Tori Amos wearing the dress designed by Hussein Chalayan for her album American Doll Posse.Tori Amos wearing the dress designed by Hussein Chalayan for her album American Doll Posse.The look I loveFashionThe singer on trying not to embarrass her teenage daughter, dressing up for virtual book signings – and sending her father a picture of the 90s album cover where she breastfeeds a piglet
The concept of my [2007] album American Doll Posse was to personify five archetypes of Greek mythology. Read More...
History booksObituaryCarl E Schorske obituaryLeading US historian who won the Pulitzer prize in 1981 for his book Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureCarl E Schorske, who has died aged 100, was one of America’s leading historians. He pioneered a new kind of intellectual and cultural history that paid as much attention to emotions as it did to ideas. More than anyone else, he put Vienna before the first world war on the map as a “laboratory of modernity”, where Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Klimt and, in a more sinister way, the antisemitic politicians Karl Lueger and Georg Ritter von Schönerer (a huge influence on another of the city’s inhabitants, the young Adolf Hitler), reacted to the decay of political liberalism and the growing crisis of the Habsburg monarchy in different but connected ways. Read More...
Coachella This article is more than 7 years oldCoachella 2017: Beyoncé, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar to headline festivalThis article is more than 7 years oldThe 18th annual music festival returns in April with a lineup that also includes Lorde, Bon Iver, Gucci Mane and Hans Zimmer
Beyoncé, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar have been announced as headliners for this year’s Coachella festival.
The year in music: how Beyoncé, Kanye and Drake saved the albumRead moreThe 18th annual event will take place over two consecutive weekends in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Read More...
