7 d. ago KT Tunstall backtracks on lewd comments about Shakira’s She Wolf video: ‘Maybe I was jealous’

Scottish musician accused Shakira of ‘stripping off’ for attention in her 2010 music video

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2 w. ago ‘What I do with my body is none of your business’: musician Beverly Glenn

His music was ignored for decades. Now, at 81, he is collaborating with pop stars. He and his wife talk about his extraordinary life – and facing severe illnessWhen Beverly Glenn-Copeland was diagnosed with a form of dementia called Late two years ago, he was advised to stay at home and do crossword puzzles. He tried, but he doesn’t like crosswords, and it didn’t feel right. One day, recalls his wife Elizabeth, he said: “Honey, I know this is meant to be giving me more time, but I just feel like we’re not living a life. I have places I want to see and people I want to meet before I die. Since we have to make money, let’s make money doing what we love to do.”And so the couple, who live in Hamilton, Ontario, are in London, midway through a tour that is the latest chapter in Glenn’s extraordinary late-in-life journey from unknown musician to revered cult icon. It has only been 10 years since his indefinably radiant music was rediscovered (not that it was ever really discovered in the f...

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3 w. ago King Princess: ‘My music isn’t about trying on queerness – it’s about expert

After a break from music, the cult New York musician behind the smash ‘1950’ has returned with an album that is grittier and more personal than ever before. She speaks to Ellie Muir about the boom in queer pop, rejecting the ‘nepo baby’ allegations, and why she thinks it’s ‘deranged’ for billionaires to travel to places not meant for them

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3 w. ago Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne rally behind Yungblud after backlash over VMAs performance

Yungblud paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at this year's MTV Video Music Awards by performing a medley of the late musician's hits, but received some backlash from critics

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4 w. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Alan McMillan, musician and music teacher

Alan ‘John’ Rouen McMillan RGT LCM EGTA (UK), musician and teacher. Born: 3 February 1972. Died: 23 May 2025, aged 53

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4 w. ago ‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein

Drone albums, vampire plays, Charlotte Church duets the Londoner has an inspiringly odd CV. She explains how the disrupted experience of Black daily life fills her workThe ever-viral hip-hop video platform On the Radar has hosted freestyles from some of the biggest artists in the world. Drake, Central Cee and Ice Spice have each graced the channel with their presence, yet throughout its seven-year history, few acts have gone in quite like Klein. This time last year, the south London artist spiralled through a procession of evocative flexes, rasped through Auto-Tune over a mind-expanding loop of pitch-shifted wailing, then slung a black guitar over her shoulder to shred through a lacerating noise solo with a joyous smile.“People were trying to beat me up!” she says, giggling as she reflects on her appearance. “I was just being myself! Some people liked it, some people didn’t, some people hated it so much they would send me emails. For someone to feel that so viscerally as to send me ...

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last month Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

Bands such as Magma and Art Zoyd provided a soundtrack for the student protests that shook the country. Little remembered now, a new book reveals their decisive influence on later successes such as Air and Daft PunkThe seismic shock that May 1968 had on the French way of life has been widely documented. The student protests, which erupted at the Sorbonne before spreading around the country, hastened the end of the Gaullist regime, politicised French philosophy, and spawned a wave of radical films such as Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore.Much less is known – outside France, at least – about how the revolutionary ideas of 1968 expressed themselves in music. Australian musician and journalist Ian Thompson, for one, knew little about French underground rock when he stumbled upon a box of old vinyl, labelled “French prog-rock” on a pre-Covid trip to Paris. He was blown away. Continue reading...

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