Back to Black turns 20 as Amy Winehouse reissue unearths demos and a lost live show
A third disc carries a previously unheard live performance from Paradiso, Amsterdam, recorded on during the Back to Black touring cycle and never released in full on vinyl or streaming before. The reissue also comes with…
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Netherlands’ Prime Minister Rob Jetten says Berlin Pride attack is another ‘chapter’ of rising anti-LGBTQ+ incidents (EXCLUSIVE)
Speaking in his Attitude cover interview to coincide with his Pride Award win, the Dutch prime minister, who is publicly gay, said: “The LGBTQ+ community is under pressure.” Read next “We see it online every day with a…
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Bonobo And Nicole Miglis Combine For New Single ‘Talk To Me’
The electronic evergreen will release his new album ‘Distance In Static’ on September 11th, and it contains a number of potent collaborations. Nicole Miglis is an old friend, and the pair obviously communicate on one…
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From ‘old people music’ to owning the streets: 60 years of Notting Hill carnival and me
In its 1960s infancy, the event was strictly a Caribbean affair, transplanted to Ladbroke Grove as authentically as was practical. Its purpose was as obvious as its origins: giving Caribbean arrivals a chance to…
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Russian stadium says it won't host Kanye West gigs
In a social media post , St Petersburg's Gazprom Arena said no rental agreement had been signed with the concert promoters. "Accordingly, the concert cannot take place on our site." West would have been the first major…
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Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ To Be Re-Issued For Its 20th Anniversary
The London singer won acclaim and commercial success with her debut album ‘Frank’, a jazz-leaning showcase for her unique vocals. Follow-up ‘Back To Black’ took her a step further, however – partnered with producers Mark…
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Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too
In fact, when it comes to the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the life forms in question are less flesh-and-blood and more fabric-and-felt – as the series becomes the latest sci-fi show to embrace the…
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Soft Spot review – this wine-glass circus has a lot of bottle
But the wine glasses here – first six of them, then dozens – are used for acrobatic tricks rather than music. Stina Otterström is a handstand artist, Arttu Lahtinen is a juggler. Together, they execute a series of…
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Penny Lane Is Dead review – Aussie slasher comedy zips from Neighbours to nasty
There's a little too much blurriness around the edges, making relationships and motivations slightly opaque, while the last-minute entrances and exits are a bit on the haphazard side. But as a study of seething…
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Triage by Claudia Rankine review – how should we respond to the world’s atrocities?
"Unless it isn't." The pretzel-logic of this statement, its assertive ambiguity, sets the tone for a book that digs directly into the question of what we are to do with the idea of truth, when the world we live in is…
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