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Muse, Wembley StadiumSaturday, 11 September 2010
Some years ago I saw Muse playing at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. Towards the end of the show, at a climactic moment (I think it might have been during their proggy epic, “New Born”), singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy reached into a bag attached... Read more... |
New Music CDs Round-Up 11Saturday, 31 July 2010
CD of the MonthTom Jones, Praise & Blame (Universal/Island) by Adam Sweeting Reinvention is all very well, and indeed indispensable for any career that aims to last longer than a series of X Factor, but you can have enough of seeing Tom... Read more... |
Pink Martini, BarbicanSaturday, 31 July 2010
“You see! This is America! All races, genders and everything else blending together to make something beautiful!” This a quote from an American fan living in the Middle East currently on Pink Martini’s website. Thomas Lauderdale, the musical... Read more... |
Prince, Super Rock Festival, LisbonFriday, 23 July 2010
Travelling along at 140kph in a Mercedes in a police convoy on the wrong side of the road with Prince, and Portuguese fado singer and his new protégé Ana Moura in the front, plus the artist’s agent and Rolling Stones sax player Tim Ries, is pretty... Read more... |
New Music CDs Round-Up 10Saturday, 03 July 2010
This month's most interesting new music CDs according to theartsdesk music team includes a dark take on sex and consumerism by The-Dream, which is CD of the Month, "morally ambiguous" South London gangsta rap from Giggs, disco pop from Sia, Scissor... Read more... |
Canary, Hampstead TheatreMonday, 24 May 2010
One of the least lamented (by me at least) genres that has fallen foul of social changes in the past two decades is the 1980s gay drama. You know the kind of thing: right-on coming-out speeches, painful but ridiculous instances of homophobia, and... Read more... |
Singles & Downloads 5Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Quasi, Bye Bye Blackbird (Domino) The "Bye Bye Blackbird" on offer here is not the jazz stalwart favoured by everyone from Peggy Lee to Miles Davis. It is, instead, a garage guitar-pop concoction from perennial underdog trio Quasi from Portland,... Read more... |
Plastic People vs the MinistryMonday, 22 February 2010
Two London clubs currently appear to be under threat. The Ministry of Sound, one of the most successful brands in club music's history, is kicking up a fuss because new housing block planned opposite it may make it vulnerable to noise complaints.... Read more... |
Electronica 2000-9: Back to the Grass RootsSaturday, 02 January 2010
The received opinion is that the music of the 2000s has been characterised by fragmentation, discontinuity, faddishness and a lack of coherent identity. And while that perhaps is true on a macro scale, within underground music completely the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Tim LawrenceSaturday, 12 December 2009
Tim Lawrence is an author and academic, whose musical studies have led him from the dance scene of the 1990s to researching New York's disco scene – his Love Saves the Day was the first and remains the definitive history of the music, history and... Read more... |
Extract: Tim Lawrence's Hold On To Your DreamsSaturday, 12 December 2009
Linked to Joe Muggs' interview with Tim Lawrence on theartsdesk, this is extracted from the introduction of Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992. Arthur Russell hailed from the Midwest, yet felt at home in... Read more... |
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