Music
Coachella 2025 lineup: Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott to headline in April | Coachella
Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott will headline Coachella 2025. Scott, whose prominent billing comes with the description “designs the desert”, will reportedly design an immersive experience called CatcusCon, Rolling Stone reported, and will perform after Green Day’s set on the Saturday nights. His appearance at Coachella comes five years after his […]
This Composer Created An Entire Week-Long Piece Specifically For People’s Living Rooms
“Drawing from a bank of over 7,000 ‘musical shapes, textures and gestures,’ as (Michael) Schumacher describes the mix of sampled audio, field recordings and musical fragments, Living Room Pieces assembles the sounds into 301 ‘modules’ and algorithmically arranges their playback through seven ‘modes,’ one for each day.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link
‘I was really not OK’: Bladee on PTSD, Charli xcx and being struck by lightning | Music
As one quarter of the Swedish underground-ish rap collective Drain Gang, Bladee (pronounced Blade) spent his 20s on the frontlines of a hyper-online youth culture. But as his 30th birthday loomed, the musician born Benjamin Reichwald started to sweat. His anxiety about ageing, a serious depressive spell, and the mixed reception to his latest album, […]
How You Leave The Christian Music Industry Without Losing Your Career
“Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic music for corporate, if not religious, worship.” – Seattle Times (AP) Source link
Waxahatchee: ‘Charli XCX is a genius. She’s the coolest person ever’ | Music
You have a identical twin. Do you have any spooky twin stories? Honestly, not really. We’re deeply intuitive about each other. We are mirror twins, which is – like, it’s not really recognised in the medical community, but my mom always tells me about it. It’s when the egg splits at the last possible moment, […]
THE SCOOP | The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Announces Its Return From Bankruptcy
The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony (Photo courtesy of Musicians of the KW Symphony) After declaring bankruptcy just over a year ago in September 2023, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) has announced a resumption of operations, renewing a legacy that’s almost eight decades old. The bankruptcy has been formally annulled by the approval by the Superior Court of […]
A forest of questions: take our quiz on the Cure! | The Cure
It is a wonderful week for those of us with a gothic persuasion. Not only is it Halloween on Thursday, but on Friday we’ll be in love as the Cure unveil their first new album for 16 years – Songs of a Lost World. Why not whet your appetite with our fiendishly difficult quiz about […]
Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons
One of the most controversial figures in music of the 20th century is Rosemary Brown, who died in 2001 at age 85. She was a British composer who claimed she had contact with the spirits of a number of high-profile composers of western classical music. Brown produced approximately 300 musical pieces in a variety of […]
Bossing it: first photo of Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen | Movies
The first photo of The Bear star Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in a forthcoming biopic has been released as shooting begins on the project, titled Deliver Me from Nowhere. In the shot, White is seen slightly hunched in classic Springsteen pose, complete with red plaid shirt, unruly hair and hands shoved in the […]
Ten Years After An Aborted Shutdown, San Diego Opera Announces Ambitious Five-Year Expansion Plan
“How ambitious? It will require raising an additional $10.5 million over the next five years to fund the expansion of live performances; the re-establishment of the resident artist program; the commissioning of new operas; the reimagining of its audience engagement programs, and more.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN) Source link
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’ | The Cure
The Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band is serenely defied – maybe due to a diet rich in red wine, combined with a dogged aversion to modernity. Band leader Robert Smith does not own a smartphone; the […]
“The Worst Insult I Ever Heard As An Opera Singer” (A Letter To The Atlantic’s Advice Column)
“Recently, I was playing guitar and singing a cute little country ditty that required no vocal skill. My sister-in-law, who was listening, exclaimed, ‘That was so beautiful. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard your real voice.’ She’s been hearing me sing for 40 years.” – The Atlantic (MSN) Source link
‘The most important DJ in the UK’? Live streamer takes music to streets | Music
DJ AG knew he was on to something after Daddy Freddy’s performance. The DJ, real name Ashley Gordon, has garnered more than 385,000 followers by doing something incredibly simple: playing music outside and allowing people to perform alongside him while he livestreams the results. When Daddy Freddy approached him in Brixton, he did not know […]
Philharmonic finds new concert home in historic downtown building
The San Antonio Philharmonic has entered into a partnership with the Scottish Rite building downtown, which will become the orchestra’s home venue for concerts. The move was celebrated Thursday morning with a signing ceremony attended by orchestra leadership and musicians, Scottish Rite leadership, Philharmonic donors and members of the media. Having co-ownership in the building […]
