Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Mimi Parker

Chrissie Hynde: ‘I pierced Johnny Rotten’s ear in a toilet with an earring and a bar of soap’

The Pretenders bandleader answers your questions on her friendship with Morrissey, her love of Van Gogh and why her cameo on Friends ruined her school run

The Guardian - UK

Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God review – Low musician’s defiant act of creation

After the death of his wife and bandmate, the US guitarist and vocalist turns his anguish – and his voice – into something unexpectedly playful

The Guardian - UK

Kamala Harris’s bid for history: inside the 26 July Guardian Weekly

Joe Biden passes on the baton. Plus: Paris 2024

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

Sparhawk spent four decades with Parker, three of them as the core of alt-rock legends Low, before she died from cancer aged 55. He discusses finding his new, digitally-altered voice amid grief – and why he’s channelling Cher

The Guardian - UK

Alan Sparhawk review – beautiful, obliterating hymns to Low’s Mimi Parker

Sparhawk’s solo debut starts with a jazzy red herring that gives way to a set list of brand new songs which mine the depths of grief for his late wife and bandmate

The Guardian - UK

‘Our music didn’t build. We were anti-catharsis’: the glacial pleasures of slowcore

Long after their 90s heyday, bands such as Codeine and Duster are finding new audiences in thrall to their slow, sad vision of guitar music. Veterans explain the scene’s angst and idealism

The Guardian - UK

From Paul Kelly to Phoebe Bridgers: which songs are on your Christmas playlist?

It’s Gravy Day as Guardian Australia staff make song suggestions from the well-known to the obscure

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Santa Claus is coming to frown! Why the best Christmas songs are sad and slow

Who says festive numbers have to be merry? Marvin Gaye’s prisoner-of-war lament is a touching treat – while Prince’s track about a guy getting over a yuletide death with banana daiquiris is the jewel of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Mimi Parker obituary

Mesmerising voice of Low, one of America’s most influential bands

The Guardian - UK

‘She was so casual about her genius’: musicians on Low’s Mimi Parker

Steve Albini, Robert Plant, Geoff Barrow and more pay tribute to the vocalist and drummer, who has died aged 55

The Guardian - UK

Robert Plant, Sleater-Kinney and many more send tributes to late Low singer Mimi Parker

MINNEAPOLIS — After Low singer/drummer Mimi Parker's death to cancer at age 55 was announced Sunday, tributes to the Duluth musician have been posted online from as far away as Scotland and Iceland and from names as well-known as Robert Plant and Sleater-Kinney.

Tribune News Service

Mimi Parker, co-founder of Minnesota indie band Low has died

Singer Mimi Parker has died

The Independent UK

Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock

The vocalist and drummer, who has died aged 55, was ‘a little reluctant’ to form a band with her husband, Alan Sparhawk. But her songwriting and hushed, strong voice saw Low create breathtaking music that was both beautiful and unsettling

The Guardian - UK

Mimi Parker, vocalist and drummer of the minimalist rock band Low, has died

The vocalist and drummer for the hauntingly minimalist rock band Low died on Saturday. She had been living with ovarian cancer.

WEKU

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Low drummer and vocalist Mimi Parker dies aged 55

Alongside husband Alan Sparhawk, Parker formed Low in the early 90s, and their minimal alternative to the era’s grunge-heavy music saw them acclaimed as one of indie-rock’s most original bands

Tribune News Service

More concerts canceled by Low, including dates with Death Cab for Cutie

MINNEAPOLIS — With singer/drummer Mimi Parker riding out cancer treatment, Duluth rock stalwarts Low have canceled their fall tour dates with Death Cab for Cutie.

The Guardian - UK

Low review – human warmth fills music of social collapse

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker unleash a charged cacophony on the reverent crowd but the couple’s connection provides an underlying sweetness

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.