The Kaiser Chiefs frontman on The Voice, corporate gigs and a not-so-secret partyBorn in West Yorkshire, Ricky Wilson, 42, taught at Leeds College of Art before becoming the frontman of Kaiser Chiefs. The band’s hits include I Predict A Riot and Ruby; …
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Nigel Godrich webchat – post your questions now!
The Ultraísta member and Radiohead producer will be answering your questions at Guardian HQ from 2pm GMT on Tuesday 25 February 4.35pm GMT It’s been eight years since Nigel Godrich’s band Ultraísta released their debut album (we called it “a producer’s…
Read moreEverything we wanted: the race to find the next Billie Eilish
The search for ‘the new Billie’ is undoubtedly under way. But how will record labels attempt to replicate her success?Last week, Billie Eilish released her masterfully mournful Bond theme, No Time to Die – a huge swoop of a song that wants to bottle a …
Read moreSupergrass review – joyous return for one of the UK’s greatest singles bands
Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowIn a tradition of melodic, wild, witty British guitar pop – with a dash of psych and glam – the returning Britpop favourites make your face ache from smilingOne quality among many that defines Supergrass is their sense of hu…
Read moreTracks of the week reviewed: US Girls, Jake Shears, Grimes
This week there’s some anti-establishment disco, a summer banger (in winter), and a beautiful acoustic tearjerker Continue reading…
Read moreKing Krule: Man Alive! review – disgust, dissolution and despair
(XL Recordings)The south Londoner’s third album offers flashes of brilliance but is weighed down by a tone of gravelly gloom King Krule, AKA 25-year-old south London native Archy Marshall, has always let his work sprawl. His 2013 debut, 6 Feet Beneath …
Read moreSightless Pit: Grave of a Dog review – witchy trio unleash hell
(Thrill Jockey)The underground supergroup bin their guitars in favour of obscure sound-making – and conjure a gloriously hellish mood‘When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning or in rain?” That’s what you can imagine this decidedly witchy tr…
Read moreBest Coast: Always Tomorrow review – former slackers knuckle down in style
Concord MusicThe duo show why they’ve outlasted their beach-bum peers with a delightful study of reinvention and contentmentBest Coast emerged in 2010 as the faces of a California slacker wave that evangelised cats, weed, guitar and the beach, and not …
Read moreOzzy Osbourne: Ordinary Man review – his final statement?
(BMG) The elegiac lyrics on Osbourne’s 12th solo album stand in contrast with the off-the-cuff vibe of its musicGiven his recent tribulations – notably his diagnosis with Parkinson’s – it’s hardly surprising that there is a sometimes elegiac feel to Oz…
Read morePulled By Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways review | John Lewis’s contemporary album of the month
(tak:til/Glitterbeat)Seb Rochford’s new trio deploy effects-laden instruments to play sludge rock disguised as ambience. It’s … unique Seb Rochford is best known as leader of the post-jazz outfit Polar Bear and co-founder of the punk-jazzers Acoustic L…
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