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‘I was singing myself through the grief’: Feist on losing her father – and finding her voice
The singer was in a Covid bubble with her painter father and young daughter, but then everything changed. She discusses why she’s no longer willing to pull her punches, and explains her decision to pull out of a tour with Arcade Fire
Laura Barton
08, Apr, 2023 @10:55 AM
Indie supergroup Boygenius: ‘Anything that starts a fire in you is the stuff of life’
Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker are three of the best – and most obsessed-over – songwriters today. Ahead of a debut album together, they explain why they go to group therapy
Laura Barton
24, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
‘Mass murder makes money’: Mark Rylance’s campaign for a memorial to Iraq war protester Brian Haw
Haw, who died in 2011, camped on Parliament Square for 10 years, pushing for peace. Now actor Rylance is part of a campaign to honour him with a statue
Laura Barton
15, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM
‘It just feels warm and fuzzy’: how Hallmark built an empire of unashamedly schmaltzy rom-coms
In these safe and schmaltzy TV movies, the only thing bigger than Valentine’s Day is Christmas. But are the US network’s cookie-cutter confections beginning to move with the times?
Laura Barton
11, Feb, 2023 @11:55 AM
The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach on losing Richard Swift at 41: ‘He was just fun! Then, when he wasn’t, it was very dark’
As indie supergroup the Arcs release the last album they recorded together, Auerbach and Leon Michels of the El Michels Affair recall their late bandmate’s verve, spirit – and troubled inner life
Laura Barton
26, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM
Lucinda Williams review – dirt mixed with tears in an evening of consummate Americana
The singer-songerwriter leaned in to the precariousness of life as she paid tribute to lost friends, including Jeff Beck and Tom Petty
Laura Barton
22, Jan, 2023 @12:49 PM
Baths are pricier than ever – but they’re a luxury I can’t live without | Laura Barton
Britons are turning to showers as the cost of living crisis bites. But can you put a price on the soul-restoring magic of a soak? asks writer and broadcaster Laura Barton
Laura Barton
11, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM
‘There are so many unsolved murders’: the true-crime podcasters reviving cold cases
Mandy Matney’s Murdaugh Murders and Hedley Thomas’s The Teacher’s Pet have recently seen the subjects of their investigations jailed. But why are podcasts doing the work of police, and can the legal system keep up?
Laura Barton
19, Dec, 2022 @11:55 AM
‘You might as well be on the moon’: the authors taking residence in Derek Jarman’s home
Deborah Levy and Juno Dawson are among the writers and artists who have stayed at the film-maker’s cottage in Dungeness. On a rare tour of the property, Laura Barton hears how the project came about
Laura Barton
19, Nov, 2022 @12:00 PM
From vinyl to streaming: music writers on how they consumed the Top 40
Crying over the Spice Girls, recording off the radio and raging against the sales machine: our writers recount how they consumed the singles chart
Alex Needham, Alexis Petridis, Laura Barton, Laura Snapes, Tayyab Amin and Sophie Walker
18, Nov, 2022 @2:30 PM
‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to trauma dump’: Caitlin Rose on leaving her dark days behind
For nine years, the Nashville singer-songwriter felt desperately ‘stuck’. Now she’s back with a glorious new album – and, she says, it’s a hopeful gesture towards the future
Laura Barton
17, Nov, 2022 @5:00 PM
‘My heart is racing, I’m terrified’: Cat Power on recreating Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 ‘electric’ gig
It was the moment when folk and rock collided and Dylan was called ‘Judas’. Ahead of her show at the Royal Albert Hall, Chan Marshall, AKA Cat Power, explains the uncanny ways the musician has shaped her life
Laura Barton
04, Nov, 2022 @10:00 AM
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