After leaving my headphones elsewhere, I plugged my wired earphones into my laptop and sat cross-legged on my bed. It felt ...

New writing takes many forms: this is one of the glories of contemporary British performance. One of these is the shared ...

Sexual abuse and violence, self-harm and sadomasochism, piss and postpartum blood – Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water doesn’t flinch from showing the indignities, the messiness, and the trauma ...

URGH is too cacophonic to be the making of them but those after a solid, catalytic bash around the brain may want to tune in. The album was flavoured by multiple operations undergone by frontwoman ...

For Richard Hawley, a “little banger” is a top-notch single, one condensing everything about the performance and performer ...

Island-in-the-1950s Così were sopranos Lucy Crowe and Ailish Tynan, and conductor Dinis Sousa. All three excelled, but so did ...

It’s a story being repeated the world over – apex predators such as lynx, wolves and bears hunted to extinction, followed by ...

Edward Simon shows again on this new album of re-imagined songs from Venezuela what a very fine pianist he is. His touch and ...

Nothing about this album suggests that it’s a debut. Shaking Hand’s eponymous introductory shot is so assured it sounds as if ...

A right wing populist, a master manipulator of the media, he appears to be immune to the long accepted norms of professional behaviour. Foul-mouthed and a bully, but backed by an oligarch, he rides ...

Another interesting thing about the endless flux of the streaming era is that, for all that it’s supposed to homogenise and ...