The Killers’ “Imploding the Mirage” has a sense of a band scrabbling to find their identity
The group's sixth studio album has moments that remind you why they have made it this far, but it lacks personality.
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The thing I miss most is dancing: that rush of euphoria, all caught up in the thrill of the moment
Heaven knows when it will feel safe to be breathing and singing in a crowded space – the thought makes me…
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Inside the Southbank Centre’s “laughable and terrifying” mass job cuts and shift to “start-up” culture
Europe’s largest arts centre will look to further commercialisation to recover from the coronavirus crisis.
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The music press isn’t dead
The closure of Q magazine has highlighted a troubled media landscape and the serious effects of a pandemic on music journalism. But many smaller, independent music…
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Folklore reveals a more introspective side to Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album is her least radio-friendly work and her least autobiographical. But it is arguably her most…
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Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer: stately hymns for the age of the solitude
The musician’s isolated Alexandra Palace show resembled a private rehearsal or a post-apocalyptic performance.
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The many Beethoven myths
That the composer, whose 250th anniversary is being celebrated this year, overcame deafness to write the greatest music of all…
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Why we should mourn the loss of Q magazine
One of the founders of the music title on why it was “a thrill-ride at the front and a good shopping…
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