Preview: Music from the movies, Royal Albert Hall, London
Published: 15 October 2007
The film composer Patrick Doyle has scored the music for box-office hits including Sense and Sensibility, Calendar Girls and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Kurt Elling: This cat can scat!
Published: 14 October 2007
Canada's rock'n'roll renaissance
Published: 12 October 2007
Bedouin Jerry Can Band: Reinventing ancient musical traditions to breathe new life into Egypt's folk scene
Published: 12 October 2007
The Bedouin Jerry Can Band, a collective of musicians, dancers and sufi singers from the oasis town of El Arish in the northern Sinai, are coming to Britain with a debut album, Coffee Time, and a showcase concert to close the Barbican's Ramadan Nights festival.
Snoop Dogg: Why the rapper is unfazed by his bad-boy image
Published: 12 October 2007
Preview: Cleveland Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Published: 11 October 2007
Shark attack: Why the 50th anniversary recording of West Side Story is a travesty
Published: 11 October 2007
Not everyone raved about West Side Story when it opened in New York City on 26 September 1957. But Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune hit the nail on the head when he wrote: "The radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning." And in London a year later, the fallout was even greater.
Preview: Teseo, Hackney Empire, London
Published: 09 October 2007
Dark star: The final days of Ian Curtis by his Joy Division bandmates
Published: 07 October 2007
Violinist Alina rocks the classics
Published: 07 October 2007
Stevie Nicks: Rock follies
Published: 06 October 2007
Brazilian singer Cibelle: Sao Paulo sound machine
Published: 05 October 2007
Hank's for the memory: Nashville's no longer all slide guitars and Stetsons
Published: 05 October 2007
Ok computer: Why the record industry is terrified of Radiohead's new album
Published: 05 October 2007
Scouting for Girls: A band that is refreshingly youthful and innocent in their attitude
Published: 05 October 2007
Despite occasional evidence to the contrary, British pop music has had a long tradition of being carefree, joyful and sparklingly effervescent. It's a tradition that stretches all the way back to The Beatles and on through Slade in the Seventies and Madness in the Eighties to, more recently, early Blur and Kaiser Chiefs. Now here to carry that torch on to tomorrow is Scouting for Girls, three young men from the north-west London suburb of Harrow, whose music is as uncomplicated as it gets in 2007 (a compliment, incidentally).
Preview: Courtney Pine: Jazz Warriors Afropeans, Barbican, London
Published: 04 October 2007
Philip Glass: Leonard Cohen and me
Published: 03 October 2007
Preview: Glyndebourne on Tour, various venues across the UK
Published: 03 October 2007
An exclusive preview of next month's album releases
Published: 28 September 2007
Music and Me: Craig Finn of The Hold Steady
Published: 28 September 2007
The first record I bought was...
Greatest Hits by Bay City Rollers from a shop in my home town in south Minneapolis, when I was about six year’s old.
Elisa Bray: Caught in the Net
Published: 28 September 2007
Virgin, Sony and Coca-Cola tried it. But not even these giants could create download stores capable of competing with Apple's near 80 per cent share in the digital music market. Virgin's Digital Music service fully shuts down three weeks from today, and last month Sony announced that it is phasing out Connect Music. Of course, those suffering most from the tough online music world are the musicians, but new-style download sites are helping them to hit back.
Call of a faraway casbah: A remarkable group of Jewish and Muslim musicians comes to Britain
Published: 28 September 2007
You don't venture into the Algiers casbah without protection and we make our way under heavy escort through a warren of over-populated back streets, souks, courtyards and winding alleys that seem to lead nowhere. Despite the area being declared a Unesco world heritage site, the crumbling colonial façades have seen better times and the pungent smell suggests that the plumbing system collapsed long ago. Attempts at regeneration have been slow and haphazard, hampered by the district's fearsome reputation in recent years as a terrorist recruiting ground.
Gallows: What drives a band to sing about date rape and disgust?
Published: 28 September 2007
Mick Jagger: Why he likes hard work and thinks his parents' generation were the real rebels
Published: 28 September 2007
Shrink rappers: Once, hip-hop ruled. Now its stars are reduced to petty sales squabbles and its artists are being dropped
Published: 28 September 2007
The recent sales war between hip-hop's two most prominent artists, 50 Cent and Kanye West, proved to be the major music industry story over the last few weeks, indeed perhaps arguably over the entire summer. The two-horse race to the top of the pop charts was triggered by the pair's decision to release their new albums – 50's Curtis and Kanye's Graduation – on the same day
