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I don’t know how we’re in the second half of 2026. I feel like I’ve only just got up from the comfy chair in Shure Studios where Sean and I recorded our predictions for the year during a chilly day in November 2025. So much has happened. Too much has happened, even.
The consensus so far is that the polycrisis rages on (Venezuela! Iran! Lebanon! Gaza! Extreme weather dri...
The Lily Allen discourse didn’t need to come back. By now, she’s taken her new album West End Girl from the London Palladium to theatres and arenas in the UK and USA, playing it in full with no other songs, bar those played by an orchestra in the show’s first act. And, shock horror, she’s not even saying a word to the audience. (The keyboard bashers would do their fr...
"I nearly passed out on stage," musician and photographer Joel Arthur is saying of a show he played at Sheffield's Corporation during a heatwave in September 2023. "I made sure to drink so much water, but you get to a point where you're nearly drowning yourself. No matter what, you're basically cooking yourself alive."
For music fans, few weeks would have been worse ti...
James Blake's comments about not being able to trust music journalists seem not just surprising but pretty tone-deaf for someone who has been lauded by the music press for his sophisticated electronic jams beneath that pitch-perfect soaring falsetto.
Before I get into it, read what he had to say if you missed it:
Some of those other points about AI and big money ...
Geoff Barrow grew up in Portishead. He named his band after the town on the outskirts of Bristol. You probably know what happened next.
There was the award-winning Dummy, then the critically adored Third, followed by a long silence from the band.
In the meantime Barrow produced records by acts like The Horrors and created some of the most disti...