Music
Julien Baker’s teenage obsessions: ‘I had Leonardo DiCaprio’s hair. I was a mess’
As she releases her third album, the US indie rocker reminisces about waffles, hardcore Christian punk and her terrible skateboarding
As told to Dave Simpson
25, Feb, 2021 @3:13 PM
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata review – sheer beauty and subtle playing
Simon Rattle takes the concerto back to the 19th century and Renaud Capuçon’s partnership with Stephen Hough for the sonata is a meeting of equals
Andrew Clements
25, Feb, 2021 @3:00 PM
Andrew Greenwood obituary
Other lives: Musician and conductor for whom the composer’s intentions were paramount
Sara Greenwood
25, Feb, 2021 @1:03 PM
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Carnage review – vivid visions of apocalypse and absolution
Cave’s rich writing and Ellis’s dense beat-free sounds form a reliably vivid picture of locked-down end-times and the fantasy of redemption
Alexis Petridis
25, Feb, 2021 @1:00 PM
New Cue the music: former Q editors join newsletter publishing boom
After the Bauer Media music title’s pandemic-triggered demise last July, Q’s former staff are launching a weekly direct-to-inbox publication
Laura Snapes
25, Feb, 2021 @10:28 AM
Taylor Swift countersues Evermore theme park over use of her music
Dispute continues following February lawsuit against singer, whose most recent album shares its name with Utah attraction
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
25, Feb, 2021 @9:37 AM
Non-British citizens now eligible for Brit awards and Mercury prize
Artists who have been permanently resident in the UK for five years will qualify for British categories
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
24, Feb, 2021 @7:57 PM
Drink-driving charges against Bruce Springsteen dropped
Rock star ‘pleased with outcome’ of court hearing in which he was fined $500 for drinking alcohol in a national park
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
24, Feb, 2021 @5:28 PM
Archie Shepp on jazz, race and freedom: 'Institutions continue to abuse power'
At 83, the saxophonist has somewhat mellowed his funkily avant-garde music – but his anger at the racial injustice he has fought all his life remains undimmed
Lanre Bakare
24, Feb, 2021 @1:00 PM
REM: how the arty pop gods taught a shy south Wales girl to be herself
For a teenager steeped in Welsh choir music, Michael Stipe’s kaleidoscope of artistic influences – and mega-success – were too irresistible not to follow
Jude Rogers
24, Feb, 2021 @8:08 AM
ENO announces bold plan to stage Ring Cycle from the autumn
Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
24, Feb, 2021 @7:01 AM
U-Roy obituary
Jamaican deejay who brought the lyrical art of ‘toasting’ to prominence
Peter Mason
23, Feb, 2021 @5:52 PM
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