Steve Albini This article is more than 12 years oldSteve Albini 'wanted to strangle' Odd Future on bus rideThis article is more than 12 years oldNirvana and Pixies producer lashes out at rappers after recent encounter on airport shuttle in BarcelonaOdd Future's ostensibly punk-rock antics have attracted a punk-rock critic, with Steve Albini calling them "assholes making music about being assholes". The celebrated producer, who shared an airport shuttle with the rappers, said he hasn't " Read More...
Top 10sFictionCharles Palliser chooses his favourite modern fiction that revisits the Victorian era for a 21st-century audience, from Fingersmith to Cold Mountain
This is the time of the year to curl up beside the fire with an engrossing novel. We’ve inherited the jolly family Christmas invented by Dickens which is all about feasting, affection and cheerfulness and we pay lip service to it though we know, just as he did, that being compelled to spend time with your relatives is not always the most enjoyable experience of the year. Read More...
Lauren Bacall, author of By Myself, in which she describes her marriages to Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards. Photograph: Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty ImagesInspiring, indiscreet and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence
by Peter Bradshaw25. A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014) by Anjelica HustonThe two volumes of Anjelica Huston’s autobiography are a shrewd account of her life with wry comments on the alpha-males in it, including her father John Huston and longtime boyfriend Jack Nicholson. Read More...