You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the ...

The pre-publication scuttlebutt on this book suggested that not only would it be David Thomson’s last, but also that it ...

Richard Dadd is best known as the mad Victorian painter incarcerated in mental hospitals for 42 years for killing his father; ...

Is this a sly attempt to erase the monarchy, or perhaps a legal tactic to avoid problems with depicting the real air force? Specifically, we’re dealing here with the drone operations of the BAF (as ...

Even for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the world, WOMAD 2026 ...

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very ...

Multiple car chases are worse than in Spielberg’s US cinema debut The Sugarland Express (1974), bar a nerve-jangling shunt into a train’s path, with Margaret’s subsequent panic attack in a ...

Had you been at John Wilson's Respighi spectacular on Friday, or heard it on BBC Radio 3/watched it on BBC Four, you might have perceived last night's journey up and down Richard Strauss's Bavarian ...

You don't have to be mad to enjoy Gerald Barry's methodically berserk approach to Wilde, but your wits might have begun to ...

If the secret of comedy is timing and location, location, location determines a property’s success, then the producers of ...

"It was insanely excellent," enthused one of the Järvi Academy Symphony Orchestra's young musicians about the Estonian ...

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating. The globalisation of music culture, from ultra mainstream to underground, in the ...