Britney Spears’s American horror story
The singer’s memoir of her conservatorship is full of cartoonish villains and medieval misogyny. But this isn’t a fable – it’s…
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Letter of the week: World leaders must show the way forward
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Landlordism is killing culture
Music venues, pubs and cinemas are struggling to survive under rentier capitalism.
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Bridget St John and the power of folk memory
At a magical gig in east London, I feel transported to Greenwich Village in the Sixties.
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Madonna’s greatest hits tour shows why she is still the Queen of Pop
Despite the lingerie and snogging, there is not much that remains shocking about the singer – except, perhaps, that she’s…
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It’s time to scrap the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This self-congratulatory country club of popular music is outdated and irrelevant – resigned to playing catch-up with our culture.
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Britain is scared of jazz
Ezra Collective is the first ever jazz band to win the Mercury Prize – lifting a curse on a genre…
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Corinne Bailey Rae’s radical return
The industry feared her new album, Black Rainbows, would alienate white audiences. She made it anyway.
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