Tag
Pop and rock
Live stream
RIVO news Listen to this section's headlines in an AI voice
Now:
Press play to start the stream
This browser does not support voice playback. Try Chrome, Edge or Safari.
This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social contextIn 1998, George Michael was arrested for public lewdness in an LA lavatory, an…
June 2, 2026
· 2 min read
Pop and rock
‘We didn’t have a washing machine, so I was in the launderette when our manager rang and said: “You’ve gone in at No 2”’We were still a three-piece: Adam Devlin,…
June 1, 2026
· 1 min read
Radiohead
The Radiohead guitarist once serenaded a girl with the Smiths and thinks George Michael was a genius. But what is his favourite football song?The first single I bought Ally’s Tartan…
May 31, 2026
· 1 min read
Take That
St Mary’s Stadium, SouthamptonElephants, clowns, aerialists hanging by their hair … the Big Top concept doesn’t let up at this hugely enjoyable outing for a boy band with hits to…
May 30, 2026
· 2 min read
CMAT
The loud online hate aimed at two pop stars with polar-opposite styles suggests a shrinking realm of acceptability in which women can exist. That is, you suspect, the pointFor an…
May 29, 2026
· 2 min read
Music
(Island)The daughter of Foo Fighters’ Dave does a serviceable line in 90s throwback sounds, though the nostalgia is too reverent‘I’ll eat your liver,” Violet Grohl threatens on 595, a scuzzy,…
May 29, 2026
· 1 min read
Paul McCartney
At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s…
May 29, 2026
· 1 min read
Disco
One of disco’s biggest stars answers your questions, recalling tours with Rick James, inspiration for Destiny’s Child and what she wished she asked Michael JacksonYou have been an active contributor…
May 28, 2026
· 2 min read
Music
(Mexican Summer)The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting musicIceage have always seemed like a…
May 28, 2026
· 2 min read
Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstarOnce again, Irish writer-director John Carney delivers an aspartame rush of enjoyment with this terrific…
May 27, 2026
· 2 min read
Music
‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock music at the time’Most of the…
May 25, 2026
· 1 min read
Pop and rock
O2 Kentish Town Forum, LondonAfter three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick…
May 25, 2026
· 1 min read