Tag: pop legends

• The making of Eno, the first generative feature film

  August 2, 2024

  Brian Eno has taken many musical forms: producer, technologist, glam-rock star. Eno, the new documentary about the musician, also takes many forms, though more literally. Each showing of the movie,… more ›

• Punk, Sting and ‘electrified zombies high on glue’: Stewart Copeland on how the Police formed

  July 11, 2024

  My brother Ian threw the best parties. After our show [playing with Curved Air] in Leicester and a two-hour drive, when we get back to slumbering Mayfair in the dead… more ›

• ‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

  June 16, 2024

  Even over the phone from Los Angeles, John Cale has a certain presence. It’s not just the still resonant Welsh lilt of his speaking voice or the way he takes… more ›

• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  May 30, 2024

  In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out… more ›

• The Number Ones

  June 4, 2022

  https://www.stereogum.com/category/columns/the-number-ones/ more ›

• Kanye’s Second Coming: Inside The Billion-Dollar Yeezy Empire

  September 27, 2020

  This story appears in the August 31, 2019 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe You know when Kanye West is coming. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/07/09/kanyes-second-coming-inside-the-billion-dollar-yeezy-empire/ more ›

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• ‘Dummy wasn’t a chillout album. Portishead had more in common with Nirvana’

  August 24, 2019

  Twenty-five years ago, during the summer of Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, a darker, stranger record was released that would soon become huge. Its title and mood was inspired… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• Iranian pop music

  May 29, 2019

  Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian… more ›