Peter Blake's Sgt. Pepper's cover defined British pop art. Its triumph also created a perfect prison - a shadow the movement couldn't escape.
By Tessa Nolan “DC, Fairfax, wherever the f**k we are,” snarled Liam Gallagher, frontman of the British music group Oasis, as the final, swirling chords…
By Alexander Stone There is a specific, grainy quality to the memory of the year 1999. It is the memory of late-night music television, of…
By Sara Bright When Taylor Swift announced her next album would be released on cassette, the collective cultural response was a bemused shrug. In an…
By Maria Bregman, writer and music critic To understand the year 2000, you have to understand Fred Durst. To see him then, at the absolute…
By Sara Bright The Price of the Ticket The countdown clock is a crude instrument of suspense. A simple, descending sequence of numbers designed to…
By Tessa Nolan The face of Kirill Richter is on posters across London, announcing a concert at the Coliseum. It is not the kind of…
By Sara Bright Anastasiia Ledovskaia, an artist who records as Lemy, has secured this July’s Creativity’s Prize for Performing Arts with her track, “Boy.” The…
By Alexander Stone Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary frontman of Black Sabbath, has died. He was 76. His family confirmed the news this morning in a…
By Sara Bright There is an old, rather grim alchemy at the heart of pop music. It is the art of turning the lead of…