Cyndi Lauper and John Legend will also compose pieces for soundtrack of new stage productionEven for a man with a reputation for radical reinvention, David Bowie's latest move is surprising:…
The Chicago troupe Second City gave us Murray, Fey, Dan Aykroyd and Joan Rivers. But can they turn me into a comedian? Only if I embrace failure…So here I am, stood in a room with 19 stran…
The No 1 classical-dance crossover act on angering Shostakovich fans, getting their riders from Marks & Sparks, and almost electrocuting Lily ColeHi, Clean Bandit: classical and dance music …
Tim Jonze insists Daft Punk's ubiquitious hit is musically, lyrically and spiritually bereft, and that's why he can't stand it " or you, for liking it' The best song of 2013: Daft Punk " Get…
The comedian was one of those characters who comes on as a cameo and steals the show. He saved my groom's speech from disaster, tooIt might be overstretching it to say that Ray Presto, the c…
Surreal one-liners and juvenile humour abound in this look at the early, anarchic days of Stewart Lee and Richard Herring"It's not as good as I remember it," says the Stewart Lee quote on th…
The comedian who ran for president for a laugh is now considering quitting comedy altogether. Or is that the afternoon vodkas talking?Hanging on a wall in Doug Stanhope's Arizona home is a f…
This week's news in the artsIn 1970, rock critic Lester Bangs wrote a review of the Stooges' album Fun House in which he spent the first 6,000 words musing on the divide between artist and f…