-festival-usher-incident/ This striking English singer-songwriter embraces life in all its complications on her classy third album, produced by the National’s Aaron DessnerBess Atwell has the kind of voice that lands on notes like a pollinator on a pistil: lightly, but with singular purpose. The winsome female singer-songwriter is an overplayed trope, but Brighton-based Atwell – on her third album – manages to combine the hazy languor endemic to the Lana Del Rey era with the left-field preci]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bess-atwell-light-sleeper-review-poignant-dreamlike-miniatures/Fri, 24 May 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bess-atwell-light-sleeper-review-poignant-dreamlike-miniatures/ Feinberg has moved from psychedelic rock to a hypnotic romanticism that invites us to share in its gently throbbing pulses and heart-tugging beautyEzra Feinberg came to our attention around 20 years ago as the leader of the San Francisco-based collective Citay, whose woozy, Beach Boys-inspired explorations were central to a psychedelic indie scene that flourished in north California at the time. In recent years he’s moved to the other side of the States and is now a practisin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ezra-feinberg-soft-power-review-trippy-bucolic-and-playfully-minimal/Fri, 24 May 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ezra-feinberg-soft-power-review-trippy-bucolic-and-playfully-minimal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hes-never-worked-a-day-in-his-life-paul-mccartney-honours-bruce-springsteen-at-ivor-novello-awards/Fri, 24 May 2024 09:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/hes-never-worked-a-day-in-his-life-paul-mccartney-honours-bruce-springsteen-at-ivor-novello-awards/ The Grammy-nominated Argentine–Spanish singer moves between snarling bombast, acoustic yearning and lavish salsa in her eclectic second albumIn pop’s multilingual landscape, it’s curious that Nathy Peluso isn’t a household name. Huge in Argentina and Spain, her debut album Calambre picked up a Grammy nomination with its blend of neo-soul, Latin trap and 90s hip-hop. Her live performances rival Rosalía, and she has the Instagram-friendly aesthetics of Dua Lip]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nathy-peluso-grasa-review-dont-overlook-this-latin-pop-polymath/Fri, 24 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/nathy-peluso-grasa-review-dont-overlook-this-latin-pop-polymath/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ten-gallon-hits-why-country-is-the-biggest-pop-music-craze-of-2024/Fri, 24 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/ten-gallon-hits-why-country-is-the-biggest-pop-music-craze-of-2024/ Celebrating sobriety at 40, Brown animates the crowd with his energy, expressions and enunciated linesDanny Brown runs on stage dressed as a steampunk supervillain in a metallic high-collar overcoat, an eye-strikingly large belt and superspy-style sunglasses that cover half of his face. He’s radiant, illuminated further by colourful stage lighting, and looks genuinely happy to be performing as he zigzags around. “I’m 40 and don’t drink or smoke]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/danny-brown-review-rap-icon-delivers-each-bar-with-purpose-and-poise/Thu, 23 May 2024 16:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/danny-brown-review-rap-icon-delivers-each-bar-with-purpose-and-poise/ In this elegiac 17th solo album made with guests including Noel Gallagher, Weller contemplates mortality with sun-dappled ballads – but there’s still an experimental edgeAmong the tracks on Paul Weller’s 17th solo album, A Glimpse of You isn’t really a standout. It’s melodically pretty, but a bit slight; pleasant enough, but unlikely to elbow The Changingman or Broken Stones from the setlist when its author plays live. Yet A Glimpse of You still has the ca]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-weller-66-review-sumptuous-rumination-on-older-age-springs-some-surprises/Thu, 23 May 2024 15:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/paul-weller-66-review-sumptuous-rumination-on-older-age-springs-some-surprises/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rap-rock-beasts-and-drive-by-eggings-beastie-boys-20-greatest-tracks-ranked/Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rap-rock-beasts-and-drive-by-eggings-beastie-boys-20-greatest-tracks-ranked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-thought-i-was-going-to-drown-otis-redding-patti-labelle-at-80-on-soul-sex-survival-and-superstardom/Thu, 23 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-thought-i-was-going-to-drown-otis-redding-patti-labelle-at-80-on-soul-sex-survival-and-superstardom/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/when-things-dry-up-we-cant-just-call-daddy-elefant-traks-the-diy-label-that-changed-australian-music/Wed, 22 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/when-things-dry-up-we-cant-just-call-daddy-elefant-traks-the-diy-label-that-changed-australian-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-basically-inaccessible-without-a-phone-are-kids-losing-their-love-for-music/Wed, 