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ReviewAlbums
Pink’s Trustfall is a catchy but risk-averse pick‘n’mix
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
February 17, 2023
ReviewArts books
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin — a self-help manual to unleash the musical artist within
...Acts — sorry, artists — with whom Rubin has worked over the past 40 years include Public Enemy, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jay-Z and Adele....
January 10, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBooks
The Philosophy of Modern Song — Bob Dylan’s world of sound
...Wisecracks are tossed out, such as this droll description of outlaw country singer Johnny Paycheck: “Like a lot of small men, he was wrapped tighter than the inside of a golf ball and hit just about as often...
November 2, 2022
Jo Ellison
Kanye West and the age of the unmanageable
...Lewis R Gordon is an American philosopher whose book Fear of Black Consciousness was published earlier this year....
October 7, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen — when reporters became the news
...One book, though, stays in print: Death Be Not Proud, the trailblazing memoir of grief that Gunther (with Fineman) wrote after the death of their son Johnny from a brain tumour, aged 17....
April 19, 2022
Film
Reggae on Film: from the streets to the dancehall to the screen
...Nightclubs and wine bars in mid-1970s London and New York often rang out with the Slickers’ “Johnny Too Bad”, Desmond Dekker’s “007 (Shanty Town)” and other numbers from the film....
July 26, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ObituaryCharlie Watts
Charlie Watts, ‘rock’ of the Rolling Stones, dies at 80
...He fell in love with the drums after hearing Chico Hamilton and taught himself to play by listening to records by Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and other jazz giants....
August 24, 2021
FT Swamp Notes
Competition and concentration Premium content
...The high value-added stuff, including R&D, would remain onshore. It didn’t turn out like that....
June 21, 2021
InterviewMusic
Tom Jones — ‘Let’s get back to reality’
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
April 17, 2021
From the apocalypse to the environment: the latest in gaming
Does cyberpunk’s vision of the future belong in the past?
...By 1993, Wired magazine was already running the headline “Cyberpunk R.I.P”....
December 9, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis: Ow! Live at the Penthouse — solos with purpose and poise
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
December 27, 2019
Life & Arts
FT Weekend’s family Easter quiz: join the hunt!
...Only two common words in English end G-R-Y. Can you name them both? What’s the English word for what Americans call a ‘sidewalk’?...
April 10, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Maren Morris: Girl — country pop but cowboy hat optional
...Maren Morris’s breakthrough 2015 hit “My Church” was a rollicking piece of country-gospel-rock that both celebrated getting in the car with the radio on, and name-checked Hank Williams and Johnny Cash....
March 8, 2019
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Scrabble, the BBC and ‘Game of Thrones’
...A Game of Thrones is the first book in which novel sequence by George R R Martin? The logo for Amnesty International consists of barbed wire — and what other item?...
December 7, 2018
ReviewMusic
Glastonbury taken by Stormzy, plus The Killers, Janet Jackson and more
...It was entertaining enough, especially an encore featuring the Pet Shop Boys and Johnny Marr....
June 30, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
America’s new redneck rebellion
...The last mayor of the town, Johnny Fullen, was African-American. “Johnny taught me history in high school,” says Wilma. “He was a good man.” Things changed dramatically in the 1980s....
June 27, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Steve Earle and the Dukes, Barbican, London — lift-off was eventually achieved
...Across two hours, he and the Dukes played country, hard rock, R&B, a bit of Celtic folk, and even ventured towards psychedelia on a version of “Hey Joe”....
July 31, 2018
The Life of a SongThe history of rock’n’roll, as told in the songs of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and others
Elvis Presley’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’: a breakthrough hit haunted by darkness
...In 1974 Cale was signed to Island Records, whose A&R man Richard Williams planned a promotional concert featuring some of the label’s artists....
July 18, 2017
The Life of a SongThe history of rock’n’roll, as told in the songs of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and others
‘Tutti Frutti’ — the sound rock’n’roll was built on
...Of those versions, the unfairly maligned Hallyday offers the best, tighteningit into coiled R&B....
September 4, 2017
News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
Joesley Batista leaves behind debt questions at JBS
...Last year, JBS generated R$170.4bn in sales and had R$46.9bn in net debt....
May 30, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Liam Gallagher, Electric Brixton, London — forceful
...The electrifying stomp of “You Better Run”, like a hard-boiled 1960s R&B band going punk, showed where Gallagher’s songwriting speciality really lies....
June 2, 2017
Life & Arts
Sundance Film Festival’s independent women
...But the cast includes Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and R&B star Mary J Blige, and Rees directs with authority — her future looks promising....
January 27, 2017
Life & Arts
The Life of a Song: ‘Wade in the Water’
...The first modern jazz recording was a swaggering arrangement by Johnny Griffin’s Big Soul Band in 1960....
October 11, 2016
The Life of a SongFascinating tales behind country and folk classics by Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and more
Ode to Billie Joe struck a chord in the America of 1967
...An atmospheric production that mixed country music with funky R&B, “Ode to Billie Joe” is an enigma. Its storyline is clear enough; some of the details are not....
July 1, 2016
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: By the Time I Get to Phoenix
...After kicking around fruitlessly at Motown, Webb’s song ended up with the singer/producer Johnny Rivers, who recorded it in 1966 on the album Changes, for his own label....
June 17, 2016

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