When he died, his only final wishes were to be buried. So of course, she had him cremated. I couldn’t stop thinking about her story, and knew that one day I wanted to write a song about it. A few ...

Wow, can it really be 40 years since Solitude Standing, the second studio album by Suzanne Vega who put the 1980s folk ...

When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was ...

Over its crisp 32 minutes and nine songs, Altogether Stranger embraces electropop, lo-fi terrain and gothic solo ...

Patrick Marber’s powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to ...

"Julie's story takes place everywhere", says the writer-director Leonardo Van Dijl, whose pyschologiical drama Julie Keeps ...

The English title of a new film about the legendary singer-guitarist Stelios Kazantzidis, who popularised rebetiko, which is ...

All We Imagine as Light focuses on the lives of three women in contemporary Mumbai; as shown by director Payal Kapadia, the ...

Fragile egos abound. An older person (usually a man) has to bring the best out of the stars, but mustn’t neglect the team ...

Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse is a collection of 515 notes, each contributing to an expansive kaleidoscope of mountain ...

There’s always been a goofy charm about Billy Idol. As an implausibly chiselled Adonis shining out from the deliberate ...

They fuck you up your Mum and Dad; they may not mean to, but they do.” These lines from Philip Larkin’s 1975 poem, “This Be ...