Music
Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe: ‘People make me out to be a loser when I’m not’
Notorious for their onstage brawls and their imperious frontman, the San Francisco band have managed to survive 30 years of drink, drugs and drama. We catch up with them on tour
Daniel Dylan Wray. Photographs by Peter Flude
10, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM
Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World review – a glorious blend of squalling guitars and introspective ballads
A quintessential YLT album – but this time, even as Ira Kaplan is wringing his guitar for noise, drummer/vocalist Georgia Hubley is turning down the volume
Michael Hann
10, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘It’s important for me to do’: Rihanna heads to the Super Bowl stage
Superstar singer is the much-anticipated half-time performer on the biggest US sports night of the year but what can we expect?
Adrian Horton
10, Feb, 2023 @7:22 AM
Paramore: This Is Why review – deft songs of millennial malaise
The pop-punk band have progressed from teenage bile to thirtysomething angst, expressed with agitated drumming, angular guitars, big riffs and heartfelt lyrics
Alexis Petridis
10, Feb, 2023 @12:04 AM
Burt Bacharach: an astonishing creator of impermeable classics and super-smooth pop
He was dubbed ‘easy listening’ but this was nonsense. His dazzling music, a result of classical tuition and nights in bebop clubs, defied categories – and made stars of soul singers, rock bands and mum-friendly crooners
Alexis Petridis
09, Feb, 2023 @9:19 PM
RPO/Petrenko review – dazzling Scriabin and spine-tingling Wagner
After a sombre opening, the ecstasies promised in the evening’s theme were reached with Wagner and Scriabin. The Royal Philharmonic and its new conductor are clearly enjoying themselves in this imaginative and accessible season
Martin Kettle
09, Feb, 2023 @5:42 PM
Burt Bacharach, master of pop songwriting, dies aged 94
Singer and performer, who wrote Walk on By and What the World Needs Now Is Love, died at home in Los Angeles of natural causes
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
09, Feb, 2023 @5:18 PM
Burt Bacharach obituary
Songwriter whose hits, including I Say a Little Prayer and Walk On By, became classics of easy-listening pop
Adam Sweeting
09, Feb, 2023 @4:03 PM
Bournemouth SO review – I’ve not heard Karabits and his orchestra do anything better
The Ukrainian conductor led his orchestra through a programme of Ukrainian and Russian music, culminating in a near perfect performance of Shostakovich’s Fourth
Andrew Clements
09, Feb, 2023 @4:02 PM
Schubert: The Piano Trios, etc review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
The late pianist is outstanding in these last recordings, accompanied by his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja
Andrew Clements
09, Feb, 2023 @3:00 PM
Weyes Blood review – spiritual road trip through Americana and beyond
The singer-songwriter’s secular hymnals and eerie psych-folk songs have an almost sacred quality when played live, leaving the crowd in a state of spellbound rapture
Sophie Walker
09, Feb, 2023 @1:12 PM
‘Brian Eno left a note in my zither case’: how fate intervened for ambient music pioneer Laraaji
The US musician has spellbound generations with his improvisational sound. He explains how chance encounters and listening to an ‘inner guidance’ has changed the course of his life
Stevie Chick
09, Feb, 2023 @9:41 AM
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