As the self-professed geeky rockers release their conceptual 20th album, Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson discuss dodging failure, being saved by fans and their obsessive creativityThe first song Rivers Cuomo wrote for Weezer’s...
Read MoreFrom feelgood romances to heated interactions, here are the films that best capture the seasonal momentLet’s begin at the end. 2 September 1962: the final night of the summer vacation; one last big blowout before adult life...
Read MoreClary’s back with Fully Dilated, a burlesque star called Entendre Entendre is doing lewd singalongs and there’s an A-Z of very dirty words. Our writer investigates Edinburgh’s smut outbreak – and ends up getting his own...
Read MoreOn its anniversary, the author of a new book about the album explains the complex legacy and masterful musicianship of the 1986 classicIt was the summer of 1984 and things weren’t going well for Paul Simon. The year prior, a...
Read MoreThere are 3,649 shows at the fringe this year, but how many embody its spirit of radical experimentation? I took a journey through foam, lube and gore to find out …Somewhere in Edinburgh, a man is drinking his own urine....
Read MoreDr Max Pemberton isn’t uncompassionate or especially radical, but he assembles a team of medics whose stance on the condition is clear from the off. This is a documentary that will incense and offend manyPresenter Max Pemberton,...
Read MoreThe Vampire Lestat has seduced fans around the world with his eye-popping antics. But this obsession with hot vamps goes way beyond forbidden love, bare chests and a taste for LSD-laced bloodIf you want TV audiences to forgive a...
Read MoreHow do you keep audiences gripped while cycling 27km per show? From the Australian recreating a Tour de France win to a ‘toxically positive’ spin queen, we meet the acts bringing Olympian fitness to EdinburghBlood and sweat drip...
Read MoreA vivid and hopeful study of how culture endures in the midst of extreme violenceTowards the end of her subtly piercing book about art in wartime, Charlotte Higgins recounts an autumn visit to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in...
Read MoreMany in the crowd watching on screen outside minster have stories of meeting or knowing singer, who died in JulyBonnie Tyler’s songs have echoed through her home town of Swansea in recent days in memory of the late singer, but...
Read MoreNext year’s competition won’t take place in the country’s capital, an announcement that even surprised Bulgarian winner, DaraEver since Bulgarian singer Dara was crowned winner of the Eurovision song contest this May, it has...
Read MoreWith a soulful sound and soul-baring lyrics, the Afghan Whigs rode the post-Nirvana boom to the big leagues. Their frontman explains his exploration of the male ego – and how Usher got the band back togetherThe Afghan Whigs were...
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