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  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Hot Chip: Freakout/Release, review — ode to the loneliness of the late-night disco dancer

    Hot Chip are ever-ready for the floor while willing to dip into darker emotions

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  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    InterviewTheatre
    Broadway composer David Yazbek: ‘It’s about two disparate tribes connecting’

    His Tony-winning ‘The Band’s Visit’, about an Egyptian orchestra’s accidental, eventful stay in Israel, is coming to London

  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    Review
    BBC Proms review — Missy Mazzoli’s spells make the orchestra dance

    The programmes also featured a Mark-Anthony Turnage premiere, ‘Time Flies’

  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    Review
    An evening of music about mortality at the Ruhrtriennale

    A cavernous hall hosts music by Gérard Grisey and Iannis Xenakis given lavish theatrical treatment

  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    Review
    Reggae legend Burning Spear rolls back the years — review

    The singer performed with undimmed spirit and mystic grandeur at the O2 Academy, Brixton

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Review
    Jazz harpist Brandee Younger plays to her instrument’s strengths — review

    Her trio’s gig at London’s Ronnie Scott’s featured glistening runs and chattering rhythms

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Review
    London acts shine at Oslo’s Øya festival

    Highlights included artists from beyond rock and pop, such as Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and Little Simz

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Life of a Song
    Stay — how Maurice Williams’s doo-wop classic was given a new lease of life

    The 1960 song was picked up and adapted for a new audience in the following decade

  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
    Q&AThe Questionnaire
    Conductor Susanna Mälkki: ‘All the crossroads in my life have been risk-taking’

    The award-winning Finnish conductor on being a natural explorer and why enthusiasm is contagious

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Review
    Best new album releases of the week
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes album review — a sublime, startling mix

    The producer and rapper team up in a collaborative album that feels intently crafted

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Osees: A Foul Form album review — a brash fan letter to hardcore punk

    The Californian band pay homage to their rock influences with rabble-rousing riffs and spiky tracks

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Kokoroko: Could We Be More album review — a melting pot of musical influences

    The London eight-piece weave together highlife, Afrobeat and funk in an uplifting debut record

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Evgeny Kissin: The Salzburg Recital album review — clear and decisive

    These live recordings capture the pianist’s bright performances of Berg, Khrennikov and Gershwin

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Trio SR9: Déjà Vu album review — stripped-back contemporary pop covers

    The French trio deliver minimalist versions of hits by Rihanna, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Will Page
    Roar of the live music crowd drowns out stadium income from sport

    Fans are rushing to lucrative ‘big hit’ events at giant venues as smaller theatres are squeezed out

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Interview
    Rapper Denzel Curry: ‘Yes, I am the best’

    His journey through disenchantment and depression has led to fierce lines and unquenchable self-confidence

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    How NME magazine’s C86 cassette helped create the British indie music scene

    Of the 22 bands featured on the 1986 tape, some hit big and some disappeared — but its influence was far-reaching

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Review
    Glyndebourne’s Poulenc double bill contrasts ideas of womanhood — review

    La Voix humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias are sung with vibrant clarity

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    Interview
    Musician Jordi Savall: ‘The west is an important culture, but not the only culture in the world’

    He has made a career out of exploring the people and places where global musical traditions intersect

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    Review
    Bayreuth’s new Ring cycle promises Netflix-style drama — review

    There is fine singing and the picture of a dysfunctional modern family in Valentin Schwarz’s production of Wagner’s epic operas

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    Review
    Camille O’Sullivan’s Edinburgh Fringe show has stripped-down power

    Accompanied by a keyboard player, the singer performs songs by Jacques Brel, Nick Cave and Coldplay

  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Review
    Christina Aguilera review — powerhouse entertainer thrills the O2 Arena

    The singer’s London show fizzed with energy and connected with her Ecuadorian heritage

  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Life of a Song
    I Am Woman — Helen Reddy’s 1971 song became an anthem for feminism

    The Australian-born singer’s record company was initially unimpressed by her paean to empowerment

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Person in the News
    Beyoncé, the queen of pop striving to keep her crown

    The superstar treads a tightrope between standing up for the disadvantaged and flaunting her own hard-won privilege

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