22 May 2024 13:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/its-basically-inaccessible-without-a-phone-are-kids-losing-their-love-for-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/new-orleans-rapper-bg-wont-go-back-to-prison-but-judge-will-scrutinize-lyrics/Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/new-orleans-rapper-bg-wont-go-back-to-prison-but-judge-will-scrutinize-lyrics/ His song Beautiful Things has been a global hit this year and, looking like Paul Mescal meets Mario, the US singer has the voice and charm to go even further‘I see you winning American Idol if you want,” judge Katy Perry told Benson Boone when he was on the show in 2021. He pulled out of the running, not wanting to be known for being a talent show winner, but fame was written in the stars regardless. Soon he had viral tracks on TikTok and had been taken und]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/benson-boone-review-echoes-of-harry-styles-in-pops-newest-star/Wed, 22 May 2024 12:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/benson-boone-review-echoes-of-harry-styles-in-pops-newest-star/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/unheard-louis-armstrong-recordings-to-be-released/Wed, 22 May 2024 11:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/unheard-louis-armstrong-recordings-to-be-released/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-spy-the-songbird-and-the-sham-that-wasnt-how-i-restored-broadcasting-history/Wed, 22 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-spy-the-songbird-and-the-sham-that-wasnt-how-i-restored-broadcasting-history/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-songs-spread-like-herpes-why-did-satirical-genius-tom-lehrer-swap-worldwide-fame-for-obscurity/Wed, 22 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-songs-spread-like-herpes-why-did-satirical-genius-tom-lehrer-swap-worldwide-fame-for-obscurity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-faces-new-lawsuit-from-ex-model-alleging-sexual-assault/Wed, 22 May 2024 04:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-faces-new-lawsuit-from-ex-model-alleging-sexual-assault/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-hadnt-thought-about-a-drink-then-i-saw-the-pub-game-over-singer-songwriter-michael-head-on-beating-addiction-again/Tue, 21 May 2024 18:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-hadnt-thought-about-a-drink-then-i-saw-the-pub-game-over-singer-songwriter-michael-head-on-beating-addiction-again/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-got-the-energy-irish-childrens-rap-video-goes-viral/Mon, 20 May 2024 15:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/we-got-the-energy-irish-childrens-rap-video-goes-viral/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frank-ifield-obituary/Mon, 20 May 2024 13:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/frank-ifield-obituary/ On his final tour, the 80-year-old gives fans a slick but satisfying treatment of his pleasantly cheesy oeuvreThere’s jubilation in the air tonight. Tens of thousands of Manchester City fans file out into the Etihad campus in a sea of blue as they celebrate winning the Premier League. Moving in the other direction towards the newly opened Co-Op Live arena is a crowd dotted with pink fluffy cowboy hats and Barry Manilow T-shirts, as people flock to see the 80-year-old]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barry-manilow-review-mellow-master-glides-through-his-hits-with-grace/Mon, 20 May 2024 13:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/barry-manilow-review-mellow-master-glides-through-his-hits-with-grace/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-became-a-beacon-of-hope-the-incredible-story-of-stax-records/Mon, 20 May 2024 10:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/it-became-a-beacon-of-hope-the-incredible-story-of-stax-records/ Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. I grew up in New Jersey, so the E Street Band was how you were indoctrinated to rock’n’roll – they were the local heroes.The best song to play at a party
Livin’ on a Prayer because everyone else knows the words. How do I feel when I hear it]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jon-bon-jovis-honest-playlist-you-couldnt-help-but-learn-the-moves-to-gangnam-style/Mon, 20 May 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jon-bon-jovis-honest-playlist-you-couldnt-help-but-learn-the-moves-to-gangnam-style/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-admits-he-beat-ex-girlfriend-cassie-i-take-full-responsibility/Sun, 19 May 2024 21:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/sean-diddy-combs-admits-he-beat-ex-girlfriend-cassie-i-take-full-responsibility/ Letting rip with that still thrilling and propulsive voice, the Iron Maiden frontman performs an all solo material set – keytars, bongos and demonic laughter includedBruce Dickinson, as is well known, is a qualified pilot – and there is something of the captain preparing for take-off in his interactions