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Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department — heartbreak inspires anguish, anger and a career highlight
...Its 10 predecessors are one-word affairs, excepting her 2006 debut Taylor Swift and 2010’s Speak Now. In contrast, The Tortured Poets Department is a mouthful, and one savouring of doggerel at that....
April 19, 2024
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Jlin: Akoma album review — experimental electronic music with input from Philip Glass and Björk
...Her acclaimed debut album, 2015’s Dark Energy, took this kinetic form in a more introspective direction. Yet it remained connected to a world of bodies and movement....
March 20, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
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Beyoncé rides into town with the revisionist Western epic Cowboy Carter
...The first was 2022’s Renaissance, about club culture and its overlooked Black LGBT+ pioneers....
March 29, 2024
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Kim Gordon: The Collective — between industrial music and hip-hop
...Their last album, 2009’s The Eternal, was dedicated to the memory of one of their idols, The Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton. This vein of sentimentality is absent from Gordon’s work....
March 6, 2024
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Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well — coffee-shop folk and a hint of psychedelia
...Musgrave’s brushes with the gatekeepers reached a peak with her last album, 2021’s Star-Crossed, which was rejected from country categories at the Grammy awards on the grounds it was too pop....
March 13, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign unite for Vultures 1 — chaotic, hammy, misogynist
...The 16 tracks are more cohesive than wilfully slapdash affairs such as 2016’s The Life of Pablo....
February 13, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
Robert Plant electrifies London Palladium with new band Saving Grace — review
...His singing on his most recent solo album, 2017’s Carry Fire, was tender and gentle....
March 18, 2024
ReviewMusic
The Smile — Radiohead spin-off’s hot streak continues with London gig
...Their current tour is in support of Wall of Eyes, the follow-up album to 2022’s A Light for Attracting Attention....
March 11, 2024
HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
The thrilling intensity of Lankum
...Peat reckons that 2017’s Between the Earth and Sky is hanging-free, but one of her bandmates recalls otherwise. “Oh god, there is one,” she acknowledges. Poisoning is another popular mode of dispatch....
February 23, 2024
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Can: Live in Paris 1973 — vivid tribute to one of rock’s best improvisational groups
...The wind was in their sails following their 1971 breakthrough album, Tago Mago, and its successor, 1972’s Ege Bamyasi. Suzuki sang on both....
February 21, 2024
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Idles: TANGK — shades of Radiohead as the band changes their sound
...Their previous album, 2021’s Crawler, introduced a sharper rhythmic edge to their music: it was made with US rap producer Kenny Beats. Now comes a bigger gear shift with their fifth album....
February 14, 2024
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Ty Segall: Three Bells — clashing riffs and a serpentine groove
...But the 15 tracks sit together more coherently than 2018’s similarly lengthy Freedom’s Goblin....
February 2, 2024
Letter
Letter: In insane times, we all need a bit of gonzo journalism
...The list of books on the US electoral system, as recommended by FT specialists (Life & Arts, March 23) inexplicably omits Hunter S Thompson’s masterpiece Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72....
April 5, 2024
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Usher: Coming Home — classic R&B marooned in the past
...But the sales figures have been on the slide since the immense success of 2004’s Confessions, which sold 18mn copies in the US alone. This is comeback time for Usher....
February 9, 2024
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Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da — of aloneness and refuge
...It looks back to 2013’s A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart, which Ryder-Jones rightly considers his best work....
January 12, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
ReviewMusic
Margo Price lights up London with storytelling gusto and punchy songs — review
...Songs from last year’s albums Strays and Strays II and 2022’s That’s How Rumors Get Started, saw Davis switch from twangy chords to wah-wah pedalled riffs and psych-rock solos....
February 1, 2024
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Yoasobi: The Book 3 album — frantic hits from Google’s most wanted
...“Shukufuku”’s blend of bombast and bubblegum is a rollercoaster ride: exhilarating, but you are glad when it is over. “Suki da” has key changes for each chorus, but otherwise dials down the maximalism....
December 29, 2023
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Peter Gabriel: I/O — an extravagant feast of an album
...I/O, standing for “input/output”, is his first set of new songs since 2002’s Up. Even by his standards, it’s a lavish undertaking....
December 1, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Live music and the rise of the ‘enormodome’
...era to the soul and jazz standards of 2011’s ‘Symphonica’ tour....
February 10, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Neil Young: Before and After — the musician brings new colour to his back catalogue
...“I’m the Ocean” swaps the pounding tread of the Pearl Jam-backed original, from 1995’s Mirror Ball, for muscularly strummed folk-rock....
December 15, 2023
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Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat — from Greek myth to Brazilian tropicalia
...It is her most straightforwardly enjoyable record since 2016’s A Day For the Hunter, A Day For the Prey....
April 17, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Culture chat — a Christmas music special
...I felt like those have become, felt like the 2010’s classic Christmas hit. [‘SANTA TELL ME’ BY ARIANA GRANDE PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos Can I tell you my least favourite song? It’s not....
December 15, 2023
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Madonna at the O2 Arena, London — an action-packed remix of her hits
...Longueurs included a tedious plod through “Justify My Love”’s cod-mystical remix as “The Beast Within.”...
October 16, 2023
InterviewMusic
Pete Townshend: ‘The Who were a very difficult band to create music for’
...Songs meant for Lifehouse were used in 1971’s Who’s Next, including the band’s signature anthem “Baba O’Riley”....
December 1, 2023
ReviewMusic
The Beatles’ Now and Then — ‘last song’ imagines an alternative future
...It mainly owes its existence to Paul McCartney’s mingled attributes of obduracy and sentimentality, although new machine-learning technology and the revelatory storytelling of 2021’s Get Back documentary...
November 2, 2023

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