Moldovan public TV chief resigns over Eurovision ‘neighbourhood voting’ lapse
Vlad Țurcan said Moldovan jury’s score of three points for Romania’s entry failed to recognise sensitivities between neighbours
Feldman and Beckett: Words and Music review – hypnotic absurdism at Sheffield Chamber Music festival
This fascinating and bold concert featured the works of the ‘word man’ and the ‘note man’, and their absurdist radio play Words and Music
‘This keeps the dream alive’: the bands sleeping at venues to make touring work
A new UK scheme is encouraging venues to provide accommodation for touring acts. But what if someone hurls a TV through a window?
Kraftwerk review – after more than half a century of techno supremacy, they still sound like the future
Ralf Hutter and his bandmates show how profound their influence has been on huge swathes of popular music – and they give a tender tribute to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto
Carters’ cries, lullabies and tales of errant crocodiles: Lero Lero and the battle for Sicily’s soul
The Palermo collective explain how they reshape archival labour songs, carters’ cries and lullabies with modern instruments to transform the island’s bitter legacies into a kind of liberation
Ecca Vandal, the genre-defying punk-rap star on getting offline and having tea with Flea: ‘It constantly spins me out’
The Australian singer’s new album, Looking For People to Unfollow, is a punchy rejection of ‘faux-sincerity’ and music being reduced to TikTok-able snippets
Requiem for America review – Brent Michael Davids gives the invisible a voice in his urgent new work
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams performed the world premiere of Davids’ sombre and powerful new work that tells of the colonisation of North America
‘I had been silent for a very long time’: how a chance meeting at a burger van revived techno genius the Field
A run of immaculate albums ended in 2018 with an identity crisis and the producer becoming a kindergarten chef. Now he’s back with a blissed-out new record
Dr Hook co-frontman Dennis Locorriere dies aged 76
Singer took lead vocal on UK No 1 When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman, and had numerous other transatlantic hits
Still collapsing after all these years: Einstürzende Neubauten on their fifth decade as a Berlin legend
The band’s newest member, Josefine Lukschy, was born the year their fifth album was released. They and founding member Blixa Bargeld talk about leading the counter counter-culture
French star Patrick Bruel denies multiple sexual assault allegations
Singer and actor who has appeared in more than 40 films faces investigations in France and Belgium
‘A quiet belief everything’s going to be all right’: Bulgarians celebrate Dara’s Eurovision win with Bangaranga
Bulgaria’s first-ever win in European song contest delivers ray of hope at turbulent time after years of political instability
Anne-Sophie Mutter review – star violinist celebrates 50 years in brilliant style
Mutter’s anniversary tour opened with a programme of Beethoven, André Previn and – ever a champion of new music – the European premiere of Aftab Darvishi’s Likoo, a rhapsodic lament for women under the Iranian regime
Britten Sinfonia: Britten in America review – delightful music from a fruitful vacation
This was a virtuosic, witty performance of a mixed programme of works mostly by Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland, who spent the summer of 1939 together in Woodstock
Harry Styles review – a genuinely charismatic performer who has pulled off one of the hardest tricks in pop
Johan Cruijff Arena, the NetherlandsStyles’ first stop in his Together, Together tour, which will see him perform lengthy residencies around the world, is a reminder of how talented he is