Readers recommend: melancholy songs | Peter Kimpton
Bittersweet, articulate, beautiful or bold? Suggest selections for a special form of sadness in songs for this week’s sorrowful but strangely uplifting topic“Misery is the river of the world,” grunts...
View ArticleWoyzeck review – a feverish look into the mind of a madman
Carriageworks, Sydney festivalGeorg Büchner’s 175-year-old story of working-class hardship and sexual rage takes on new resonance in contemporary discussions around family violenceWoyzeck, the 1837...
View ArticleFlamenco on the hoof: Bartabas the Furious and his dancing horses
There’s no such thing as an easy ride with Bartabas. His horses once performed Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Now they’re stamping into Sadler’s Wells. We meet the horse whisperer at his eccentric Paris...
View ArticleTom Waits to star in Hulu's supernatural drama Citizen
The legendary musician will play a major role in a pilot to be directed by the award-winning film-maker behind Me, Earl, and the Dying GirlTom Waits is set to star in a new pilot for a show on Hulu, to...
View ArticleMerle Haggard biopic is in development
Done It All will chart country singer’s rise from poverty to stardom, based on story by Cinderella Man scriptwriter; meanwhile, Tom Waits pays moving tribute to man who taught him how to write songsAn...
View ArticleTom Waits loses court bid to stop French show using his songs
The singer wanted €500,000 from the Paris production On Achève Bien les Anges, but the company says it paid royalties Tom Waits has failed to halt a hit Paris show he accuses of using his songs without...
View ArticleTom Waits vents fury in row with avant-garde French circus star
Singer’s second court action could prevent UK debut of the performance by Bartabus the FuriousIt is the sort of strange gladiatorial encounter that, were tickets sold, would draw the curious to the Big...
View ArticleReeperbahn rendezvous: the glorious dive bar photos of Anders Petersen
Cafe Lehmitz is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, capturing life in a Hamburg dive at the fag-end of the 1960s. The Swede behind it explains why he is releasing new shots of its...
View ArticleWhat should I watch this week? The Brits, Ross Kemp, SS-GB
From Skepta adding some grime to the awards to the BBC’s new alt-history war drama, here’s your must-watch list Last year’s Brits were lambasted for totally ignoring the influence of grime; this year...
View ArticleReaders recommend playlist: songs about chaos
Chaos and confusion reign this week, with Bob Dylan, the Temptations, Devo and Philip Glass all making this week’s reader-curated playlistHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full
From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops As long as they’re willing to brave the 6am queues, no music fan is ignored...
View ArticleReaders recommend playlist: songs about road trips
A reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the listHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from...
View ArticleReaders recommend playlist: songs about volume
Turning it up this week we have Tom Waits, Oasis and AC/DC – balanced out by some more subdued fare from Jim ReevesHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs review – the Coens' brutal salute to the western
James Franco, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits traipse across the prairie in a lovingly crafted collection of vignettes spattered with bloody violence and inky humourThe Coens have given us a hilarious,...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs review – the Coens go way out in the west
Six accomplished short stories from the western-loving brothers run the gamut from the comic to the downbeatIs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs a TV show or a film? Conceived as a collaboration with...
View ArticleThe 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!
From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbersContinue reading...
View Article'All that mattered was survival': the songs that got us through 2020
Butterflies with Mariah, Bronski Beat in the Peak District, Snoop Dogg on a food delivery ad … our writers reveal the tracks that made 2020 bearableWhen it came to lockdown comfort listening, there was...
View ArticleRickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous’
A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame – and of her intense relationship with Tom Waits in the 1970sScroll...
View ArticleWrappers delight: The best album cover shoots – in pictures
From the Beatles crossing a zebra to a naked Prince, via Grace Jones attempting the anatomically impossible and Led Zeppelin’s New York tenements, these cover designs became as famous as the music they...
View ArticleBest films of 2022 in the UK: No 5 – Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s funniest film yet makes stars of newcomers Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim as unlikely lovers in 1970s LA50 best films of 2022 in the UKMore on the best culture of 2022Paul Thomas...
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