Music
Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025
Inaugural exhibition at new museum space will chart more than a century of musical development, from calypso and reggae to grime and drill
Aneesa Ahmed
01, Nov, 2023 @12:01 AM
‘Earliest known film of the Beatles’ to feature in Peter Jackson-directed music video
Director makes his first ever music video for Now and Then, the ‘final’ Beatles song combined from 1995 sessions and a late-70s John Lennon demo
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
31, Oct, 2023 @3:04 PM
UC Berkeley’s Taylor Swift class will examine her ‘enduring value’
Business school will offer a course studying the pop icon, following the success of her Eras tour and Taylor’s Version project
Guardian staff
31, Oct, 2023 @2:21 PM
‘My mother’s neurosurgeon loved Berghain’: producer Sofia Kourtesis on love, loss and her debut album
The Peruvian artist left her country for Berlin to be comfortable in her sexuality – then family illness took her back. She’s poured the turmoil into one of the year’s best dance albums
Dhruva Balram
31, Oct, 2023 @12:00 PM
‘We put his face back together again’: the groundbreaking show bringing Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life
Shortly before his death this year, the iconic Japanese composer worked on mixed-reality concert, Kagami – featuring new music, 48 cameras and magic glasses for the audience
Laura Barton
31, Oct, 2023 @9:00 AM
Taylor Swift becomes a 400lb pumpkin – and the star of Halloween
Installations across US include friendship bracelets and a ‘boyfriend graveyard’ , with fans spending hundreds on their masterpieces
Alaina Demopoulos
30, Oct, 2023 @6:46 PM
Livin’ on a Prayer! Desmond Child on writing bombastic hits with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and more
From Dude (Looks Like a Lady) to You Give Love a Bad Name, the great songwriter has racked up 500m sales. As he publishes a star-studded memoir, Child talks about being a gay man at the more macho end of rock
Dave Simpson
30, Oct, 2023 @5:10 PM
John Lennon’s murder to be explored in forthcoming TV docuseries
Apple TV+ said the three-part show will be the most extensively researched examination of the 1980 shooting to date
Aneesa Ahmed
30, Oct, 2023 @3:44 PM
RPO/Lugansky/Petrenko review – orchestra claps packed audience as transformation continues
A warhorse work from Rachmaninov and endlessly shifting combinations from Elgar showcased the Royal Philharmonic’s current form
Erica Jeal
30, Oct, 2023 @2:49 PM
Wunderhorse review – a band galloping towards even bigger things
Jacob Slater’s songs ring with compassion for reckless youthful misadventures, getting fans’ hopes high for an as-yet unreleased second album
Peter Ross
30, Oct, 2023 @2:39 PM
Baby, one more time: why Madonna, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift are all on a nostalgia trip
With retrospective tours, memoirs and rerecordings, three definitive US pop superstars are reclaiming their legacies. Why now – and is the past a trap?
Laura Snapes
30, Oct, 2023 @2:06 PM
‘I used to walk around junior school thinking I was Snoop’: Allan Mustafa’s honest playlist
The People Just Do Nothing co-creator was raised on 90s hip-hop and can do a convincingly nasal Billie Joe Armstrong impression, but which saccharine soft-rock hit makes him blub?
As told to Rich Pelley
30, Oct, 2023 @7:00 AM
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