with the crowd. “In a moment,” he instructs Glasgow, “we will commence furious jumping.” Then, as the riff to Dark Side of Aquariu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bruce-dickinson-review-metals-charismatic-star-indulges-his-goofy-side/Sun, 19 May 2024 15:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/bruce-dickinson-review-metals-charismatic-star-indulges-his-goofy-side/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-hawley-if-i-stopped-what-im-doing-the-songs-would-still-come/Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/richard-hawley-if-i-stopped-what-im-doing-the-songs-would-still-come/ The alto saxophonist leans into her soft and subtle sound with newfound confidence on this second albumWith the release of her 2022 debut album, Horizons, saxophonist Jasmine Myra became a breakout star of the UK jazz scene. Weaving soft and subtle alto saxophone lines through compositions that paired luscious harmonies with snapping rhythms, Myra showcased her skill as a composer rather than an instrumental virtuoso. On her second album, she continues to produce this gently insistent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jasmine-myra-rising-review-gently-insistent-jazz/Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jasmine-myra-rising-review-gently-insistent-jazz/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-myles-smith/Sat, 18 May 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-myles-smith/ Returning for their first concert since the death of Sarah Harding, old lyrics now have new poignancy – but with motorbikes and mic-stand moves, the mood stays upbeatEleven years have passed since Girls Aloud performed together as a five-piece for the final time, but adoration has endured in the interim – perhaps even intensified in the glow of 00s nostalgia. The group not only hauled themselves out of TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals, but then had 20 back-to-back U]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girls-aloud-review-a-glorious-pop-institution-still-calling-the-shots/Sat, 18 May 2024 12:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/girls-aloud-review-a-glorious-pop-institution-still-calling-the-shots/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lil-nas-x-who-do-i-most-admire-and-why-i-have-to-say-myself/Sat, 18 May 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/lil-nas-x-who-do-i-most-admire-and-why-i-have-to-say-myself/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/video-shows-sean-diddy-combs-assaulting-singer-cassie-in-2016/Sat, 18 May 2024 02:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/video-shows-sean-diddy-combs-assaulting-singer-cassie-in-2016/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/will-taylor-swift-provide-a-1bn-boost-to-the-uk-economy/Fri, 17 May 2024 15:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/will-taylor-swift-provide-a-1bn-boost-to-the-uk-economy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rhythm-nation-how-music-gives-haiti-hope-amid-the-chaos/Fri, 17 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/rhythm-nation-how-music-gives-haiti-hope-amid-the-chaos/ Twenty years after her solo debut, Lewis delivers a mostly sumptuous set of turn-of-the-millennium-style popWhen you have the main writing credits on two of the great turn-of-the-century British pop songs – Pure Shores and Never Ever – a follow-up is no easy task. Indeed, in 2004, three years after girl group All Saints announced their breakup, founding member Shaznay Lewis’s debut solo album, Open, felt a bit tepid.Two decades on – years encompassing motherhood]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaznay-lewis-pages-review-all-saints-star-returns-with-polished-second-solo-album/Fri, 17 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/shaznay-lewis-pages-review-all-saints-star-returns-with-polished-second-solo-album/ The former One Direction singer continues to intrigue with an introspective, acoustic-leaning set with more highs than lowsSince disembarking from the One Direction juggernaut in 2015, Zayn Malik has taken the path less travelled. His 2016 solo debut, Mind of Mine, housed the global smash Pillowtalk, but was followed by the 27-track concept album Icarus Falls. While his former bandmates have toured the world, Malik only recently played his first ever gig as a solo artist. This fourth a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zayn-room-under-the-stairs-review-nashville-produced-minimalism-suits-him/Fri, 17 May 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/zayn-room-under-the-stairs-review-nashville-produced-minimalism-suits-him/ Mercurial and moody soundscapes are infused with wistful romance in one of the Grammy-winning singer and composer’s most spirited records to dateFew singers can match the delicate warmth and quiet power of Arooj Aftab’s voice. Over the past decade, the Pakistani-American singer has released four albums that showcase her gossamer cadence in ever-quieter settings, from jazz to Sufi qawwalis and finger-picking folk. Her debut Bird Under Water in 2014 paired