A Sober Conversation is the work of a master songwriter, one who knows how to achieve their goals. As the album’s nine tracks ...

Do we need any more Beatles books? The answer is: that’s the wrong question. What we need is more Beatles books that are ...

There's something luminous about the Brad Mehldau Trio. The music they create with such joy shines with a special clarity, in ...

I think my problem is that when I should have been listening in school assemblies or RE lessons, I had the Tom Tom Club’s ...

Aldeburgh offered strong competition for the three evenings of Schubert at the discreetly restored Ragged School Museum, but ...

To mark this year’s summer solstice, a small audience gathered at London’s newest concert venue, the World Heart Beat Embassy ...

The Courtauld Gallery’s Abstract Erotic is a delight for two reasons – because an institution that has often seemed locked in ...

Kieran Hodgson is known to television viewers from Two Doors Down and to online fans for his spoofs of TV dramas; but comedy ...

Neo-soul devotees Durand Jones and the Indications mine a vein of sensuous sounds, at the soft end of a genre that's partly ...

Local band Frank From Blue Velvet’s eponymous 2022 debut was a tasty amalgam of southern gothic country filtered through punk ...

If somebody submitted a treatment for a new costume drama series set in the 1930s in which not just one but two fictitious ...

Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.