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,…
By Alexander Stone The acid house phenomenon of 1988-89 transformed British youth culture, introducing a new sonic landscape from Chicago and igniting an explosion of…
By Alexander Stone Founded in 1958 at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, the Radiophonic Workshop existed to supply British broadcasting with custom sound effects and…
While the Fringe fills the Royal Mile with flyers, the Edinburgh International Festival runs alongside it from 7 to 30 August doing something almost opposite.…
Vincent Belorgey, who recorded as Kavinsky, has passed away at 50. He built a career on a ghost story about a driver and a Testarossa,…