What happened when Mark-Anthony Turnage brought R&B to the conservative hallows of the BBC Proms? It began with a bang: skirling woodwind and dissonant brass fury. Nothing that uncommon for a BBC Proms world premiere. But then audience members at the Royal Albert Hall last Thursday suddenly sat up. Some ...
The lampshade-wearing singer reveals a new song about the toils of being a global pop phenomenon Of the few things we know about Lady Gaga, we can be sure of the following: she has been on the road a fair bit over the past year; her songs can be heard ...
A divide has formed at Leeds – great new music in the tents (Foals! Wild Beasts!) and tired old relics on the main stage, including Limp Bizkit and Blink 182. Now, who’s for yet another song about masturbation? Pictures from Reading and Leeds 2010Follow our live tweets from the festival ...
This week, the podcast team have slapped on their baseball caps, William Hague style, and are sipping from a coconut in preparation for this weekend’s Notting Hill carnival. We meet DJ Norman Jay (MBE) who tells us about his favourite carnival memories and how his life changed after the riots ...
Betting shops, industrial estates and plenty of sultry looks … we are as far away from the Pipettes as possible Two years ago, Rose Elinor Dougall was one third of 50s throwbacks the Pipettes. Having ditched the polka-dot dresses and arched eyebrows, Dougall is readying her charming debut solo album, ...
They’re back together again … and in the era of the Brokeback Coalition, here is a homoerotic take on Robbie and Gary’s patched-up relationship It’s the moment some feared would never happen while others feared it would. Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are singing together on a song taken from ...
A barrier has been erected between music fans and the writings of Pete Paphides. Is this the future? Or the equivalent of a polythene wrapper? Plus, we take a walk along the Wire In recent months, much has been made of Times Newspapers’ pioneering erection of a pecuniary barrier between ...
‘It’s all about the fans,’ tweets rapper, even though whether the tracks will be his own or from his GOOD Music label is unclear Kanye West has pledged to leak 18 new songs before the end of the year, releasing a new track every weekend until Christmas. Dubbed “good Fridays”, ...
Raw emotions. Searing pain. An extremely gory video. It’s time to let the good times roll … This Brighton-based trio might have a moniker that brings to mind a lost CS Lewis novel, but the music they make has less to do with speaking lions and worlds behind wardrobes than ...
This week’s Music Weekly begins with the man behind two of the biggest No 1 singles this year; producer Alex Da Kid. The former Thames Valley University student is currently studio-bound in Los Angeles, but he found time to discuss his role in Eminem’s Love the Way You Lie and ...