Bo Burnham + Queen.
Therese Curatolo and the Scary Pockets crew (featured previously on the blue) bring you an incredibly satisfying mash-up of Bo Burnham’s All Eyes On Me and Queen’s Under Pressure. (earworm warning?)
All day long, all day long, on the chaise longue
Still looking for a song of the summer? Allow me to recommend Wet Leg’s debut single Chaise Longue, which a commenter describes as “like if Anne of Green Gables invented punk.” And if you’re still looking for fashion inspiration after that, their follo…
Kylie Minogue’s going home, but we’ll never get her out of our heads | Rebecca Nicholson
How could pop’s most glamorous star even consider leaving increasingly dreary Britain for a life in the sun?Kylie Minogue has revealed that after 30 years of living in the UK, she is moving back to Australia, the country of her birth. “I’ve had friends…
Finding Fukue
Three years ago, Canadian musician Jessica Stuart tried again to find a lost friend in Japan. The resulting twenty-minute short film about her quest is a touching story of brief childhood friendships that echo through a lifetime, the experience of bein…
Patti Smith review – communing with a rock’n’roll seer
Royal Albert Hall, LondonProtean punk poet Patti Smith, backed by a full band, is in expansive mood in a riveting, career-spanning showOne worn black boot on the monitor, her long, white, artist’s hands carving up the air, Patti Smith is a performer wh…
Tom Morello: ‘We came within a baby’s breath of a fascist coup in the US’
Lockdown and ‘looking after the grandmas’ may have kept the Rage Against the Machine guitarist away from recent protests – but he refuses to be silencedTom Morello has made more than 20 albums, as a founding member of Rage Against the Machine – the pol…
Roger Taylor: ‘My most treasured possession? A massive statue of Freddie’
The Queen drummer and singer-songwriter on former girlfriends, forgetting lyrics and liking red wineBorn in Norfolk, Roger Taylor, 72, is an original member of the band Queen, which formed in 1970. Their hits include Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You…
From The Addams Family 2 to Andy Warhol: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week coveredThe Addams Family 2Out nowHaving started life as a comic strip, the Addamses have come full circle with their latest incarnation in an anim…
Madonna: Madame X review – tour doc prostrates itself before queen of pop
This film lays out the impressive staging of a dramatic tour but is intent on capturing its subject from only the best anglesThis documentary opens with the old James Baldwin quotation about artists being here to disturb the peace, alongside a montage …
“Also would’ve accepted Nine Inch Oates”
Bill McClintock (previously 1, 2, 3) presents “I Can’t Get Closer for That” by Hall and Nails (NSFW).