Urdu poetry with sita]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/arooj-aftab-night-reign-review-all-the-heat-and-mystery-of-nocturnal-life/Fri, 17 May 2024 09:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/arooj-aftab-night-reign-review-all-the-heat-and-mystery-of-nocturnal-life/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/world-domination-is-a-big-thing-for-me-pop-superstar-becky-hill-on-raving-to-the-top-and-her-new-albums-dark-past/Fri, 17 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/world-domination-is-a-big-thing-for-me-pop-superstar-becky-hill-on-raving-to-the-top-and-her-new-albums-dark-past/ Cult film company A24’s tie-in merch to its rerelease of seminal documentary Stop Making Sense sounds either like karaoke or disconnected from the source materialResponsible for indie hits like Midsommar, Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All at Once, American film company A24 has created a vast lifestyle brand around its cultish reputation, flogging everything from branded shorts ($48) to a Hereditary gingerbread kit ($62). Now, following its rerelease of Jonathan Demme&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everyones-getting-involved-review-tepid-all-star-talking-heads-tribute/Fri, 17 May 2024 08:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/everyones-getting-involved-review-tepid-all-star-talking-heads-tribute/ It was because of the cover. I was saying: “There’s a flaw in this picture, and if we blow this up it will get worse.” The record company started to say: “We’re leaving it. It]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billy-idol-i-stole-the-master-tapes-for-rebel-yell-and-gave-them-to-my-heroin-dealer/Thu, 16 May 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billy-idol-i-stole-the-master-tapes-for-rebel-yell-and-gave-them-to-my-heroin-dealer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jimmy-james-obituary/Thu, 16 May 2024 15:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jimmy-james-obituary/ On this deeply involving third album, Eilish once again breaks the rules for arena-filling artists: it’s subtle and understated, yet jars the listener with eerie show tunes and explosive noiseBillie Eilish’s third album opens with a track called Skinny. It features a hushed electric guitar figure supporting a lyric filled with very Billie Eilish topics: bitter recriminations about a failed relationship, body dysmorphia, depression and the pressures of fi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review-still-the-great-outlier-of-american-pop/Thu, 16 May 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-review-still-the-great-outlier-of-american-pop/ In the Portishead singer’s singular, astonishing soundworld, these songs sit in autumnal gloom but are occasionally dappled with warmth and lightNo one is ever going to accuse Beth Gibbons of over-exerting herself in the rapacious pursuit of fame: her solo debut arrives 22 years after her collaboration with Rustin Man, Out of Season, 16 years after the last Portishead album, Third, and 11 after it was first announced.In fairness, Lives Outgrown has a unique sound you suspect was o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-lives-outgrown-review-long-awaited-solo-debut-is-a-gripping-study-of-ageing-and-loss/Thu, 16 May 2024 12:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beth-gibbons-lives-outgrown-review-long-awaited-solo-debut-is-a-gripping-study-of-ageing-and-loss/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-megadeth-to-japanese-make-up-tutorials-the-bizarre-life-of-guitarist-marty-friedman/Wed, 15 May 2024 12:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/from-megadeth-to-japanese-make-up-tutorials-the-bizarre-life-of-guitarist-marty-friedman/ The Atlanta viral sensation enraptures tonight’s audience with molasses-thick vocals and bombastic emotion – though he’s a little one-noteLook at Teddy Swims, and you’d think twice before crossing him. The Atlanta, Georgia native cuts an imposing figure: leather trench coat, a face-consuming beard and a body overcome with tattoos, snaking up his neck and crawling on to his face. And then there is that voice. It hits like a tall glass o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-review-darknstormy-soul-singer-shakes-the-room/Tue, 14 May 2024 12:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/teddy-swims-review-darknstormy-soul-singer-shakes-the-room/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-think-its-going-to-do-well-the-zutons-on-valerie-and-mark-ronson-on-covering-it-with-amy-winehouse/Mon, 13 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-dont-think-its-going-to-do-well-the-zutons-on-valerie-and-mark-ronson-on-covering-it-with-amy-winehouse/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/riot-grrrl-pioneer-kathleen-hanna-a-lot-of-men-really-get-off-on-watching-a-woman-get-angry/Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/riot-grrrl-pioneer-kathleen-hanna-a-lot-of-men-really-get-off-on-watching-a-woman-get-angry/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/warren-ellis-on-steve-albini-mad-max-and-the-best-sandwich-whipped-cream-and-banana-on-white-bread/Sun, 