STUDIES show which songs you should never listen to on a flight and why. Music can impact our mood in many ways, depending on its speed. 3 Bilie Eilish has a song on the best and worst list of songs to listen to when flying 3 One of Gracie Abrams’ songs is on the list … Read more
DEPECHE Mode keyboard player Andy Fletcher left almost £50million in his will – including £15,000 for a giant remembrance booze-up. The 80s synth music great, who died at just 60 in May 2022, bequeathed most of the mammoth sum to wife Grainne and two children. 4 Andrew Fletcher was a founding member of the electronic … Read more
In 2013, a mysterious producer named Sophie released “Bipp,” a minimalist club track that sounded like it had been formed on another planet and squeezed through hyperdrive before arriving on ours. “Bipp” was black space latticed with radically strange objects: a rubbery squelch of a bass beat, a melodic line like a laser coated in … Read more
WHEREVER you look in Belfast, history looms large. The Troubles, its shipbuilding industry, pubs and folk music. But it’s also a place that’s unmistakably modern – there’s the TV and film industry where Game of Thrones was produced, exotic new restaurants and even a Pride parade the weekend I visited. 10 The Titanic Hotel is … Read more
On a steamy afternoon in the middle of June, I met the twenty-five-year-old singer and guitarist MJ Lenderman for beers at Old Town Bar, a dim and unfussy Manhattan tavern that’s been in more or less continuous operation since 1892. Though Old Town is revered for its turn-of-the-century atmosphere—the fifty-foot mahogany bar, the rickety dumbwaiter … Read more
SEVEN people have been killed and dozens more injured after they were crushed to death during a stampede at a music concert. They were attending the event in Congos capital city before disaster struck on Saturday, authorities said. 1 Seven people were killed during a stampede at a music concert in Congo The stampede occurred … Read more
TRNSMT fans were left shocked after BBC star Martin Compston stormed Example’s headline act and screams ‘f*** Glastonbury’ as he declared Scottish crowds “were the best in the world”. The Kickstarts superstar, who took to the main stage in 2022, returned this year to close out the festival’s King Tut’s stage tonight. 3 Martin Compston … Read more
Taylor Swift performs on stage during The Eras Tour on June 28, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland. Charles Mcquillan/tas24 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Taylor Swift’s European tour was top of mind for Nikita Rao when planning where to go for her family’s annual summer vacation. Rao, her husband and two kids, who live … Read more
Four years ago, when Ivan Cornejo was a junior in high school, he had a meeting with his family to announce that he was dropping out. His parents were alarmed, of course, but his older sister, Pamela, had a more sympathetic reaction, because she also happened to be his manager, and she knew that he … Read more
Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form nor content. She is rapping, more or less, her voice slightly warped by Auto-Tune. Flouting conventions of rhyme and meter, she acknowledges the sorts of concerns that stars like her are typically expected to ignore, … Read more
