45 h. ago The Wombats AO Arena review: Enduring band prove the spirit of the indie disco is alive and well

Lead singer of The Wombats Matthew Murphy declared Manchester ‘one of the greatest cities on planet earth’ during the band's AO Arena show on Saturday night

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4 d. ago Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review | Alexis Petridis’ album of the week

(Dene Jesmond)Veering from the standard heritage-artist playbook, Ferry pairs unearthed demos from across his career with cool narration from Barratt, to beautiful, unsettling effectThere comes a point in every august artist’s career where they’re forced to make an accommodation with their own past, a tacit acknowledgment that anything new they release exists in the shadow of their own back catalogue. In recent years, Bryan Ferry has done just that, tending his legacy via vast box set retrospectives of his solo work; reconvening Roxy Music for a 50th anniversary tour; and releasing a cover of Bob Dylan’s She Belongs to Me that seemed to discreetly reference the subtler moments on Roxy’s eponymous debut or 1973’s For Your Pleasure.Anniversary tours, deluxe box sets, slyly referential cover versions: these are the things almost all artists of a certain vintage and standing indulge in. But Ferry has also taken a more idiosyncratic parallel approach to his history. On 2012’s The Jazz Ag...

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5 d. ago Indie band Oracle Sisters perform spectacular Music Box session of ‘Marseille’ and ‘Riverside’

Paris-based indie-rock band Oracle Sisters stopped by the Music Box studio for a sublime performance of two original songs, “Marseille” and “Riverside”, both from their 2024 album Divinations.

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5 d. ago The Wombats Glasgow Hydro Stage Times: Gig set times, support, tickets, likely setlist and age restrictions

The English indie band have recently released a new album.

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1 week ago Indiana artist Stephen Wilson Jr sings ‘Deathcab for Country’ songs in Music Box session

Indiana-born, Nashville-based artist Stephen Wilson Jr dropped by the Music Box studio to perform “Kid” and “Billy”, both from his extraordinary 2023 album søn of dad.

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3 w. ago Noel Fielding jokes about doing shots with Prue Leith on stage at Kasabian gig

The indie rock band rolled back the years on Tuesday during a gig at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, in aid of charity War Child.

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3 w. ago Sports Team: ‘They pointed the gun at our tour manager... we took cover’

Fresh from a too-close experience of armed robbery in the US, the flamboyant indie band tell Mark Beaumont about their new album, America as the new Roman empire, and being on Louis Tomlinson’s mood board

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4 w. ago Who Wants To Be A Millionaire fans fume over 'easy' question after contestant's admission

Fans of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were left confused when a contestant, who specifically asked for a 90s indie band question, got an 'easy' one wrong.

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