(PC Music)Abrasive techno and acoustic guitars collide on AG Cook’s second album in a monthLast month, the producer AG Cook released his debut album; a 49-track, seven-disc brain dump called 7G. After years honing his synthetic, plastic fantastic stran…
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Drag star Diane Chorley hits the big time: ‘Death threats didn’t stop me’
As the ‘Duchess of Canvey’ releases a greatest hits album, her creator relives an extraordinary journey from Southend to the West End via schoolteaching and Ibiza superclubs‘Diane is based around the strong women I knew when I was growing up,” says Dav…
Read moreAlicia Keys: Alicia review – classic and contemporary
Some fine collaborations enliven the soul singer’s most personal set so far (RCA)Following the publication of her memoir in March, Alicia Keys’s seventh album comes from a more personal place than her previous sets. Some tracks are a little beige and m…
Read morePatti Smith: ‘I feel the unrest of the world in the pit of my stomach’
The rock star and poet on solitude, her lifelong friend Sam Shepard, and writing her latest memoirPatti Smith, rock star, poet, visual artist and writer, won the 2010 National book award with her memoir Just Kids. The Year of the Monkey, her moving pos…
Read moreWhat’s the story with Britpop and Covid denial? | Stewart Lee
If the government can’t be bothered with the law, Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown shouldn’t be expected to care eitherOn Monday, the Oasis pop star Noel Gallagher announced his suspicion of masks: “If I get the virus it’s on me, it’s not on anyone else… i…
Read moreA Swayze and the Ghosts: Paid Salvation review – a faultless debut
(Rough Trade)Angry, tuneful and woke – this Tasmanian punk band dazzle on all countsNo one turns to garage punk for its compositional originality. The genre’s evergreen swagger rarely fails to supply uplift, however, and newcomers A Swayze and the Ghos…
Read moreExpress yourself: why Madonna wants to tell her own life story
The material girl is to write and direct her own biopic, but fans will want to see the struggles as well as the triumphs“It’s essential to share the rollercoaster ride of my life with my voice and my vision,” Madonna said when it was announced by Unive…
Read moreWe miss you, Jimi Hendrix. You were greater than ‘God’
Fifty years after the guitarist’s death, his discordant, soulful music remains extraordinaryIt’s a defining moment in the story both of rock and of black expression. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock 1969, finishing his set by deconstructing The Star-Spangled …
Read moreEcstasy: The Battle of Rave review – top one, nice one, sorted
A history of UK acid house and rave recreates the scene’s drug-fuelled intensity, despite the BBC’s ‘newshound’ approachEcstasy: The Battle of Rave (Radio 5 Live) | BBC Sounds Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave is not your usual hands-aloft-blow-yer-whistle-r…
Read moreRóisín Murphy: ‘In my pregnancy I was fed like a goose being fattened up’
The singer-songwriter talks about her mum’s proper dinners, the horror of andouillette, and working on an empty stomachI don’t worry about getting food on my clothes. I don’t have any respect for my clothes once I’m wearing them. But I do really like d…
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