(Republic) Casting herself as a flower trampled underfoot, the superstar’s eighth album swaps the glitz of her Wicked years for dark blooms of haunted electronics‘Tell me who’s to blame?” Ariana Grande asks, exasperated, on...
Read MoreShe faced racist bullying as a child – then pigeonholing as an artist. Now following up a hit debut album championed by the A-list, the Croydon singer-songwriter says she finally understands who she really isIn October 2017,...
Read MoreTo coincide with a new exhibition in London about the Davies brothers, we rate the best of a band who brought a sociologist’s eye to hard rock, gentle pastoralia and so much in betweenThe quality of Kinks albums declined...
Read MoreSuing his record label and sick of being a sex symbol, the singer spent 1992 working on the Trojan Souls for stars including Aretha Franklin and Bryan Ferry. Now, newly released studio footage shows him in his creative...
Read MoreFour decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as directorThere has...
Read More(Atlantic)How do you follow up the album that made you a star – and a caricature? In classic Charli style: with a pivot to guitar and a meta masterpiece about the instability of identityAfter a decade spent trailblazing a unique...
Read MoreVersions of Amy Winehouse and hundreds of other musicians are generating millions for beleaguered UK venues. But what is the emotional toll for the imitators, and are they pushing out original artists?As peak heatwave sun beams...
Read MoreOlivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan and Morgan Wallen have all dealt with audience effluence in recent weeks – but that’s only one part of a fearsome subculture that has built up around fandom, endurance and ‘getting barrier’The front...
Read MoreThe soul-rockers achieved worldwide success before surprising everyone by deciding to quit while they were ahead. Now they’re back with a new album railing against the state of contemporary AmericaIn the autumn of 2024, Alabama...
Read MoreThe singer on struggling with the English weather, a secret celebrity crush, and her terror of tinned spaghettiBorn in Sydney, Australia, to an Italian father and Australian mother, Natalie Imbruglia, 51, joined the cast of...
Read MoreA Grammy nom at 17, a US No 1 … then silence. With new album Oh Yeah? finally out after four years away, the genre-hopping artist explains the trauma and heartbreak that informed itSince Steve Lacy became a Grammy-winning...
Read MoreThree years ago, the pop star was riding high after a sellout tour. But then a slew of shocking accusations from her former dancers changed everything. Where does she go from here?On 30 July 2023, Lizzo finished a 10-month world...
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