Taking the stage four times in Madison Square Garden, enthralling the audience as she performed medleys of thirteen of her biggest hits, on the night that she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her body of work you might have presumed that the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards belonged to Rihanna. But inevitably you’d have been sorely mistaken, because Beyoncé was…
They scored a string of hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as the psychedelic 60s turned into the strung-out 70s, and in their birthplace of Canada they have received the prestigious Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and been inducted into the Music Hall of Fame. But dare to mention today some of The Guess Who’s grand achievements and at best people will reminisce on Lenny…
Frank Ocean’s sophomore album, the follow-up to 2012’s wildly acclaimed channel ORANGE, was first teased all the way back in 2014, but a July 2015 release date came and went without a trace of the new music. Fans were left with many questions and mouths agape, and it took another year for the murky picture to become spattered with more…
‘Oh, Dey’s So Fresh and Fine’ might be one of the lesser-known songs from Porgy and Bess, the 1934 opera composed by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward and George’s older brother Ira. In the shade of such timeless evocative classics as ‘Summertime’, ‘I Loves You, Porgy’, ‘My Man’s Gone Now’, and ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, ‘Oh, Dey’s So…
Anxious adults of all ages have surged on supermarkets in search of the sweet clementine, after the mindful mutterings of a popular relaxation app were surreptitiously replaced by the searing sounds of early krautrock band Can. In some parts of the world the rush has even caused a shortage of the Mediterranean citrus. It all started when a 40-minute mindfulness meditation track…
Somewhere in the depths of Chanhassen, Minnesota, within the basement of Prince’s Paisley Park estate, there lies a legendary vault, supposedly the storing place of vast hoards of music which Prince recorded but never released. Prince had Paisley Park built in 1988. A complex which served simultaneously as recording studio, live venue and rehearsal space, and as his home, he lived…
Inevitably the steady slumber of Kanye West’s video for his song ‘Famous’, the repeated inhalations and exhalations, the subtle grabs for the bedsheets, the settling oneself on pillows, the occasional whinny and snore, have been disrupted by louder noises of condemnation as the preeminent artist of his generation once more finds his way to the altar of controversy, and at the…
She wasn’t supposed to be here today. Back in the summer of 2007, as a fledgeling 19-year-old songstress without a record to her name, Adele – who suffers from stage fright and anxiety attacks – played in front of a handful of people at Glastonbury tucked away inside the confines of the Guardian tent, an experience she’d sooner forget than…
