Meticulous Self-Destruction: The Cinematic Minefield of ‘Tár’

Meticulous Self-Destruction: The Cinematic Minefield of ‘Tár’

Focus Features/Ringer illustration Through a stunning performance by Cate Blanchett, Todd Field tells a story about modern culture, and what happens when a cult of personality starts to crack Playing a world-renowned conductor holding court […]

Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert review – a fearless final performance | Jazz

Bordeaux Concert album cover.

In 1975, an idiosyncratic musical odyssey called The Köln Concert became the unlikeliest of multimillion-sellers. On that album, Keith Jarrett revealed how an unplanned, unplugged and uncommercial private meditation between just him and a traditional […]

BBC Studios and BBC Music presents Later… with Jools Holland at 30 – Music News

BBC Studios and BBC Music presents Later… with Jools Holland at 30 - Music News

Celebrating a landmark birthday, BBC Two’s Later… with Jools Holland at 30 is to be recorded before 3,000 fans at one of Britain’s most famous concert venues on Wednesday 5th October. 30 years, 60 series […]

Sky Ferreira Tells Nancy Sinatra About Her Penchant for Pain

Sky Ferreira Tells Nancy Sinatra About Her Penchant for Pain

  All Clothing and Accessories (worn throughout) by Celine By Hedi Slimane. Sky Ferreira is back. She’ll tell you, however, that she never left. After releasing her stunning debut album, Night Time, My Time, in […]

‘A film score before there were films’: Ghosts’ Mathew Baynton on his passion for Berlioz | Classical music

Hector Berlioz in later life

I confess I am a philistine when it comes to classical music. It’s not that I don’t like it – I went through a period as a teenager in Southend when I drove around with […]

A 15-Piece Classical Drum & Bass Band Actually Exists—And They’re Making Their Festival Debut – EDM.com

Polyphonic, a 15-piece classical drum & bass band, performing live. 

Polyphonic paints drum & bass music a truly unique way—by uniting a 15-piece orchestra. Led by Fiber and The Fiber Pianist, the band aims to reframe the genre’s timeless hits into an awe-inspiring orchestral performance, breaking its […]

‘I’ve got to stop somewhere!’ How Steve Roud compiled his epic folk song archive | Folk music

Ralph Vaughn Williams 1951

When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]

The Top 10 Most Popular & Admired Indian Musical Instruments In 2022

Ravanahatha

Music is by far the most important kind of art and culture in India, where it plays a significant role in people’s daily life. India is a country of music, as evidenced by the audience […]

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘There was a time when I played in the bathroom’ | Sheku Kanneh-Mason

The Kanneh-Mason family in 2020.

The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 23, is the third of seven siblings – Isata, Braimah, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata, Mariatu, aged 26 to 13 years – all musicians who regularly perform together. He grew up in Nottingham […]

Hayato Sumino: Bringing classical music closer to a younger generation

Hayato Sumino: Bringing classical music closer to a younger generation

World famous Maestro Marin Alsop and sensational pianist Hayato Sumino during intense rehearsals with the NOSPR orchestra of Poland before their grand tour in Japan. — © Radosław Kaźmierczak / NOSPR Every once in a […]

‘What he was doing was like nothing else’: the secret recordings of genius producer Charles Stepney | Soul

Charles Stepney

In the mid-60s, a struggling vibraphone player named Charles Stepney and his wife, Rubie, visited their pastor looking for career advice. Stepney’s work as a jazz musician in Chicago was intermittent at best: when he […]

Concord Music Publishing Signs Singer-Songwriter Justin Wilson

Concord signs Justin Wilson

Photo Credit: Concord (L-R) Matt Turner, Scott Safford, Brad Kennard, Justin Wilson, Courtney Allen, Ashley Nite, Jen Hubbard, and Garrett Stephenson Concord Music Publishing signs prolific singer-songwriter Justin Wilson, who has written hits for the […]

Watch Full Video Of METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT Hosting ‘The Original Monster Kids’ Panel At ‘Midsummer Scream’

Watch Full Video Of METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Hosting 'The Original Monster Kids' Panel At 'Midsummer Scream'

METALLICA guitarist and horror memorabilia collector Kirk Hammett moderated “The Original Monster Kids” panel at Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, which made its return to the Long Beach Convention Center in […]

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Robert Glasper Montreal Jazz Festival

Robert Glasper is doing it all these days. He’s just come off a European Tour in support of his latest album, Black Radio III, performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival earlier this month (where he […]

Abel Selaocoe: ‘As an African cellist, I’ve always been looking for a home’ | Classical music

Abel Selaocoe.

Abel Selaocoe walks into a bar in King’s Cross, London, with a small suitcase and a large, curvaceous silver case. “I’m sorry, sir, but you’re going to have to put that in the cloakroom,” the […]