Arts & Culture: Music
In music
New hope for the West End?
- By Annie McDermott
- 22 September
The success of Ivanov this week is a beacon of hope for those who worried that the West End is drowning in a glittering sea of overpriced musicals.
Facing the music
- By Rick Jones
- 11 September
The Beethoven Festival in Bonn has a history of being misused for political ends. This year, the organisers have confronted its troubled past
Seen it all before
- By Jude Rogers
- 11 September
After 25 years of pop hits, Madonna's shock tactics are just embarrassing
Madonna Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Jem Finer
- 04 September
Finer is a musician/composer from Stoke-on-Trent. He was a founding member of the Pogues and co-wrote the song “Fairytale of New York”. In 2000, he launched Longplayer, an electronic composition commissioned by Artangel that is designed to run for a thousand years without repeating. The piece forms the basis of a public discussion between George Soros and Alain de Botton that takes place at the Royal Geographical Society, London SW7, on 12 September. For more information visit: http://www.longplayer.org
Songs of freedom
- By Paul Evans
- 04 September
Paul Evans on why music poses a threat to tyrants and overbearing governments
Carnival, the best time of the year
- By Alan Scholefield
- 28 August
It feels like we're obeying the command of some god who hovers over North Kensington and issues a bacchanalian order every August bank holiday. Don't work. Party
Album Reviews
All woman
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 20 September
Leaving gender-bending rock behind, P J Harvey has produced an album of fragile beauty
New world order
- By Daniel Trilling
- 23 August
MIA adopts the feisty sound of the slums, but she is strongest when closer to home.
Swinging Addis
- By Rachel Aspden
- 16 August
Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.
The sound of resistance
- By Rick Jones
- 05 July
Using folk melodies and bracing discords, Baltic composers railed against Soviet dominance
More in music
State of the nation
- By Daniel Trilling
- 28 August 2008
The judge's view
- By Jude Rogers
- 28 August 2008
Roots Manuva
- 28 August 2008
In praise of the divine average
- By Antonia Quirke
- 28 August 2008
Still turning world
- By Frances Morgan
- 28 August 2008
An idyllic setting for some extreme karaoke
- By Phill Jupitus
- 21 August 2008
Rap on the run
- By Rob Sharp
- 21 August 2008
