Music

Lael Neale: Acquainted With Night review – music to feel absently blue to

The folk-pop songwriter meanders between memory and fantasy on her concertedly quiet Sub Pop debut

Jenessa Williams

19, Feb, 2021 @9:00 AM

Few will mourn the passing of London's great concert hall that never was | Martin Kettle

The scrapping of ambitious plans for the Centre for Music says much about where the arts stand in austerity-torn Brexit Britain

Martin Kettle

19, Feb, 2021 @8:55 AM

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: All the Good Times review – lockdown covers of Dylan and Prine

The pandemic hangs heavy in the long-term duo’s first album to share joint billing, and thrives when Welch leads

Jude Rogers

19, Feb, 2021 @8:30 AM

Britney Spears: another pop princess trapped in a man-made fairytale

One contributor is notably absent from the new film about Britney: herself. But from Rihanna to Beyoncé to Taylor Swift, female stars have always struggled to tell their stories

Grace Medford

19, Feb, 2021 @8:00 AM

Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week

This mammoth undertaking, of all of Mahler’s symphonies with different conductors over the last decade, brings variable musical results

Andrew Clements

18, Feb, 2021 @5:00 PM

‘You can smell the sweat and hair gel’: the best nightclub scenes from culture

Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown

Peter Bradshaw, Claire Armitstead, Keza MacDonald, Simran Hans, Ammar Kalia, Lanre Bakare, Lyndsey Winship, Alexis Petridis, Arifa Akbar, Aniefiok Ekpoudom and Jonathan Jones. Artist interviews by Ben Beaumont-Thomas

18, Feb, 2021 @4:00 PM

'You could call the show Love Will Tear Us Apart': Russell T Davies on the music of It's a Sin

The series creator and director Peter Hoar on the uncoolest anthems of the 80s, being given the nod by Kate Bush and how a soundtrack can make or break a story

Alim Kheraj

18, Feb, 2021 @3:00 PM

U-Roy, legendary reggae toaster, dies aged 78

‘The originator’ of toasting on record helped revolutionise soundsystem culture in Jamaica – and inspire the birth of hip-hop

Laura Snapes

18, Feb, 2021 @2:36 PM

Dionne Warwick's greatest tracks – ranked!

As the soul legend is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, we pick her 20 greatest songs from her 60s collaborations with Burt Bacharach to her later power ballads

Alexis Petridis

18, Feb, 2021 @12:35 PM