Spencer Elden, who appeared at four months old on iconic album design, claims the image is child pornographySpencer Elden, who appeared as a naked baby on one of rock music’s most iconic album covers – Nevermind by Nirvana – is suing the band, claiming…
Kanye West formally applies to change name to Ye
Rapper, whose new album Donda is expected this week, previously announced name change in 2018Kanye West has filed court documents to formally change his name to Ye.In the filing with Los Angeles Superior Court, West aims to distil his full name – Kanye…
From Ghetts to Genesis, Nick Cave to Arlo Parks: autumn 2021’s essential music
From Fontaines DC to the Valkyrie, a techno Halloween to Little Simz, this is the unmissable music of the next few months Continue reading…
McCartney 3, 2, 1 review – the Fab Four as you’ve never heard them before
This bounteous feast for Beatles fans sees Paul McCartney dive into the back catalogue with producer Rick Rubin – who then does something truly amazingLong before their mop-topped world domination, Paul McCartney and George Harrison went hitchhiking. P…
Hunka Down, Survive, and Strutt With Landis Expandis
Baltimore DJ/musician/painter Landis Expandis may be hunkering down, but together with his clones Harry and Larry he reminds us that even in this pandemic, It’s Not the Same Day as Yesterday (YT). Expandis (real name Landis McCord) regards his latest …
Turnstile: can hardcore punk’s biggest band conquer the mainstream?
With their major-label deal and collaborations with Dev Hynes, the Baltimore five-piece are pushing at rock music’s boundariesAll music scenes have a splintering. In 1989, grunge fans were excited about Nirvana and Tad. By 1991 it was a different story…
The Hope
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections “Untangling these stories behind the story of Hatikvah is the core of this essay. For Hatikvah both is and is not what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an earl…
Please Don’t Stop the Music
Music Expands by byzantiumbooks (cc by)Algorithms are great *but* don’t go to any guilty pleasures or allow any other person to use your account, unless you want those choices feeding into it. I don’t know a way to come back from the pollution of one’s…
25 Playwrights and their Plays, 1700-1799
Mary Pix (1666-1709): Manchester Metropolitan University recently posted a complete performance (production credits) of Mary Pix’s comedy, The Beau Defeated (1700). The play was also adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the title The Fantasti…
Harmony, melancholy and the Everly Brothers’ indelible influence
From Neil Young to Keith Richards, a generation of musicians revered Phil and Don’s haunting music• US music star Don Everly dies aged 84Among the hundreds of hours of outtakes from the recording sessions that eventually became the Beatles’ Let It Be a…