Mad for It

Rapping on club beats is hard...

What the Beatles were to ’60s pop, Pavement were to ’90s indie rock...

It is hard to believe that this was once one of Spain’s wildest nightclub scenes...

As Mary’s stories play over infective beats, I map Mary to everyone on the street...

We see emotional resonance in shapes, space, movement and rhythm...

Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic...

New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be...

The footage is remarkable for showing Kanye in a private space that is a world away from the equally intimate – but also highly public – outbursts for which he is now better known...

Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...

Elton John was singing “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues,” and I was belting it out with him...

I am rearranging my music collection — looking at the album covers, hearing snippets of the songs in my head as I see each one and recall the memories attached to it...

New Zealand has an innovative legacy of concrete construction dating back to the 1850s...

Many people have claimed that the art of the claque was purely manual: what a paradox! Might as well say that the art of war is only the art of making sword-thrusts...

In pandemic times I’m picturing Jason Fearn sat amongst his chaotic equipment, formulating a sinister and foreboding soundtrack...

Screenshot from “Scream” video, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Epic Records, 1994 by Francesco Tenaglia It only lasts for a moment. Not a glutinous efflorescence, or a spooky appearance fit to star in choreography from the good ol’ days. The sluggish shadow slippers from one...

Stormzy’s love of Magic is sincere and profound – and sometimes it cannot be contained. A year earlier, at the Mercury prize...

Holding down the fast forward button on your CD player, eventually the sound of a mysterious hidden track would rush by. An all-too-quick blur of noise. Then you'd have to skip back a bit to get to the start of the song.