The martyring of Elliott Smith
The indie-rock artist’s posthumous status as a “torment saint” is an ill-fitting reputation.
By
Music
Latest in
Music
At Hyde Park, Stevie Nicks is a powerful presence
The Fleetwood Mac singer is 76 years old – but she doesn’t sound it.
By
Discovering the real Modest Mussorgsky
Sweetened arrangements of his works ensured the Russian composer’s afterlife – but left him hiding in plain sight.
By
Pop’s gay revolution
How stars from Little Richard to David Bowie used their sexuality to set popular culture free.
By
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
Denied an audience with frontman Kevin Rowland, the author Nige Tassell asks the band’s army of musicians to tell its…
By
From the feral to the glamorous at Glastonbury 2024
Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
By
Dua Lipa’s spectacular Glastonbury set
The pop star won the diverse festival crowd over by giving her usually light as air, candy floss pop songs…
By
Taylor Swift’s Eras tour conquers London
At Wembley Stadium, the pop star presented a kaleidoscopic, whiplash-inducing spectacle that passed by in a blur.
By