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  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    InterviewArts
    Artist Markus Selg: ‘We’re further in the metaverse than most of us think’

    He has spent his career testing the boundaries between life and virtual reality, in his studio and now on the opera stage

  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Pop music

    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
    Beyoncé is Black America’s great communicator

    Her defiance of industry convention is an act of racial and feminist liberation — with a modern twist

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Review
    Best new album releases of the week
  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Classical music

    Richard Fairman selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Charles Lloyd shows off his control of space and sound in Trios: Chapel

    The album marks the first in a series which sees the multi-instrumentalist performing with three different trios

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf: Queen of Sheba — a musical battle of wits

    The singer and trumpeter have constructed a concept album around King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Freddie De Tommaso: Il Tenore — solid but lacking spark

    The Anglo-Italian tenor tackles arias and duets from ‘Madama Butterfly’, ‘Tosca’ and ‘Carmen’ in his second album

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Hollie Cook’s Happy Hour, album review — a worthy modern-day example of lovers rock

    The singer’s fourth album is an adroit piece of storytelling with a sure-footed sense of timing

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Review
    Turandot, Berlin Staatsoper review — boos and cheers for Puccini’s opera

    With a giant puppet dominating the stage Philipp Stölzl’s production goes for colour and noise

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Interview
    Jane Birkin: ‘I think you are always thinking about romantic love’

    The singer and actor on life with Serge Gainsbourg, why she’s still making ‘dangerous, provoking’ music — and the allure of Helen Mirren

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Drake pioneers the unwelcome surprise album Honestly, Nevermind

    ‘It’s all good if you don’t get it yet’, the rapper announced after the release of his seventh LP. ‘We wait for you to catch up’

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Review
    Baaba Maal at London’s Royal Festival Hall — ‘It’s a Senegalese party!’

    A rich performance was bolstered by abundant musicians, dancers and audience members summoned to the stage

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Review
    Björk’s Orchestral tour — avant-garde electronica captivatingly reimagined

    The Icelandic singer’s voice has lost none of its power or strangeness over her long career

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Review
    Rusalka, Garsington — country-house opera worth travelling to see

    Plus: ‘Otello’ at Grange Park Opera offers an outstanding Iago in Simon Keenlyside

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Review
    Harry Styles casually sends Wembley Stadium into a frenzy

    The superstar singer brought persuasive charm and androgynous style to the London leg of Love on Tour

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Life of a Song
    Mannish Boy — how Muddy Waters created an American classic

    The blues singer’s 1955 track brought an assertive swagger to Bo Diddley’s original

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Interview
    Meet one of live music’s most powerful people: Adele’s booker, Lucy Dickins

    She is co-head of global talent giant WME’s music division and has 90 of her own clients

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Alanis Morissette releases ambient meditation album The Storm Before the Calm

    Wordless vocalisations and shimmering soundscapes devised with Darkside’s Dave Harrington make for chilled-out listening

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    John Williams’ Violin Concerto No. 2 receives an energetic debut recording

    The album marks the latest collaboration with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, supported by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Binker Golding: Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy — warm-toned and expansive

    The saxophonist delivers technical flourishes and harmonic bite in an exuberant new album

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Foals: Life is Yours — vibrant-sounding but thinner in scope

    The British indie rock band turn their attention to rebirth with their seventh album

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Joan Shelley: The Spur — songs of isolation and retreat

    The American musician has a singular vision as she returns with songs that reflect on lockdown and confinement

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Interview
    Singer Róisín Murphy: ‘It’s mind-blowingly, world-changingly the best record ever’

    The former Moloko frontwoman is working on a new album in the midst of a fertile creative period

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    LexBTS
    K-pop/BTS: boy band is not bulletproof — nor is its talent agency Premium content

    Hybe has had nine years since the group’s debut to reduce its dependence

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