‘It romanticised my night!’ The R&B slow jam events making Black British clubbers swoon | R&B
It’s just past 5pm in West Silvertown, a random-feeling stop on the DLR line in east London’s docklands. It’s not the sexiest time or location, but as my friend and I step inside a nightclub, The Cause, a crowd is singing along to Joe’s outrageously horny 1996 hit All The Things (Your Man Won’t Do). […]
Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’ | Classical music
Born in 1966 in Lower Saxony and brought up in Bedford, Max Richter is an award-winning classical composer. Working across live performance, film, dance, art and fashion, he has released nine solo albums, including 2015’s Sleep, an eight-and-a-half-hour work based on the neuroscience of sleeping; 2020’s Voices, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; […]
Liam Payne autopsy shows star died of multiple injuries sustained in fall | Liam Payne
Liam Payne died of multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian prosecutor’s office has said. An autopsy showed that the pop star’s head injuries were sufficient to cause death. An investigation – including the interview of five witnesses in an attempt […]
Minnesota Sinfonia orchestra, conductor Jay Fishman say goodbye
“Physically and emotionally, I’m drained,” said Jay Fishman recently over lunch at a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. Fishman was explaining why he plans to retire this month after 36 years as artistic director and conductor of the Minnesota Sinfonia, an ensemble of 26 professional freelance musicians whose innovative Music in the Schools program over the […]
‘Height of blasphemy’: Rufus Wainwright and Leonard Cohen estate oppose Trump use of Hallelujah | Music
The estate of Leonard Cohen has issued a cease and desist order to Donald Trump, after a recording of Rufus Wainwright singing Cohen’s song Hallelujah was played at a bizarre campaign event. Wainwright has also condemned Trump’s use of the song at the town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The singer characterised Hallelujah as “an anthem […]
A Revisionist History Of Music File Sharing And The Music Industry Response
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath. But then the industry realized that David was actually pretty cool: All turned out well, and music was solved forever. – The New York Times Source link
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough review – a book built on grief | Autobiography and memoir
What to expect from Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir? Some sanitised, cagey reminiscences, dutifully studded with anecdotes about her father, Elvis, the king of rock’n’roll, who died aged 42 in 1977? Instead, it’s a warts and all jaw-dropper. The marriages (including Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage). The drugs (Lisa Marie spiralled into opioid addiction after a […]
The Long View | Gardiner’s farcical comeback shames us all
Florence Lockheart Friday, October 11, 2024 Andrew Mellor argues that allowing the disgraced conductor to gazump his former ensembles is a damning indictment of our industry’s unwillingness to change © Sim Canetty-Clarke Don’t miss out on our dedicated coverage of […]
With a ‘Ring,’ the Dallas Symphony Becomes a Wagner Destination
Richard Wagner conceived his four-opera “Ring” as a Gesamtkunstwerk: a marriage of poetry and music, for voices and orchestra, with coordinated sets, costumes and action. It’s a huge, expensive challenge even for top opera companies, calling for powerful singers, an accomplished conductor and orchestra, and a stage director and designer who can enliven a convoluted […]
Dance into the fire! Duran Duran’s 20 greatest songs – ranked | Duran Duran
20. (Reach Up for the) Sunrise (2004) The first Duran Duran single in 19 years to feature all five members of their classic early 80s lineup updated their sound with a house beat courtesy of producer Jason Nevins. It’s hard not to be swayed by its ebullient optimism: like the reunion itself, it was fun […]
Conductor on His Big Move
On a balmy recent August evening, Gustavo Dudamel strode onto the stage of the Hollywood Bowl wearing a huge golden gauntlet on his left hand. He wouldn’t get to use it. Dudamel is dramatic, but he’s no comic book villain; he’s the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he was there to conduct […]
‘Look at this. We are back’: the impossible return of French touch titans Cassius | Music
It shouldn’t have been a surprise to see Hubert Blanc-Francard, better known as Boombass, during the Paralympics closing ceremony. It promised “an odyssey through French electronic music” and Blanc-Francard was behind some of the country’s most celebrated dance records of the last 30 years, as a key figure in the scene that became known as […]
Yannick pannick – parterre box
As if this was insufficient good news to merit a press release, the announcement provided enticing details on future productions, Met premieres, and upcoming roles for Lise Davidsen. The announcement also noted that the Maestro would be conducting four or five operas per season over the course of his contract. When he was first named […]
Author Geoff Dyer on Bob Dylan: ‘The songs pour off his records like they’re written in my soul from him to me’ | Bob Dylan
It’s Dylan season again! The European leg of his tour kicked off in Prague on Friday and arrives in the UK on 1 November, climaxing with three nights at the Albert Hall. The latest official Bootleg release, meanwhile, comprises 27 CDs thoroughly documenting – to put it mildly – his raucous 1974 North American tour […]