Radiohead revenge tragedy Hamlet Hail to the Thief sets London dates
Production fusing the band’s sixth album and Shakespeare’s masterpiece will open at the Barbican later this year
David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’
Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationship
How Max put Orkney at the heart of his St Magnus festival – and in the heart of his extraordinary music
The festival founded by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hits its 50th edition this midsummer and continues to connect culture and community. Also this week – is 432Hz the magic number?
‘Not just a singer’: Argentinians queue for miles to mourn biggest rockstar most of world has never heard of
Hundreds of thousands gather to remember Carlos ‘Indio’ Solari, who inspired cross-generational devotion, especially among working class
LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall
Featuring cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke?
Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
As the musician and producer reaches 82, a new documentary reveals his life working with everyone from James Taylor to Carole King to Paul McCartney
The Spurs can match the Knicks’ energy in the NBA finals but not their desperation
As a lifelong Knicks fan, the Public Enemy frontman knows how much New York craves an end to its 53-year NBA title drought
Mentors, muses and new music: conductor and composer Ryan Wigglesworth
The musician first visited Aldeburgh as a teenage fanboy. Now, he is at the centre of this year’s festival as its featured artist – and he’s opening with his favourite opera
Tears and catharsis as Kyiv premieres opera about Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
First lady and affected families in audience for highly charged performance of excerpts of Mothers of Kherson
Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video
Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it …
‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
What will life be like in 2034? Will kids surf in quarries – or live in the woods since they think Earth is hollow? We meet the film-maker behind Gener8ion, whose dark predictions have a habit of going viral
Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group
The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky
‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments
Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have long forged relationships with instruments
The best albums of 2026 so far
From Thundercat’s all-star funk to Kacey Musgraves’ hymns to solitude, we look at some of our favourite music of the last six months from across the pop spectrum
James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86
Musician who spliced jazz, funk and blues, including in a spell on a major label in the early 1980s, was celebrated as ‘fearless’ by his family