In a dingy room with dilapidated furniture on a dismal Sunday evening, two detectives prepare for an interview. The old hand ...

The utopian messiness of 1990s dance music culture is now so far back in time that what remains, for those under 40, is an ...

There’s not much point in having three hours worth of Shakespearean text to craft and the gorgeous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as ...

There was excellent music making in the Hallé concert in Manchester last night, and there was self-admitted “noise”. Briefly, ...

It would be really easy to get hung up on the definition for this album. Is it a new sexuality term? A holiday genre of ...

The quandary is this. Middlesbrough singer Amelia Coburn made one of my favourite albums of last year, her debut, Between the ...

Serious realisation of the seven often thorny Martinů string quartets is a major undertaking. When I spoke to Veronika ...

Nine billion streams a year. That’s the sheer scale on which the music of Ludovico Einaudi reaches audiences. The Italian, who will be 70 this November, is courteous and genial in person – I ...

As something of an immigrant to the capital myself in the long hot summer of 1984, I gobbled up Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes’s novel of an outsider embracing the temptations and dangers of ...

An opening sequence of a drone flying over a busy street in Baghdad, followed by a huge explosion that leaves many casualties ...

There’s a moment, as we build to a climax in Brady Corbet’s first film, The Childhood of a Leader (2015), when a servant at a ...

This is Tunng’s ninth album, their first in five years, and marks their 20th anniversary by consciously going full circle to ...