Music
‘Both massive and intimate’: is the Enmore Australia’s best music venue?
Sydney’s 117-year old theatre has welcomed the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Harry Styles and a literally groundbreaking Genesis Owusu gig – but it all took ‘blood, sweat and tears’
Katie Cunningham
16, Mar, 2024 @7:00 PM
Tell us: what is Australia’s best music venue?
Australia’s live music scene shrank by a third since the start of the pandemic. We want to know your memories and anecdotes from your favourite venues
Guardian community team
16, Mar, 2024 @7:00 PM
Sam Lee: songdreaming review – a moving tribute to Albion’s troubled soul
Disquiet pervades the folk singer’s self-written fourth album, with romantic love and awe of nature holding out against ecological collapse
Neil Spencer
16, Mar, 2024 @4:00 PM
Olivia Rodrigo stops distribution of morning-after pill at her concerts
Singer was praised for earlier allowing distribution of Plan B at her shows, but is now stepping back citing the presence of children
Richard Luscombe
16, Mar, 2024 @2:37 PM
Yard Act review – a punk-funk workout for overthinkers
Touring their exuberant second album, the Leeds band are embracing their dancier side as their barbed observational songs get ever more intimate
Kitty Empire
16, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
The week in classical: Death in Venice; Giant; Angela Hewitt review – five-star Britten and more
Britten’s yearning swansong blazes and beguiles in Welsh National Opera’s new production. Elsewhere, the sad tale of ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne, and an enterprising orchestra for all
Fiona Maddocks
16, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM
One to watch: Nemzzz
The teenage Mancunian is one of British rap’s finest prospects, with a defiant flow and sly humour that’s won him nods from Drake and more
Damien Morris
16, Mar, 2024 @12:30 PM
Classical home listening: Michael Spyres and Les Talens Lyriques: In the Shadows; Nicola LeFanu: The Path Above the Dunes
The tenor teams up with Christophe Rousset and co to explore the operas that influenced Wagner, while Gemini excel in LeFanu’s chamber music
Fiona Maddocks
16, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk
A growing movement of artists are embracing the music genre’s Black cultural roots
Melissa Hellmann
16, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
Logic1000: one of dance music’s most intriguing artists enters a new era
Co-signed by Four Tet, the Sydney-born producer and DJ finally has a debut album: a ‘love letter to house music’, and to the messiness of life
Jack Tregoning
15, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
SCO/Kuusisto review – Grime and Clyne premieres plus Dolphin Boy and folk fiddle make for an inspiring evening
Pekka Kuusisto’s residency with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ended with an eclectic and joyful concert that included new works by Anna Clyne and Helen Grime and an interval DJ set
Keith Bruce
15, Mar, 2024 @1:57 PM
Macbeth review – powerful Verdi staging marks the end for a great company
Arts Council of Wales’s decision to axe its funding for Mid Wales Opera means this effective and cogent production is likely their last on this scale
Rian Evans
15, Mar, 2024 @1:29 PM
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