Wow, can it really be 40 years since Solitude Standing, the second studio album by Suzanne Vega who put the 1980s folk ...

When he died, his only final wishes were to be buried. So of course, she had him cremated. I couldn’t stop thinking about her story, and knew that one day I wanted to write a song about it. A few ...

When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was ...

Patrick Marber’s powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to ...

"Julie's story takes place everywhere", says the writer-director Leonardo Van Dijl, whose pyschologiical drama Julie Keeps ...

Over its crisp 32 minutes and nine songs, Altogether Stranger embraces electropop, lo-fi terrain and gothic solo ...

Fragile egos abound. An older person (usually a man) has to bring the best out of the stars, but mustn’t neglect the team ...

The English title of a new film about the legendary singer-guitarist Stelios Kazantzidis, who popularised rebetiko, which is ...

Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, ...

Following a tradition that reaches back to the The Who’s Tommy, bands and musicians with serious artistic ambition have ...

Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse is a collection of 515 notes, each contributing to an expansive kaleidoscope of mountain ...

There’s always been a goofy charm about Billy Idol. As an implausibly chiselled Adonis shining out from the deliberate ...