12 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/warren-ellis-on-steve-albini-mad-max-and-the-best-sandwich-whipped-cream-and-banana-on-white-bread/ There’s no doubt the former Disney actor is a pro, but she’s also a deft, sincere songwriter who captures the viewpoint of a teen outsider to perfectionPop music made by child actors doesn’t often feature axe duels and headbanging. But tonight, during a song called Obsessed, gen-Z phenomenon Olivia Rodrigo, wielding an electric guitar, faces off against one of her guitarists, Emily Rosenfield, as the rest of the band build a grungy din around them.Pop vocalis]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olivia-rodrigo-review-shiny-pop-punk-with-real-guts/Sat, 11 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olivia-rodrigo-review-shiny-pop-punk-with-real-guts/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/will-oldham-on-steve-albini-he-elevated-the-quality-of-the-human-experience/Sat, 11 May 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/will-oldham-on-steve-albini-he-elevated-the-quality-of-the-human-experience/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-the-belair-lip-bombs/Sat, 11 May 2024 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/one-to-watch-the-belair-lip-bombs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/martin-and-roman-kemp-look-back-i-didnt-want-a-parent-v-kid-relationship-i-wanted-us-to-be-equal/Sat, 11 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/martin-and-roman-kemp-look-back-i-didnt-want-a-parent-v-kid-relationship-i-wanted-us-to-be-equal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beabadoobee-i-dont-have-time-for-death-threats-ive-got-a-mortgage-to-pay/Sat, 11 May 2024 12:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/beabadoobee-i-dont-have-time-for-death-threats-ive-got-a-mortgage-to-pay/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chaka-khan-someone-said-there-were-too-many-black-people-in-our-band-he-put-some-white-guys-on-stage-with-us/Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/chaka-khan-someone-said-there-were-too-many-black-people-in-our-band-he-put-some-white-guys-on-stage-with-us/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/steve-albini-obituary/Fri, 10 May 2024 19:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/steve-albini-obituary/ The Texan star transfixes with her crystal clear voice and flawless band, balancing airy verses on the healing beauty of nature with a dash of darkness‘Looks like you came to party!” teases Kacey Musgraves, radiant in a white dress and matching cowboy boots. With a gentle wave, the Texan country star tells us to take it easy. Tonight’s showcase for her introspective sixth album Deeper Well is all mellow magic – but for every airy verse about the healin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kacey-musgraves-review-sweet-and-salty-country-pop-magic/Fri, 10 May 2024 13:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kacey-musgraves-review-sweet-and-salty-country-pop-magic/ The veteran five-piece’s first album in 14 years has flashes of the old thrill, but doesn’t quite hit earlier heightsA thrilling live proposition since the late 1990s, due in large part to the stage magnetism of frontman Tim Harrington, the New York-based post-punk five-piece Les Savy Fav never quite managed to distil that magic into equally essential albums until 2007’s less abrasive, more melodic Let’s Stay Friends, before hitting a peak with 2010’s R]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/les-savy-fav-oui-lsf-review-new-york-post-punk-oddballs-make-restrained-return/Fri, 10 May 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/les-savy-fav-oui-lsf-review-new-york-post-punk-oddballs-make-restrained-return/ Beaming, big-hearted and benevolent, Guy Garvey charms with stately songs of heartbreak, unafraid of uneven time signatures and heavy-metal thudElbow looked for a while to be settling into a mellow, beatific serenity. Their last album, 2021’s Flying Dream 1, was a winningly gentle affair, its delicate tracks seemingly competing between themselves to be the most soothingly romantic. You idly wondered if the band were easing into a benign dotage.This impression was spectacul]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elbow-review-a-charged-night-of-insatiable-yearning-and-rollicking-laments/Fri, 10 May 2024 12:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/elbow-review-a-charged-night-of-insatiable-yearning-and-rollicking-laments/ The Nashville rockers still sound great, but their lyrics seem bereft of ideasCan We Please Have Fun is such a horrible phrase. It adheres to the Nashville rockers’ favoured five-syllable album title structure, if that’s important to you, but is prickly and passive-aggressive coming from four middle-aged men. Its intended message feels like inane boosterism given the state of the world; further proof of the quartet’s unending insularity. And why should rock be fun