The country singer, 74, recalls the inspirational power of Joan Baez and American folk – and the lessons dogs can teach usJust after I started high school, there was the Cuban missile crisis, so I wasn’t sure if the world was going to be around much lo…
‘Not just a drummer – a genre’: Stewart Copeland and Max Weinberg on Charlie Watts
The Police and Bruce Springsteen drummers share memories of their late Rolling Stones counterpart, explaining his technical brilliance, his verve – and his clothes-folding skillsI’m an early-period Stones fan, and not so much because of losing interest…
Shibe/Giunta/Walker; ASMF/Bell review – Piazzolla up close and personal
Cadogan Hall; Royal Albert Hall, LondonTwo proms celebrated the rich music of Astor Piazzolla in contrasting but illuminating waysThe centenary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth falls this year, an anniversary marked by a pair of Proms, notably different in t…
Big Red Machine: How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
(Jagjaguwar)Aaron Dessner and Justin ‘Bon Iver’ Vernon recruit Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes and more for this album full of misty autumnal beauty – and a quiet punchAaron Dessner cuts a very low-profile figure, even by the standards of both bookish US alt…
‘I’m a one in a billion’ – how Diane Warren penned windswept power ballads for Cher, Gaga and Dion
She’s the queen of the power ballad mega hit – and has even written songs for Biden, Harris and Ringo Starr. Now the world’s most successful female songwriter is finally releasing her own albumAt the end of the 1990s, when Diane Warren was the unrivall…
「おわりの音楽」 から10年、音楽は変われたのか？ ゲスト：渋谷慶一郎（音楽家）［音声配信］
2020年に公開された『ミッドナイトスワン』で第75回毎日映画コンクール音楽賞を受賞し、今夏に新作オペラ『Super Angels』の世界初演を迎えた音楽家・渋谷慶一郎。『WIRED』でも「コロナの中のピアノと音楽」という連載をもつ彼は、2011年に「おわりの音楽 —音楽は変わらなければならない—」と題した「3.11以降の音楽」についてのエッセイも寄稿している。それから10年、混迷の社会における音楽（家）の役割を渋谷に訊いた。
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How John Cage, the great disrupter, had the last laugh – by writing beautiful music
Late in life, maverick composer Cage decided to stop finding ‘alternatives to harmony’. The results have been rediscovered by a new generation of musiciansIn the summer of 1990 John Cage gave a lecture at the International New Music gathering in Darmst…
Sam Fender: ‘Leftie is now a slur in working-class towns’
In a brutally honest interview ahead of his stunning second album, the Tyneside chart-topper discusses politics, family, fame and mental healthIn 2011, Sam Fender was, by his own admission, “a little stoner” who had flunked out of his A-Levels in his h…
Charlie Watts: a rock’n’roll legend whose true love was jazz
He may have backed the world’s most successful rock band, but the late drummer worshipped his jazz heroes through big bands and other projectsEveryone knew that Charlie Watts’s heart was always in jazz. Even when he grew his hair long and put on hippie…
Bloodthirsty review – a beast-within horror film puts gore front and centre
Released soon after Amelia Moses’ intriguing feature debut Bleed With Me, this is a far more camp and cliched workFollowing quickly on the heels of the intriguing Bleed With Me, released in the UK just a couple of weeks ago, this beast-within horror fi…