The tortured Taylor Swift
On The Tortured Poets Department, Swift portrays herself as a woman tormented by her exes, her haters, and even, at…
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Schumann and the arrival of spring
How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name.
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The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
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Inside the rise of Ziggy Stardust
How a hairdresser from Beckenham entered the court of David Bowie.
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Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.
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How Spotify won
Taylor Swift, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Thom Yorke have all boycotted the streaming giant. Eventually, all of them gave…
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Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers sound more earnest than ever
At the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, the band moved away from Springsteen-inspired belters to focus on gentle synths and…
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Bach’s bridge to the past
The St John Passion, first performed 300 years ago, is not just a religious epic but also a profoundly human…
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