Sunday, 20 May 2012 01:09

lvis Costello With… returns for its second season on the Sundance Channel this Wednesday, December 9th with U2’s Bono and the Edge joining the My Aim is True singer-songwriter for an intimate conversation about the recording of some of the band’s biggest hits, a performance of some obscure U2 tracks and a show-ending “mash-up” of Costello and the Imposters with the No Line on the Horizon pair.

Sunday, 20 May 2012 01:09

Seven years ago, when Kelly Clarkson triumphed in the first American Idol competition by blasting out the high-schlocky inspirational ballad "A Moment Like This," who could have guessed that she would become the early 21st century's exemplary Angry Chick? Everything changed in 2004, when Clarkson released a little song called "Since U Been Gone." That exploding stick of bubblegum pushed Clarkson to the forefront of the new girl-power pop, establishing her as the leader of a wave of pugnacious female stars — Avril and Pink and Katy Perry — who have stormed the Top of the Pops, bellowing their outrage over bright hooks and punchy guitars.