Daily Newsletter, February 12, 2023

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Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire

How they pulled off one of the best live albums of all time is a heartening story of persistence and a sad, cautionary tale.

When I hear the words Spilt Milk, my gut reaction is guilt. Thirty years ago, I was months out of high school, relieving the monotony of a day job at a

The story of GRP Records goes back to 1976 and the label went on to make an outstanding contribution to jazz over the coming decades.

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1988 to look at ten underrated movies which deserve more love… 2023 is well underway now and that means that the cinematic year of 1988, stuffed with some classics and cult favourites like Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!) and Die Hard, was 35 years ago. Pick yourself up off the floor and […]

José Olivarez is the author of the 2018 poetry collection Citizen Illegal. In it, Olivarez interrogates a series of concerns largely circling around his experiences as a child of undocumented paren…

British photographer Francine Winham shot groundbreaking images of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davies and Nina Simone, but the influence she had on the people closest to her may still be her most important legacy, argues Ian Opolot

Elvis Costello paid tribute to Burt Bacharach at the opening night of his residency at The Gramercy Theatre - check out footage here

Recovered collection.