The Jesus and Mary Chain may have been around for some 40 years (albeit on and off), but the Reid brothers clearly have no ...

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Death of Music was created in Estonia. Despite the English lyrics, directness is absent. Take the title track. “Drop the music” exhorts Mart Avi over its pulsing five minutes. “Fight the music” he ...

Hermia is a headbutting punk with a tartan fetish, Oberon looks like Adam Ant and Lysander appears to have stumbled out of a Madness video. Yet Eleanor Rhode’s exuberant A Midsummer Night’s Dream – ...

There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...

Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’étoile is not exactly a French farce, but it comes from a post-Offenbach era (1877 saw its premiere) ...

There is something deliciously perfect about the timing of The Producers’ arrival at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In these ...

There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...

The Christmas album is an American phenomenon that doesn’t really exist in British music. Dating back to Frank Sinatra and ...

When Vampire Weekend arrived onstage they numbered only three and were bunched together at the front with a large curtain ...