Some filmmakers are interested in what happens in the physical world. SaiKiran Sunkoju is fascinated by what happens within the people who inhabit it. For…
The British folk music revival is the name for two main waves of activity that brought traditional song and dance back into public life: a…
John Peel spent nearly four decades on BBC Radio 1 turning personal taste into national discovery, championing punk, reggae, and electronic acts long before they…
Painter and decorator David Hall explains why he committed to playing the piano every single day for a year to overcome a creative slump and…
The 1995 chart battle between Blur’s “Country House” and Oasis’s “Roll With It” epitomized Britpop’s manufactured rivalry, a media-fueled clash of class and geography. This…
Sergei Prokofiev left Russia in 1918, six months after the Bolshevik Revolution. He was twenty-seven, already established as one of the most brilliant young composers…
Mylène Farmer turned 65 on 12 September. Her 13th album, Égrégore, arrives on 30 October, with a cinema premiere three days before.
Phoebe Bridgers’ long-awaited third album, Lost Weekend, arrived on August 14, her first solo album since 2020, and I personally believe it was very much…
Benjamin Britten did not discover Aldeburgh. The Suffolk fishing town had existed for centuries before Britten settled nearby in 1942, and it would have continued…
Katy Perry's Lifetimes concert film reportedly took about £21,000 in 150 UK cinemas. The verified context, a $134m tour and the economics of event cinema,…