
It’s time to scrap the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This self-congratulatory country club of popular music is outdated and irrelevant – resigned to playing catch-up with our culture.
ByThis self-congratulatory country club of popular music is outdated and irrelevant – resigned to playing catch-up with our culture.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByThe author on the hedonism of Britpop and the long shadow of his brother’s suicide.
ByThe queer pop band has two focuses: making music, and making sure success doesn’t turn them into “evil landlords”.
ByThe Canadian rapper’s boastful new book is merely a marketing tool for his music.
ByThe singer’s decision to release new recordings of her old albums reflects a bitter struggle over music rights.
ByShe began her career as a conventional, if self-aware, pop star. Her recent records are the work of a singer-songwriter…
ByThe band’s new album, like all their greatest work, is suffused with melancholy.
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ByIn 1981, the singer sensed his future fame – and retreated. Nebraska, his darkest and most personal album, was the…
ByEven if I hadn’t read the tabloid stories about the band’s struggles, they’d be top of my list in the…
ByThe pop star’s fans have their tricks and traditions to make a stadium gig feel as intimate as possible.
ByA Tory government in crisis, cargo trousers on trend and indie anthems everywhere – at the band’s joyous reunion show,…
ByNow our album is being released, I feel like I could cry at any moment – while reaching for the…
ByEd Sheeran is defending another of his hit songs in court. Why are so many songwriters accusing each other of…
ByThe conservative hysteria around pop music, sexuality and Satanism has a long history.
ByThe manufactured-yet-rebellious boyband exemplify the accelerated highs and personal lows of British music between the Millennium Bug and the smartphone.
ByRebecca Taylor’s empowering, maximalist pop comes alive on stage: this is an irresistible communal spectacle.
ByReleasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.
ByA new Channel 4 doc explores the media’s glee at the singer’s arrest for “lewd acts” in 1998. But in…
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