And while Let’s Party About It is relatively brief – the ensemble’s eleventh studio album clocks in with eleven tracks at just over forty minutes – the LP still stands out as a celebratory affair and ...

Lead single “Flowers” was a ubiquitous smash, a Grammy record of the year winner, a reminder that when Cyrus wants The Single ...

This relatively obscure, nihilistic and resigned second album by a near forgotten Mancunian post punk group was released decades before the birth of writer Lina Adams in the early 00s; so why does it ...

As befits an artist who single-handedly revived the pork-pie hat as fashion accessory, Pete Doherty has a unique talent for spinning gold from the dullest ingredients. During his years with The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As Damiano David prepares to drop his debut solo album FUNNY little FEARS, the Måneskin frontman shares the unhappy place he was in when the creative process began, how much has changed since ...

and that’s one of the eight albums I review below. Over in Indie Basement, Bill tackles Billy Nomates, The Gotobeds, M(h)aol, Grails, Ezra Furman, and Artificial Go, and this week’s honorable ...

As such, jazz has always been a haven for ambitious concept albums, suites, and captivatingly inventive albums which explore a certain story. In that sense, Berlin-based collective Move 78 are ...

Yet, when she spoke to Rolling Stone this past February to announce her third studio album, Lethal, the 27-year-old phenom revealed that she was branching out past the wild persona that hip-hop ...

‘Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble…’ Long before Macbeth, the rough hewn landscape of Scotland has been spiritual home to the songs of the witches. Glaswegian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death this year has not received much attention. Only aged 36, Bizet had ...

The lack of acknowledgement of where things were left with the band after the Butler allegations haunts the album’s highlights and clunkers. The music is drenched in these and other contradictions.