After his sensitive soul-boy debut and a major label follow-up that flirted with ELO-style cleverness, Michigan auteur Hawthorne has synthesised his influences into perfect power pop, with the help of producers including Pharrell Williams.
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Latitude Festival 2013: It is an eye-opening weekend, but Kraftwerk’s 3D show falls a bit flat
Monday 22 July 2013
Oxford’s inexplicably popular math-rockers Foals closed Latitude’s main stage last night with something close to thrash-rave, and a laser light-show reaching towards the full moon. Clearly exhilarated by their headline slot, they still struggled to excite.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre - used for 1948 Olympic Games - to be razed
Thursday 04 July 2013
London Mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans to demolish the art deco Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
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Sunday 30 June 2013
Lisa Markwell finds a new vegetable nirvana behind an old transport hub.
The Diary: Common’s ministry of sound gears up to rock the House
Friday 21 June 2013
An evening of heavy rock on the House of Commons terrace, sponsored by drinks company Pernod Ricard in the presence of Liam Gallagher’s band Beady Eye – what could possibly go wrong?
Music review: The Who, SECC, Glasgow - Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend can still command Quadrophenia's magic
Thursday 13 June 2013
One of the most telling moments of this 40th anniversary revisit to The Who’s best-known album Quadrophenia came in one of the least likely locations, amidst the video montage which accompanied martial instrumental “The Rock” on the three circular screens hanging behind the band.
Velvet Underground dispute with Andy Warhol Foundation settled
Thursday 30 May 2013
A legal fight between the rock band The Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol Foundation is over.
Ground control to Major Tim: Tim Peake to be Britain's first official astronaut for 20 years with International Space Station mission
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Former test pilot will live and work on ISS for six months
Latitude 2013: Five minutes with... Clean Bandit
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Clean bandit are a hip gang of young British up-and-comers. Catch them at Latitude before they become massive.
Album: Liane Carroll, Ballads (Quiet Money)
Saturday 27 April 2013
Singer/pianist Carroll is the worst kept secret in UK jazz: everyone knows she's amazing but a glass ceiling stops her becoming the world star she so obviously is.
Album review: Lara Downes, Exiles' Cafe (Steinway & Sons)
Friday 05 April 2013
Exiles' Cafe was inspired by hearing Michael Sahl's “Tango from the Exiles' Cafe”, after which Lara Downes fantasised the location as a source of comfort for transplanted composers, represented by this series of piano miniatures.
Album review: Todd Rundgren, State (Esoteric Antenna)
Friday 05 April 2013
State sees Todd Rundgren deliver his customary laconic commentaries on a world gone mad from behind a wall of rock, techno and dubstep riffs.
Alexander Fury: There's always a place for pure, undiluted glamour
Monday 01 April 2013
Wear, what, why, when?
Gary and Phil Neville's father arrested over alleged sexual assault
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Neville Neville is a well-known former cricketer and sports agent
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