‘The coat comes off after three songs’ … Pizzorno on stage in Manchester. Photograph: Myles Wright/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock AO Arena, Manchester As the band’s terrifying live performance’s new leader, Serge Pizzorno adds fresh funk and soft rock to the group’s signature guitar anthems The day before Tom Meighan was found guilty of abusing his […]
Lady Leshurr. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock The rapper and broadcaster of BBC Radio 1Xtra was detained on Saturday and will appear in court on Monday Following a confrontation on Saturday in Walthamstow, northeast London, Lady Leshurr has been charged with assault. Melesha O’Garro, a rapper, presenter of BBC Radio 1Xtra, and participant on Dancing […]
Get it on, bang a gong … Japanese Breakfast at the Hackney Church. Photograph: CPUK/Avalon Hackney Church, London Despite three prior cancellations, the composer and guitarist exudes an obvious sense of optimism Even the most famous independent musicians cannot claim to have ever had a year nearly as successful as Japanese Breakfast’s 2021. Last […]
Liam Gallagher performs at Knebworth in June. Photograph: Harry Herd/Redferns The singer tweets that the band’s brother is “a horrible little man” for blocking the use of their song at Knebworth 22 Oasis songs won’t be included in Liam Gallagher’s upcoming documentary, he says, because Noel Gallagher, the band’s composer, has forbidden the use […]
Marshall Jefferson performing at the Tresor nightclub, Berlin, 2001. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images More than a dozen musicians, including Marshall Jefferson and Adonis, are suing the innovative Chicago house label According to Rolling Stone, more than a dozen musicians are suing Trax Records, a pioneering Chicago house label, as well as Screamin’ Rachael Cain, […]
‘I wanted it to sound like that feeling of possibility,’ … Courtney Marie Andrews. Photograph: Alexa Viscius Loose Future, the Arizonan’s most recent album, sees the end of a “dark time” in her life and rebalances her longtime ties with songwriting and isolation Listen to Courtney Marie Andrews’ soul-searching alt-folk and country songs about […]
