Music

Singer-songwriter, actress, ‘close friend’ and muse of David Bowie... Dana Gillespie is back with a new album. With 60 years of performing under her belt, Sean Hannam interviews a legend.

• Sean Hannam
• Mar 2025

Good Grief is the latest album from singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and former Suede member, Bernard Butler. This honest and reflective collection of songs is his best yet, says Sean Hannam.

• Sean Hannam
• Mar 2025

In 2002, Prince released a jazz album with the better-known One Nite Alone… Live, for the NPG Music Club. Re-released as a 2020 LP, Jason Kennedy thinks it deserves reevaluating!

• Jason Kennedy
• Mar 2025

Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter and Country legend, was born on February 26, 1932. To mark the occasion, Songwriter features some of his less well-known work from 1993, which his son discovered.

• Michael Vámos
• Feb 2025

Paul Weller turned 66 last year. Rather than rest on his laurels, he went back into the studio to make his finest album in decades. Sean Hannam takes a listen.

• Sean Hannam
• Feb 2025

According to Jason Kennedy, ambient keyboard superstar Niels Frahm creates an avant-garde and very modern take on the classic jazz trio as he teams up with two long-standing musician friends.

• Jason Kennedy
• Feb 2025

A classic album of electronica from 2006 that has become a musical reference point at hi-fi+, but Anders Trentemøller’s first is also a great triple LP, according to Michael Vámos.

• Michael Vámos
• Jan 2025

At under 90 minutes across two LPs, Fearless Movement is one of Kamasi Washington’s shortest albums, but his third cut may also be his best yet, according to Shaun Marin.

• Shaun Marin
• Jan 2025

Sean Hannam speaks to the remarkably multi-talented singer-songwriter, guitarist and instrumentalist and one of the greatest chroniclers of life in Sheffield, England, expressed through the medium of Rockabilly… Richard Hawley.

• Editor
• Jan 2025

One of the leading lights of London’s underground jazz scene, Ed ‘Tenderlonius’ Cawthorne founded the 22a record label, but ‘You Know I Care’ is an album of traditional jazz sounds.

• Shaun Marin
• Jan 2025

Sean Hannam speaks to Dee C Lee, the British soul singer known for her work with Wham! The Style Council and Jamiroquai. Lee’s back with a new album; Just Something.

• Sean Hannam
• Jan 2025

With their first album in 16 years, Robert Smith and The Cure return with their 14th studio album, returning to a less poppy, darker musical style, according to Michael Vámos.

• Michael Vámos
• Dec 2024