Kate Mossman

Ivo Van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s adaptation of John Cassavetes’ 1977 film is a chaotic and masochistic project.

In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she did?

I meet the Pet Shop Boys in a small room at their record company office in Kensington. The room is set up for a TV interview, with two soft, low chairs under lights and a high, hard stool in front of

Who knows what’s going on in that head, but his connection to his instrument has never lost its power.

One starts this book at the back, like a Japanese novel, because the author has tracked down all 24 living members of Dexys Midnight Runners, leaving their frontman, Kevin Rowland, to the end. Rowland

At 75, the “rock star” intellectual has alienated many. But is his politics a strange source of sanity?

Like her peer Charli XCX, the pop star of the moment wants to free artists from a “creepy” culture of devotion.

Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s hit record Prioritise Pleasure was a loud rejection of the status quo. Her next album is “a thawing of my vitriol”.

The venerated producer, who has died at the age of 91, brought a jazz sensibility to pop.

This Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, more theatre piece than rock concert, is marked by a new polish.