Perspective: Nick Grimshaw Shares His Honest Playlist
Executive context: The presenter reflects on his musical journey and the songs that shaped him.
Editorial Staff Mar 29
Entertainment
Film, music, celebrities, awards, gossip, and pop culture.
Perspective: Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book
Executive context: Who needs Worthy Farm? From woodland raves and psych freakouts to fell walks and barbecue hoedowns, there’s a festival for everyone this summer.
Editorial Staff Mar 29
Perspective: I thought I’d been coping with my sister’s death – a Taylor Swift song showed me I hadn’t
Executive context: A Taylor Swift song helped me confront the grief I had been suppressing for years.
Editorial Staff Mar 28
Perspective: Pop maverick Robyn on sleaze, snobbery and dating during IVF: ‘When there isn’t as much at stake, sex becomes more fun’
Executive context: The Swedish musician decided to pursue motherhood alone, and found it came with a surprising sexual awakening – a story she lays out on her new album, her first in eight years.
Editorial Staff Mar 28
Perspective: ‘How can a TV show make you feel such emotions?’ The Bluey composer shares the trick to music that ‘hits you in the feels’
Executive context: As the new Bluey album, Up Here, arrives – complete with chamber orchestra – Joff Bush describes how he ‘seeds’ musical elements to draw out powerful emotions.
Editorial Staff Mar 27
Perspective: Fcukers: Ö review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Executive context: (Ninja Tune) The duo’s snotty nonchalance may capture the post-Brat zeitgeist, but their true appeal lies in a talent for turning vintage dance influences into pointed modern pop.
Editorial Staff Mar 26
Perspective: ‘Black music is not a subculture – it is the engine’: Why the Mobo awards matter more than ever, 30 years on
Executive context: Three decades after launching the awards, founder Kanya King reflects on being ahead of the crowd and why Mobo has always been more than music.
Editorial Staff Mar 26
Perspective: First trailer for Harry Potter TV series reveals much-anticipated new take
Executive context: First real look at HBO’s big-budget small screen take on JK Rowling’s best-selling books also reveals that first season will premiere this Christmas.
Editorial Staff Mar 25
Perspective: ‘I was shunned, laughed at and underdogged’: Jane McDonald on her wild ride from clubland to cruises to country
Executive context: She has survived heartbreak, death threats and nauseating sexism. In her Mayfair club, the Yorkshire star talks about superfans, viral hits, running away to sea – and her bid to become a Nashville icon.
Editorial Staff Mar 25
Perspective: ‘No one’s tried this before’: a new live music roster aims to ensure opportunities for disabled musicians
Executive context: UnMute has been founded to overhaul ableist booking practices, representing artists with specialist access requirements often deemed too costly by venues.
Editorial Staff Mar 25
Perspective: Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression
Executive context: Almost overstuffed with musical ideas, the singer’s second studio album can be self-indulgent and messy, but it’s a heartfelt and exuberant grand statement from an artist determined to go her own way.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Perspective: Moby Critiques Kinks' 'Lola' Lyrics in Honest Playlist
Executive context: The DJ and multi-instrumentalist shares his thoughts on music that has shaped him, expressing discomfort with certain lyrics.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Perspective: Add to playlist: the sharply observed electro-twee of the Femcels and the week’s best new tracks
Executive context: Following in the footsteps of Heavenly and Tiger Trap, the duo’s high-tempo electroclash-indie-pop deftly explores young womanhood in 2020s London.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Perspective: Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – bedroom-pop auteur goes widescreen for a gorgeous sobriety epic
Executive context: The New Yorker’s third album leaves behind her DIY origins to channel cult pop classics by Lorde and Sky Ferreira.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Perspective: ‘We keep secrets because we’re scared’: Guvna B on porn addiction and recovery
Executive context: The award-winning musician opens up about his struggles with stigma and shame while seeking help.
Editorial Staff Mar 19
Perspective: Shaun Ryder on highs, lows and Happy Mondays: ‘Heroin isn’t a party drug – you can’t just do it at the weekend’
Executive context: The singer reflects on his chaotic life, music career, and the realities of addiction in a candid interview.
Editorial Staff Mar 18
Perspective: New York hip-hop experimentalist Elucid: ‘I like the harmony of the city. Everybody’s got a little solo’
Executive context: From a pocket of Zen in the Dream House installation, the rapper/producer talks about channelling the city’s perpetual din.
Editorial Staff Mar 17
Perspective: Avant-pop Star Mary Ocher on Politics and Leaving Israel
Executive context: Mary Ocher discusses her journey from Israel to Germany, her new album, and her views on nationalism and AI.
Editorial Staff Mar 17
Perspective: And the winner is ... all of us? How the Oscars have changed for the better
Executive context: The diversified Academy and a mutating industry have changed what many had come to expect from the stuffy, rule-following Oscars.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Perspective: One no-show after another: Sean Penn joins an exclusive band of Oscar-winning refuseniks
Executive context: The One Battle After Another star’s failure to collect his best supporting actor award – because he was visiting Ukraine – only serves to burnish his reputation.
Editorial Staff Mar 16