Egerton plays the iconic pop star in the new biopic Elton John and Taron EgertonElton John has praised actor Taron Egerton’s singing on the soundtrack of the Rocketman soundtrack, calling it “extraordinary”. Read more: The Week’s Winners And Losers: Elton John gets X-rated and Joan Jett lays the smackdown The actor plays the mus...

In this week's edition of Pop is Not A Dirty Word, columnist Douglas Greenwood marks the arrival of BLACKPINK by arguing that Western pop should be shaking in its boots at this K-Pop quartet.BLACKPINKI have an infection, but it’s not the gross, throat-coaty-phlegmy kind you might expect. It started a while ago, when I first heard the s...

Lana played the musician one of her early tracks during their evening togetherMoby/ Lana Del ReyMoby has opened up on dating a pre-fame Lana Del Rey in his new memoir, Then It Fell Apart. The book, released earlier this month, is a follow-up to 2016’s Porcelain and is described as “a journey into the dark heart of fame and the de...

Just a few months ago, UK time-warper James Blake came out with the new album Assume Form. Blake, of course, specializes in intricately constructed, deeply emotive lyrical self-laceration. But compared to past Blake albums, Assume Form wasn't so much of an internal journey. Instead, Blake found himself collaborating with some of his present-day ...

The London band Scrap Brain have an unhinged, noise-damaged take on punk rock. It's like one band combined the fastest, sludgiest early-'80s hardcore with the most oblique, damaged early-'80s postpunk, except with lyrics about what it's like to be mentally ill and queer in the late '10s. Last year, the band released a furious, impressive&#82...