any]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kings-of-leon-can-we-please-have-fun-review-polished-but-tired/Fri, 10 May 2024 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/kings-of-leon-can-we-please-have-fun-review-polished-but-tired/ Bey’s latest, written in mourning to her rapper father Grand Daddy IU and featuring his voice, includes catchy dancefloor bangers alongside soulful odesNew York artist Yaya Bey should be far better known than she is. Her 2022 album Remember Your North Star riffled through genres from R&B to reggae with aplomb, packing in nagging hooks, easy humour, and emotional reckonings with exes and her estranged mother. While she was touring it, Bey’s musician father died. “]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yaya-bey-ten-fold-review-a-free-ranging-tribute/Fri, 10 May 2024 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/yaya-bey-ten-fold-review-a-free-ranging-tribute/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/full-of-secrets-and-promises-dusty-springfields-20-greatest-songs-ranked/Fri, 10 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/full-of-secrets-and-promises-dusty-springfields-20-greatest-songs-ranked/ The Chicago trio go back in time and dip into big-chorused Americana, slacker indie and vintage soul – all with real feelingChicago rock band Dehd’s music is two things: mercilessly catchy and meticulously camp. The trio’s biggest hit to date – 2022’s Bad Love – was a smoke machine-fogged rush of instant-singalong glam. Now, their fifth album arrives in a swirl of bratty pop-punk: opener Dog Days’ stop-start guitars accompany pouty p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dehd-poetry-review-a-sparkling-dialogue-with-rocknroll-history/Fri, 10 May 2024 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dehd-poetry-review-a-sparkling-dialogue-with-rocknroll-history/ In their album Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens the two musical soulmates impressionistically reflect on John Lennon, Albert Ayler and moreIn the 1960s, Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) became a beacon for artists seeking to play a new jazz that could often sound fiercely unfamiliar, but without losing the tradition’s communal vivacity – “joyous and pugnacious” was the Guardian&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/smith-and-myers-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/Fri, 10 May 2024 08:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/smith-and-myers-review-john-fordhams-jazz-album-of-the-month/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jonny-greenwood-im-still-arsing-around-on-instruments-like-when-i-was-a-kid/Fri, 10 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/jonny-greenwood-im-still-arsing-around-on-instruments-like-when-i-was-a-kid/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dennis-thompson-drummer-in-rock-band-mc5-dies-aged-75/Fri, 10 May 2024 03:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dennis-thompson-drummer-in-rock-band-mc5-dies-aged-75/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-and-sting-call-for-release-of-toomaj-salehi-iranian-rapper-sentenced-to-death/Fri, 10 May 2024 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coldplay-and-sting-call-for-release-of-toomaj-salehi-iranian-rapper-sentenced-to-death/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-debuts-new-tracks-as-she-returns-to-the-eras-tour/Thu, 09 May 2024 23:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/taylor-swift-debuts-new-tracks-as-she-returns-to-the-eras-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/spanish-investigation-into-shakiras-alleged-tax-evasion-dropped/Thu, 09 May 2024 18:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/spanish-investigation-into-shakiras-alleged-tax-evasion-dropped/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-cant-take-michael-bubl-seriously-mick-harvey-on-songwriting-staying-straight-and-survivors-guilt/Thu, 09 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-cant-take-michael-bubl-seriously-mick-harvey-on-songwriting-staying-straight-and-survivors-guilt/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-music-industry-is-smoke-and-mirrors-how-diy-duo-the-lovely-eggs-are-keeping-the-north-weird/Thu, 09 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-music-industry-is-smoke-and-mirrors-how-diy-duo-the-lovely-eggs-are-keeping-the-north-weird/ The Kentucky metalcore quintet cleverly channel pop – and even reggaeton grooves – to create an album of crushing intensity and vast scopeThe previous release from Kentucky metalcore quintet Knocked Loose was 2021’s A Tear in the Fabric of Life, a six-song horror story about a car crash that kills the driver’s partner, sending the driver increasingly mad with grief to the point where they dig up the corpse, have sex with it and then kill themselves to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/knocked-loose-you-wont-go-before-youre-supposed-to-review-hardcore-punks-dark-stars-go-supermassive/Thu, 09 May 2024 13:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/knocked-loose-you-wont-go-before-youre-supposed-to-review-hardcore-punks-dark-stars-go-supermassive/ The actor’s prog-metal spoof band with Kyle Gass hilariously skewer rock cliche – but come from a place of deep love for the genre‘Did anyone see Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny?” asks Jack Black, referring to their 2006 rockumentary. “Well, you didn’t see it in the cinema. No one did! It almost destroyed us.” The widely panned movie was indeed a box office disaster, but otherwise has been a rare blip on Tenacious D’s almost]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tenacious-d-review-jack-blacks-daft-duo-are-deeply-schooled-in-rock/Thu, 09 May 2024 11:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/tenacious-d-review-jack-blacks-daft-duo-are-deeply-schooled-in-rock/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coming-out-it-was-like-a-veil-was-lifted-indigo-girls-on-homophobia-hope-and-their-big-barbie-moment/Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/coming-out-it-was-like-a-veil-was-lifted-indigo-girls-on-homophobia-hope-and-their-big-barbie-moment/ Rodrigo’s second UK tour showcases a confident star at ease with all-out punk-rock and intimate pop alikeToilet sinks are streaked with purple glitter and lost hair ribbons decorate the foyer. Olivia Rodrigo has not yet arrived, but the Hydro already feels like a teen girl’s bedroom. On stage, Guts – the title of her Grammy-nominated second album – is spelled out by towering, melting candles. A soldout crowd, clad in homemade merch, scream when the T te]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olivia-rodrigo-review-raging-rock-opera-from-a-gen-z-powerhouse/Wed, 08 May 2024 12:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/olivia-rodrigo-review-raging-rock-opera-from-a-gen-z-powerhouse/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/drakes-security-guard-seriously-injured-in-shooting-at-toronto-mansion/Tue, 07 May 2024 20:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/drakes-security-guard-seriously-injured-in-shooting-at-toronto-mansion/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guitar-formerly-owned-by-prince-could-fetch-600000-at-auction/Tue, 07 May 2024 20:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/guitar-formerly-owned-by-prince-could-fetch-600000-at-auction/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-growls-death-metal-in-his-pants-the-eurovision-2024-bangers-to-watch-out-for/Tue, 07 May 2024 15:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/he-growls-death-metal-in-his-pants-the-eurovision-2024-bangers-to-watch-out-for/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-feel-super-gassed-lady-unchained-the-prison-radio-host-playing-inmates-raps/Tue, 07 May 2024 13:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-feel-super-gassed-lady-unchained-the-prison-radio-host-playing-inmates-raps/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/blood-is-on-your-hands-biden-us-rapper-macklemore-gives-support-to-palestine-and-campus-protests/Tue, 07 May 2024 13:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/blood-is-on-your-hands-biden-us-rapper-macklemore-gives-support-to-palestine-and-campus-protests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-bandmates-looked-like-escaped-prisoners-farewell-to-queer-punk-icon-gary-floyd/Tue, 07 May 2024 11:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/my-bandmates-looked-like-escaped-prisoners-farewell-to-queer-punk-icon-gary-floyd/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-truth-was-just-too-painful-the-highs-and-lows-of-mama-cass/Tue, 07 May 2024 10:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/the-truth-was-just-too-painful-the-highs-and-lows-of-mama-cass/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-thought-it-was-a-speech-by-kurt-vonnegut-baz-luhrmann-on-making-everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen/Mon, 06 May 2024 16:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/i-thought-it-was-a-speech-by-kurt-vonnegut-baz-luhrmann-on-making-everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen/ Talking through a brave career dating back six decades, the 83-year-old is singing much less, but when the hits come the magic is still thereIn 1962, 21-year-old Dionne Warwick sang the Burt Bacharach and Hal David-penned Don’t Make Me Over to launch a career spanning six Grammys and 100m sales. More than six decades later, the soul legend opens with it here – although at 83 her voice understandably sounds more frail and vulnerable, giving new and moving mea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dionne-warwick-review-fascinating-look-back-is-a-little-short-on-songs/Mon, 06 May 2024 13:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/dionne-warwick-review-fascinating-look-back-is-a-little-short-on-songs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/drake-denies-allegations-by-kendrick-lamar-of-underage-sex-and-harbouring-secret-child/Mon, 06 May 2024 11:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/music/drake-denies-allegations-by-kendrick-lamar-of-underage-sex-and-harbouring-secret-child/